"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

An 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 (a link will be provided in due course)

The international scholars who accepted the invitation are Elisabetta Di Stefano (Palermo), Lisa Giombini (Roma), Arto Haapala (Helsinki), Jacob Lund (Aarhus), Valeria Maggiore (Palermo), Mateusz Salwa (Warsaw), Stephanie Schuster (Basel) and Alberto L. Siani (Pisa)

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)

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

Organizers:

Zoltán Somhegyi, zoltansomhegyi@yahoo.co.uk

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