Sanart Estetik/Aesthetics

02/09/2025

01/09/2025

18/06/2025

Jale Nejdet Erzen, painter (MFA, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, 1974); art historian (Ph.D. Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 1981); Fulbright Scholar 1985; has received a French Museums tour scholarship in 1982 and a contemporary German art tour scholarship in 2006. Since 1974 has been teaching design, art and aesthetics courses at the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; She is presently teaching at İzmir University. She has been the editor of the Boyut and Dimensions ne arts journals 1980-1984; recipient of the French Ministry of Culture’s Arts et Lettres Chevalier honor; recipient of Contribution to Turkish Architecture prize 2008; General Secretary of IAA 1995-98; Second Vice President and Vice President IAA (International Association of Aesthetics) 2007-2016; Organizer of the 17th International Congress of Aesthetics in 2007 and editor of two proceedings books of the Congress; editor of IAA Yearbook 2003, 2008 and 2012 with Ra aele Milani; President and founder of the Turkish SANART Association for Aesthetics and Visual Culture between 1991 and 2011 except fr two years; has lectured in Japan,Asia, Europe and USA on aesthetics, Turkish and Islamic art and architecture and has many books and international publications on these subjects. She has been visiting professor at Osaka University, University of Bologna and at Koper Slovenia.

06/06/2025

MCA Keynotes #5

Rüstem Aslan

Rüstem Aslan, born in Istanbul in 1965, graduated from Istanbul University’s Department of Prehistory. He earned his Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Tübingen (Germany) in 2006, under the supervision of M. Osman Korfmann. He began his academic career at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey). A member of the Troy excavation team since 1988, he directed a survey project (2007-2011) focused on mapping the Bronze Age settlement system around Troy. In 2013, he became the director of the Troy excavation. His recent seminars have covered the archaeological topography and the archaeology of Troy. He is a prolific author in his field

05/06/2025

MCA Keynotes #4

Alan Wenham-Prosser

Born in Wales in 1944, Alan Wenham-Prosser developed a lifelong passion for music and philosophy alongside a successful engineering career. From a young age, he studied music and explored religious texts, including the Quran. After pursuing civil engineering and becoming a prominent engineer in London, he retired in 2001, becoming a Freeman of the City. In 1964, he began studying Vedanta philosophy, leading to a profound encounter with a mystic in 1965. He married in 1971 and raised three children who share his philosophical interests and practice Mevlevi traditions. Driven by a deep connection to Mevlevi music since 1976, he traveled extensively to Istanbul, joining a Mevlevi group. He studied with renowned Turkish musicians, mastering Ney, Kudüm, and Tanbur. He formalized his musical studies with a Master’s (1996) and Doctorate (2006) in music from Middlesex University. Dr. Wenham-Prosser continues to study and perform traditional Mevlevi Ayinler.

04/06/2025

MCA Keynotes #3

Jacob Lund

Jacob Lund is Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture and Director of Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at the School of communication and Culture, Aarhus University. He is editor, with Geoff Cox, of the book series The Contemporary Condition with Sternberg Press (since 2016) and was Editor-in-Chief of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 2007-2023. Lund has published widely within aesthetics, art studies, critical theory, and comparative literature. Currently he is engaged on the research project Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions, running 2022-2026 and made possible by an Investigator Grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation: https://cc.au.dk/en/apcc. His most recent authored book is The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity (Sternberg, 2022).

03/06/2025

MCA Keynote Speakers #2

Aslıhan Demirtaş

Aslıhan Demirtaş is the founder of KHORA Office, an expanded architectural practice focused on research, art, and ecology, originally established in New York and now based in Istanbul. Her practice is collaborative, transdisciplinary, and multi-scaled, producing buildings, landscapes, installations, exhibitions, and research across different fields and boundaries. Before establishing her practice, she had a long collaboration with Pritzker Prize winner I. M. Pei as the lead designer for the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar, and Miho Chapel in Japan. She has led studios, workshops, and lectured at several universities, including Parsons School of Design at The New School, Istanbul Bilgi University, Harvard Graduate School of Design, MIT, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2022, Demirtaş served on the technical evaluation commission for the 15th Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She is currently working on Graft, a book that explores the relationship between modernity and nature through hydraulic structures, to be published by Salt with support from the Graham Foundation. She is a member of the Initiative for the Protection of the Historical Yedikule Urban Gardens and a founding member of the ANATOPIA cooperative.

02/06/2025

MCA Keynotes #1

Thierry de Duve

Historian and philosopher of art Thierry de Duve is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His English publications include Pictorial Nominalism (1991), Kant After Duchamp (1996), Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (1996, 2010), Look—100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001), Sewn In the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012), Aesthetics at Large, Volume One: Art, Ethics, Politics (2018), and Duchamp’s Telegram, From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General (2023). Two volumes of his Essais datés, published in French by Mamco in Geneva, have appeared in the last few years: Vol. I, Duchampiana, in 2014, and Vol. II, Adresses, in 2016. He is presently working on Volume Two of Aesthetics at Large, titled Farewell to Romanticism.

21/05/2025

2nd CFP: 9the Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

To see the details and apply, please visit:

mca.sanart.org.tr

9. Akdeniz Estetik Kongresi için Başvurular Devam ediyor:

mca.sanart.org.tr

05/02/2025

[Türkçe metin için aşağı bakınız]

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased and excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 9th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, to be held in Çanakkale on September 17-20, 2025. The congress is co-organized by SANART and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The theme of the congress is "Historicity and Contemporaneity".

Our keynote speakers include Thierry de Duve, Jacob Lund, Eray Çaylı, Rüstem Aslan, and Allan Wenham-Prosser.

In addition to the stimulating academic program, we will also offer a rich array of social programs, including a trip to the ancient city of Troy.

The deadline for submitting abstracts and panel suggestions is June 25, 2025. We encourage you to submit your proposals.

For detailed information, please visit mca.sanart.org.tr.

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Değerli dostlar, meslektaşlar,

17-20 Eylül 2025 tarihlerinde Çanakkale'de düzenlenecek olan 9. Akdeniz Estetik Kongresi için başvuruları kabul etmeye başladık. Ana teması "Tarihsellik ve Güncellik" olan kongre, SANART ve Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi tarafından ortaklaşa düzenleniyor.

Kongrenin ana konuşmacıları arasında Thierry de Duve, Jacob Lund, Eray Çaylı, Rüstem Aslan ve Allan Wenham-Prosser yer alıyor.

Zengin akademik programa ek olarak, Truva antik kentinde düzenlenecek özel program ve diğer etkinlikler ile keyifli ve üretken bir diyalog ortamı yaratmayı umuyoruz.

Bildiri ve panel önerileri için son başvuru tarihi 25 Haziran 2025. Bekliyoruz.

Ayrıntılı bilgi için lütfen mca.sanart.org.tr adresini ziyaret edin.