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Call for Papers "Aesthetics Bridging Cultures" XVIIth International Congress of Aesthetics SANART Association of Aesthetics and Visual Culture Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University International Association of Aesthetics Ankara (Turkey) 9-13 July 2007 __________________________________________________ The third millenium is proceeding with threatening declarations, both in deed and in discourse as to the possibility to reconcile differences. The partiality of prevailing political and cultural attitudes jeopardize dialogue amongst cultures and convictions. Yet, culture as human nature means diversity as well as synthesis. As aestheticians we can ask whether it is possible to keep diversities alive as well as to render them communicable, and to create new forms of synergie, through art and aesthetics. The XVIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, taking place in Turkey, will approach art and culture in terms of historic ruptures, continuities, tensions and hybridities. With worldwide participation, it is expected that alternative disciplinary attitudes within aesthetics and philosophy with focuses on art, architecture, urbanism, landscape, music, literature, film, etc., can contribute to the discussion of Bridging Cultures. The exchange of ideas and experiences of an aesthetic nature can also encourage relationships between different cultures. Session titles will be made definitive after paper proposals. Yet, the following items can be a guide for choosing thematic or cenceptual approaches. - Idealism and Pragmatism - Local and Glocal - Orientalism and Occidentalism - Pluralism and Egalitarianism - Sacred and Profane - Historicism - New Taxonomies of Art - Culture Industry - Aesthetics of Technology - Aesthetics and the Everyday /High/Low - Real and Virtual - Philosophical Approaches - Interculturalism and the Arts - Territory and Cultures - Art in Transhistorical Perspectives - Violence/Aesthetics - Aesthetics and Ethics Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2007. Final text submission deadline: 13 July 2007. Contact: Prof. Dr. Jale N. Erzen SANART Association of Aesthethics and Visual Culture Kennedy Caddesi, 42/A, Küçükesat 06660 Ankara Turkey Tel. +90 312 2106248 Fax: +90 312 2107966 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.sanart.org.tr/congresses/ICA/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
