This Friday and Saturday, there will be an online graduate student conference on Heidegger: Politics, History, Modernity, sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Please inquire with the organizers at heideggermodernity [at] gmail.com for the zoom link.
All times refer to Chicago time (GMT -5).
PROGRAMME
Friday, May 28, 2021.
9.00 AM Opening Remarks
9.15 – 10.45 AM. “Heidegger’s Apocalyptic Nationalism”
Keynote by Prof. Judith Wolfe (University of St Andrews)
11.00 – 12.00 PM. Panel 1. Heidegger’s Politics – Contexts and Reception.
Chair: Sam Lee
“Heidegger and the Narrative of Decline” –
Rylie Johnson (Emory University).
“Heidegger in Italian Left-wing Thought” –
Marco Cavazza (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
12.00 – 1.00 PM. Lunch break.
1.00 – 2.00 PM. Panel 2. Heidegger and Race.
Chair: Paul Cato
“Body, Race and Mestizaje in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks” –
Angel Alvarado Cabellos (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).
“Heidegger and Senegal. A Decolonial Hypothesis of Political Phenomenology” –
Oscar Palacios Bustamante (Catholic University of Louvain).
2.15 – 3.45 PM Panel 3. Myth, History, and Art in Heidegger.
Chair: Rachel Wong
“Differentiating Time and History: Heidegger on “Creators” in the mid-1930s” –
Tingfeng Yan (University of Chicago).
“The Role of the Poet in the Community: Gadamer rethinking Heidegger” –
Elena Romagnoli (Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg).
“Mythology and the Politics of Heidegger’s Historical Unconscious” –
Matt Peterson (University of Chicago).
Saturday, May 29, 2021
9.15 – 10.45 AM. Panel 4. Reading Heidegger with Schürmann.
Chair: Kieran Aarons
“A Phenomenological Destruction of Ontology? Reiner Schürmann’s Reading of Marx and Heidegger” –
Malte Fabian Rauch (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) &
Nicolas Schneider (Centre Marc Bloch).
“De linea monstruosa: Heidegger as Site of Epochal Diremption” –
Francesco Guercio (European Graduate School) &
Ian Alexander Moore (St. John’s College).
“The event – Bringing modernity to an impasse, not to an end” –
Daniel Neumann (University of Klagenfurt).
11.00 AM – 12.30 PM. Panel 5. Reading Heidegger with Derrida.
Chair: Xinyue Zhang
“Heidegger’s Arbitrariness, Derrida’s Liberalism” –
Jordan DeJonge (University of Ottawa).
“Praying to Derrida’s God: Heidegger’s Tainted Spirit and Geschlecht III” –
Jake Sirota (University of Chicago).
“Amid Germania’s Holidays: From Dasein’s Sieg to Hitler’s Sieg Heil” –
Rodrigo Therezo (Princeton University).
12.30 Lunch break.
1.30 – 2.30 PM. Panel 6. Reading Heidegger with Kant.
Chair: Karl von der Luft
“Necessity in the Early Black Notebooks” –
Rebekah Rosenfeld (University of Chicago).
“The Pleasure of Reflection: Aesthetics, Theology, and Politics in Heidegger’s Reading of Kant’s Third Critique” –
Ryan S. Bingham (University of Chicago).
2.45 – 4.15 PM. “Self-Deception in Heidegger: A Brief History”
Keynote by Prof. Ryan Coyne (University of Chicago)
For any organizational or technical questions please contact the organizers at heideggermodernity [at] gmail.com.