IAA Conference 2015: Revisions of Modern Aesthetics
June 26-28, 2015. – Belgrade, Serbia

The University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture and the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia (DEAVUS) are pleased to announce the Call for papers for the IAA Conference 2015.

The 2015 Interim meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA) will take place June 26-28 2015 at the amphitheatre of The University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. The theme of the Conference is “Revisions of Modern Aesthetics”.

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

Revisions of Modern Aesthetics

1. Modern Theories of Space and Architecture
   The session chair: Dr. Jale Erzen, professor, Middle East Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity – Fa­culty of Ar­chi­tec­ture, An­kara;
2. The Status of Aesthetics Today
   The session chair: Dr. Aleš Erjavec, professor, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts –Institute of Philosophy at Scientific Research Center, Ljubljana;
3. Contemporary and Medieval Art
   The session chair: Dr. Vladimir Mako, professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade;
4. Art and Architecture at the Time of Spectacle and Media
   The session chair: Dr. Miško Šuvaković, professor, University of Arts – Faculty of Music, Belgrade.

One of the important topics of contemporary global culture is the revision of modernism and its corresponding theories, aesthetics and philosophies. That is why we proposed for the Belgrade’s Conference the title ”Revisions of Modern Aesthetics”.

Reviewing the history of modernity and especially aesthetic transformations in the 20th century are challenging issues for contemporary society and culture. We live in a world of permanent change; a world of desire to get out of the global crisis into the new world of unexpected modernity.

Therefore, the project, the research, the emancipation and the new are the important questions. Through the paradigmatic models of modernity we will try to construct a theoretical, aesthetic and philosophical platforms for contemporaneity. The concept of the conference is developed in four sessions:

The first session deals with the revision, reconstruction and research of modernist theories of space and architecture. The aim is to show the viability of space and architecture in the changing world.

The second session deals with questions on the status of contemporary aesthetics that transformed the crisis of modern aesthetics into the expansion of aesthetic thinking, politicization of sensuality and discovering new aesthetic experiences and knowledges.

The third session relying on the idea of “historical distance” indicates a comparison of medieval and modern in arts.

The fourth session enters in the field of the fluidity, uncertainty and phenomenological transformation of the society of global spectacle and media totality.

The Conference “Revisions of Modern Aesthetics” aims to initiate the discussion from the field of contemporary philosophical and applied aesthetics about who we are today compared to the past in relation to the future. Aesthetics has a right to these fundamental questions.

• Dr. Vladimir Mako, professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Dr. Miško Šuvaković, professor, University of Arts – Faculty of Music, Belgrade
• Dr. Vladimir Stevanović, assistant professor, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade
• Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović, professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Dr. Vladan Đokić, professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Mr. Branko Pavić, professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Dr. Aleš Erjavec, professor, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Institute of Philosophy at Scientific Research Center, Ljubljana
• Dr. Jale Erzen, professor, Middle East Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity – Fa­culty of Ar­chi­tec­ture, An­kara
• Dr. Raffaele Milani, professor, University of Bologna – Institute of research on the cities,  Bologna
• Dr. Gao Jianping, professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences – Institute of Literature, Beijing
• Dr. Tyrus Miller, professor, University of California – Division of Humanities, Santa Cruz

• Mr. Budimir Sudimac, assistant professor, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Anđelka Ćirović, assistant, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
• Nataša Janković, research assistant, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade

The contact address for the Conference is: iaa2015@arh.bg.ac.rs
Please use this address for submitting your abstract proposal, your paper once its abstract has been accepted, as well as for any inquiries regarding the Conference.

• Submitted abstracts should be written in English, no longer than 400 words.
• It is necessary to indicate the session of the conference 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 should be between 2 500 and 4000.

• All submitted papers will be presented during the Conference. More information will follow after paper submission.
• All accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference 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).

• Abstract submission due: March 31, 2015.
• Paper submission due: May 31, 2015.
• Registration for participants: May 31, 2015.
• Registration for visitors: June 13, 2015.
• Conference: June 26-28, 2015.

Payment instructions outside of Serbia:

The National Bank of Serbia
Nemanjina 17
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

500100-100129712 Foreign Currency Account Republic of Serbia RS

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture
Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73/II
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
IBAN code: RS35908500100012971227
SWIFT: NBSRRSBG

Payment instructions in Serbia:

Univerzitet u Beogradu – Arhitektonski fakultet
Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73/II
11000 Beograd, Srbija

Uprava za trezor RS
Žiro račun: 840-1436666-34
Poziv na broj: 83-752628
Matični broj: 07032480
PIB: 100252129

For information about the venue, location, transport and accomodation in Belgrade, please download following guide:

• University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture
• The Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia (DEAVUS)
• International Association for Aesthetics