Philosophy at Western Sydney University

2nd Annual College Of Fellows Conference

2nd Annual College Of Fellows Conference
Female Orphan School, Western Sydney University
Room EZ.G.23, Parramatta Campus

Thursday, 23 November 2017

9.15 am
Introduction: Dennis J. Schmidt, Philosophy Research Initiative, WSU
Welcome: Peter Hutchings, Dean, Humanities and Communication Arts, WSU

9.30 am - 10.30 am
Chair: Usman Badar, WSU
Ewa Ziarek, University of Buffalo, USA
“Klein's Ambivalent Legacies in Feminist and Queer Theories”
Response: Charles Barbour, WSU

10.45 am - 11.45 pm
Chair: Norma Lam-Saw, WSU
Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
“Bioregionalism and Territorialization”
Response: Paul Alberts-Dezeeuw, WSU

12.00 pm - 1.00pm
Chair: Joshua Visnjic, WSU
Kristi Sweet, Texas A&M University, USA
“Life at the limits of Kant's critical project”
Response: Jennifer Mensch, WSU

Buffet Lunch 1.00 pm - 2.15 pm

2.15 pm - 3.15 pm
Chair: Daniele Fulvi, WSU
Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
“Open Borders: Italian Philosophy Between Nationalism and Globalization”
Response: Brett Neilson, WSU

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Chair: Nicholas Stubbs, WSU
Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, USA
“What is (Continental) Philosophy?”
Response: Jason Tuckwell, WSU

4.45 pm - 5.45 pm
Chair: Jacinta Sassine, WSU
Walter Brogan, Villanova University, USA
“Pathos and Logos: Heidegger on Aristotle’s Practical Ontology of Human Being”
Response: Andrew Dunstall

Friday, 24 November 2017

9.30 am - 10.30 am
Chair: Michael-Francis Polios, WSU
Peg Birmingham, DePaul University, USA
"Superfluity and Precarity: Reading Arendt against Butler"
Response: Jessica Whyte, WSU

10.45 am - 11.45 am
Chair: Amrita Tarr, WSU
Krzysztof Ziarek, University of Buffalo, USA
“The Hollow World: Language and Nothingness in Heidegger and Ueda”
Response: Luke Fischer, University of Sydney

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
Chair: Fatima Tefaili, WSU
Ted George, Texas A&M University, USA
“The political as not yet politics: hermeneutical experience and solidarity in
Gadamer’s later thought.”
Response: Dimitris Vardoulakis, WSU

BUFFET LUNCH 1.00 pm - 2.15 pm

3.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Chair: Andrew Lac, WSU
Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
“Twelve Basic Concepts of Law in Kant and the Compound Yijing
Response: Diego Bubbio, WSU

4.45pm – 5.45pm
Chair: Amy Stefanovic, WSU
Jim Risser, Seattle University, USA
“Humanitas and Animalitas after Heidegger: Re-thinking Humanism”
Response: Mark Kelly, WSU

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