BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260605T025424Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20111231T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20111231T090000 SUMMARY:Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion UID:20260606T232436Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Toronto\, Canada DESCRIPTION:

We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in \nCanada and abroad on the topic of Continental Thought and Religion. The \ngeneral theme of the conference is meant to reflect the variety of \narticulations of religion that have emerged in contemporary European \nthought. While the focus of the conference is continental thought\, we \nnonetheless conceive the latter in an interdisciplinary manner \n(including literary theory\, social and political thought\, \npsychoanalysis\, and religious studies). We also encourage submissions \nfrom people interested in exploring possible connections with analytic \nphilosophy.

Confirmed Speakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.)\, Bettina Bergo (U. de Montré\;al)\, more to be announced in the near future.

In addition to our keynote speaker\, John Caputo\, we will have four \ncommissioned workshops comprised of two papers and a response\, and a \nseries of themed panels. We invite submissions of three-page proposals \nfor essays for the following themed panels with included possible \ntopics:

Phenomenology of Religion
The thought of Chré\;tien\, Henry\, Lacoste\, Levinas\, Marion\, and Ricoeur
Topics: the gift\; the work of art\; appearance and transcendence\; call and response

Religion and Politics
The thought of Agamben\, Asad\, Connolly\, Derrida\, de Vries\, Girard\, Habermas\, Schmitt\, and Taylor
Topics: political theology\; the post-secular\; sovereignty\; religion and violence\; pluralism

Religion and Speculative Realism
The thought of Brassier\, Harman\, Laruelle\, and Meillassoux
Topics: materialism\; correlationism\; nihilism\; the things themselves\; divine inexistence\; &lsquo\;future Christ&rsquo\;

Beyond Theism and Atheism
The thought of Caputo\, Kearney\, Kristeva\, Milbank\, Vattimo
Topics: kenosis\; anatheism\; weak theology\; a/theology\; radical orthodoxy

Continental Thought\, Religion\, and Aesthetics
The artwork of Bresson\, Caravaggio\, Celan\, Chagall\, Dostoyevsky\, Dumont\,\n Artemisia Gentileschi\, Kahlo\, Kapoor\, Kiarostami\, Kiefer\, Malick\, \nNewman\, O'Keefe\, and Stevens
The thought of Cavell\, Cixous\, Critchley\, Irigaray\, Marion\, Nancy\, and Ranciè\;re
Topics: transcendence in art\; image and icon\; creativity and creation\; representation and idolatry

Immanentism and Religion
Agamben\, Badiou\, Bergson\, Deleuze\, James\, Foucault\, Keller\, and Žižek
Topics: self-organization\; the event\; plurality\; bio-power\; polydoxy

History of Continental Thought and Religion
Spinoza\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Freud\, Benjamin\, Heidegger
Topics: death of God\; reason and faith\; scripture and philosophy\; religion and fantasy\; onto-theology

Please send only one three-page (double-spaced) proposal on one of the above themes and any questions to varieties2012@gmail.com by December 31\, 2011. We intend to notify authors about our decisions \nby February 28\, 2012. Other conference details (registration fee\, \npreliminary program\, etc.) will be announced in new year.

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