Dear Philosophy Majors and Minors,
Attached is a flyer for our next club meeting. It will be a paper presentation with a question/discussion period afterward.
Best,
Sumaya
Category : phenomenology
Philosophy Club Meeting with paper presentation, “Embodiment and Personhood and the Role of Others,” March 26, 5pm
PRG Newsletter 3/16
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Phenomenology Research Group Workshop: Body, Space, and Imagination – Loyola, Jan 26, 2pm
CORRECTION: Please note that the workshop starts at 2pm (not at 12:30pm, as stated in the above flyer).
The Phenomenology Research Group has a fabulous new site! Check it!
http://www.phenomenologyresearchgroup.net/
For those of you who don’t know about the PRG, here’s the blurb from their site’s “About” section (also, shame on you!):
The Phenomenology Research Group (PRG) at Loyola University Chicago is a joint student-faculty initiative dedicated to advancing research in phenomenology. The PRG is open to the entire academic community of Loyola University, Chicago, the greater Midwest, and beyond. Inter-disciplinary approaches are welcome. Seminars and workshops will be held on a regular basis to present research and inspire new directions in contemporary phenomenology.
The PRG was founded in 2012 by Dr. Hanne Jacobs, Thomas Bretz, Rebecca Scott, Giancarlo Tarantino, Sean Petranovich, and Mike Gutierrez.
This group is an exciting development for the department and for phenomenologists in and around Chicago. For those of you are interested in being involved and/or following the work that they’re doing, there’s a link to their Facebook page (and their site) in the right sidebar on this blog. You can subscribe to their newsletter here.
Keep up the good work, y’all!
Colloquium: Andrew Benjamin, “Contra Heidegger’s Descartes: Recovering Relationality,” Loyola, Jan 17th
From Michael Gutierrez (of the PRG):
On Thursday the 17th, the internationally renowned scholar Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) will deliver a talk titled “Contra Heidegger’s Descartes: Recovering Relationality”. We’re lucky to have him and it should be a great talk so please do show up: 2-4pm, Crown Center, Room 530. Snacks & bevvies! Any last minute schedule changes (not anticipating any, but…) should be here: http://www.phenomenologyresearchgroup.net/
Call for Abstracts: The Phenomenological Method to the Madness
The McMaster University Phenomenology Group invites submissions of abstracts for our upcoming student conference, to take place April 6th, 2013 in Hamilton, Ontario. The deadline for abstracts is January 15th, 2013. For more information, please see the CFA posted on our website: www.closetphenomenology.com
Department Colloquium: Dr. Anthony J. Steinbock, “Life and Spirit in Shame: Self-Revelation,” Nov. 29
The next philosophy department colloquium was announced via the AGSP list-serv today. Dr. Anthony J. Steinbock of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is coming to give a talk titled,
“Life and Spirit in Shame: Self-Revelation.”
Thursday, Nov. 29th
2-4p
LSB 312
(More info about Dr. Steinbock here.)
Hope to see you there!
via Mike Gutierrez on AGSP-L
The Insistence of God, Discussion w John D. Caputo, Northwestern, Nov. 15
The Paul of Tarsus Working Group and
The After-Life of Phenomenology Workshop
present
John D. Caputo
discussing his upcoming book
The Insistence of God: A Theology of “Perhaps”
Thursday, November 15th, 4:00 PM
Northwestern University
Parkes Hall, 222
1870 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208 map it
The Event is Free and Open to the Public.
This event series has been generously co-sponsored by:
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Departments of
Philosophy, Religious Studies, French & Italian, Political Science, English, and German
—Book Description—
“The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God’s existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God’s existence is haunted by “perhaps,” which does not signify indecisiveness, but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and the promise of the world. He shows how perhaps can become a new theology of the gaps God opens.
–From Indiana University Press
—Author Bio—
John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. He is author of The Weakness of God(IUP, 2006) which won the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Constructive-Reflective Studies category.
–From Indiana University Press
“What Sensation Does for Levinas and Deleuze,” Lecture by Tom Sparrow, Northwestern, Nov. 14
The After-Life of Phenomenology Workshop
sponsored by The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
presents
“What Sensation Does for Levinas and Deleuze”
a lecture by
Tom Sparrow Slippery Rock University, Philosophy
Wednesday, November 14th, 4:00 PM
Kresge Hall, 2-301
(Spanish & Portuguese Seminar Room)
Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208 map it
The Event is Free and Open to the Public.
This event series has been generously co-sponsored by:
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Departments of
Philosophy, Religious Studies, French & Italian, Political Science, English, and German
––Abstract––
It is often thought that phenomenology and poststructuralism represent two divergent paths out of modernity. One way to construe this divergence is to take phenomenology as the path of transcendence, while poststructuralism represents the path of immanence. If anyone is a philosopher of immanence, we are told, it is Deleuze. If anyone is a philosopher of transcendence, we are told, it is Levinas. This talk aims to show–by examining the unlikely alliance of Levinas and Deleuze–that such neat distinctions obscure the points of convergence that exist between phenomenology and poststructuralism. In their aesthetics, Levinas and Deleuze share a lot in common, especially when it comes to the functions that sensation, representation, force, and violence play in aesthetic experience. Furthermore, given his approach to aesthetic experience, this investigation raises the question of whether or not Levinas can even be called a phenomenologist.
The Phenomenology Research Group is on Facebook
Go “like” them, so you can keep up with everything they’re doing. Even if you aren’t on Facebook, the page is available for the public to view. Check it out, here.
For future reference, there is also a handy link in the right sidebar on this blog.
Loyolans at SPEP
This is a little late, but it’s still nice to see what some Loyolans have been doing at SPEP this weekend.
Thursday:
Hanne Jacobs presented “Perceptual Consciousness and Attention” for a session on Perception and Movement.
Friday:
Maggie Labinski presented “Who’s Reading Who: Renewing the Value of Feminist Re-Readings of ‘The Canon'” for a session on the theory and practice of feminism.
Andrew Cutrofello gave a talk titled, “Cogito and the History of Melancholy: Situating Hamlet in Derrida’s Debate With Foucault.”
