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Conference: The Reevaluation of Subjectivity in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
9 February - 10 February
In collaboration with the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, we invite interested parties to register for the conference ‘The Reevaluation of Subjectivity in Contemporary Continental Philosophy’ to take place February 9-10, 2023, at Radboud University.
Dates and Location
February 9-10, 2023
Huize Heyendael (Geert Grooteplein 9)
Nijmegen, 6525 EZ Netherlands
About the topic
Near the end of the 1980s, Jean-Luc Nancy invited some of the leading French philosophers of his time to answer an intriguing question: Who Comes After the Subject? His call sparked a great diversity of answers and problematizations of the question itself, which were collected in an influential edited volume. We feel that today, in our age of geopolitical, technological and ecological rupture, the time has come to take up Nancy’s question once again. Following Nancy’s example, the goal of this conference is to map a variety of present-day perspectives on the reevaluation of subjectivity in contemporary continental philosophy, by facilitating a two-day, in-person discussion of the interrelations between subjectivity and present-day topics including, but not limited to ecological crisis, nonhuman agency, intersectionality and political action.
Speakers
[Thursday Keynote:] Marion Bernard (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Breaking Free from the Oppressive Subject: The Phenomenological Paradigm of the Living
Enter the Actor
Susanna Lindberg (Leiden University)
Composition for Voices
Annabelle Dufourcq (Radboud University)
The Ecological Crisis and Imaginary Subjects in a Zoocentric Perspective
Ruben Hordijk (Lingköping University)
After the Subject, the Child? Nietzsche, Wynter, and the Haunting Legacies of the Colonial Figure of the Child
Simon Gusman (Utrecht University)
The Magic of Subjectivity: A Sartrean Perspective on Disenchantment
Eddo Evink (Open University)
Freedom, Finitude and Play: Subject and Subjectivation in an Asubjective Phenomenology
Anna Westin (St. Mary’s University)
The Body’s Mystical Turn
Marina Marren (United Arab Emirates University)
Haunted by Nature: The Fractured Subject and the Premonitions of a Catastrophe
Thomas Telios (Universität St. Gallen)
The Subject as a Common: Intersectional Subjectivation and Collective Practices
Practicalities
The language of the conference is English. We aim for an in-person conference. The conference will be free for all participants. If you have any additional questions or need any further details, please email the organizers at the email address below.
Registration
Deadline: February 1, 2023. If you wish to attend the conference, please notify us by sending an email to: SubjectivityConference2023@protonmail.com.
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