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Регулярная конференция под эгидой IAA (International Association of Aesthetics), ведущей профильной международной организацией, проводимая между ее конгрессами. Конференции имеют концептуально важные темы, проводятся в разных странах, считаются репрезентативным показателем состояния эстетики в мире. Рабочий язык - английский. Далее следует описание конференции, сформулированное организаторами. MARGINS, FUTURES AND TASKS OF AESTHETICS Organizers: International Association for Aesthetics The Finnish Society of Aesthetics The Department of Art at Aalto University Invited Keynotes (PLSE NOTE THE CHANGES): Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design) Elisabetta di Stefano (University of Palermo) Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) Andrew Light (George Mason University & World Resources Institute; Environmental Aesthetics keynote) Department Keynotes: Ossi Naukkarinen Kevin Tavin Description: Aesthetics is a marginal discipline. We often have to defend its existence in departments, where the main focus is on literature, philosophy or art history. It is not surprising that the margins of aesthetics have not been thoroughly discussed. What are the schools of philosophical thinking or the methodologies we haven’t yet turned enough of our attention to? Who and where are the outsiders who will, in the long run, leave an interesting trace on the profession? The aforementioned questions are of course future-oriented. The future of aesthetics has been discussed in various conferences and books. Aesthetics in them is still often seen as more autonomic that it actually is institutionally speaking. What if the future of our discipline was more about collaboration with other disciplines? What are the research topics of future aesthetics? What kind of challenges and possibilities does the changing world pose upon aesthetics? How does aesthetics react, for example, to the increasing pervasiveness of technology or to the challenges of climate change? This role, task or maybe even responsibility aesthetics could take up is of course quite pedagogical to some extent. How to distribute the vast knowledge of philosophy of art to disciplines and practices which could have more use of aesthetic theory? And what could aesthetics itself learn from other disciplines, which actually use aesthetic theory in their own way: cultural geography, media studies and art education are examples of disciplines where aesthetics already has a role, but often in a practical way, in a way which differs from what professional aestheticians think of as aesthetics. Could aesthetics find new strategies for survival in the changing academic world through new interactions and could those interactions broaden the scope and community of aesthetics itself?