Year: 2023 (page 2 of 2)
Call for Abstracts:
The 2nd Philosophy of Film Without Theory Conference
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (State)
Friday 20th October to Sunday 22nd October, 2023
The Conference Co-Directors invite abstracts for papers that embrace the opportunities offered by philosophy of film without theory.
We are honored and delighted to confirm the following invited speakers:
Noël Carroll, Jim Conant, Pamela Foa, John Gibson, Paul C. Taylor, Malcolm Turvey, and Iris Vidmar Jovanović.
We understand philosophy in general without theory as an activity that may include – but not be limited to – fine-grained description and discernment; disentangling confusions; reactive and/or reflective critical inquiry, the exploration of conceptual connections; logical geography; conceptual synthesis; the provision of perspicuous presentations and surveyable overviews; non-systematic engagement with individual or particular works, subjects, objects, ideas, events and/or situations… and more.
Philosophy of film without theory is amenable to any of the above approaches as part of its likely commitment to the value of paying close attention to the form, content, and thematic aspects of individual films and filmmakers (in front of and behind the camera).
The 1st Philosophy of Film Without Theory Conference, held at the University of York, UK, in 2019, welcomed 66 delegates from 13 countries, and hosted 32 talks. The wider enthusiasm ignited by this international conference led to a special issue of the journal Aesthetic Investigations, volume 3(2).
See here: https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/issue/view/554
This Spring Palgrave Macmillan publishes the 19-chapter collected volume Philosophy of Film Without Theory edited by York conference co-directors Craig Fox & Britt Harrison. Contributing authors include co-director of the upcoming Hamilton Conference, Katheryn Doran, together with Lucy Bolton, Carla Carmona, James Conant, Maximilian De Gaynesford, Rob van Gerwen, John Gibson, Eran Guter & Inbal Guter, Colin Heber-Percy, Iris Vidmar Jovanović, Andrew Klevan, David Macarthur, Rupert Read, William Rothman, Constantine Sandis, and Sebastian Sunday. The volume also offers an interview with Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey.
See here: https://philosophyoffilmwithouttheory.com/book/
Submission Details:
Abstracts in Word (of no more than 500 words) should be sent to:
HamiltonConference2023@gmail.com
Closing Date: 31st May, 2023
Notification by: 30th June, 2023
We very much look forward to reading the abstracts and to welcoming all who are interested in upstate New York this October.
Conference Co-Directors:
Katheryn Doran (Hamilton College)
Craig Fox (PennWest University)
Britt Harrison (Independent)
With thanks to the Chauncey S. Truax, Hamilton College Class of 1875 Memorial Fund
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am writing to draw your attention to this upcoming Zoom event on March 25 (see below), when I’ll be interviewing Marjorie Perloff about her recent translation of Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks.
The interview is hosted jointly by Philosophical Investigations and the (online) Simone Weil journal Attention. Participation is free of charge, though it requires a registration. The link for this can be found at the bottom of this email.
The one-hour interview will be followed by 25-30 minutes of questions from the floor. You are very welcome to join us for the occasion. Please note that time – 12 noon – is US Eastern Time, which I believe is 4 pm in the UK and 5 pm in Germany.
With all good wishes –
Mario
Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. –– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Perhaps poets, artists, composers, and filmmakers have taken such a special interest in Wittgenstein because they recognize that he is himself a kind of conceptual poet. — Marjorie Perloff.
We are pleased to inform you that Attention and Philosophical Investigations are co-cohosting a special zoom event titled Poetry & Philosophy | An Interview with Marjorie Perloff
The event centers around Professor Marjorie Perloff’s new translation of and introduction to Wittgenstein’sPrivate Notebooks: 1914-1916 (Liveright 2022).
Dr. Perloff is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and the Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Perloff has long taught courses on and written about twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics. Her dozen or so books include Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir, and Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters.
Perloff will be interviewed by Dr. Mario von der Ruhr, Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Investigations. His authored or co-edited books include Simone Weil and Religion and Wittgenstein’s Legacy.
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Eastern Time
Register: Here (required though free)
Join us!
Ronald Collins
We have extended the Kirchberg IWS 2023 paper submission deadline until April 1st
100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death: A Critical Assessment
Scientific Organisers:
Alois Pichler (Bergen), Esther Heinrich-Ramharter (Vienna) and Friedrich Stadler (Vienna)
If you would like to attend the meeting please complete and return the form below electronically and send the requisite payment by Friday 24th February. While it may well be possible to register after this date – and it will certainly be worth asking – I cannot offer any guarantees. That aside, if the meeting is over-subscribed priority will be given to those who register first. So if you want to come it is a good idea to register immediately.
The registration fee covers full bed and board from afternoon tea on Friday to morning coffee on Sunday. Anyone who feels that, for some reason, they might be a special case – for example, who does not fall straightforwardly into one of these categories, or for some other reason has no prospect of institutional funding – should write to me explaining their situation. We have some limited funding that may be used to help individuals.
Please note that I am unable to register anyone until I have received payment. Note also that if you have to cancel I will only be able to refund your payment if I am able to fill your place.
If you have any questions, about travel or anything else, please contact me. If you are coming by train the station is Newtown (Powys). (I will try to coordinate transport from the station.)
If you know of people who you think might like to attend please feel free to forward this notice to them. You might also let me have their e-mail addresses, so that I can add them to future mailings.
With best wishes,
David
Department of Philosophy
University of Wales Trinity St David
Lampeter
Ceredigion SA48 7ED
Registration Form
Please complete and return this form electronically by Friday 24th February. At the same time, either put a cheque in the post or pay through internet banking: Welsh Philosophical Society, 40-27-01, 21296280. Give your surname as the reference. (Cheques, payable to ‘Welsh Philosophical Society’, should be sent to: David Cockburn, Bronygaer, North Road, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7JA.)
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APRIL 21 @ 4:00 PM – APRIL 23 @ 12:00 AM UTC+0
WELSH PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Gregynog Hall, Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd April 2023
59th Session
Friday, 21st April
4 p.m. Tea
4.30 pm Barnaby Burleigh (postgraduate, Oxford), “Cora Diamond on the Concept of Ethics”.
7.00 p.m. Dinner
8.00 p.m. Discussion of Howard Mounce’s paper ‘The Aroma of Coffee’
Saturday, 22nd April
8 a.m. Breakfast
10 a.m. Lawrence Blum (Massachusetts), “Iris Murdoch’s Political Philosophy”
11 a.m. Coffee, followed by discussion of paper
12.30 p.m. Short business meeting
Agenda 1. Arrangements for next meeting. (60th anniversary meeting.)
2. AOB
1 p.m. Lunch
4 p.m. Tea
4.30 p.m. Michael Campbell (Kyoto), “Gestalt Themes in the Philosophical Investigations”
7.00 p.m. Dinner
Sunday, 23rd April
8 a.m. Breakfast
9.15 a.m. Annual Wittgenstein Lecture
John Hyman (UCL), Title tbc
10.15 a.m. Coffee & Discussion
11.45 a.m. Departure
The conference is sponsored by a very generous anonymous donation.
DAVID COCKBURN
cockburn.david@gmail.com