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SUMMARY:CRMEP Graduate Conference | Title: Life and Death
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LOCATION:55-59 Penrhyn Road\, London\, United Kingdom\, KT1 2EE
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Plenary speakers</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Janina Wellmann</strong> (Gotha Research Centre\, University of Erfurt)</p>\n<p>Author of <em>Biological Motion: A History of Life</em> (2024) and <em>The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epsiemology of Rhythm\, 1760&ndash\;1830</em> (2017)</p>\n<p><strong>Howard Caygill</strong> (CRMEP\, Kingston University London)</p>\n<p>Books include: <em>Force and understanding : essays on philosophy and resistance</em> (2020)\, <em>Kafka: in light of the accident</em> (2017) and <em>On Resistance: a philosophy of defiance</em> (2013)</p>\n<p><strong>Conference abstract</strong></p>\n<p>This conference is concerned with mapping the concepts of "life" and "death" in contemporary philosophy and social theory with regard to the related problematics of extinction\, reproduction\, resistance and survival. There has been an increasing presence of each of these concepts in recent debates\, whether through the growing significance of the history of the life sciences for histories of philosophy\, the importance of reproduction\, social death and ecology to contemporary critical theory\, or their representation in contemporary activist and socially engaged art practices.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Concepts of life and death appear to move freely between each of these domains\, with little account of their respective relations. The object of this conference is therefore to examine the various instantiations of these concepts in practices of knowledge production\, art\, activism and politics\, in order to map their more general\, transdisciplinary philosophical articulation.</p>\n<p><strong>Programme</strong></p>\n<p><strong>10:00&ndash\;11:15am &ndash\; 1st Keynote</strong></p>\n<p>Howard Caygill (CRMEP)</p>\n<p>'The Vital and the Petrified: Geologies of Life and Death'</p>\n<p><strong>Break: 11:15&ndash\;11:30</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>11:30&ndash\;1:00pm &ndash\; Panel 1: The Concept of Life in the History of Philosophy</strong></p>\n<p>Christopher Jones (CRMEP)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Lost in Translation? Life and logic: a case of mistaken identity in the evolving history of natural philosophy and the life sciences.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Claudia Mongini (University of Paris-8)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Force = Life: From Leibniz&rsquo\; machine of nature to Tarde&rsquo\;s biopolitics.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Jonas Friedli (New School for Social Research\, New York)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Life: A Grammatical Question?&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>Lunch: 1:00pm&ndash\;2:00pm</strong></p>\n<p><strong>2:00&ndash\;3:30m &ndash\; Panel 2: The Politics of Death</strong></p>\n<p>Nikita McCauley (CRMEP alumna)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Becoming riot: modalities of life and death in Cameron Rowland&rsquo\;s Properties&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Sebastian Kokesch (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;&ldquo\;Le mort saisit le vif&rdquo\;: Sketches towards a social theory of mourning&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Pip Hudd (Kings College London)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Adriana Cavarero on life over death: Responding to psychoanalytic critique&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>Break: 3:30&ndash\;3.45pm</strong></p>\n<p><strong>3.45&ndash\;5:15pm &ndash\; Panel 3 : Life/Death and the Forces of Reaction</strong></p>\n<p>Shaun Terry (University of California\, Santa Cruz)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Abstract Materialism and the Dialectics of Life and Death: On Philosophical Criticisms of Fascist Vitalism&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Sophie B&auml\;&auml\;rnhielm Poussette (CRMEP alumna/S&ouml\;dert&ouml\;rn University)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Dead Language\, Living Sovereignties: The Linguistic Theologies of and Against the Modern Nation-State&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>T&oslash\;ger Christiansen (CRMEP alumnus)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;Death and Eternal Life: Risk\, Ageing and Entropy in Post-Holocene Elite Culture&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>Break: 5:15&ndash\;5:30pm</strong></p>\n<p><strong>5.30pm&ndash\;6:45pm &ndash\; 2nd Keynote</strong></p>\n<p>Janina Wellmann (Gotha Research Centre\, University of Erfurt)</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;What is Life? Investigating Motion\, the Most Profound Definition of Living Existence'</p>\n<p><strong>6.45 End</strong></p>
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