20 Jan 2022: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Time and Date:
20 Jan 2022, 11:30am–02:30pm (CET)
Online Event
Language: Englisch
Video Recording: phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1543505
Programme:
11:30am–12:30pm (CET): Keynote by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (title to be announced)
12:30pm–01:00pm Responses by Joshua Bergamin and Tanja Traxler
01:15pm–02:30pm Discussion
Contributors:
Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (Keynote) is Professor and Head of DAS Graduate School at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands. She is currently an AHRC Leadership Fellow for the project, Performance Philosophy & Animals: Towards a Radical Equality (2019-2022). Her books include: The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (Routledge, 2020) and Encounters in Performance Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014), both co-edited with Alice Lagaay; Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (Palgrave, 2012); Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (Intellect, 2013), co-edited with Will Daddario; and Deleuze and Performance (Edinburgh, 2009). She is a founding core convener of the international research network, Performance Philosophy, joint series editor of the Performance Philosophy book series with Rowman & Littlefield, and an editor of the Performance Philosophy journal.
Joshua Bergamin is a philosopher at the University of Vienna and co-PI of the interdisciplinary artistic research project '(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics,' in collaboration with the University of Graz and University of Performing Arts, Graz. He has a PhD from Durham University, where he worked in the 'Applied Phenomenology' research cluster. In various former lives, he has been a performance artist, and an advisor in the Parliament of New South Wales. He has published in several scholarly and literary journals.
Tanja Traxler is a science journalist, University lecturer and book author in Vienna. She studied theoretical quantum physics at the University of Vienna. In her interdisciplinary dissertation she explores the epistemology of quantum physics and physical as well as philosophical conceptions of space and vacuum. She teaches at the University of Applied Arts, and before that at the University of Vienna. Since 2021 she is head of the science department of the daily newspaper DER STANDARD. Together with the philosopher Elisabeth Schäfer she initiated the artistic-research project “Critical Contact Zones: The Aesth-ethics of Climate Change“ in cooperation with the Logische Phantasie Lab at the Northeastern University/ Boston, US.
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
COVID-19 Information:
The online link for this event will be distributed via mail (eva-maria.aigner@univie.ac.at).
21 Apr 2022: Thomas Nail
Time and Date:
21 Apr 2022, 06:00pm–09:00pm (CET)
Online event
Language: Englisch
Video Recording: phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1542078
Programme:
06:00pm–07:00pm (CET) Keynote by Thomas Nail: What is New Materialism?
07:00pm–07:30pm Responses by Ralf Gisinger and Manu Sharma
07:45pm–09:00pm Discussion
Contributors:
Thomas Nail (Keynote) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of numerous books, including The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Marx in Motion, Theory of the Image, Theory of the Object, Theory of the Earth, Lucretius I, II, III, Returning to Revolution, and Being and Motion. His research focuses on the philosophy of movement and can be read online here.
Ralf Gisinger is Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DOC) and research assitant at the Department of Philosphy, University of Vienna. After completing his studies in philosophy and political science in Vienna and Innsbruck he is currently working in the fiels of Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Ecology with reference to Deleuze/Guattari. 2020 his first monograph Philosophien der Pluralisierung. Begegnungen des Plitischen zwischen Gilles Deleuze udn Jean-Luc Nancy (Paderborn 2020) was published. Further publications (selection): "Figuren des Unpersönlichen bei Deleuze: Ein Leben, Haecceïtas, man, homo tantum…“, in: Lehmann, Robert (Hg.): Philosophische Dimensionen des Impersonalen, Baden-Baden 2021. "Making (of) Ecology. Philosophical Perspectives on Tim Ingold”, in: Porr, Martin/ Weidtmann, Niels (Hg.): One World Anthropology and Beyond. A multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold, London 2022.
Manu Sharma is a Prae-Doc researcher with the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy. Prior to this she completed her Masters in philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her interest lies at the intersections of phenomenology, decolonial theory and psychopathology. For her PhD project, she is working on investigating affective landscapes, especially experiences of suffering and pain through phenomenology with a focus on how historical, cultural situatedness can implicate the discourse. They are more broadly interested in locating possibilities of accessing lived experiences of suffering and the manners in which we make meaning of and cope with them by way of a context rich correspondence with research in phenomenology and affect studies.
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald
COVID-19 Information:
The online link for this event will be distributed via mail (eva-maria.aigner@univie.ac.at).
20.05.22: Kas Saghafi
Time and Date:
20 May 2022, 10:00am–01:00pm
Hörsaal 2i NIG (room changed!)
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
Language: English
Video Recording: phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1543511
Programme:
10:00am–11:00am Keynote by Kas Saghafi: "Post?"
11:00am–11:30am Responses by Flora Löffelmann and Angelika Seppi
11:45am–01:00pm Discussion, afterwards lunch
Contributors:
Kas Saghafi (Keynote) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Memphis. He researches and teaches in contemporary French thought. He is the author of two books, The World after the End of the World (SUNY Press, 2020) and Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other (Fordham University Press, 2010) and numerous articles. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey Bennington, of a two-volume collection of Derrida’s writings entitled Thinking What Comes (Edinburgh UP, forthcoming 2022). He has also co-translated, with Pleshette DeArmitt, three essays by Jacques Derrida.
Flora Löffelmann is research assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna; member of the Inter Gender Consortium and the Austrian Society for Gender Research (ÖGGF) and founding member of the Performance collective Philosophy Unbound. Flora studied philosophy (BA, MA), journalism and communicative studies (Bakk. phil) and Gender Studies (MA) at the University of Vienna, Université Paris 8, Vincennes Saint Denis and the Humboldt University in Berlin. Flora's research at the intersection between philosophy and Gender Studies combines ideas of Queer Phenomenology, Standpoint Theory and social epistemology, thereby focusing on the question of persistence and reconstruction of binary gender constructions.
Angelika Seppi studied philosophy and history of art at the University of Vienna and Universidad de Chile. After finishing her PhD in 2012 she was university assistant at Kunstuniversität Linz (2013-14), after that research assistant at the cluster of excellence Bild Wissen Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An interdisciplinary laboratory (2015-2018), at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity and the Department for Art and Visual History, Humboldt University Berlin (2019-2021). Since October 2021 she is substituting the chair for History and Theory of Cultural Techniques as a guest researcher at Bauhaus University Weimar. Publications (selection): Schrift und Gerechtigkeit (Wien 2018), Milieu Fragmente. Technologische und ästhetische Perspektiven (Ed. with Rebekka Ladewig, Leipzig 2020), Grenzen der Formalisierung. Von Leibniz bis Lacan (with Michael Friedman, Leipzig i.E.).
Organised by Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Jonas Oßwald (Registration: eva-maria.aigner@univie.ac.at)
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.
The workshop series is funded by Stadt Wien and the University of Vienna. In case of programme changes due to the unpredictable Covid19 situation participants will be informed via e-mail.