This fourth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series will examine what difference, disability and diversity mean in light of existential philosophy. While existential philosophy places the focus on the individual and on the precedence of existence over essence, as well as on choice and freedom, it may also have […]
CFP: Leonard Cohen, An Interdisciplinary Conference, Maynooth University, Jun. 12-13, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2019)
Religion, teachers, women, drugs, the road, fame, money… nothing gets me high and offers relief from the suffering like blackening pages, writing. – Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s body of work challenges and bridges many oppositions. A poet and novelist of significant talent, he chose a career as a songwriter and musical performer in order to […]
CFP: Reading and Translating The Second Sex Globally (deadline: Mar. 1, 2020)
Simone de Beauvoir Studies Special Issue “Reading and Translating The Second Sex Globally” Guest Editors: Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch Deadline: March 1, 2020 Since its publication in France in 1949, The Second Sex has been translated into dozens of languages, and each time in a particular editorial, intellectual, and feminist context. Each translation has given rise to different […]
CFA: Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nov. 22-23, 2019 (deadline: Sept. 7, 2019)
The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) invites abstract submissions of up to 500 words for its 3rd Annual Conference which will take place at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, from the 22nd to the 23rd of November 2019. Keynote Speaker: Professor Lewis Gordon SASCT is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker […]
CFP: Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nov. 22-23, 2019 (deadline: Sept. 7, 2019)
The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) invites abstract submissions of up to 500 words for its 3rd Annual Conference which will take place at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, from the 22nd to the 23rd of November 2019. SASCT invites papers which address the vexed notion of the “human” in the contemporary […]
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