CategoryCFPs

On this site you find selected Calls for Papers that are of interest to the MPSG

CFP “Eduard Hanslick 1825-2025: Backgrounds, Contexts, Legacy.”

Eduard Hanslick has profoundly influenced the discourse of music philosophy, musicology, and music history through several central roles: as the author of the seminal aesthetic treatise On the Musically Beautiful, which shaped the thinking of both composers and aesthetic theorists (Adorno, Nietzsche, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, etc.), and continues to inform current analytical aesthetics of...

CFP Themed Session: ‘Cyborg Musicking’

9th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Department of Music, King’s College London; Thursday and Friday, 11–12 July 2024  Themed Sessions invite papers centered on a shared topic. These sessions run in addition to Free Paper Sessions and Associate Sessions. The MPSG committee and the session convenor invites proposals for 20-minute (in person)...

CFP Themed Session: ‘Being Contemporary’ 

9th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Department of Music, King’s College London; Thursday and Friday, 11–12 July 2024  Themed Sessions invite papers centered on a shared topic. These sessions run in addition to Free Paper Sessions and Associate Sessions. The MPSG committee and the session convenor invites proposals for 20-minute (in person)...

Punk and Philosophy: Call for Chapters

Since the beginning of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ examining of youth cultures in the 1970s, there has been significant debate regarding approaches in how best one can unpack notions of formation, analysis and definition. This has led to the development of what is often termed as ‘post-subcultural studies,’ which has drawn upon a new lexicon of terms, such as ‘scene’...

CFP: Words without songs. From language aesthetics to aesthetic theory in Adorno’s musical writings

Symposium at the University of Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) 12–14 November 2020 Organisation: Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Leipzig), Gabriele Geml (Vienna), Han-Gyeol Lie (Graz), Nikolaus Urbanek (Vienna) Call for Papers “Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen.” (There is no right life in the wrong one.) – “Bei vielen Menschen ist es bereits eine Unverschämtheit...

CFA: Music and Language Revisited

Call for articles Journal Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Vol. 14, N. 1/2020 Special issue on: Music and Language Revisited Edited Chris Stover & Stefano Oliva Deadline: 18.03.2020 The relationship between music and language has been complicated since the advent of post-Enlightenment musical aesthetics. On one hand, as Eduard Hanslick insists in *Vom Musikalisch-Schönen *(1854)...

CFA: Sound Pictures

The British Society of Aesthetics is delighted to sponsor Sound Pictures, a conference bringing together theorists, researchers, and postgraduates from within philosophy to explore the topic of multi-sensory appreciation of the arts. Papers on either genuinely multi-sensory works or about the contribution by different modalities to the appreciation of single-sensory works are welcomed. Call for...

CFP: Mysticism, AMS 2019

CFP: MysticismThe AMS Music and Philosophy Study Group will convene a panel at the 2019AMS Annual Meeting on the subject of Mysticism. In a multitude of globalcultures, across vast spans of historical time, music has often beencentral to philosophically and spiritually transformative forms ofmysticism. Among philosophers, some have affectively and politically fearedor critiqued music’s...

CFP: Kunst und Gebrechen, Salzburg University

Kunstquartier, Bergstraße 12a, 5020 Salzburg Organised byHildegard Fraueneder / Nora Grundtner / Manfred Kern Universität MozarteumProgrammbereich „Kunstpolemik-Polemikkunst“ am Kooperationsschwerpunkt „Wissenschaft & Kunst“ der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg 16.05.2019 – 18.05.2019 Deadline: 31.01.2019 for abstracts in both English and German Hephaistos, der seines Hinkens wegen den...

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