Philosophy and Literature
Past Events
2010-2011:
Illuminations Series Spring 2011
2009-2010:
June 2010
Yubraj Aryal
"Rethinking Postcolonial Studies in the Age of Transnationalism"
Society for Philosophy & Literature Studies
Nepal
May 21-22, 2010
Richmond West
"Moving from 'Hostile Enviornment' Sexual 'Harassment' Law to 'Sexual Discomfort' Law: A Call for Terminological & Ideological Change"
Human Condition Conference
Eros, Bracebridge, Alabama
April 2010
Craig Titus
"Fashioning Orlando: Fantastic Irony & Gender Performativity in Virginia Woolf's Orlando"
English Graduate Organization
University of Cincinnati
April 22-24, 2010
RESONANCE(S): A Deleuze & Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
- Rockwell F. Clancy
"Schizoanalysis & Pollyanalytics: Understanding Deleuze & Guattari's Criticisms of Psychoanalysis through the Lens of D.H. Lawrence" - Robert D. King
"The Concept of Resonance in Deleuze's 'System of Philosophy'" - Samantha Bankston
"Resonances of Becoming in Gilles Deleuze"
April 8-11, 2010
Andrew Ball
"Elegiac Testimony: Sacrifice, Redemption, and Responsibility in Virginia Woolf's Ethics of Mourning"
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2010 Convention
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 7-8, 2010
Rockwell Clancy
"Schizoanalysis & Pollyanalytics: Understanding Deleuze & Guattari's Criticisms of Psychoanalysis through the Lens of D.H. Lawrence"
The Seventh Annual Social Theory Forum on Critical Social Theory: Freud & Lacan for 21st Century
University of Pennsylvania
March 30-April 2, 2010
Jillian Canode
"'Should I run every time I get that feeling in my gut?' High Fidelity & the Gaze"
American Pop Culture Association Contest
St. Louis, Missouri
2008-2009:
Spring 2009 Illuminations
Philosophy & Literature Program Symposium
Thursday, April 2, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m.
BRNG 2290
"Cosmopolitanism and Literature"
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and University Centre for Human Values, Princeton University
Thursday, September 18
6:00 p.m., Beering Hall, Room 2290
2007-2008:
IlluminationsNinth Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Scheduled Tuesdays
4:30-5:45 p.m.
Call for Papers
16th Meeting of the Alain Locke Society
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
November 7 & 8, 2008
Center for Literature and Philosophy
University of Sussex, England
Inaugural Conference
June 12-14, 2008
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-2-3.html
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-2-3-8.html
The International Association for Philosophy & Literature
Global Arts/Local Knowledge, IAPL 2008
June 30-July 5, 2008
Melbourne, Australia
www.iapl.info
3rd Bi-Annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers
English Department Literature Speakers Series
(Some events co-sponsored by Philosophy & Literature)
2006-2007:
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the North American Victorian Studies Association will meet at Purdue, August 31-September 3, 2006. See link to the conference web site: http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Conferences/2006/.Illuminations
Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Scheduled Tuesdays
4:30-5:45 p.m.
2005-2006:
Globalization and Resistance2nd Graduate Student Conference of the English & Philosophy Ph.D. Program
March 3-5, 2006
Purdue University
2004-2005:
Conference on the Problem of Evil
April 1-3, 2005
View video of the "Evil-Talk After September 11: Is This the Final End of Theodicy?"
Illuminations Lecture Series
"The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"
October 15, 2004 - Public Lecture by Dr. Jürgen Habermas
Professor Emeritus, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a/M
View the on-line video of "The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"
2003-2004:
The Foucault CircleWabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana)
March 5-7, 2004
Call for Papers
Identifications: Faith, Theory & Identity Making
Graduate student conference; Keynote Speaker: Merold Westphal, Distinguished Professor of Philosoph, "Faith and (non) Identity"
Printable Brochure
2003:
Conference of The North American Sartre Society
Plenary speaker: Joseph Catalano, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Kean University of New Jersey; "Sartre's Ontology: From Being and Nothingness to The Family Idiot"
Foucault as Philosopher of Experience
Tom Flynn, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
(Co-sponsored colloquium paper with the Department of Philosophy)
2002-2003:
2001-2002:
Visuality, Materiality and the Body
2000-2001:
Critical Theory and Race: Contesting the Social Contract
1999-2000:
The Task of Philosophy After Postmodernity: Celebration in Honor of Calvin O. Schrag
Illuminations Lecture Series
1999:
Trauma and Survival
(Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies) Cathy Caruth (Emory), "Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and Survival"; Dominic LaCapra (Cornell), "Trauma, Absence, Loss"; Henry Greenspan (Michigan), performance of "Remnants."
1998:
Feminist Visions of the Future: Ethics, Politics and the Imaginary
(Co-sponsored with Women's Studies) Tina Chanter (Memphis), "Abject Bodies and Love"; Patricia Huntington (Loyola Chicago), "The Discursive Subject after Kristeva and Butler"; Kelly Oliver (SUNY Stony Brook), "Witnessing Ethics"; Ewa Ziarek (Notre Dame), "The Future of Feminist Politics?: Irigaray and Kristeva on Radical Democracy."
1995:
Fanon Today: Re-Readings, Confrontations, Engagements
(Co-sponsored with African American Studies and Research Center)
1992-1993:
Columbus Quincentenary
(Four-day symposium co-sponsored with American Studies, African American Studies, Comparative Literature, Convocations, and University Libraries)
1991-1992:
Remembering: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives
Edwards S. Casey (SUNY Stony Brook), "Remembering Revisited: New and Neglected Aspects"; Mario Valedés (Toronto), "Memory and Remembering in Ricoeur, Proust, and García Márquez"; Lucius Outlaw (Haverford), "Memory, Tradition, and the History of American Philosophy"
1990-1991:
Representing the Other
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