17 Dec 2020: Marc Rölli
Time and Date:
17 Dec 20, 10:00 am - 01:00 pm
Online Event
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Language: German
Video of the workshop: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/view/o:1191279
Programme:
10:00 am -11:00 am: Keynote Marc Rölli: "Poststructuralism" in the light of post- and decolonial debates
11:00 am -11:30 am: Responses by Eckardt Lindner und Murat Ates
11:45 am - 01:00 pm: Discussion
Contributors:
Marc Rölli (Keynote): Full University Professor for Philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), since 2020 Pro-Rector for University Development and Research at HGB. Until 2015 he was head of the research focus "Theory and Methods" at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdk) in Switzerland and Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Publications (selection): Macht der Wiederholung, Vienna 2019; Immanent denken, Vienna 2018; Vierzig Jahre ›Überwachen und Strafen‹, Bielefeld 2017 (as Ed. with R. Nigro); Gilles Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism, Edinburgh 2016; Fines Hominis?, Bielefeld 2015 (as Ed.).
Eckardt Lindner is a philosopher based in Leipzig. He is Lecturer at the University of Vienna and since 2020 Adjunct Lecturer at the Webster University Vienna. His research focuses on contemporary vitalism follwing Gilles Deleuze, speculative realism and the work of Theodor W. Adorno.
Publications (selection): Absolute Xenogenesis. Speculations on an Unnatural History of Life. In: Rosen, Matt (Ed.): Diseases of the Head. Philosophy and Speculative Horror, Goleta 2020; Auf einer künstlichen Erde. In: Grant, Iain Hamilton: Die Natur der Natur, Berlin 2018; Das Versprechen der Kunst. Aktuelle Zugänge zu Adornos ästhetischer Theorie, Vienna 2014 (as Ed. with Marcus Quent).
Murat Ates holds a PhD in Philosophy and Cultural Studies. He was Scientific Assistant at the Department of Philosophy at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Scientific Assistant at Saarland University and Lecturer at the Humboldt-University Berlin. He is currenlty working and lecturing at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna and Journal Editor of Polylog.
Publications (selection): Phänomenologie des Traums, Hamburg 2020; Orte des Denkens - Places of Thinking, Freiburg 2016 (as Ed.); Überwundene Metaphysik? Beiträge zur Konstellation von Phänomenologie und Metaphysikkritik, Freiburg 2016 (as Ed.); Philosophie des Herrschenden – eine einführende Schlussbemerkung, Wien 2015; Nietzsches Zarathustra Auslegen, Marburg 2014 (as Ed.).
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
COVID-19 Information:
The online link for this event will be distributed via mail (see registration details above).
21 Jan 21: Marta Segarra
Time and Date:
21 Jan 21, 10:00 am - 01:00 pm
Online Event
Language: English
Video of the workshop: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1429760
Programme:
10:00 am -11:00 am: Keynote Marta Segarra: Poststructuralism and the (Post)Humanities: Jacques Derrida's Legacy
11:00 am -11:30 am: Replies by Elisabeth Schäfer, Esther Hutfless and Lilian Kroth
11:45 am -13:00 pm: Discussion
Contributors:
Marta Segarra (Keynote): Marta Segarra is a Research Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and a member of the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité‒Research Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS) in Paris. She is also a Professor of Gender Studies and French Studies at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Marta Segarra’s current research focuses on biopolitics and the posthumanities. She curated the exhibition Coreografies del gènere (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona-CCCB, 2019).
Publications (selection): Fils. Cartes sobre el confinament, la vigilància i l’anormalitat, Barcelona 2020 (with Ingrid Guardiola); The World We Need, Barcelona 2019 (with Donna Haraway); Hélène Cixous, corollaires d’une écriture, Paris 2019 (as Ed.); Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2014; Differences in Common: Gender, Vulnerabilty and Community, Amsterdam-New York 2014 (as Ed. with J. Sabadell-Nieto).
Esther Hutfless is a Vienna-based philosopher and psychoanalyst. She* is Lecturer at the University of Vienna, member of the Wiener Arbeitskreises für Psychoanalyse (WAP) and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Together with Elisabeth Schäfer and Gertrude Postl she* edited the first German translation of Hélène Cixous' "The Laugh of the Medusa" and together with Barbara Zach the first anthology on "Queering Psychoanalysis" in German. For the newly reopened Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna she* curated the exhibition "Analysis Interminable: Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud". Her* research focuses on poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminist philosophy, Écriture féminine, psychoanalysis and Queer Theory and explores topics such as body, gender, desire, deconstruction of binary hierarchical categories, the relation of Queer Theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy as well as queering practices and new aesthetics of writing.
Publications (selection): Psychoanalysis to come – A “Freuderridian” Approach to a Non-Normative Psychoanalysis. In: The Undecidable Unconscious, 6/2019, Nebraska 2019; The Case of Dora – A Queer Perspective on Hysteria and Perversion. In: Finzi, Daniela; Westerink, Herman (Ed.): Dora, Hysteria and Gender. Reconsidering Freud’s Case Study, Leuven 2018; Queering Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalyse und Queer Theory – Transdisziplinäre Verschränkungen, Vienna 2017 (as Ed. with Barbara Zach); Hélène Cixous. Gespräch mit dem Esel. Blind Schreiben, Wien 2017 (as Ed. with Elisabeth Schäfer).
Lilian Valerie Kroth is currently working on her PhD project on Michel Serres at the French Department, University of Cambridge. Prior to that, she has studied Philosophy (BA, MA) and Painting (University der bildenden Künste Wien), and worked as an assistant and tutor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are the philosophy of space, environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science, especially in contemporary French thought.
Publications (selection): Den gegenwärtigen Moment nicht verpassen – Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy. In: Engell/ Siegert (Ed.): Zeitschrift für Medien-und Kulturforschung. SCHWERPUNKT Inkarnieren, 8/1 2017, Hamburg 2017; Critique emerging from Marshes and Mushrooms. Parasitism and Desterilisation in Serres and Tsing. In: Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 7/2020, Pompei 2020; The Topology of Difference: Deleuze’s Nietzsche in his Politics of Folded Spaces and Subjects (forthcoming).
Elisabeth Schäfer is a philosopher and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. In her* research and lecturing work she* focuses on deconstruction, queer-feminist philosophy, Écriture feminine, writing as artistic research, Performance Philosophy. She* is continously developing lectures, lecture performances and interventions at the intersection of philosophy and the arts. Currently, she* is Post-Doc Researcher in the Research Project "Performing Primal Communism" [AR 568] at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, that pursues a critical reappraisal of the history and reception of the AAO (Aktionsanalytischen Organisation) of Otto Mühl, also often referred to as the "Mühl-Commune" and that claims an ethical and aesthetical sensitation regarding the history as well as the "art"-production of this commune. Together with Tanja Traxler she* received the Research Initiation Grant of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna 2020 for the Research Project "Critical Contact Zones. Exploring the Entanglement of Art, Science, Philosophy, and Society in Climate Change“. Elisabeth Schäfer is Co-Editor of the first German translation of Hélène Cixous' essay "Le Rire de la Méduse" (Passagen 2013).
Publications (selection): Writing as Artistic Research. In: Ruth Mateus-Berr, Richard Jochum (Ed.): Teaching Artistic Research. Conversations Across Cultures, Berlin 2020; Open Text – Open Performance: Hélène Cixous and Ariane Mnouchkine. In: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Alice Lagaay (Ed.): The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy, New York 2020 (with Esther Hutfless and Gertrude Postl). For further publications see: https://elisabethschaefer.com
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
COVID-19 Information:
The online link for this event will be distributed via mail (see registration details above).
25 Mar 21: Katja Diefenbach (Frankfurt/Oder)
Time and Date:
25 Mar 21, 10:00 am - 01:00 pm
online
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Language: German
Video of the workshop: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/view/o:1191341
Programm:
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Keynote Katja Diefenbach: Spinoza in poststructuralism's history of theory
11:00 am - 11:30 am: Replies by Johanna Braun and Christoph Hubatschke
11:45 am - 13:00 pm: Discussion
Contributors:
Katja Diefenbach (Keynote) is Full Professor of Philosophy of Culture at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Her research focuses on French philosophy and epistemology of the 20th and 21st century with particular consideration of the relation between marxism and poststructuralism, Spinoza Studies as well as the reception of French philosophy in Postcolonial, Gender and Cultural Studies.
Publications (selection): Antonio Negri, oder: der verfemte Teil der Klasse. In: Frank Engster, Patrick Eiden-Offe und Falko Schmieder (Ed.): Klassenpolitik. Erneuerung – Erweiterung – Engrenzung, Reihe Philosophische Gespräche, Berlin 2020; Spekulativer Materialismus. Spinoza in der postmarxistischen Philosophie, Vienna 2018; Encountering Althusser. Politics and Materialism in Contemporary Radical Thought, London und New York 2013 (as Ed. with Sara R. Farris, Gal Kirn and Peter D. Thomas); Über das Un/Sinnliche. Ereignis- und Zeitbegriffe in Deleuzes und Badious Ontologien unendlicher Mannigfaltigkeit. In: Burkhard Liebsch (Ed.): Sensibilität der Gegenwart. Wahrnehmung, Ethik und politische Sensibilisierung im Kontext westlicher Gewaltgeschichte, Sonderheft 17 der Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Hamburg 2018; Besitzindividualismus und transatlantische Sklaverei im Spiegel der Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Paul B. Preciado and Valentín Roma (Ed.): Die Bestie und ist der Souverän, Leipzig 2018; Is it Simple to be a Spinozist in Philosophy? Althusser and Deleuze. In: Radical Philosophy, No. 199, London 2016.
Johanna Braun s an artist, scholar, curator, and Principle Investigator of the postdoctoral research project "The Hysteric as Conceptual Operator” [J 4164-G24], sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund [FWF], and situated at the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of Vienna (2018-2020). Her academic and artistic research focuses on (new) hysteria, disability and Performance Studies.
Publications (selection): Perfoming Hysteria: Images and Imaginations, Leuven 2020 (as Ed.); There is a Method to this Madness: Hysteria and the Arts, London 2020 (as Ed., forthcoming); for futher publications see: www.johannabraun.com / www.performing-hysteria.com
Christoph Hubatschke is a Vienna-based political scientist and philosopher. He was Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy Vienna and DOC-Scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths University, London. He is co-founder of the research group H.A.U.S. (Humanoids in Architecture and Urban Spaces). His research is situated at the intersection of critical political theory and philosophy of technology with particular focus on Deleuze/Guattari Studies, Research on Protests and Social Movements and AI/humanoid robotics.
Publications (selection): How to Dance with Robots. In: Assis/Giudici (Ed.): Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Deleuze and Artistic Research, Leuven 2020; ‘Visible Invisibility’ as Machinic Resistance. In: Gray/Eloff (Ed.): Deleuze and Anarchism, Series: Deleuze Connections, Edinburgh 2019; Technoecologies of Borders: Thinking With Borders as Multispecies Matters of Care. In: Australian Feminist Studies Vol 32/94, Sydney 2017 (with Josef Barla, open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08164649.2017.1466648)
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
COVID-19 Information:
To guarantee the safety of all participants we will strictly follow governmental regulations as well as the University operation guidelines. Due to the possible necessity of contact tracing as well as the limited number of participants registration via mail is required. Distance and hygiene rules will apply for all events. Please wear a face mask.
The workshop series is funded by Stadt Wien and the University of Vienna