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2022 in Tallinn
The ESA Conference 2022 is to be held on 28–30 June 2022 at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The keynote speakers are Emmanuel Alloa, Jacques Rancière, and Virve Sarapik.
Call for Abstracts 2022
The European Society for Aesthetics invites you to submit an abstract of a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference. You can submit panel proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2022.
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Submit your paper to the ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers. The prize was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics.
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CONTENT_Essay_Prize_Past Winners

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2022

Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge)

“In Defence of Fictional Examples”

https://philpeople.org/profiles/alex-fisher

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2021

Nemesio García-Carril Puy (University of Murcia, Spain)

“Interpretive Authenticity: Performances, Versions and Ontology”

http://wpd.ugr.es/~filolab/wordpress/quienes-somos-nueva/investigadores-asociados/nemesio-garcia-carril-puy/

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2020

Jeremy Page (Uppsala University, Sweden)

“Aesthetic Understanding: A New Aesthetic Cognitivism”

https://philpeople.org/profiles/jeremy-page-1

DOI: doi.org/10.33134/eeja.269

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2019

Irene Martínez Marín (Uppsala University, Sweden)

“Non-standard Emotions and Aesthetic Understanding”

Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 57, no. 2 (2020): 135–49.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.211

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2018

Mark Windsor (University of Kent, GB)

“Tales of Dread”

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics 56, no. 1 (2019): 65–86.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.184

The Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner in 2017

Servaas van der Berg (University of British Columbia, Canada)

“Aesthetic Experience and Metacognition”

https://philpeople.org/profiles/servaas-van-der-berg

The European Society for Aesthetics was founded in 2008 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where it has been based ever since

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