The Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences organised a two-day international conference on Anthropological Aesthetics in Central Europe (1750–1850) on 26–27 May 2016. Two of our colleagues discussed their findings at the conference. Piroska Balogh presented a paper about aesthetics at Hungary’s University of Pest (1774–1843), while Dezső Gurka discussed the reception of Schelling’s natural philosophy in the aesthetics of Lajos Schedius.