Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
October 25-26, 2019
University of Toronto
108N Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
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Friday, October 25, 2019
- 2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks
- 2:15-3:00 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli
- 3:00-3:45 Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne
- 3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
- 4:15-5:00 Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie
- 5:00-5:45 Warren Montag, “To Quit the Principles of Human Nature:” Locke’s Notion of the Inhuman
Thursday, May 23, 2019
- 10:15-11:00 Tracie Matysik, Substance as Contingency in the Young Karl Marx
- 11:00-11:45 Michael Rosenthal, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Aesthetics to Make Sense of Immorality in Politics: Exempla, Thought-Images, and the Eichmann Trial
- 12:00-1:30 Lunch
- 1:30-2:15 James McNaughton, Beckett’s Political Aesthetic
- 2:15-3:00 David Suchoff, De-Colonizing Dialect: Beckett’s Palestinian and Irish Canines
- 3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
- 3:15-4:00 Omar Rivera, Resistance as Alterity in Decolonial Aesthetics
- 4:00-4:45 Amogh Sahu, Skepticism and the Philosophy of Difference
- 5:00-5:30 Open Discussion
Made possible with the support of:
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
This event is co-sponsored by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (funded in part by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office) and the Centre for Comparative Literature.
