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Wednesday, 03 March 2010

The University of 糖心TV Philosophy Society invites you to a Symposium on the 'Non-Philosophy' of François Laruelle.

Lydia Goehr will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of 糖心TV from 18 January 2010 to 29 January 2010.

Lydia is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She works on the Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, and European Philosophy, and is internationally renowned for her innovative, cross-disciplinary work on the relationship between music, politics, history, and philosophy.

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Dr Angie Hobbs has just become the first ever 'Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy' in the UK.

This role will involve Dr Hobbs being tasked with bringing Philosophy to as wide an audience as possible both domestically and internationally.  She will be building upon her work with traditional print and broadcast media as well as newer social media.

More detailed information can be accessed at the Communication Office's webpages at

Also do visit Angie's

The AHRC project Aesthetics After Photography announces a call for papers for its forthcoming conference: 

Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the Sixties

Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010

The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process.

Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong, Cynthia Freeland, Sherri Irwin, Robin Kelsey, Joel Snyder, Jeff Wall

For details of call for papers (deadline: 1st December 2009) see

'Fixing the Image: Re-thinking the 'Mind-independence' of Photographs'

Dawn M. Phillips

This is published as a Guest article in the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol.6 No.2 (September 2009)

The article is available as .