Can the following CFP please be circulated to the BFE list? With thanks, 
Férdia

SIEF 2017, Göttingen, 26–30 March 2017
CFP: 'Towards an Aesthetics of Dwelling'
Conveners: Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire; Dr. Férdia Stone-Davis
Website for abstract upload: 
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5023

We inhale the world and we breathe out meaning" (Rushdie 1996). Just as 
certain sounds, gestures, and expressions are hospitable to certain 
forms of meaning so are songs, musics, stories, and aesthetics. They are 
embedded in different worlds and in different ways of being in the 
world; hospitality is a fluid, multidirectional dynamic.

Philosophical concerns deriving from the mainstream western tradition 
tend to separate ideas such as hospitality from aesthetics, preferring, 
in a Kantian sense, a distanced appeal to objectivity. Arguably, 
however, distanciation is balanced by the desire for appropriation; an 
aesthetics of dwelling would include such a balance. This panel 
discusses ideas of an aesthetics of dwelling by inscribing the body as a 
creator, a breather of meaning, in a linkage that acknowledges our 
existence as beings of thought, as thinkers of being. The study of 
folklore and popular culture contributes to this in a major way, 
revealing deeply ingrained human concepts of the aesthetic that continue 
to persist across cultures and that are everywhere present in 
contemporary mediascapes.

This panel invites paper proposals that explore an aesthetics of 
dwelling in relation to hospitality, focusing on the balance of 
proximity and distance across cultural frames and considering the 
relationship between ideas and bodily existence, tradition and novelty, 
and movement between bodies, ideas and cultural expressions.

The deadline for submissions is November 7th 2016.