ICA 2019 Belgrade – 21st International Congress of Aesthetics
Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics:
Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media
July 22-26, 2019, Belgrade, Serbia

The University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, The Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia (DEAVUS) and International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) are pleased to announce the Call for papers for 21st International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA).

21st ICA Congress will take place July 22-26 2019 at the amphitheatre of The University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. The theme of the Congress is “Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media”.

We would like to invite all researchers and scholars interested in this topic to participate in the Congress with a paper.

Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media

01. Aesthetics between philosophy and the humanities
02. Geopolitical aesthetics and philosophy of culture
03. Condition of contemporary continental-European aesthetics
04. Condition of contemporary Anglo-American aesthetics
05. Condition of contemporary Asian aesthetics
06. Condition of contemporary African aesthetics
07. Condition of contemporary South-American aesthetics
08. History of aesthetics and current revisions: Kant and Hegel today
09. Aesthetics of global and local digital networks
10. Aesthetics of media and post-media practices
11. Relationship of public and private sphere in aesthetics
12. Contemporary aesthetics of music
13. Contemporary aesthetics of visual arts
14. Contemporary aesthetics of cultural and activist practices
15. Philosophy and Aesthetics of Architecture
16. Is there an East European Aesthetics?

The Concept of the Congress
Aesthetics is nowadays recognized as an important philosophical, scientific and theoretical discipline in terms of interpreting the complexity of phenomena of the contemporary world. Today it’s rather talked about possible worlds or possible aesthetic regimes rather than of an unique and consistent philosophical, scientific or theoretical discipline. Confrontation of aesthetics with the complexities of the sensory, sentimental, affective, conceptual and discursive phenomena of contemporary world – society, culture, art, technology and politics – is revealed in relation to the history of aesthetics, geographically diverse aesthetic systems and, of course, hybrid technologies of media display, representation and communication of contemporary forms of life.

The Belgrade Congress – 21st ICA : BELGRADE – aims to map out contemporary aesthetics practices in a vivid dialogue of aestheticians, philosophers, art theorists, theorists of architecture, theorists of culture, media theorists, artists, media entrepreneurs, architects, cultural activists and researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences. More precisely, the goal is to map possible worlds of contemporary aesthetics in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. The idea is to show, interpret and map the unity and diverseness in aesthetic’ thought, expression, research, and teachings on our shared planet. Our goal is to promote dialogue concerning aesthetic in those parts of the world that have not been involved in the work of International Association for Aesthetics to this day. Global dialogue, understanding and cooperation are what we aim to achieve… Miodrag Šuvaković

Miško Šuvaković (Serbia)
Vladimir Mako (Serbia)
Aleš Erjavec (Slovenia)
Marina Gržinić (Slovenia)
Tyrus Miller (USA)
Aleksandar Ignjatović (Serbia)
Vladimir Stevanović (Serbia)
Curtis Carter (USA)
Dragan Prole (Serbia)
Vladan Đokić (Serbia)
Gao Jianping (China)
Georgia Apostolopoulou (Greece)
Sanela Nikolić (Serbia)
Andrija Filipović (Serbia)

Organizing Committee:
Nataša Janković (coordinator)
Boško Drobnjak
Marko Nikolić

Congress Contact: ica2019@arh.bg.ac.rs

• Submitted abstracts should be written in English, no longer than 400 words.
• 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.
• Submitted abstracts will be reviewed and selected by the Scientific Committee. Decision on acceptance of the abstract will not last more than ten days, from the day of abstract submission.
• Please use this abstract template for submitting your abstract proposal:

• When you receive the confirmation that your abstract proposal has been accepted, you can send the full paper.
• Only MS Word documents will be accepted.
• The preferred font and size is: Times New Roman 11.
• The number of words limited to 2400 words.

• All submitted papers will be presented during the Congress. More information will follow after paper submission.
• All accepted abstracts will be published in the Congress Proceedings book. All submitted papers will be published digitally on the CD that comes with the book of abstracts.
• A selection of papers will be published in the Serbian Architectural Journal (http://www.saj.rs).

01. Abstract submission due: September 1st 2018. November 15th, 2018.
02. Early Registration: November 1st, 2018. November 15th, 2018.
03. Paper Submission due: February 28th, 2019.
04. Pre-Registration: March 30th 2019.
05. On-site registration: July 22-26, 2019.

Payment instructions in Serbia:
Uprava za Trezor RS
Žiro račun: 840-1436666-34
Poziv na broj: 97 83-752628

Payment instructions outside of Serbia:

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Bank name: Narodna Banka Srbije
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University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture
The Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia (DEAVUS) and
International Association for Aesthetics (IAA)

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