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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2018

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Tuesday 20th November 2018

17:00 - 18:30

Democracy, populism, and superfluity: lessons from Arendt's "Origins of totalitarianism"

Peg Birmingham

Wednesday 21st November 2018

09:30 - 11:00

PANEL

Contemporary problems in Deleuze scholarship

chair - Sean Bowden

PANEL

Feminist and queer politics

chair - Allison Weir

09:30

Decolonizing feminist critical theory

Allison Weir

10:00

"She looks lie a dike": on the heterosexism of online misogyny

Louise Richardson-Self

10:30

Deleuze, transfeminism and feminist politics

Hannah Stark, Timothy Laurie

PANEL

Mimetic theory and Star Wars

chair - Chris Fleming

09:30

A sacrificial crisis not far away: Star Wars as a genuinely modern mythology

Diego Bubbio

10:00

Violent desire: Abrams' Star Wars

John C McDowell

PANEL

n/a

chair - Andrew Lac

09:30

On the various senses of transcendence in Heidegger

Erik Kuravsky

10:00

Modern sense of the sacred: Heidegger and Taylor in dialogue

Anoop George

10:30

On the role of thing in itself in Schopenhauer's philosophy

Tadahiro Oota

PANEL

n/a

chair - Luke Fischer

PANEL

Social imaginaries 1

chair - Moira Gatens

09:30

Castoriadis and Taylor on social imaginaries

Suzi Adams

10:00

The debate between Alain Badiou and Marcel Gauchet: structural autonomy and contemporary capitalism

Natalie Doyle

PANEL

Spinoza 1

chair - Janice Richardson

09:30

Utility's Politics in Aristotle and Spinoza

Tristan Bradshaw

10:15

Is Spinoza's third kind of knowledge useless?

Jon Rubin

PANEL

Trauma and affect 1

chair - Joanne Faulkner

11:30 - 13:00

PANEL

Michael Bennett, Deleuze and ancient Greek physics

chair - Sally Macarthur

PANEL

n/a

chair - Harry Fairless

PANEL

Paolo Diego Bubbio, "Intellectual sacrifice and other mimetic paradoxes"

chair - John C McDowell

PANEL

Queer nature

chair - Rebecca Hill

11:30

The queer tendencies of sexual difference

Rebecca Hill

12:00

Limits of nature, limits of gender: performing sexual difference in the time of the anthropocene

Laura Karlson-Carp

12:30

Weaponizing queerness: the unbearable whiteness of life after performativity

Yannik Thiem

PANEL

Renaissance philosophy

chair - Valery Rees

11:30

Machiavellian flattery

Haig Patapan

12:00

Marsilio Ficino in search of Aristotle

Anna Corrias

12:30

Pico della Mirandola, concord and dignity

Francesco Borghesi

PANEL

Social imaginaries 2

chair - Suzi Adams

11:30

Political imaginaries and nationalist traditions in the Americas

Jeremy Smith

12:00

The problem of hierarchy and the modern political imaginary

Craig Browne

PANEL

Spinoza 2

chair - Jon Rubin

11:30

Spinoza's ethics and techniques of power: a feminist perspective

Janice Richardson

12:15

Spinoza, legality, Adam, the Fall

Dimitris Vardoulakis

PANEL

Trauma and affect 2

chair - Marguerite La Caze

14:30 - 16:00

PANEL

Dwelling, sovereignty, ethics: Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas and climate refugees

chair - Nicole Anderson

PANEL

German philosophy of nature

chair - Jennifer Mensch

14:30

Goethe's philosophy of nature: conditions rather than causes

Dalia Nassar

15:00

Kant's natural cosmology in the Critique of judgment

Kristi Sweet

15:30

Form and force: Kant and Goethe on the organisation of life

Jennifer Mensch

PANEL

Mentoring women for professional success in Continental philosophy

chair - Simone Bignall

PANEL

n/a

chair - Paul Alberts

PANEL

n/a

chair - Andrew Inkpin

PANEL

n/a

chair - Anoop George

14:30

The excess of meaning: phenomenology and the limits of sense

Pierre-Jean Renaudie

15:00

Reapproaching the issue of Heideggerian world disclosure

Fifi Wong

15:30

The logic of "life": modes of being, substance templates and kinds of generality

Bernardo Ainbinder

PANEL

Political and economic theology 1

chair - Nick Heron

14:30

Between Foucault and Debord: Giorgio Agamben on the governmental machine

Daniel McLoughlin

15:00

What is Walter Benjamin's idea of communist society?

Alison Ross

PANEL

Trauma and affect 3

chair - Peter Banki

16:30 - 18:00

PANEL

Just sex?: affect, institutions, and sexual ethics

chair - Timothy Laurie

16:30

Beyond "consent as contract": transforming sexual imaginaries

Anna Hush

17:00

Reimagining sexual ethics: consent, self-regard and reciprocity: part I

Millicent Churcher

17:30

Reimagining sexual ethics: consent, self-regard and reciprocity: part II

Moira Gatens

PANEL

n/a

chair - Mark Kelly

16:30

Simmel and Foucault on the bonds of modernity

Lachlan Ross

17:00

Discipline and punish and educate: the silent production of "autonomy" in Kant according to Foucault

Christopher Davidson

PANEL

n/a

chair - Marilyn Stendera

PANEL

n/a

chair - Tristan Bradshaw

16:30

The significance of the concept of essence in Spinoza's epistemology

Jeremy Kane

17:00

Affect in motion: the dynamics of aesthetic emotion in Spinoza and Abhinavagupta

Philip Martin

17:30

Spinoza and the limits of reason

Michael-Francis Polios

PANEL

n/a

chair - Jeremy Kane

PANEL

n/a

chair - Kristi Sweet

16:30

In pursuit of beauty: Baumgarten, Winckelmann and the founding of art history

Chris van Rompaey

17:00

Why conscience can be mistaken: Baumgarten contra Kant

Toshiro Osawa

PANEL

Political and economic theology 2

chair - Alison Ross, Ryan Walter

16:30

Smith's invisible hand: providence in text and context

Ryan Walter

17:00

World history as last judgment: a reception history

Nick Heron

17:30

"Only a God can restist a God": Goethe's frank speech to Napoleon: on gnosticism and political theology

Miguel Vatter

PANEL

Trauma and affect 4

chair - Katrina Jaworski

18:30 - 20:00

The human being and the animal: reconsidering Agamben's critique of Heidegger

Walter Brogan

Thursday 22nd November 2018

09:30 - 11:00

PANEL

Christopher Peterson, Monkey Trouble

chair - Lorraine Sim

PANEL

Contemporary marxist philosophy 1

chair - Charles Barbour

PANEL

Hegel 1: Hegel and naturalism

chair - Carlos Lopez

PANEL

Heidegger 1: Where are we with Heidegger's question of Being?

chair - Ingo Farin

09:30

Reconstructing Heidegger's question of Being

Ingo Farin

10:15

What are Heidegger's question(s) of being?

Martin Leckey

PANEL

Music and philosophy 1

chair - Sally Macarthur, Judith Lochhead

PANEL

n/a

chair - Sameema Zahra

PANEL

n/a

chair - Benjamin Grieve-Johnson

PANEL

Trauma and affect 5

chair - Katrina Jaworski, Simone Drichel

11:30 - 14:00

PANEL

Contemporary marxist philosophy 2

chair - Meng Zhang

PANEL

Hegel 2: Hegel and history

chair - Diego Bubbio

PANEL

Heidegger 2: Heidegger between Capobianco and Sheehan

chair - Michael Mosely

10:15

Re-framing Being: manifestation, meaningfulness and the early Heidegger in dialogue

Marilyn Stendera

11:30

Heidegger's turn as the question of the belonging together of Dasein and Being

Michael Mosely

PANEL

Matthias Fritsch, Taking turns with the Earth

chair - Ewa Ziarek

PANEL

Music and philosophy 2

chair - Michelle Stead

PANEL

n/a

chair - Benjamin Grieve-Johnson

PANEL

n/a

chair - Kate Phelan

PANEL

Trauma and affect 6

chair - Peter Banki

14:30 - 16:00

PANEL

Animals and philosophy

chair - Simon Lumsden

PANEL

Contemporary marxist philosophy 3

chair - Shifa Zhao

PANEL

Heidegger 3: Heidegger on the Nothing

chair - Richard Colledge

14:30

The Nothing: Heidegger's lethic beying

Richard Colledge

15:15

Re-thinking the Nothing: Heidegger in dialogue with the Kyoto School

Emily Hughes

PANEL

Music and philosophy 3

chair - Brian Hulse, Michelle Stead

PANEL

n/a

chair - Aitor Jimenez

PANEL

n/a

chair - Loughlin Gleeson

PANEL

n/a

chair - Gabrielle Mardon

14:30

A phenomenological grounding of feminist ethics

Anya Daly

15:00

Diotime's laughter: what can philosophy do?

Michelle Boulous Walker

15:30

Who-ever are histories for? pluralization, border thinking and potential histories

Fiona Jenkins

PANEL

Psychoanalysis and philosophy 1

chair - Joanne Faulkner

16:30 - 18:00

PANEL

Marxian philosophy and its tradition 1

chair - Michael Hemmingsen

PANEL

n/a

chair - Peg Birmingham

16:30

"White skin": a libidinal economy of race

Ashley Woodward

17:15

An encounter between Arendt's thought of natality and the Native American women's theory of reproductive justice

Ewa Ziarek

PANEL

n/a

chair - Hariette Richards

PANEL

n/a

chair - Oliver Feltham

PANEL

n/a

chair - Gregory Marks

PANEL

n/a

chair - Elaine Miller

PANEL

Psychoanalysis and philosophy 2

chair - Cindy Zeiher

PANEL

Thinking between Zhuangzi and Heidegger

chair - Eric Sean Nelson

16:30

The uses of Zhuangzi: uselessness and Gelassenheit in Heidegger's "Evening conversation" (1945)

Eric Sean Nelson

17:15

Heidegger, Zhuangzi and the quest for originary thinking

David Chai

18:30 - 20:00

Genevieve Lloyd

Robyn Ferrell, Catriona MacKenzie, Geneviève Lloyd, Paul Crittenden

Friday 23rd November 2018

09:30 - 11:00

PANEL

Displacement and exile as philosophical standpoints 1: racialised borderlands: gender, colonialism and incarceration

chair - Anne Surma

PANEL

Marxian philosophy and its tradition 2

chair - Ping He

PANEL

n/a

chair - Nathan Everson

PANEL

n/a

chair - Gideon Baker

PANEL

n/a

chair - Richard Fincham

PANEL

n/a

chair - Anya Daly

PANEL

Political liberalism

chair - Thomas Besch

PANEL

Pragmatism

chair - Simon Lumsden

11:30 - 13:00

PANEL

Displacement and exile as philosophical standpoints 2: knowing border violence: displacement and embodiment

chair - Jyhene Kebsi

PANEL

Marxian philosophy and its tradition 3

chair - Fugang Sheng

PANEL

n/a

chair - Ludo de Roo

PANEL

n/a

chair - Hannah Berry

PANEL

n/a

chair - Charles Barbour

PANEL

n/a

chair - James Risser

PANEL

Nietzsche

chair - Vanessa Lemm

PANEL

The forgiveness to come: the Holocaust and the hyper-ethical

chair - Simone Drichel

14:00 - 15:30

PANEL

n/a

chair - Robert H Williams

PANEL

n/a

chair - Brian Schroeder

PANEL

n/a

chair - Sigi Jottkandt

PANEL

n/a

chair - Angie Contini

PANEL

n/a

chair - Emma Shea Davies

PANEL

n/a

chair - Ira Herbold

PANEL

n/a

chair - Emma Black

16:00 - 17:30

Agamben's hermeneutics

James Risser

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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2018

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