Dear all,
You are gladly invited to the following conference that I am organizing with Madalina Guzun-Masoud (Tübingen) on behalf of the WiGiP and GiP. Further details regarding the program, the abstracts, and the speakers’ bios can be found attached. Registration is not necessary, and the admission is free.
Best regards,
Madalina Diaconu
10th Vienna Forum for Intercultural Philosophy
Everyday Aesthetics and Everydayness from an Intercultural Perspective
27 February – 1 March 2026
Otto Mauer Zentrum, Währingerstraße 2-4, 1090 Vienna
Friday, 27 February 2026
9:15 – 9:30 Conference opening: Mãdãlina Diaconu and Mãdãlina Guzun Masoud
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Yuriko Saito: Aesthetic Challenges to Consumerism: Learning from Japanese Folk Beliefs and Practices
10:30 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11.20 Bianca Boteva-Richter: The Perfection of Imperfection, or Another Idea of Beauty — Some Reflections on Japanese Everyday Aesthetics
11:20 – 12:00 Francesca Greco: From the Tea House to Your House. The Circular Relationality of Aesthetic and Everydayness
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 12:55 Paulus Kaufmann: Situational Japanese Aesthetics
14:30 – 15:10 Maddalena Borsato: What Aesthetics for the Shokunin’s Practice?
15:10 – 15:50 Anna Zschauer: The Janus-faced Japanese Everyday Aesthetic, or: Does It Work When It’s a Brand?
15:50 – 16:05 Break
16:05 – 16:45 Lorenzo Marinucci: Kawaii and Phenomenology
16:45 – 17:25 Dario Vuger: On Beauty of Infrastructures: Simondonean Aesthetics and the Japanese Everyday
Saturday, 28 February 2026
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Arto Haapala: Aesthetics of the Ordinary and the Everyday
10:30 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:20 Leo Marko: A Faint Frame: The Aesthetics of Swedish Fika and the Question of Its Uniqueness
11:20 – 12:00 Lenka Lee: The Aesthetics of Attentiveness: Central European Beekeeping and Interspecies Relations
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 12:55 Rosa Fernández Gómez: Playfully Engaging the Everyday: The Rasa of Life in Kashmir Shaivism
14:30 – 15:10 Elisabetta Di Stefano: Frugality and Humility: Categories of Measure for an Intercultural Everyday Aesthetics
15:10 – 15:50 Nicola Ramazzotto: Beyond Pleasure: Pain and the Transformation of Everyday Aesthetics
15:50 – 16:05 Break
16:05 – 16:45 Mao Matsuyama: Comparative Study of Aesthetic Care Theory and Salutogenesis: The Entanglement of Aesthetic and Ethical Values in Everyday Life
16:45 – 17:25 Washington Morales-Maciel, Marcos Rostan Davyt: Imagining Use: Experiential Knowledge and Cultural Frameworks in Everyday Design Aesthetics
Sunday, 1 March 2026
9:30 – 10:10 Matti Tainio: From Specified Aesthetics of Everyday Life and Art towards a General Aesthetics. An Inquiry at the Boundaries of Art and Non-Art
10:10 – 10:50 Sara Borriello: Weather, Atmospheres, and Everyday Life: Towards an Integrated Framework for Aesthetic Inquiry
10:50 – 11:05 Break
11:05 – 11:45 Marcos Rostan Davyt, Nahuel Roel Aspée: The Everyday and the Exceptional: Two Environmental Controversies in Uruguay
11:45 – 12:00 Final discussion
Dr. Dr. Mãdãlina Diaconu, Privatdoz. MA
Universität Wien
Institut für Philosophie
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Institut für Romanistik
UniCampus Hof 8, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/madalina.diaconu