{"id":51461,"date":"2023-01-11T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/?page_id=51461"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:56:54","slug":"biannual-calley-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/talks-lecture-series\/biannual-calley-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Biannual Calley Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, leading voices convened for AGHI\u2019s Calley Symposium to discuss the theme of \u201cThe New Politics of Existence,\u201d exploring how existentialist thought from Kierkegaard to Heidegger to de Beauvoir and Sartre emphasizes the precarity and vulnerability of existence, as well as its freedom and responsibility. The Calley Symposium\u2014given today\u2019s world of impending climate catastrophe, misogynist and racist retrenchment, and nationalist resurgence\u2014foregrounded the philosophical inquiry into the nature of human existence which has gained renewed urgency. To examine these pressing issues, scholars from JHU as well as Yale, URI, Purdue, Oberlin College, Barnard, Tufts, and more gathered for two days of provocative talks and discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pb-accordion-item c-accordion__item js-accordion-item no-js\" data-initially-open=\"false\" data-click-to-close=\"true\" data-auto-close=\"true\" data-scroll=\"false\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\"><h2 id=\"at-514610\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">Past Symposia<\/h2><div id=\"ac-514610\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The New Politics of Existence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute&#8217;s Calley Symposium. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Thought and Literature, Philosophy, and Modern Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, September 23 \u2013 Saturday, September 24, 2022 | Gilman 208, Homewood Campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Existentialist thought from Kierkegaard and Heidegger to de Beauvoir and Sartre emphasizes the precarity and vulnerability of existence as well as its freedom and responsibility. In today\u2019s world of impending climate catastrophe, misogynist and racist retrenchment, and nationalist resurgence, the philosophical inquiry into the nature of human existence has attained renewed urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Martin H\u00e4gglund<\/strong>, <em>Yale<\/em><br>The Material Conditions of Spiritual Freedom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Haile<\/strong>, <em>URI<\/em><br>All Hail King Kunta: The Death of the Black Subject and the Resurrection of the Black Individual in Ralph Ellison\u2019s <em>Invisible Man<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yi-Ping Ong<\/strong>, <em>JHU<\/em><br>Kierkegaard and Heidegger on the Concept of the Public<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William McBride<\/strong>, <em>Purdue<\/em><br>Beauvoir and Sartre as Public Intellectuals in 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sonia Kruks<\/strong>, <em>Oberlin College &amp; Conservatory<\/em><br>Thinking about old age with Simone de Beauvoir<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei<\/strong>, <em>JHU<\/em><br>The Ecologies of Existentialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Egginton<\/strong>, <em>JHU<\/em><br>Made to Measure: Existentialism and the Anthropic Principle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taylor Carman<\/strong>, <em>Barnard College Columbia University<\/em><br>Is Existence Intelligible?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nancy Bauer<\/strong>, <em>Tufts<\/em><br>The Existence of Women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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