Concordia Graduate Philosophy Conference: The World In Words

The Graduate Philosophy Students Association of Concordia University is excited to announce its annual philosophy conference. The theme of this year's conference is "The World in Words: Philosophy and Literature". 

Conference Schedule (EST):

Friday, April 16:   12:00: Opening Remarks & Zoom Instructions.  

Session 1: Limits and Legitimacy (Chair: TBA)  

12.30 Kristen Lewis, Dante’s Paradiso: Negative Theology, the Limit of Expression, and Hegelian Romantic Art  

1:00 Daniel Fraser, Refused Transaction: Temporalities of Trauma and the Problem of Metaphor in the Poetry of Paul Celan  

1:30 Ignacio Javier Moreno Fluxà, Language, Legitimacy, Literature: In the margins of phenomenological experience.    

2:00 BREAK  

Session 2: Poetry, Narrative and Politics (Chair: Leah Edmonds)  

2:30 Pedro Gois Moreira, Ideology as Background Narrative  

3:00 Liam Abellán, The Problem of the Poem: Badiou's Modernist Platonism  

3:30 Bogdan Ovcharuk, K.’s Self-Slander, Subversive Masochism, and the Law in Kafka’s The Trial    

4:00 BREAK  

Session 3: Languages of Embodiment (Chair: Aaron Hone)  

4:30 Tessel Veneboer, Kathy Acker’s Languages of the Body  

5:00David Eduardo Torres,The Annunciation: Virtuous-Self Objectification?

5:30 Henry Kramer, Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation is not a Horror Story: Three Perspectives on the Self  

 6:00 BREAK  

7:00 Panel discussions:    

Saturday, April 17:  

Session: 4: Ethics and Ambiguities (Chair: Aaron Hone)  

10:30 Kayla Dold, Gin, Tonic, and Other Delicious Combinations: The Ethics of Ambiguity as a Literary Text  

11:00 Kirstin Waldkoenig, Incommensurable Moral Goods and the Paradoxical Self in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior  

11:30 Matt Rosen, Poetic Form and Moral Vision: Themes from Hipponax and Cora Diamond   12:00 BREAK  

Session 5: Love, History and Divinity (Chair: Leah Edmonds)  

1:00 Seth Kreeger, Metaphysical Considerations of Eä: God and Providence in Tolkien and Aquinas  

1:30 Robbie Dillon, A GOD STRONGER THAN I: Poetry and Philosophy in Medieval Florence  

2:00: Dylan Shaul, Hegel, Aristotle, and Tragedy: The Catharsis of Absolute Spirit  

2:30 BREAK  

3:00 Panel discussions:  

4:00 BREAK  

 4:30 Keynote: Todd Mcgowan, Genre as Contradiction  

 6:00 Closing Remarks  

  *** Please register at: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvcuyqrz4vGNyIHhrYDmJuqzIR-sfBCsFL 

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