On May 15, 2008, the names of the ten winning aphorists in the German Aphorism Association (DAphA) contest were announced at the Stadtmuseum Hattingen, home of DAphA.
The jury had to select their favorite aphorisms from more than 1,500 entries penned by more than 300 contributors from all parts of Germany as well as some neighboring [...]
On March 14, 2008, the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy hosted a symposium on philosophy and the aphorism at Goodenough College. Poets, professors, philosophers, psychologists and comedians (all of them aphorists) from Europe and the United States gathered to discuss the aphorism as a bright, incisive way of grappling with the big questions of [...]