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: Mădălina Diaconu and Mădălina 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. Mădălina 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> http://homepage.univie.ac.at/madalina.diaconu