"Landscape's most crucial condition is considered to be space, but its deepest theme is time."
(Rebecca Solnit)

"...to be contemporary means [...] to return to a present where we have never been."
(Giorgio Agamben)

Abyss of Time: Temporality and Existence in Environmental Aesthetic Experience

International Workshop

16-17 May, 2025, Research Centre for Aesthetics, Nature and Environment, Department of Aesthetics, ELTE University, Budapest

Venue: Faculty of Humanities (ELTE), campus, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4., Building "A", I.144. ("Dékáni Kistanácsterem")

The event will also be webcast to the public: for the MS Teams link click HERE

(In-person attendance for external participants is subject to registration at echokonferencia@gmail.com; no registration required for on-line participation.)

The international scholars who accepted the invitation are Madalina Diaconu (Vienna), Elisabetta Di Stefano (Palermo), Arto Haapala (Helsinki), Noora-Helena Korpelainen (Helsinki), Jacob Lund (Aarhus), Mateusz Salwa (Warsaw), Stephanie Schuster (Basel) and Alberto L. Siani (Pisa)

For the programme of the event, click here.

The web-page of the event (with updated information, programme, etc.): https://esztetika.elte.hu/RCANE/Abyss_of_Time

To the Facebook event, click here.

For downloadable poster of the event, click here.

Organizers:

Zoltán Somhegyi, zoltansomhegyi@yahoo.co.uk

Endre Szécsényi, szecsenyi.endre@btk.elte.hu

Supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Project #: "OTKA" K-143294, "Perspectives in Environmental Aesthetics" (2022-2025)

and the University Excellency Fund of ELTE University, Budapest (EKA_KON_24: 2024-11-14/184)