"Twenty-First Century Heidegger," Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, September 10-11, 2010.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick
Dr Joseph Cohen, University College Dublin

This two-day conference intends to explore, expand, and contest contemporary research on the German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger. The principal aim of the conference is to examine the oppositional, complementary, and sometimes contradictory ways in which Heideggerian scholarship has been developed in the first decade of the twenty first century. Scholars are invited to critically address fundamental questions in the Heideggerian scholarship, including its direction, problems, and potential. The conference hopes to bring together the increasingly disparate approaches to Heidegger’s work, whether those approaches are traditional in their employment of phenomenology and hermeneutics or whether they apply Heidegger’s thinking in new and surprising ways. Papers from a wide variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, cognitive sciences, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, political science, language studies, literature, film studies, geography, and architecture are encouraged. It is hoped that, by bringing together both traditional and contemporary scholars, the conference can initiate, facilitate, and foster further research and collaboration related to Heidegger’s philosophy.

The following list—which is by no means exhaustive or exclusive—contains some of the themes the conference intends to address:
Classic problems and questions of phenomenology and hermeneutics
The overcoming of metaphysics as a task of a new epoch Papers on recently published volumes from Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe and recently published translations
The significance or insignificance of the existential analytic for contemporary society
Space, place, and dwelling in Heidegger’s work
Potential applications of Heidegger’s topology, topography, and geography
Heidegger’s influence on environmental thought and architecture
Heidegger’s relation to literary and film studies
Heidegger’s relationship to Eastern thought and his reception in the East Political and social issues arising from Heidegger’s engagement with National Socialism
Heidegger’s contribution to the philosophy of science
Heidegger among the psychiatrists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists
The post-modern and post-continental engagement with Heidegger
The future of Heidegger’s philosophical thought.

The conference language is English, and each speaker will be allotted twenty minutes of presentation time. Please e-mail an abstract of approximately 250 words to: heidegger2010@gmail.com. Please include a separate page with the title of the paper, the name of the author, your institutional affiliation, and e-mail address.