Sponsored Conferences

Philosophy@UWS sponsors conferences that its members organise or co-organise. These conferences aim to highlight areas of research strength of our members as well as to promote the exchange of ideas.

An Immanent Future? Music Beyond Past and Present (3 August, 2012)

Inspired by recent innovative responses in philosophy to our rapidly changing, interconnected worlds, this Music and Philosophy symposium will be devoted to conversations about music beyond the past and present. See the event details for An Immanent Future? Music Symposium.

Sacrifice in Life, Love & Literature (13-14 January, 2012)

The work of French philosopher and literary critic, René Girard continues to garner international attention across a range of disciplines. Sacrifice in Life, Love & Literature (opens in a new window)is the 2nd Annual Conference of the Australian Girard Seminar and will be taking place on the 13th-14th January at the University of Melbourne. Dr Chris Fleming is national Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar and the ongoing conference represents a distinctive expression of expertise in continental philosophy in Australia and a major research strength at UWS.

This conference seeks to explore Girard’s major insights in an inter-disciplinary forum, particularly in light of the latest scholarship emerging from the region. The Seminar is issuing a call for papers and workshop proposals. It welcomes proposals from any field of study as it relates to the work of Girard. Papers are to be strictly of a length for a 20-minute presentation. Proposals for workshops should be able to give a description and rationale for an inter-active forum on a particular topic to be led for approx. 30-45 minutes by appropriately qualified persons. For more information or to send a proposal (including a title, 150-word abstract and contact details), please email Dr. Joel Hodge, by 18th November, 2011.

This conference is supported by Philosophy@UWS (University of Western Sydney).

Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion (6-7 February, 2012)

Philosophy@UWS is proud to present Professor Henry Sussman (Yale University) as one of the international keynote speakers at the inaugural Australian Modernist Studies Network Symposium, which will be held at the Grace Hotel, Sydney in February 2012. The conference, which is based on the theme ‘Modernism, Intimacy and Emotion’, will also feature presentations by Professor Sascha Bru (K. U. Leuven) from the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, Associate Professor Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University) and Professor Gail Jones (University of Western Sydney). For further information, please visit the AMSN website.