Events
What is (continental) philosophy?
Tuesday 3rd October, 4 - 7pm, R0.14
Tobias is organising a welcome event in week 1 especially for incoming students in the MA Continental Philosophy. We will have a workshop on the notion of continental philosophy, followed by a dinner on campus. The event will take place on Oct 3, 4-7pm in R0.14. First and second-year students in all PG courses as well as visiting students are welcome to attend. The event is also open to interested third year UG students, so please advertise in your modules if possible. A quick email to tobias.keiling@warwick.ac.uk to confirm participation is appreciated.
Research Seminars
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2023-2024
Term 1
October 17 Ellie Anderson (Pomona) – “The Critical Phenomenological Turn“
October 31 Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) – “From Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic”
November 14 Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick) – “Seeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration”
November 28 Timothy Stoll (Warwick) – “Myth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy”
Term 2
January 23, S0.19 - Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) – book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant (forthcoming OUP)
February 6, S0.19 - Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) – “The Proper Dignity of Human Being”
February 20, S0.19 - Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) – “The Phenomenology of the After-Life”
March 5, online - Toril Moi (Duke) – “Simone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness”
March 12, S0.19 - Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) – “The Transcendence of Spinoza's God“
Term 3
May 28 Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame) – “Edith Stein and the Philosophy of Time”
Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2022-3
Please see the WCPC websiteLink opens in a new window for more information.
2021 Joining the Circle of the System - A virtual conference series
Please see the Hegel @ Warwick websiteLink opens in a new window for more information.
2021 Conference on Objectivity, Idea and Nature
Please see the Hegel @ Warwick websiteLink opens in a new window for more information.
Past Events
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2022-23
Sessions will be held in person (S 0.08, Social Sciences Building, in Term 2) and streamed online from 5:30pm to 7:15pm, except where noted
Programme
Term 1
18 October 2022
‘We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1 Revisited’
Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University)
1 November 2022
"Gadamer on Openness as Epistemic Virtue"
Tobias Keiling (University of Warwick)
15 November 2022 ***online only***
"Art and Affirmation: Does Nietzsche Overcome his Early Nihilistic Account of Tragedy in his Later Work?"
Maudemarie ClarkLink opens in a new window (University of California, Riverside) and Tom Hanauer (Tel Aviv University)
29 November 2022
"How to Dress Like a Feminist: Towards a Relational Account of Complicity"
Charlotte Knowles (University of Groningen)
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Term 2
24 January 2023
"Consent and Content: Expressive Validity in Hegel's Theory of Justice"
Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
21 February 2023 RESCHEDULED TO May 23, 2023
"Spirit is Artist: On the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethical Life and Why the State is not a Work of Art"
Thomas Khurana (University of Potsdam)
7 March 2023
"Hegel on Transformative Experiences" ***online only***
Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley)
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Term 3
9 May 2023
"The Philosophy of Helene Druskowitz"
Alison Stone (University of Lancaster)
S 0.08
23 May 2023
"Spirit is Artist: On the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethical Life and Why the State is not a Work of Art"
Thomas Khurana (University of Potsdam)
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2021-22
Convenors: Andrew Huddleston and Daniele Lorenzini
Sessions will be held in hybrid mode from 5:30pm to 7:15pm
Programme
19 October 2021
Recognition after Fichte
Michelle KoschLink opens in a new window (Cornell)
2 November 2021
Truth, the Whole Truth, and "Politics of Truth": Foucault on the Revaluation of Values
Tuomo TiisalaLink opens in a new window (Helsinki)
17 November 2021
The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault
Johanna OksalaLink opens in a new window (Loyola University Chicago)
30 November 2021
The Normativity of Color: Phenomenological Perspectives
Samantha MatherneLink opens in a new window (Harvard)
25 January 2022
The ‘Existential’ versus the ‘Modal’ Interpretation of Heidegger’s Conception of Death
Mark WrathallLink opens in a new window (Oxford)
8 February 2022
Understanding Meaning in the History of Philosophy
Gordon FinlaysonLink opens in a new window (Sussex)
8 March 2022
The Idea of a 'Religion of Art': The Case of Wagner
Andrew HuddlestonLink opens in a new window (Warwick)
17 May 2022 (in S0.11)
Hegel on Being
Elena FicaraLink opens in a new window (Paderborn) and Robert SternLink opens in a new window (Sheffield)
Response by Stephen HoulgateLink opens in a new window (Warwick)
31 May 2022 (in S0.13)
Nietzsche and William James on Scientism as Fanaticism
Rachel CristyLink opens in a new window (KCL)
Workshop Genealogy
3-4 June 2021
Papers by Amy Allen (Penn State), Sacha Golob (KCL), Guy Longworth (Warwick), Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick), Matthieu Queloz (Oxford), Daniel Rodriguez-Navas (New School), Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen), Lee Wilson (Edinburgh)
The event will be held online, from 1.30pm to 5.30pm; programme hereLink opens in a new window
Beyond the Punitive Society
A joint session of Abolition Democracy 13/13 with the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical ThoughtLink opens in a new window
7 January 2021
with Miguel de Beistegui, Claire Blencowe, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, and Bernard E. Harcourt
The event will be held online, from 5.15pm to 7.45pm
Biopolitics Reading Group II
October 2020-March 2021
Programme (term 1) hereLink opens in a new window
Programme (term 2) hereLink opens in a new window
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2020-2021
Convenors: Keith Ansell-Pearson and Daniele Lorenzini
Sessions will be held online, from 5:30pm to 7:15pm
Programme
20 October 2020
In the South: Nietzsche and the Homines Religiosi in The Gay Science V
Robert C. MinerLink opens in a new window (Baylor University)
ExtractsLink opens in a new window
3 November 2020
Lucretius our Contemporary
Thomas NailLink opens in a new window (University of Denver)
17 November 2020
The Rhythm of Democracy—The Pulse of Deconstruction
Naomi Waltham-SmithLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)
HandoutLink opens in a new window
1 December 2020
Sketches of Lived Time
Wahida KhandkerLink opens in a new window (Manchester Metropolitan University)
ChapterLink opens in a new window
19 January 2021
Masculinity as an Impasse: Beauvoir’s Understanding of Men’s Situation in The Second Sex
Manon GarciaLink opens in a new window (Harvard Society of Fellows)
9 February 2021
The Spirit of Revenge and its Political Destiny: Between Spinoza and Nietzsche
Miguel de BeisteguiLink opens in a new window (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
23 February 2021
Kant's Idea of Unity
Angela BreitenbachLink opens in a new window (University of Cambridge)
9 March 2021
The Significance of the Use of Relief for the Structure of Intentions in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art
Fiona HughesLink opens in a new window (University of Essex)
4 May 2021
Contested Legacies: Constellations of Terrorism in the Postbellum United States
Verena Erlenbusch-AndersonLink opens in a new window (Syracuse University)
Response: Quassim CassamLink opens in a new window (University of Warwick)
Foucault at Warwick II
17 January 2020
with Alison Downham MooreLink opens in a new window (Western Sydney), Lisa DowningLink opens in a new window (Birmingham), Stuart EldenLink opens in a new window (PAIS, Warwick), Daniele LorenziniLink opens in a new window (Philosophy, Warwick), Federico TestaLink opens in a new window (IAS, Warwick)
The event will be held in room OC1.06, from 5pm to 7pm
Biopolitics Reading Group
May-June 2020
Programme hereLink opens in a new window
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2019-2020
Convenors: Keith Ansell-Pearson and Daniele Lorenzini
Sessions will be held in room S0.11, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Programme
15 October 2019
Launch event *
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Simon CritchleyLink opens in a new window (New School for Social Research)
Response by Andrew CooperLink opens in a new window (Warwick) and David FearnLink opens in a new window (Warwick)
* The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome.
29 October 2019
Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason
Stephen HoulgateLink opens in a new window (Warwick)
19 November 2019
‘The Doing is Everything’: A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche
Beatrice Han-PileLink opens in a new window (Essex)
26 November 2019
Making Sense of Politics: Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory
Jeffrey A. BellLink opens in a new window (Southeastern Louisiana University)
21 January 2020
Genealogy and Critique
Daniele LorenziniLink opens in a new window (Warwick): Genealogy, Possibilization, and (Post-)Critique
David OwenLink opens in a new window (Southampton): Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits
4 February 2020
Philosophies of the Wolf: Hobbes, Freud, and Deleuze & Guattari
Nina PowerLink opens in a new window (Roehampton)
18 February 2020
An Enquiry Concerning Nonhuman Understanding: Philosophy, Ecstasy, and Ecological Thinking
Simone KotvaLink opens in a new window (Cambridge)
3 March 2020
Bergson on Time and Freedom
This session was cancelled due to industrial action
12 May 2020
What Is Free Speech? Michel Foucault Answers for the Greeks
This session was cancelled due to Covid-19
Upcoming Events
PKEP Seminar - Gregor Moder (Ljubljana)
PKEP & CRPLA Collaborative Seminar - Paul Kottman (New School), 'Ethics and Contemporary Aesthetic Culture'
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