CfP: Symposium: Intersections of Ethics and Aesthetics (December 16–17, 2025, University of Málaga)

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the I Ǝ&E Symposium: Intersections of Ethics and Aesthetics, which will be held on December 16–17, 2025at the University of Málaga.
The relationship between ethics and aesthetics has been an inexhaustible source of reflection throughout the History of Philosophy. In recent decades, both spheres have once again converged and blurred their boundaries, leading to exciting new developments in both fields.
This renewed entanglement has resulted in the development of new subdisciplines that emphasize the intersection between the aesthetic and the ethical. Examples include Yuriko Saito's aesthetics of care (2022) and Marta Tafalla’s environmental aesthetics (2019). Moreover, this convergence is not limited to a simple reunion between the two disciplines, but extends to the analysis of their modes of interaction and the conceptual problems they share, as evidenced in moralism (Carroll, 1996) and aestheticism (Alcaraz León, 2018).
We invite students at all levels, as well as researchers and professionals, to submit contributions that explore the current convergence between ethics and aesthetics, addressing issues such as:

• Creation, reception, and communication of ethical-aesthetic values.
  
• The relationship between moral judgments and aesthetic judgments.
  
• Aesthetics and ethics in political and social art.
  
• Feminist art and the aesthetics of resistance.
  
• Ethics, aesthetics, and new technologies.
  
• Embodiment and affect as a meeting ground between aesthetics and ethics.
  
• Transcultural perspectives: ethics and aesthetics in non-Western cultures.
  
• Philosophical theories on the intersection between ethics and aesthetics (aesthetics of care, environmental aesthetics, everyday aesthetics, etc.).
  
• Other topics (please specify when submitting your proposal).
  

Proposals should be in Spanish or English and include:

1.  Basic contact information (full name and email address).
2. A short bio.
3. The thematic line in which the proposal aims to be included
4. Title of the presentation.
5. Five keywords in alphabetical order.
6. An abstract of approximately 300–500 words.
7. A brief bibliography of up to five titles.

Proposals should be sent via email in PDF or Word file to the following address: [email protected].
Important dates and registration: 

• Deadline for submissions:October 17, 2025
  
• Deadline for registration:November 17, 2025
  
• Conference dates:December 16–17, 2025
  
• Registration fee: €30
  
• Free registration for students (with valid student ID)
  

Keynote speakers:
Mercedes Valmisa (Gettysburg College, USA)
María José Alcaraz León (University of Murcia, Spain) 

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