Humanities Institute > Talks & Lecture Series > Biannual Calley Symposium

An AGHI-sponsored symposium has been a staple since we hosted the Society for the History of the Humanities for its fifth international meeting in our founding year. Since then, we have organized successful and well-attended symposia on prison education and the carceral state, on translation, featuring theoretical lectures as well as readings and discussion panels with practitioners, and more.

On May 9th-10th, 2025 Stanford University’s 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference will be held in person at Johns Hopkins University, hosted by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.

This year’s conference topic, “Altered Sight, Altered Minds” brings together doctoral students and scholars who work at the intersection of philosophy, literature, the arts, and media studies to interrogate theories of consciousness, perception, and what it means to “see” beyond the visual paradigm of experience.

Antony Aumann (Professor of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University) and Arielle Saiber (Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University) will each deliver a keynote address during the conference.

Proposal submission:

All submissions must be sent via email in a single Word document entitled “Last Name Stanford-JHU” to PhilLitGradConference@gmail.com no later than January 5th, 2025, and include the following items: (1) an abstract (200 words max), (2) a short bio, (3) your full name, email address, and affiliation. Please use “Philosophy & Literature Conference Stanford-JHU” in the subject line.”