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Since then, we have organized successful and well-attended symposia on prison education and the carceral state, on translation, featuring theoretical lectures, readings, and discussion panels with practitioners, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Symposia<\/h3>\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-516490\" class=\"c-accordion__title js-accordion-controller\" role=\"button\">2025<\/h2><div id=\"ac-516490\" class=\"c-accordion__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philit.stanford.edu\/altered-sight-altered-minds\"><strong>Johns Hopkins\/Stanford Phil + Lit Graduate Student Conference 2025: Altered Sight, Altered Minds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 6th annual Philosophy &amp; Literature Graduate Student Conference, the Philosophy &amp; Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University brought together doctoral students and scholars who worked at the intersection of philosophy, literature, the arts, and media studies to interrogate theories of consciousness, perception, and what it meant to \u201csee\u201d beyond the visual paradigm of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025 conference invited participants to consider how the representation of atypical conscious experience in literature and the arts\u2014such as mystical visions, dreams, madness, and psychedelia\u2014could shed light on a range of philosophical issues. 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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>,&nbsp;<em>Yale<\/em><br>The Material Conditions of Spiritual Freedom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>James Haile<\/strong>,&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<em>Invisible Man<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yi-Ping Ong<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>JHU<\/em><br>Kierkegaard and Heidegger on the Concept of the Public<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William McBride<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Purdue<\/em><br>Beauvoir and Sartre as Public Intellectuals in 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sonia Kruks<\/strong>,&nbsp;<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>,&nbsp;<em>JHU<\/em><br>The Ecologies of Existentialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>William Egginton<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>JHU<\/em><br>Made to Measure: Existentialism and the Anthropic Principle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taylor Carman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Barnard College Columbia University<\/em><br>Is Existence Intelligible?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nancy Bauer<\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Tufts<\/em><br>The Existence of Women<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yearly Conversation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the AGHI convenes a series of academic events loosely configured around a topic of timely but far-reaching concern. 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