upcoming conferences:
Call for Papers: Ontology and Politics Conference
Date: Monday June 16th, 2008
Location: Queen Mary, University of London
Call for Papers Deadline: Friday May 9th, 2008
All enquiries and abstracts to: p.rekret@qmul.ac.uk
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Simon Critchley, The New School University (USA)
Professor Andrew Benjamin, Monash University (AUS)
Call for Papers:
Recent work in political theory has often revolved around the question of the relation between ontology and politics. For all of their differences, Derrida, Nancy, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, Laclau, Butler, Connolly, Zizek, Foucault, and Agamben (to name but a few) have sought to question the foundations of political thought, and also philosophy’s relation to the political conditions within which it originates. While politics can no longer lay claim to secure grounds, the gesture of rethinking ontology cannot be separated or abstracted from the society from which it arises. The relation between ontology and politics is consequently a crucial question for both philosophy and politics. This workshop aims to explore the intersections of politics and ontology and the resulting implications for thinking the political and the philosophical.
We invite papers addressing the following and any other related themes:
-How can we think the political in the absence of a secure or stable ontology?
-Questioning our relation to the tradition of political philosophy and the relation of the philosophical to the political.
-Is there a necessary transitivity between the ontological and the political?
-The political implications of thinking ontology as pure immanence, production, difference, becoming, or multiplicity.
-Thinking community or the self’s relation to others when secure ontological foundations for such relations are in question.
Paper title and 300 word abstract should be submitted by Friday May 9th, 2008 to Paul Rekret at p.rekret@qmul.ac.uk
Graduate papers strongly encouraged.
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The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition, Universalism
Centre of Theology and Philosophy
Rome, Italy September 1-4 2008.
Speakers include Zizek, Agamben, Stanley Hauerwas, Oliver O’Donovan.
This conference will also include a panel co-ordinated by members of electic criticism which will focus on the relationship of Speculative Realism and Religion, and will consist of Quentin Meillassoux (ENS, Paris), Dustin McWherter (Middlesex), and John Milbank (Nottingham) with more to be announced.
More information here.
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Social Movements and/in the Post Colonial
Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South
A conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham
24 – 25 June 2008