North American Nietzsche Society

The North American Nietzsche Society will hold its second international conference at Stanford University on October 5-7, 2018. 

NANS 2018 Conference

Stanford University

Provisional schedule

Friday, October 5:

9:30-11:00       Tom Hanauer (UC Riverside)

“Strangers to Ourselves: Self-Knowledge in Nietzsche's Genealogy”

Commentator: Richard Elliott (Birkbeck)

11:15-12:45     Scott Jenkins (Kansas)

“Nietzsche's Transformation of the Problem of Pessimism in 

Human, All Too Human”

Commentator: Matthew Meyer (Scranton)

2:15-3:45         Ian Dunkle (Boston University)

“Redemption, Power, and Value: Nietzsche on the Shape of a Life”

Commentator: Rachel Cristy (Princeton)

4:00-5:30         Keynote: Jessica Berry (Georgia State)

Saturday, October 6:

9:30-11:00        Joel van Fossen (Boston University)

“Nietzsche and Shame”

Commentator: Gudrun von Tevenar (Birkbeck)

11:15-12:45      Avery Snelson (UC Riverside)

“Nietzsche on the Origin of Obligation and Conscience”

Commentator: Matt Dill (Boston University)

2:15-3:45         Kaitlyn Creasy (Butler University)

“Thinking Differently, Feeling Differently: Nietzsche on Nihilism, Affect, and Agency”

Commentator: Justin Remhof (Old Dominion)

4:00-5:30         Keynote: Alexander Nehamas (Princeton)

Sunday, October 7:

9:30-11:00       Daisy Laforce (UC Riverside)

"Three Modes of History in On the Genealogy of Morality"

Commentator: Gabriel Zamosc-Regueres (Univ. of Colorado Denver)

11:15-1:15       Panel: Nietzsche on Science

Maudemarie Clark (UC Riverside)

Tsarina Doyle (Galway)

Ken Gemes (Birkbeck)

John Richardson (NYU)