NSE 2010 Lahti

Updated Version of the Conference Abstracts

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:37:00 +0000

3rd Revised Version of the Conference Programme

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:20:00 +0000

Conference Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:57:00 +0000

The NSE 2010 conference dinner will be held on Saturday 5 June at 7 pm. The venue for the dinner is the Restaurant Casseli, situated in Lahti Passenger Harbour next to the Sibelius Hall. Beautiful views and the use of local ingredients make Casseli a truly traditional Lahti experience.

Conference participants are welcome to attend the conference dinner at a cost of 50€ per guest. There are three different three course menus to choose from:

fish, meat or vegan.

N.B.! Definitive enrollment by Friday 14 May to Mrs. Sanna Lehtinen (sanna.t.lehtinen [at]helsinki.fi). Please indicate the chosen menu and special dietary requirements. Conference dinner is paid in cash in connection with registration.

Conference Fee

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:57:00 +0000

The NSE 2010 conference fee for all conference participants is

50€ / person
30€ / students & Ph.D. students
10€, if you have already paid the NSE membership fee for 2010

There is no obligatory preregistration to the conference. The fee is to be paid in cash at the registration desk (on Thursday 3 June 14.00–16.00 at the hotel lobby).

The registration fee includes:

Membership to the Nordic Society for Aesthetics for 2010
One-year subscription to the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Coffee during coffee breaks

NSE 2010 Map

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0000

A special map has been designed to help the conference guests find their way to the conference venue and the main sights of Lahti. The map is being constantly updated.

Show NSE 2010 Lahti on a bigger map.

Conference Programme

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:08:00 +0000

The conference programme has been announced:

N.B.! See the post on 16 April for a revised programme.

Travel Info

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:48:00 +0000

The city of Lahti is approximately an hour away from Helsinki and it is easily reachable from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

By Bus
There is a direct bus connection from the airport to Lahti that takes one and a half hours.
-> see Matkahuolto Travel Services for timetables

By Train
There is a bus connection from the airport to two train stations, the Vantaa Tikkurila station and the main Helsinki railway station, which have regular train connections to Lahti. The trip to Lahti from the Tikkurila station takes approximately 45 minutes and an hour from the main Helsinki railway station.
-> see National Railways (VR) for timetables

Lahti Railway Station [photo]

Conference Logo

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:06:00 +0000

The design of the conference logo is based on ecological decisions. Ecofont (open source) uses tiny holes placed in the characters to cut down on ink costs without any effect on legibility. According to the developers, "with Ecofont you save (usually up to 25%) on ink or toner. In the knowledge that printing ink is a highly polluting substance that is also one of the most expensive in the world, this represents a substantial saving."

-> To make the printing of your conference paper more ecological, download Ecofont (free).

Conference Venue & Accommodation

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:40:00 +0000

The conference venue hotel Scandic Lahti (ex Best Western NEXT Hotel Salpaus) is located conveniently right next to the Lahti railway station [map].

Preliminary reservations have been made to the conference venue hotel with lower prices:

Standard rooms:
Single 77 euros/night
Double 39 euros per person/night

De Luxe rooms:
Single 86 euros/night
Double 44,50 per person/night

Participants of the conference are now encouraged to do their reservations individually with the hotel by the 3rd of May to ensure the lower price. It is suggested that you make the reservation soonest possible. Please mention the code NSE 2010 with your reservation.

Reservations can be made either by e-mail: lahti@scandichotels.com or by phone: +358-3-339 3911.

CFP

noreply@blogger.com (NSE 2010 Lahti) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Call for Papers: “Environment, Aesthetics, and the Arts”

Lahti, Finland, 3.6.–6.6.2010
Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics 2010

The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA, Lahti, Finland) in association with the Nordic Society for Aesthetics and the Finnish Society for Aesthetics will arrange the 2010 annual conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland. The theme of the conference is “Environment, Aesthetics, and the Arts.”

The environment has been a focus of increasing interest within aesthetics for the last decades. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that the term ‘environment’ has come to have multifarious meanings, referring not solely to natural environments but also to forms of human environment. This recognition has revealed a wide array of questions which the notion of environment raises for aesthetics. Do all things called ‘environment’, for example, in virtue of merely being environments therefore share enough aesthetically to warrant a uniform type of aesthetic appreciation for them all or do different environments call for different forms of aesthetic appreciation? This expansion of the array of aesthetic questions related to the environment also provides an opportunity for a more extensive appraisal of the status of environmental aesthetics as a whole. Do the classic texts of environmental aesthetics any longer give tools for successfully coping with the issues which have more recently become the center of attention?

Focus on the environment has led also to an enlargement of the scope of aesthetics to include questions which have initially been raised in such fields as environmental and architectural studies, ecology, cultural geography, and sociology. This enlargement has increased the potential impact of aesthetics on other academic subjects. Another issue which growing interest in the environment and the resultant expansion of the field of aesthetics have brought to light is the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. What, for example, is the relationship between aesthetic and moral values? Is ethics the mother of aesthetics, or is it, ultimately, the other way around? These questions do not concern merely environmental aesthetics, as the relationship between aesthetics and ethics comes into play in a large group of questions in the philosophy of art as well. Recently, empirical and naturalist approaches taking inspiration from evolutionary theories of human cognition have been offered to answer such questions, and these types of answers have had some impact in aesthetics.

Focus on the environment is in many ways relevant also to the philosophy of art. Natural scenery has been a subject of the visual arts for centuries, but we usually respond to landscape paintings differently than we do to natural landscapes. Why is that so, and what does this difference in response tell us about differences between the aesthetics of art and the aesthetics of nature? Also, various forms of contemporary art incorporate objects from the environment within them, and, consequently, raise from another angle the question of the relationship between different aesthetic realms. What sort of relevance, for example, do the putatively-unique features of nature have for the questions regarding the relationship between art and aesthetics?

People interested in exploring these issues are asked to send an abstract of no more than 300 words to iiaa-info@helsinki.fi. Deadline for abstracts is 31.1.2010. Paper proposals dealing with other issues in aesthetics are also highly welcome. The time allotted to each paper is 40 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion).

Conference venue: Hotel Salpaus, Lahti

Keynote speakers:
Karsten Harries (Yale University)
Nathalie Heinich (CNRS, Paris)
Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson College)
Yrjö Sepänmaa (University of Eastern Finland)

Contact person:
Kalle Puolakka, University of Helsinki
kalle.puolakka@helsinki.fi

Organizing committee:
Arto Haapala, University of Helsinki
Ossi Naukkarinen, Aalto University School of Art and Design
Kalle Puolakka, University of Helsinki