{"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":"2024-12-20T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:22:25","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>On May 9th-10th, 2025 Stanford University&#8217;s 6th annual Philosophy &amp; Literature Graduate Conference will be held in person at Johns Hopkins University, hosted by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s conference topic,<em> \u201cAltered Sight, Altered Minds\u201d<\/em> 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 \u201csee\u201d beyond the visual paradigm of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antony Aumann<\/strong>\u00a0(Professor of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University) and\u00a0<strong>Arielle Saiber<\/strong>\u00a0(Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies at Johns Hopkins University) will each deliver a keynote address during the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Proposal submission<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All submissions must be sent via email in a single Word document entitled \u201cLast Name Stanford-JHU\u201d to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:PhilLitGradConference@gmail.com\">PhilLitGradConference@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0no 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 \u201cPhilosophy &amp; Literature Conference Stanford-JHU\u201d in the subject line.&#8221;<\/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>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<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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