http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/spinoza-and-nietzsche-in-dialogue-2-day-conference/

Speakers:

Moira Gatens and Paul Patton – The Exemplar in Spinoza and Nietzsche

Donald Rutherford – Perfectionism in Spinoza and Nietzsche

Hannah Grosse Wiesmann  – Spinoza’s Conatus and Nietzsche’s Will to Power: Self-Preservation vs. Increase of Power?

Martin Saar – Another Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza and Nietzsche on Power and Knowledge

Alexander Douglas and Christoph Schuringa – Spinoza and Nietzsche On Valuing

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM

Featuring Invited Speaker:  Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

The eighth annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will be held Saturday 22 February 2014 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.  Following the model of similar seminars around the U.S. and Canada, the Southwest Seminar was formed to foster interaction among scholars who work on various topics in the history of early modern philosophy.

Call for Abstracts

Submission Deadline: 26 September 2013

Papers on any subject in early modern (pre-Kantian) philosophy are welcome for presentation at the Southwest Seminar.  Reading times should not exceed 40 minutes.

Abstracts of no more than 750 words should be emailed to Mary Domski at southwestseminar@gmail.com by Thursday 26 September 2013.  Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and sent in either .doc or .rtf format.  If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your abstract within a week, please resubmit or contact Mary at mdomski@unm.edu.  The program for the Southwest Seminar will be announced in early November.

For further information: http://www.unm.edu/~mdomski/swseminar14.html

The Spinoza Center at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Cooperation with Tel Aviv University.

PROGRAM:

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Upper Hall

10:10–10:30 Opening and Greetings

10:30–12:30 SESSION ONE

- Lilli Alanen, Uppsala University: Affects and Ideas in Spinoza’s Therapy of the Passions

- Ericka Tucker, California State Polytechnic University: Emotion and Reason in Spinoza’s Social Theory

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION TWO

- Yakir Levin, Ben–Gurion University of the Negev:  The Unity and Coherence of Spinoza’s Account of Freedom, Reason, and the Passions

- Julie R. Klein, Villanova University:  Intellection and Freedom

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION THREE

- Noa Naaman-Zauderer, Tel Aviv University:  Self–Experience and the Imago Dei Doctrine in Descartes and Spinoza

- Jonathan Fine, Columbia University: Becoming Like God: Freedom of the Will in Descartes

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Upper Hall

10:30–12:30 SESSION FOUR

- John Cottingham, University of Reading:  The Passions: Help or Hindrance to the Good Life?

- Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University:  Descartes and Spinoza on the Primitive Passions: Why So Different?

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION FIVE

- Amihud Gilead, University of Haifa: Spinoza on Passions, Reason, and Freedom

- John Grey, Boston University:  Spinoza on Reason, Freedom, and the Composition of the Body

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION SIX

- Tom Vinci, Dalhousie University; Visiting professor at Tel Aviv University:  Descartes vs. Kant on Reason and Representation

- Elliot Samuel Paul, Barnard College,Columbia University:  Reason as the Faculty of Modal Cognition: Descartes on Certainty and Doubt

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Room 496

10:30–12:30 SESSION SEVEN

- Michael Della Rocca, Yale University:  Spinoza’s Causal Theory of Action: Inexplicability in, and of, Action

- Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan University:  Agency and Necessity in Spinoza

12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 SESSION EIGHT

- Omri Boehm, The New School for Social Research:  Freedom, Générosité, and the Cogito: Cartesian Self-Constitution Reconsidered

- Saja Parvizian, University of Illinois at Chicago: Cartesian Generosity Reconsidered

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 SESSION NINE

- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University:  Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis

- Yirmiyahu Yovel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The New School for Social Research: Reason and Beatitude: Self-Love in Humans and in God

Admission is free

On Sunday-Monday, May 19-20, the conference will be held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

On Tuesday, May 21, the conference will be held at Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, Room 496

Contact: Noa Naaman [noaz@POST.TAU.AC.IL]

Reblogged from London Conference in Critical Thought 2013:

LCCT2013 Poster (High resolution)

LCCT 2013 Provisional Programme

Register here.

Registration is free but essential.

PhD Studentship in Philosophy

University of Aberdeen

Deadline for applications: 28 June 2013

We welcome applications for a PhD Studentship, part of the 3-year AHRC project Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Beth Lord (Philosophy, University of Aberdeen); the Co-Investigator is Dr. Peg Rawes (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London). The project investigates how Spinoza’s philosophy and architectural thought offer a proportional notion of equality that can improve wellbeing.

The PhD candidate will be based at Aberdeen and supervised by Dr. Lord (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/people/profiles/s.b.lord) . She or he will conduct original research linking Spinoza’s philosophy with another discipline, such as architecture, literature, visual culture, or urban studies. In particular, the research should be focused on concepts of equality as they arise in Spinoza’s texts in relation to texts, works, and/or case studies in the chosen other discipline.

We welcome applications from individuals from any relevant disciplinary background who meet the eligibility criteria.

Full details of the studentship can be found here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/funding/details.php?funding_id=220

Applicants should contact Dr. Lord at the earliest opportunity to discuss potential project ideas (s.b.lord@abdn.ac.uk) .

Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

VENICE LECTURES 2013

*Spinoza As Moral Philosopher*

Three lectures by Prof. Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

May 22. Good and Evil

May 23. The Motivations of Virtue

May 24. Benevolence, or The Lives of Others

Venue: Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246, Venice (Italy).

All are welcome.

For information please contact:

Luigi Perissinotto lperissi@unive.it  Matteo Favaretti matteo.favaretti@unive.it  Mattia Geretto geretto@unive.it

“HEGEL AND SPINOZA”

University of Salamanca, 16-18 October 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers of around 3000-3500 words are invited from faculty members and graduate students across the theme of the conference. A 1000-Word Abstract should be sent as e-mail attachment (word.doc or pdf) to: contacto@shegel.es specifying name, affiliation and contact e-mail address.

LANGUAGES: Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Portuguese.

Acceptance and Registration is required.

Deadline:        15. May 2013

Acceptance:    15. June 2013

More info: http://www.shegel.es/v-congreso

An interdisciplinary Conference on affective knowledge called “Quest of the Heart” will be held at Birkbeck College London on the 2^nd-3^rd June 2013, jointly supported by the Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics Research Unit from Finland and the philosophy department at Birkbeck. As speakers we have scholars on history of philosophy, social scientists and artists discussing emotions, imagination, spirituality and their impact on good life. All welcome! The event is free.

Click below to the event description and to the full program at the Birkbeck philosophy website:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/quest-of-the-heart

For further information: Minna Koivuniemi, m.koivuniemi@bbk.ac.uk

Friday 24 May, Room 3.20 Arts 2 Building

School of Politics and IR, Queen Mary, University of London

Spinoza’s philosophy continues to be an important reference point for scholars working within the Humanities. The symposium reflects this diversity of engagements with Spinoza, and brings together scholars working within political theory, philosophy, architecture, and the visual cultures. The symposium asks ‘How might we think with/through Spinoza today? The speakers’ responses reflect some of the most exciting and innovative approaches being developed through Spinoza’s thought today.

‘Vital materialism: Spinoza after Deleuze’ Professor Rosi Braidotti (Director, Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht)

‘Spinoza’s concept of equality’: Dr Beth Lord (Philosophy, Aberdeen)

‘Spinoza’s Geometric Ecologies’: Dr Peg Rawes (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)

‘Jura communia as anima imperii: the symptomatic relationship between law and conflict in Spinoza’: Dr Filippo del Lucchese (Politics, Brunel)

‘Spinoza and the Production of Subjectivity (or, the Three Kinds of Knowledge, and the Passage Between)’: Dr Simon O’Sullivan (Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths)

‘Spinoza and Art’ Professor Moira Gatens (Philosophy, Sydney)

Programme: Thinking Through Spinoza Research Symposium 24 5 13

To register for the event, or for further information, click on the following link:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6258000849#

Details of the book can be found on the EUP website. Please consider asking your university library to order a copy!