Call for Symposium Proposals

The editors actively seek proposals for symposia.

Symposia typically consist of three relatively brief papers that address a topic of current interest or that introduce a range of views on a new topic. Combined, the papers should total no more than 11,000 words (about 44 typescript pages). Names and brief biographies of contributors should be included with the proposal. Invitations to authors of symposia contributions should attempt to advance the goal of supporting diversity of authorship and perspectives, including diversity with regard to gender and otherwise underrepresented groups. A narrative of 200-400 words should explain what issues are involved and why it is desirable to devote a symposium to them. Papers for the symposium that already exist should be included with the proposal.

Generally, proposals for Symposia are discussed and evaluated by the Editorial Board at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, usually in late October, though occasionally proposals can be considered at other times as well. (See the ASA www.aesthetics-online.org, for the exact dates of the next annual meeting.) Proposals must be received by the editor of JAAC sufficiently in advance (generally about four weeks) so they can be distributed to editorial board members prior to the meeting.

If you have any questions about submitting a symposium proposal, please contact either of the editors, Robert Stecker (at [email protected]) or Theodore Gracyk ([email protected]).

Recent Symposia

Forthcoming: Empathy and Literature   
Issue 78.3: Installation Art   
Issue 78.1: “Categories of Art” at 50
Issue 73.3: Book Symposium: Robert B. Pippin's After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
Issue 73.2: The 100th Anniversary of Wölfflin's Principles of Art History
Issue 72.4: The Aesthetics of Ruin and Absence