Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen) is presenting a paper at the Aristotelian Society on “Disagreement in the Political Philosophy of Spinoza and Ranciere”, Monday 14 November, 5:30 PM at Senate House in London.
Full details, and a draft of the paper, are available on the Aristotelian Society website.
Podcast of this paper available here: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2016/11/beth-lord-disagreement-in-the-political-philosophy-of-spinoza-and-ranciere/
First Meeting of the Spinoza Society of Canada: Current Debates and Ongoing Research
CPA Congress 2016, University of Calgary
Scurfield Hall, Room 268
June 1, 2016
Recent scholarly interest in Spinoza has been increasing in both volume and notoriety. As a result of this increased interest, we have founded the Canadian Spinoza Society to promote and connect Canadian English and French-language research and scholars with each other and the rest of the world. In this spirit, the symposium will present papers in both languages, from both Canadian and American scholars. These papers will cover topics in Spinoza’s ethics, method, metaphysics, physics, politics, and psychology, as well the interrelations between these domains, which are a key characteristic of Spinoza’s unique contribution to the history of philosophy, and which help highlight his continuing value today.
Participants and affiliations:
Ericka Tucker (Marquette University)
Karolina Hübner (University of Toronto)
Torin Doppelt (Queen’s University)
Alexandre Rouette (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Sarah Kizuk (Marquette University)
Oberto Marrama (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Schedule:
14:00 – 14:40: Ericka Tucker: Power and Freedom in Spinoza’s Democratic Theory
14:40 – 15:20: Karolina Hübner: Spinoza on Expression
15:30 – 16:00: Torin Doppelt: Spinoza’s Seemingly Absurd Love of God
16:00 – 16:30: Alexandre Rouette: Le concept de « corpora simplicissima » dans la physique spinoziste
16:30 – 17:00: Sarah Kizuk: Bodies in Spinoza’s Metaphysical Theory of Individuation: Fixed Movement and the Drive to Persevere in Being
17:00 – 17:30: Oberto Marrama: Common notions and common properties in Spinoza’s theory of knowledge
Please see attached document for full information: First Meeting of the Spinoza Society of Canada (Schedule)
A very exciting event in Paris, June 3-4, 2016, with many prominent speakers. See the attached PDF2016 05 10 programme SFEU pour diffusion for programme, registration and contact information.
A short description from the programme:
“Though philosophy may not know nationalities, it does know languages. It is in this manner that traditions of interpretation are created, traditions that share common references but whose differences make their confrontations necessary. The development of Spinoza research in the United States over the last decades, from often profoundly renovated historical, ontological, logical, moral, and political perspectives, justifies the organization of a discussion with contemporary French interpreters of Spinoza, heirs to the French Spinozist tradition. The International Colloquium Spinoza France États-Unis, will be the site for such a discussion, both friendly and scientific.”
Equal by Design, a documentary film about Spinoza, equality, wellbeing, and housing. Tickets available now for the Scottish premiere on 28 May, 2016 at the University of Aberdeen.
Information about a London screening is coming soon!
Equal by Design, project film of the Equalities of Wellbeing project, will have its Scottish premiere at the University of Aberdeen May Festival on Saturday 28 May at 4:00 PM.
Equal by Design, by Peg Rawes and Beth Lord, directed by Adam Low and produced by Lone Star Productions, is a 25-minute documentary exploring how Spinoza’s philosophy connects to housing design for wellbeing and the current crisis in affordable housing.
Following the film screening there will be a discussion and Q&A with the project team, the filmmakers, and Rosemary Brotchie of Shelter Scotland.
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance. Book your tickets online here.
Spinoza Scholarship Group Symposium
Spinoza’s Translations: New Directions in Spinoza Scholarship
April 15-16, 2016, Minneapolis
Friday, April 15
WORKSHOP I | Kiarina Kordela | Macalester College
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Spinoza’s Sovereignty: Fantasy and the Immanent Decision of Interpretation
Saturday, April 16
WORKSHOP II | Warren Montag | Occidental College
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
The Place of Hatred in the Theologico-Political Apparatus
WORKSHOP III | Hasana Sharp | McGill University
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Spinoza in the Anthropocene
LECTURE | WARREN MONTAG
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Do Not Add to His Words: The Problem of Translation in Chapter Seven of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | MINNEAPOLIS | U.S.A
Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
135 Nicholson Hall
Cesare Casarino: casarino@umn.edu, Anjali Ganapathy: ganap002@umn.edu
Pre-circulated workshop papers | RSVP: ganap002@umn.edu
SCOTTISH SEMINAR IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY VII University of St. Andrews
5-6 May 2016
Keynote Speakers:
Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham)
Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 5 May
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Coffee.
Session I: Hobbes and Locke
9.15-10.00 Maximilian Jaede (St. Andrews), Hobbes’s Critique of Natural Sociability Reconsidered
10.00-10.45 Tim Stuart-Buttle (Cambridge), Locke on the “Two Provinces of Knowledge
10.45-11.00 Break
Session II: Cambridge Platonism
11.00-11.45 Matthew Leisinger (Yale), Cudworth’s Moral Vision
11.45-12.30 Christ Meyns (Cambridge/University College London), Henry More against Monopsychism
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Keynote 1
14.00-15.00 Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge), Women and Political Philosophy in Les siècles de la femme
15.00-15.30 Break
Session III: Spinoza
15.30-16.15 Alex Silverman (Chicago), The Disappearance of “Substance”: A Textual Oddity in Spinoza’s Corpus
16.15-17.00 Alexander Douglas (Heythrop College/St. Andrews), Spinoza and Money
17.00-17.15 Break
Special Session: SSEMP Essay Prize winner
17.15-18.00 Takaharu Oda (Groningen), Berkeley’s Arguable Concurrentism
Friday, 6 May
9.30-9.45 Coffee
Session IV: Bayle and Leibniz
9.45-10.30 Mara van der Lugt (Göttingen), Pain, Pessimism and the Problem of Evil in Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire (1696)
10.30-11.15 Christopher Noble (Villanova), Leibniz on Knowledge and Action in Essais de théodicée, § 403.
11.15-11.30 Break
Keynote 2
11.30-12.30 Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham), Children, Science, and the Graphic Foundations of Reason, 1760-1800
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Session V: The Scottish Enlightenment
14.00-14.45 Alessio Vaccari (Sapienza, Rome), Hume on Resentment, Justice, and the Origins of Society
14.45-15.30 Sonia Boussange-Andrei (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), On Adam Ferguson’s Critique of Adam Smith’s Theory of Sympathy
15.30-16.00 Break
Session VI: The French Enlightenment
16.00-16.45 Jeremy Dunham (Sheffield), Condillac on the Acquisition of Cognitive Habits
16.45-17.30 Jared Holley (Chicago), Refined Epicureanism and Rousseau’s Political Thought
Organization:
James Harris (University of St. Andrews) Mogens Lærke (CNRS, UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon)
The event is sponsored by:
Scots Philosophical Association
Institute for Intellectual History, St. Andrews Philosophy department, St. Andrews British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP) IHRIM, UMR 5317, ENS de Lyon
For further information, please write Mogens Laerke (mogens.laerke@ens-lyon.fr) or James Harris (jah15@st-andrews.ac.uk).
North American Spinoza Society Group Session at the APA-Central Chicago
Thursday, March 3rd, 2015 9:00am-Noon
“Spinoza’s Politics”
Michael Lebuffe (University of Otago) “Reason and Religion in the Citizen of Spinoza’s State”
James Ong (High Point University) “The Philosophical and Political Significance of Spinoza’s ‘free people’”
Céline Hervet (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne) “Councils, Syndics, Senate and the Power of Speech in Spinoza’s political philosophy: a Naturalistic Source of Deliberative Democracy?”
James Sikkema (McMaster University) “Joining Forces: Towards a Virtual-Political Mereology in Spinoza”
Sandra Field (Yale-NUS) “Aristocracy and the Logic of Spinoza’s Political Philosophy”
Edwin Curley (Michigan) “On the Social Contract in Spinoza”
The Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought (www.rug.nl/gcmemt) is pleased to announce the workshop:
A day with Spinoza: Bodies, Cognition and Society
Faculty of Philosophy, Room Gamma
Oude Boteringestraat 52 – 9712 SC Groningen (NL)
20th April 2016
The workshop aims to bring together scholars at different stages of their career. Participants will present their own works in progress by stimulating discussion on Spinoza’s complex and multifaceted understanding of bodies, cognition and society.
Program
9.00-10.00 Christopher Thomas (University of Aberdeen): From Complex Bodies to a Theory of Art: Spinoza on Beauty and Artistic Bodies.
10.00-11.00 Oliver Istvan Toth (Eotvos Lorand University Budapest): Revisiting the ‘pancreas problem’ in Spinoza from a historical perspective – the case of memories
– Break –
11.15-12.15 Martin Lenz (Groningen): Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy: Spinoza on the Division of Cognitive Labour
12.15-13.15 Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington, Seattle, USA): Spinoza on ‘Beings of Reason’ (Entia Rationis) and the Analogical Imagination
– Lunch Break –
14.45-15.45 Matthew Homan (Christopher Newport University, VA – USA): True Beings of Reason in Spinoza
15.45- 16.45 Liba Kaucky (London University): On the Role of True Worship for True Religion and Political Stability
– Break –
17.00-18.00 Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen): How to make a State more rational? Spinoza and minorities.
Attendance is free, but registration is appreciated. To register please send a message to A.Sangiacomo@rug.nl.
http://www.rug.nl/filosofie/news/events/a-day-with-spinoza-bodies-cognition-and-society
“Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy” coming up in London in April. Registration is open and available at https://lifeanddeathinearlymodernphilosophy.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/registration-now-open/
Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy
14th – 16th April 2016
Conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy and the British Society for the History of Philosophy in association with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, KCL and the Wellcome Trust
Thursday 14th April 2016
The Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
2.30-4.0: Tea and Registration in the Foyer of the Great Hall.
4.0 – 4.30: Susan James, Welcome and Introduction.
4.30- 6.0: Plenary Lecture: Michael Moriarty, The thought of death changes all our ideas and condemns our plans.
Friday 15th April 2016
Birkbeck College, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL.
9.30am – 11am: Plenary Lecture: Ursula Renz, Our Consciousness of Being Alive as a Source of Knowledge.
11.15am – 12.45pm:
Session 1:
Meghan Robison, But a Movement of Limbs: On the Movement of life…
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King’s College London Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy:
The Infinite in Early Modern Philosophy
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Room 405, Philosophy Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS
Schedule:
10.00-11.30 – Jennifer Wright (King’s College London), ‘Hume on the Structure of Time: Three Arguments Against Infinite Divisibility.’
11.45-13.15 – Alexander Douglas (Heythrop College, London/St. Andrews), ‘Finitude, Spinoza’s God, and the Curate’s Egg.’
13.15-14.45 – Break
14.45-16.15 – Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College London), ‘The Hypercategorematic Infinite.’
16.30-18.00 – Martha Brandt Bolton (Rutgers), ‘Descartes on the Infinity of Extended Substances and the Bodies of Physics.’
Since space as well as access to the College on weekends is limited, please send an email to sarah.tropper[at]kcl.ac.uk in case you are planning to attend.
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