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Tuesday 3 December
Postgraduate/Early Career Researcher Day: 356 North Wing, Arts West
12.30-1.00 | Registration |
1.00-2.00 | Grant adventures: The ups and downs of the grant process Knox Peden, Christopher Mayes, Louise Richardson-Self |
2.00-3.00 | Afternoon Tea |
3.00-4.00 | Philosophy pathways: What can you do and how you can get there Jack Reynolds, Ross Barham, Rachel Joy |
4.00-4.30 | Break |
4.30-5.30 | Publishing without perishing: Publication tips Marguerite La Caze, Andrew Inkpin, Daniel Lopez |
Public Lecture B117 Glyn Davies Building/Melbourne School of Design (free, no registrations required)
7.30-8.30 | This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free Martin Hägglund |
Wednesday 4 December
8.15-8.45 | Registration | |||||||||
8.45-10.30 | Welcome to Country: Aunty Di. Conference Opening: Prof. Margaret Cameron (Head of School, SHAPS, University of Melbourne Keynote – Rebecca Comay, ‘Deadlines (literally)’ |
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10.30-11.00 | Morning Tea | |||||||||
Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | Room 5 | Room 6 | Room 7 | Room 8 | Room 9 | Room 10 | |
11.00-12.30 | Thematic Panel: Religion and the Limits of Reason in the Early and Late Heidegger Ingo Farin Transcending Reason Martin Leckey The Gods in the Fourfold: The Divine |
Thematic Panel: Hegel and French Philosophy Mario Wenning and Amour proper and Annerkenung: Gregory S. Moss Towards an Ecstatic |
Janice Richardson Spinoza, Locke, and |
Anya Daly The Declaration of Interdependence!: Feminism, grounding and enactivism |
John Cleary What is an Idea? Plato’s |
Joeri Mol Organizing Space: |
Leonard D’Cruz The Methodological |
Steven Churchill “It is stupid to confuse the |
George Duke Political Romanticism |
Book Panel: Jon Roffe, ed., The Works of Gilles Deleuze Joe Hughes Vincent Le Sanja Mladenovic |
Jon Rubin Spinoza and the Maker’s Knowledge |
Kazi A S M Nurul HudaA Recognition Theoretic Account of Hermeneutical Injustice |
Sean Bowden Expressive action and |
Vincent Le The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s |
Mark Kelly Foucault and |
William Tullius A |
Mike Grimshaw The legacy of |
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12.30-2.00 | Lunch | |||||||||
2.00-3.30 | Thematic Panel: Nietzsche’s Politics Nicola Chadwick On Conway’s Paul Patton Democracy and Cultural Elites in Vanessa Lemm Nietzsche’s Great Politics of the Event |
Danfei Liu Rethinking the |
Christian Parker Derrida’s Last |
Brett Nicholls In catastrophic times: Jean Baudrillard’s |
Ben Hjorth Function |
Brendan Duncan Non-conceptual |
Christopher Lloyd BuckleAristotle and Heidegger on Pathos and Being |
Geoffrey HondroudakisLogos, Analogos, Techne: Planetary Computation and the Technopolitics of Abstraction |
Book Panel: Marguerite La Caze, Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence: The Grieving and the Unrepentant Margarite La Caze Simone Drichel Peter Banki |
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David Blencowe Totality is modern and it is material: historical materialism |
James Kent Hans Blumenberg on the Rigorism of Truth and the Strangeness |
Glen Veitch Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable? Process Philosophy as a Call to Action |
Kirk Turner “Sex slash death is in my |
Caitlyn Lesiuk Revisiting Badiou’s Beckett: literature as an evental site in |
Maks Sipowicz Walter Charleton and the Cartesian |
Roman Meinhold Elucidating the |
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Yanhui Bai Historical |
Joel Glazebrook Towards a creative |
Larelle Bossi Gelassenheit in the |
Rosemary Overell The reveal of the Real in hashtag politics |
Reto Oechslin Fin Fatale: We Are To Undo Badiou’s Knot |
Emily Hughes Towards a |
Vanessa Arapko Post-capitalist |
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3.30-4.00 | Break |
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4.00-5.30 | Thematic Panel: Techne, Polis, and Differenz in Heidegger Richard Colledge Kant’s ‘Ontological Miguel Vatter Dimitris Vardoulakis |
Jacinta Sassine Rhetoric and Justice in the Sophist Gorgias |
David Emmanuel RoweHow to be a self: A Nietzschean guide |
Christopher BoerdamWhat’s Left for Žižek? |
Dipen Barua Becoming, Being, and |
Brendan Duncan and Ella BryningTo Admit the Pleasure-giving Muse: Poetry and Thought in the work of Iris Murdoch, Judith Balso and Alain Badiou |
Caterina Diotto Walter Benjamin: the |
Brianni Lee A Comparative |
Book Panel: Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom Conall Cash Mathew Abbott |
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Tristan Bradshaw and Ben BrownCritical antiquities and theorizing modern crises |
Jamie Parr Suffering and |
Jayson Jimenez Anthropocene and the ‘Post-Kantian Decider’ |
Thomas Redwood Rudolf Steiner’s |
Robyn Adler The Other Side of Transparency-art and the opaque subject of psychoanalysis |
Edward Bradford Terminology in the |
Wendyl Luna Kantian |
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Venessa Ercole Nietzsche’s Dionysian |
Tom Ford Philological |
Scott Robinson Neoliberalism and Nihilism: Theses on Wendy Brown’s |
William Hebblewhite Time, Space and Distribution |
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5.30-7.30 | ASCP Reception |
Thursday 5 December
8.30-9.00 | Registration | |||||||||
9.00-10.30 | Keynote – Samantha Matherne, ‘Recapturing Edith Landmann-Kalischer’s Theory of Aesthetic Value’ | |||||||||
10.30-11.00 | Morning Tea | |||||||||
Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | Room 5 | Room 6 | Room 7 | Room 8 | Room 9 | Room 10 | |
11.00-12.30 | Thematic Panel: Nature, Culture, Social Critique Loughlin Gleeson ‘Critical Naturalism’ Simon Lumsden Hegel’s Theory of Culture Cat Moir The Nature of Hegel’s Social and Political Heikki Ikäheimo The Self-creating Lifeform of persons and |
Bahar Mirteymouri Spinoza’s Freedom |
Alex Cain Arendt’s contradictions: |
Bertille De Vlieger Emotional |
Artem Bourov Making sense of self-awareness: phenomenology beyond qualitative feel |
Amy Hickman Dispelling |
Conall Cash Truth and |
Ahlam Mustafa Abukhoti“Circles of Memory”; An Approach to Understanding Cultural Memory in the Postcolonial Arab Context |
Book Panel: Marguerite La Caze and Magdalena Zolkos, eds., Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched Marguerite La Caze Magdalena Zolkos Paul Atkinson Peter Banki Tim Flanagan |
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Josipa Mickova Intelligibility of the eternal, or against teleology: ground for |
Daniel Brennan Wonder and the |
Ezechiel Thibaud Republican |
James Wells Beyond Narrative and Sameness: |
Stephen Abblitt “School-sick”: |
George Wood Feeling Language: |
Daniel Badenhorst They cannot descend: |
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Moira Gatens Singularity, Similarity, |
Michelle Boulous‐ WalkerThe Work of Laughter is the Work of Philosophy: Diotima and Arendt |
Joel Katzav Grace and Theodore de |
Mackenzie Groff Nostalgia, Exile and other Reconstructive |
David Newheiser Derrida’s Atheism |
Pat McConville Phenomenology and Artificial Hearts |
Rachel Joy The topopoiesis of |
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12.30-2.00 | Lunch | |||||||||
1.00-2.00 – Equity & Diversity Plenary – Karen Jones, Augustine Obi, Rachel Joy |
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2.00-3.30 | Thematic Panel: French Husserl Revisited Knox Peden On Jean Cavaillès Bryan Cooke On Michel Henry |
Karen Green Women’s reception |
Nathan Bell Refugees: Towards a |
Kate Phelan The Epistemic |
Grace Campbell Intentionally sought |
Dimitris ApostolopoulosMerleau-Ponty’s Hegelian Transformation of Intentionality |
Antonia Pont Resisting |
Latheesh Mohan The perhaps of spirit and being: Dialectical |
Martine Prange On the Relation of |
Book Panel: Raymond Ruyer, The Genesis of Living Forms Jon Roffe Maurizio Melloni Nicholas Barthel de Weydenthal |
Mathew Abbott The Vulnerability of Self-Conscious |
Robert Boncardo The Last Days of the Dialectic: Alain Badiou’s Political Engagements, 1969-1981 |
Luara Karlson‐Carp Parsing the impasse of sexual difference: |
Jane Connell Nietzsche, Freud and |
Andrew Inkpin Complex Community: |
John McIntyre Michel Foucault’s |
Michael Fagenblat and Antonio VargasWho Cares: Heidegger on “the truth of a people” |
Monte Pemberton Virtues and values in |
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3.30-4.00 | Break | |||||||||
4.00-5.30 | Thematic Panel: Reconsidering Lukács Daniel Lopez The Finite and the Cat Moir Julien Potter |
Chris van Rompaey Aristoteles latinus |
Elizabeth Presa Toysr-Us: Infancy and |
Francis Russell Cruel Optimism and NeuroLiberalism in the Work of Catherine Malabou |
Sameema Zahra Beauvoirian |
Michael Lazarus Gillian Rose, Georg Lukács and the Lament over |
Ben Kearvell Disability and its Deleuzions: |
Adrian Marshall Heidegger vs. Kant’s Concept of Comportment and the notion of Divinity in Virtual Reality |
Book Panel: Alison Ross, Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin Alison Ross Justin Clemens Knox Peden Jessica Whyte |
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Tim Flanagan Plotinus’ Orientalism |
Michael Hearn Thus |
Louise Richardson‐ SelfProposing an account of the ‘dominant (Englishspeaking) online social imaginary’ |
Paul Atkinson The |
Raphaella Elaine MirandaAdorno Contra Transcendental Idealism: A Critique of Husserl’s Notion of Objectivity |
Corey Cribb Powerless |
Blake Stove Truth and Method of |
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Daniel Mcloughlin ‘The Bloody |
Sebastian SantistebanThe imaginaries of success and failure of tech entrepreneurs in Colombia: a critical approach |
Marilyn Stendera Bergson and |
William Bennett Does Sovereignty |
Dominic Williams Corplication: |
Sushobhona Pal A Heideggerian |
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7.00 | Conference Dinner – Naughtons Hotel |
Friday 6 December
8.30-9.00 | Registration | |||||||||
9.00-10.30 | Keynote – Martin Hägglund, ‘Secular Faith and Political Emancipation’ | |||||||||
10.30-11.00 | Morning Tea | |||||||||
10.30-12.30 | Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 | Room 5 | Room 6 | Room 7 | Room 8 | Room 9 | Room 10 |
11.00-12.30 | Thematic Panel: Kant and the Philosophy of Life Dennis Schmidt Kant and the Andrew Benjamin The Life of Reason: |
Desmond Sander The Poverty of |
Jon Roffe From the sublime to |
Christopher Watkin To have done with |
Robert Sinnerbrink Discourses on love: |
Benjamin Grieve‐ JohnsonAgainst Technology: Toward a NonEthics, not of Technology |
Augustine Obi Africa |
Jack Reynolds, Cathy Legg Framing the Predictive Mind: |
Bryce Weber On |
Book Panel: Oliver Feltham, Destroy and Liberate: Political Action on the Basis of Hume Oliver Feltham Justin Clemens Dimitris Vardoulakis Charles Barbour Jessica Whyte Paul Patton |
Valery Vinogradov Academic and |
Michael Yuen Kant, Meillassoux |
Fiona Utley Can we |
Michael Mosely A contradiction in Heidegger’s artessay |
Paul Healy Living with |
John Quay Heidegger, fundamental |
Justin White Aspiration, Habit, and |
Peter Banki NeoLiberalism and the Haunting Right to Bildung |
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12.30-2.00 | Lunch | |||||||||
1.00-2.00 ASCP AGM |
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2.00-3.30 | Thematic Panel: Institution of Intellectual Community: Blanchot, Kojève and Badiou at Critique Joe Hughes Critique: Elliott Patsoura Kojève, Bataille, and the Crossroads Jessica Marian The Badiou Crisis at |
John Preston A Precognitive |
Gregory Marks Thinking Flesh: Nietzsche, Hysteria, and the Gothic Body |
Thematic Panel: Crossing Avenues: Free Spirit in the Prison World Valery Vinogradovs Mahmood Fazal |
Matt Marasco Towards a Hegelian |
Brock Smith Albert Camus: the Writer, Community, and the Role of Literature |
Christopher Edwards The Transcendental Origin of Nature: Husserl and Richard |
Max Morris Philosophy, Politics, and Cosmopolitanism: Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève |
Book Panel: Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism Jessica Whyte Justin Clemens Janice Richardson Miguel Vatter Charles Barbour |
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Konstantin Azarov A Kantian approach to local color |
Lachlan Ross Nietzsche’s quietest heresy: On the |
Philip Martin Making History: Art |
Jennifer Ang Living existentially |
Hora Zabarjadi Sar The I-Alien relation and |
Norma Lam‐saw At the limits of the |
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Sherah Bloor Anatomy of the |
Thomas Moran Unleashing the untimely one: on the transfiguration |
Sam McAuliffe Improvising |
Ross Barham The Meaning of Life – |
Kyle Gleadell Science, |
Valentin Cartillier Whose dead god: |
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3.30-4.00 | Break | |||||||||
4.00-5.30 | Plenary: The Work of Justin Clemens |