Spinoza and Texts
7-8 April 2010
University of Dundee, Scotland
Speakers include: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Peg Rawes, Nick Nesbitt, Nicholas Halmi
This conference focuses on uses of Spinoza in the arts and humanities, considering Spinoza’s influence by and on “texts” construed very broadly. Papers will look at Spinoza in relation to literary, historical, visual, cultural, and critical texts, and evaluate Spinoza’s contribution to multiple fields in the history of ideas and contemporary humanities.
POSTGRADUATE CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are invited from Masters and PhD students for papers of 45-minutes reading time on any topic relevant to the conference theme. This is an interdisciplinary network, and papers looking at Spinoza from a non- (or not strictly) philosophical perspective are welcome. Speakers will have their travel and accommodation expenses covered.
Please send an abstract of around 300 words, along with your name, department, institution, and email address. Deadline: 18 January 2010. (You will be informed of our decision by early Feb.) Email abstracts to Michael Burns at mykeburns@gmail.com
Information about registration and travel bursaries for this event will be available soon.
Past Event, Spinoza and Bodies:
Daniel Selcer (Duquesne), “Singular Things and Spanish Poets: Spinoza on Corporeal Individuation”
Caroline Williams (Queen Mary University of London), “Reconfiguring Body and Mind: Thinking Beyond the Subject with/through Spinoza”
Michael Mack (Nottingham), “Spinoza and Freud, or how to be mindful of the mind”
Eric Schliesser (Leiden), “Spinoza’s criticism of mathematical science”
Anthony Paul Smith (Nottingham/DePaul), “The Ethical Relation of
Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza towards an Affective Ecology”
Mateusz Janik (Polish Academy of Sciences), “Thinking the Future -
Spinoza’s Political Ontology Today”
Click HERE for audio of these presentations.
