By choosing the topic “Contemporary Aesthetics: Dialogues through Art, Culture and Media” as its main theme, the organizing committee of the 22^nd International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA 22) aims at the increasing and deepening of the discussion by today’s practitioners of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, about the modes, through which this field of knowledge could contribute to enhance peaceful and fruitful contacts among the most different people and cultures of the world. 

24-28 July

Argument

By choosing the topic “Contemporary Aesthetics: Dialogues through Art, Culture and Media” as its main theme, the organizing committee of the 22nd International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA 22) aims at the increasing and deepening of the discussion by today’s practitioners of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, about the modes, through which this field of knowledge could contribute to enhance peaceful and fruitful contacts among the most different people and cultures of the world. Facing to it, the central goal of ICA22 is to promote ways to understand and share the experiences of how aestheticians, philosophers, artists, art, culture and media theorists, media entrepreneurs, architects, designers, cultural activists and researchers in the fields of humanities, social sciences and arts think the relations between art, culture and media in a way of problematizing norms and processes of naturalizing human phenomena in the very notion of culture. As a matter of fact, the nowadays quite common insertion of artistic and aesthetic research and practices in the media presupposes a critical posture towards social and political constructions involving concepts of identity and difference. Consequently, they bring to the center of the debate on culture and media not only the traditional subject matters of philosophical aesthetics, but marginalized forms of representation and experience of sexuality and gender, class, race / ethnicity and territory, technology and so forth, including the countless activities of daily life.

This is the reason why among the topics related to the main theme of congress include new media, design, aesthetics of the body and of the sports, as well as the different ways in which aesthetics is carried on nowadays in Continental Europe,  Anglo-American field, Asia, Africa and Latin-America.

Since the whole world today is menaced by anti-democratic and anti-humanistic political forces — and retaking Friedrich Schiller’s inspiration concerning an aesthetic education of humankind —, the concept of the congress also includes the possibility of debates about activistic practices concerning cultural matters, the potential aesthetics to help the rebuilding of democratic convictions, the prevention of barbarism and to foster social and politic pluralism.

All this points also to the recent discussions on “decolonial aesthetics”, and since in 2022 the centenary of the “Modern Art Week” — an event that marked the entering of Brazilian culture in realm of contemporary artistic expressions — is going to be commemorated, Oswald de Andrade’s conception of  cultural “anthropophagy”, understood as a result of  the mentioned event, is going to be discussed and celebrated as well.

Program

SUNDAY – 23/07/23

5pm-8pm – REGISTRATION

6pm-8pm – Evening meeting – IAA EC Meeting

8pm – Cultural presentation

MONDAY – 24/07/23

08am-09am – REGISTRATION / INFO

09am – 09:15am – Ceremony – Opening

• 09:15am – 10:00am – Dr. Miško Suvakovic (The University of Arts in Belgrade – SERBIA)
• 10:00am – 10:45am – Dr. Marilena Chauí (USP- BRAZIL)
• 10:45am – 11:30am – Dr. Rodrigo Duarte (UFMG – BRAZIL)

11:30am – 12:00am – Discussion

LUNCH BREAK – 2 hours

2pm – 4pm –Simultaneous panel sessions

COFFEE BREAK – 30 minutes

4:30pm – 6pm –Simultaneous Round Tables

TUESDAY – 25/07/23

09:30am-10:00am – REGISTRATION / INFO

10:00am – 12:00am – Simultaneous panel sessions

LUNCH BREAK – 2 hours

2:00pm – 4:00pm – Simultaneous panel sessions

COFFEE BREAK – 30 minutes

4:30pm – 6:30pm – Plenary presentations:

• 4:30pm-5:30pm – Jacques Poulin (Paris VIII – Saint-Denis)
• 5:30pm-6:30pm – Tânia Rivera (UFF – BRAZIL)

6:30 – Cultural presentation and happy hour

WEDNESDAY – 26/07/23

09:30am -10:00am – REGISTRATION / INFO

10:00am – 12:00am – Simultaneous panel sessions

LUNCH BREAK

1:00pm-1:30pm – Cultural presentation

2:00pm – 4:00pm – Simultaneous panel sessions

COFFEE BREAK – 30 minutes

4:30pm – 6:30pm – Plenary presentations:

• 4:30pm-5:30pm– Josef Fruechtl (Universiteit van Amsterdan)
• 5:30pm-6:30pm – Fiona Hughes (University of Essex)

6:30pm – Cultural presentation and happy hour

THURSDAY – 27/07/23

09:30am-10:00am – REGISTRATION / INFO

10:00am – 12:00am – Simultaneous panel sessions

LUNCH BREAK – 2 hours

1:30pm –2:00pm – Plenary presentations:Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University)

2:00pm – 4:00pm – Simultaneous panel sessions

2:00pm – 4:00pm – IAA EC Meeting

COFFEE BREAK – 30 minutes

4:30pm – 6:30pm – Sight-seeing at Pampulha Complex

8:00pm-11:00pm –Dinner party (optional USD$60,00)

FRIDAY – 28/07/23

09:30am-10:00am – REGISTRATION / INFO

10:00am – 12:00am – Simultaneous panel sessions

LUNCH BREAK – 2 hours

2:00pm – 4:00pm – Simultaneous panel sessions

COFFEE BREAK – 30 minutes

4:30pm – 6:30pm – Plenary presentations:

• 4:30pm-5:30pm – Gisele Beiguelmann (Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Brazil)
• 5:30pm-6:30pm – Rachida Triki (University of Tunis)

6:00pm – 7:00pm – General Session

7:00pm – 10:00pm – Happy Hour

SATURDAY – 29/07/23

08:00am – 7:00pm – Visit to Inhotim

Submission guidelines

Abstract submission due: November 11^th, 2022.

1. Submitted abstracts should be written in English, no shorter than 200 words and no longer than 400.
2. It is necessary to indicate the session of the Congress in which the work will be presented, as well as personal academic affiliation and e-mail contact.
3. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed and selected by the Scientific Board.

Scientific committee will announce the list of approved names in November 30^th.

Registration procedures

• Access our website
• Use google form available at the website for submitting your abstract and personal information

Scientific committee

• Rodrigo Duarte – Federal University of Minas Gerais (Chair)
• Rizzia Rocha – Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Fernanda Proença – Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Walter Menon – Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Miguel Gally – University of Brasilia
• Juliana Pereira – Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Anna Luiza Coli – State University of Londrina