Call for Papers

International Society of Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts
(An affiliate of the World Phenomenology Institute)

Ninth Annual Conference
May 14 & 15, 2004
Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge MA USA

HUMAN CREATION BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION:
art, dance, digital art, film, light, music, theatre.

All the arts challenge percipients to resolve the dialectical tension between
reality and illusion. This conference is dedicated to those processes that play
on self-referential illusion in the work of art. Topics might include:
illusions of expansion and diminution in time and space; perspective; truth in
digital art, photography and film; illusions and emotion; illusion and
neurology; the awakenings of illusion; staged illusion of reality of life in
theatre; the "true lie"; echoes; conventions in opera; belief suspended in
disbelief. We would appreciate contributions from the points of view of
creators and percipients alike.

Abstracts due January 1, 2004; full papers due: March 1, 2004
Registration Free US $125 (Fee entitles you to also attend Literature
Conference)

Send abstracts and papers to

Patricia Trutty-Coohill
ISPAFA Secretary-General
Department of Creative Arts
Siena College
515 Loudon Road
Loudonville NY 12211-1462

ptruttysiena.edu <mailto:ptruttysiena.edu>
vox 518-783-2912
fax 518-782-6548

webpage: <http://www.phenomenology.org/>
for our calls for other conferences at

WPI, North Pomfret, Vermont, July 12-17, 2004: "The Suffering of the Other:
>From Perspectives of Occidental Phenomenology, Buddhist, and Islamic
Philosophies"

Oxford, August 15-20, 2004: Phenomenology World Wide at the Beginning of the
Third Millennium. Historical Research; Great Phenomenological Issues; Present
Day Developments"