XVIIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS
"Aesthetics Bridging Cultures"
9-13 July 2007
METU
Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara, TURKEY
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
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