Call for Papers: Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy
Topic: “Continental Philosophy of Religion and the New Metaphysics” (featuring seminars on the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Bruno Latour, and Catherine Malabou)
Seminar Leader: John Caputo
When and where:
Saturday, August 9th, 2014; 9am-4:30pm
Campus of Immaculata University
Malvern, Pennsylvania
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Topic: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the New Metaphysics
John Caputo will be leading two one hour seminars with catered lunch in between: one seminar on Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier; one seminar on Bruno Latour and Catherine Malabou. Select attendees will present their research during the morning and afternoon flanking the Caputo seminars.
Attendees are encouraged to purchase The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2014) and The Insistence of God (Indiana University Press, 2014). A reading list featuring works by Meillassoux, Brassier, Latour, and Malabou will be provided.
Location: Immaculata University, Malvern, Pennsylvania
Organizers: Leon Niemoczynski (Immaculata University) & Stephanie Theodorou (Immaculata University)
Cost: $70.00 faculty; $45.00 student or other (seating is limited, pre-registration required. Cost includes catered lunch)
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Immaculata University is pleased to announce the"Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy," a one day seminar style “summer school” and workshop that, this year – its first – features John Caputo as its seminar leader. The event will be organized with two new books as a backdrop: The Insistence of God and The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (both Indiana University Press, 2014), although a formal reading list including works by Meillassoux, Brassier, Latour, and Malabou (for the seminars) will be provided. John Caputo will lead two one hour seminars/classes flanked by morning and afternoon mini-research presentations where researchers present 2000 word abstracts/summaries of their work and engage other participants in query designed to further research goals and enhance the nature of research projects through mutual dialogue.
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The theme of this year's summer school will explore the relationship between the future of Continental philosophy of religion and new schools of thought emerging in contemporary Continental metaphysics, identifying possible routes of exploration as well as areas of influence, cross-over, or challenge.
Topics such as materialist approaches to theology and religion, speculative materialism and non-theology, environmental aesthetics and theology, political theology and ecology, the speculative theologies of German idealism, process-relational philosophy and theology, phenomenology and contemporary French theory and theology/religion, as well as questions of atheism’s relationship to contemporary Continental philosophy of religion will be of central importance for the school. The "new metaphysics" in its most contemporary forms will be a major point of discussion as it bleeds into its Continental philosophical antecedents, especially vis-a-vis thinking about religion, theology, and the Absolute.
Philosophical naturalism (Ray Brassier), the divine inexistence (Quentin Meillassoux), non-philosophy and theology (Francois Laruelle), the Absolute (Iain Hamilton Grant), plasticity (Malabou), or the factish gods (Bruno Latour) are some possible starting points, but one could also see discussion of historical figures as well: whether Bergson, Deleuze, Schelling, Hegel, Kant, Whitehead, Heidegger, or Derrida for example, as participants explore those figures' importance for the future of Continental philosophy of religion and corresponding areas of realism, materialism, and metaphysics. Those who have an interest in contemporary French philosophy (Badiou, Meillassoux, Kacem, Laruelle, Malabou) should certainly apply.
Philosophical naturalism (Ray Brassier), the divine inexistence (Quentin Meillassoux), non-philosophy and theology (Francois Laruelle), the Absolute (Iain Hamilton Grant), plasticity (Malabou), or the factish gods (Bruno Latour) are some possible starting points, but one could also see discussion of historical figures as well: whether Bergson, Deleuze, Schelling, Hegel, Kant, Whitehead, Heidegger, or Derrida for example, as participants explore those figures' importance for the future of Continental philosophy of religion and corresponding areas of realism, materialism, and metaphysics. Those who have an interest in contemporary French philosophy (Badiou, Meillassoux, Kacem, Laruelle, Malabou) should certainly apply.
How to Apply: Those interested should send a summary of a current research project (no more than 2000 words, fit for a 20 minute presentation) to: lniemocz@mail.immaculata.edu by May 30th, 2014.
Those accepted into the summer school will be notified by June 10th, 2014.
Please attach research statements/summaries as .rtf or MS Word .doc files.
