We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and
abroad on the topic of Continental Thought and Religion. The general theme of
the conference is meant to reflect the variety of articulations of religion that
have emerged in contemporary European thought. While the focus of the conference
is continental thought, we nonetheless conceive the latter in an
interdisciplinary manner (including literary theory, social and political
thought, psychoanalysis, and religious studies). We also encourage submissions
from people interested in exploring possible connections with analytic
philosophy.
Confirmed Speakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.), Bettina Bergo
(U. de Montréal), more to be announced in the near future.
In addition to
our keynote speaker, John Caputo, we will have four commissioned workshops
comprised of two papers and a response, and a series of themed panels. We invite
submissions of three-page proposals for essays for the following themed panels
with included possible topics:
Phenomenology of Religion
The thought
of Chrétien, 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; ‘future Christ’
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, Artemisia Gentileschi,
Kahlo, Kapoor, Kiarostami, Kiefer, Malick, Newman, O'Keefe, and Stevens
The
thought of Cavell, Cixous, Critchley, Irigaray, Marion, Nancy, and
Rancière
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
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