International Congress of Aesthetics

ISSN 1089-294X

International Congress of Aesthetics

August 9 - 13, 2010, Beijing

The Eighteenth International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA) is the largest conference on aesthetics in the world and represents the highest level of scholarship in this discipline. For a period as long as approximately one century, the International Association of Aesthetics has held seventeen congresses in Europe, Asia, and North and South Americas, including three recent congresses in Tokyo, Rio, and Ankara since the beginning of the 21st century. The theme of the Beijing Congress will be “Diversities in Aesthetics” and to be held from August 9th to 13th, 2010 in Beijing.

On behalf of the Program Committee for the XVIII International Congress of Aesthetics, we are pleased to invite you to attend the convention and please submit the abstract of your presentation to ica18@yahoo.cn. For more information about the congress, we will put it on the homepage www.aeschina.cn.

Topics include:
The global and the local: Western and non-Western aesthetics;
The definition of art and the analysis of concepts of art;
Conflicts and interactions between cultural studies and aesthetics;
The relationship between aesthetics and philosophy, ethics, psychology, or anthropology, etc.;
The relationship between aesthetics and forms of art, such as music, painting, sculpture, architecture, calligraphy, movie, and design, etc.;
The relationship between aesthetics and nature/environment/ecology;
The relationship between aesthetics and economy, society, and politics;
Aesthetics and aesthetic education;
Aesthetics: historical traditions and modernization;
Aesthetics: information technology and the cyber-space.

Please note: abstracts should be 200 – 300 words. Please mark on your abstract under which topic you wish it to be listed. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. A formal letter of invitation will be sent out by the Program Committee after your abstract is accepted.

Suggested time for presentation: 30 min., including 10 min. for discussion.