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Nietzsche in New York 2009
Thursday April 30th-Saturday May 2nd, 2009
Hunter College, CUNY
8th Floor Faculty Lounge, West Building, 68th Street & Lexington Avenue
Thursday April 30th
- 9.30am-10.45am: Simon Robertson (Southampton): “Nietzsche and Practical Reason.”
- 11am-12.15pm: Martine Prange (Amsterdam): “Kant and Nietzsche, Conflict and Cosmopolitanism.”
- 1.30pm-2.45pm: Robert Guay (Binghamton): “Order of Rank.”
- 2.45pm-4pm: Jessica Berry (Georgia State): “'Perfect Moral Skeptics': Moral Skepticism in Nietzsche and Moral Disagreement in the Skeptics.”
- 4.15pm-5.30pm: Babette Babich (Fordham/Georgetown): “From Nietzsche to Adorno on Anarchy, Socialism and Nihilism: Modern Science, Conservation, and the Anarchist’s Cry: Ni Dieu, ni Mâitre.”
Friday May 1st
- 9.30am-10.45am: Heike Schotten (UMass Boston): “Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-09 War on Gaza.”
- 11am-12.15pm: Dirk Johnson (Hampden-Sydney): “A Reading of GM II: 1-5: Aspects of Nietzsche's Challenge to Darwin's Evolutionary Paradigm.”
- 1.30pm-2.45pm: Mark Migotti (Calgary): “Priests, Philosophers and the Ascetic Ideal: Towards a Reading of On the Genealogy of Morality III.”
- 2.45pm-4pm: Gary Shapiro (Richmond): “States and Nomads: Hegel's World and Nietzsche's Earth.”
- 4.15pm-5.30pm: Ken Gemes (Birkbeck/Southampton): “Freud and Nietzsche on Sublimation.”
Saturday May 2nd
- 10am-11.15am: Christian Emden (Rice): “Against Moral Communities: Political Realism in Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Weber.”
- 11.30-12.45pm: Dan Conway (Texas A&M): “The Community Organizer and the Provincial Governor: Beholding Nietzsche in Ecce Homo.”
More information and a printable program is available at: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/philosophy/jns/NiNY09.shtml
NiNY 09 is presented with generous support from the Philosophy Department of Hunter College, and in association with the Journal of Nietzsche Studies. All sessions are free and open to the public.
Institute for Advanced Study Announcement:
"Author Meets Critics" Book Event
The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory
by
Diego von Vacano
Commentators: Yuval Jobani, Aurelian Craiutu, Darrel Moellendorf, and Zouhair Ghazzal
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton NJ
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
12:30pm-2:00pm
School of Social Science Building
Second Floor Meeting Room
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, NJ
Open to the public.
International Conference
NIETZSCHE AND THE BECOMING OF LIFE
2, 3, and 4th of November 2009
The Institute of Humanities, Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference offers an occasion for a wide-ranging exploration and analysis of Nietzsche’s conception of life. While it is generally acknowledged that Nietzsche throughout his writing career advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism, the question of what this affirmation entails is still very much up for discussion. This conference wishes to consider the multiplicity of meanings - metaphysical, aesthetical, ethical, political, and scientific - that the idea of life recovers in Nietzsche’s work. Additionally, this conference wishes to provide a space for the presentation and discussion of Latin American Nietzsche scholarship.
Confirmed plenary speakers include:
Mónica Cragnolini, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Germán Cano Cuenca, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Christa Davis Acampora, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.
José Jara, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
Herman Siemens, Leiden Universiteit, Holland.
Dieter Thomä, Univeristät St.-Gallen, Switzerland
We welcome proposals for 30-minute papers on all topics relevant to the conference theme, including the
following:
- Nietzsche and biology, evolutionary theory and psychology
- Nietzsche’s conception of the body, of lives of animals/plants and of nature
- Life and historicity; life, culture and memory; the future of life
- Fate and freedom; will to power; guilt, responsibility and the innocence of becoming
- Dionysus and Apollo; tragedy and comedy; life and literature; the philosophical life
- Nietzsche and philosophies of life
- Nietzsche and biopolitics
- Nietzsche, geopolitics and the meaning of the earth
Papers on other relevant topics will also be considered. Early submissions are welcome. Conference languages are Spanish and English. We will work with simultaneous translation during plenary sessions. Please send an abstract of a maximum of 600 words and an abbreviated CV (1 page) via e-mail by 30 March 2009 to Nietzsche.Santiago@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 15 April 2009.
For further information, please visit the conference website at www.nietzsche.cl or contact the organizers at Nietzsche.Santiago@gmail.com. Organization: Vanessa Lemm, Institute of Humanities, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. Vanessa.Lemm@udp.cl and http://www.udp.cl.
