The ART Reading Group is conceived of as a meeting place for students, PhD students and scholars with different backgrounds and as an opportunity for studying, learning and discussing on the international debates in aesthetics. Every meeting will be two hours long and will be guided by a member of the ART board. The meetings will be in presence, but online participation (WebEx) is always ensured.
So far we have read: Aesthetic Disinterestedness. Art, Experience, and the Self by Thomas Hilger (Routledge 2017); The Entanglement. How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are by Alva Noë (Princeton UP 2023); La politica dell'immaginazione by Chiara Bottici (Castelvecchi 2023), La svolta ecomediale by Michele Cometa (Routledge 2017) and Art and Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui (University of Minnesota Press 2021).
15/01/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1
12/02/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1
26/03/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1
30/04/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1
28/05/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1
04/06/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Biblioteca DFE, Sala Riunioni 1 - with Emanuele Arielli
In addition, a joint seminar titled "Existential Aesthetics" will be held together with ERATO. The seminar will consist of both reading sessions and talks by external invitees.
12/01/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala dei seminari della Direzione - reading session
27/02/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Gallino - talk by Francesca Raimondi (FU Berlin)
12/03/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Gallino - talk by Roberto Nigro (Universität Lüneburg)
19/03/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala dei seminari della Direzione - reading session
11/09/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Gallino - talk by Arto Haapala (Helsingin yliopisto)
02/10/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala Gallino - talk by Judith Siegmund (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste)
04/11/2026, 17-19h, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala dei seminari della Direzione - reading session