Conference: Registration is now open for Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society, the 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis Conference, to be held in Gdynia, Poland, and online on August 9 and 10, 2025. Keynotes by Kurt Campbell, Jørgen Veisland, Dror Pimentel, and Gal Hertz. Art by Catherine Clover. Deadline for registration: June 30, 2025.
Proposals: Last chance to submit your proposal for Aesth/Ethics, the upcoming 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis hybrid conference. Themes: hospitality, aesthetics, ethics, Levinas, Derrida.
Publication: Check out our new Working Papers series, where we will add contributions related to our events and other short texts that are relevant to our center.
Keynotes: We are delighted to announce that Prof. Kurt Campbell (University of Cape Town) and Dr. Gal Hertz (Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem) will be joining us as keynote speakers at Aesth/Ethics, the 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis conference.
Proceedings: We are happy to have been able to publish the proceedings from last year’s Ereignis Conference in a single volume. All contributions are Open Access, each assigned a unique DOI. To support us, purchase the volume from our distributor.
CfP: Inscriptions invites contributions to our forthcoming themed issue (vol. 9, no. 1): Hospitality in Art and Society. We are looking for well-crafted and skilfully written scholarly essays and creative criticism that in some way that in some way engage our theme and/or mandate.
Board: We are delighted to announce that Dr Yang Yeung is joining our Interim Board as Director of Media. Yang is a highly competent and experienced educator and art curator. Welcome!
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Problems in the perception of Laclau’s discourse theory of populism with Dr. Dimitar Ganov on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Conference: Join us for the 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis Conference, Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society, on August 9 and 10 in Gdynia, Poland, and online.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on The Cinema of Thought with Dr. Mehdi Parsa on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on How Do We Recognize Deleuze’s Communism? with Professor Alex Taek-Gwang Lee on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Truth in a Post-Truth Era with Dr. Gorica Orsholits on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Inscriptions: Vol. 8, no. 1, of Inscriptions is out with six original, peer-reviewed essays on the impacts of discourses that engage with or from the critical zone.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar On Walter Benjamin with Prof. Em. Chris Norris on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death with Dr. Susana Viegas on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
Podcast: Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson in conversation about Every house has a door, Jon Fosse, poetry, and more. Listen to our podcast on Spotify or on our podcast page.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on geopolitical states of power, surveillance, and freedom of speech, with reference to George Orwell’s 1984 with Professor (em.) Jørgen Veisland on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
Videos: Keynotes and the round table discussion at Pausing Time/Timing the Pause — sayability in the arts, philosophy, and politics: the fourth Ereignis Conference are now available on our video page. Please register or log in to watch them!
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Temporal castration and capitalist realism beyond psycho-analysis with Professor Andrew Jorn on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
Inscriptions: Vol. 7, no. 2, of Inscriptions is out with essays by Andrew Tayler Jorn, Philipp Quell, and others. Reviews of Vivek Narayanan’s After, and of Catherine Malabou’s Stop Thief!
CfP: Inscriptions invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue that will explore the intersections of environmental studies with aesthetics, literary narratives, and critical theory.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on The Aporia of the Wolf: Beuys with Freud with Professor Dror Pimentel on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Memory and Informalist Aesthetics in Manolo Millares’s Burlap Works with Dr. Anda Pleniceanu this Wednesday, April 3, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
Seminar: There was a glitch in the email with the link to tomorrow's seminar. The seminar takes place in Zoom room is 889 5898 9405 tomorrow March 6 @ 16h00 CET. Find the passcode to the room by scrolling to the bottom of the email you received. Contact us with any problems.
Conference: Groundbreaking thinker and arts practitioner Matthew Goulish (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will join us as a keynote speaker at the 4th Ereignis Conference this August.
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Bergman Obscure with Dr. Jytte Holmqvist and Dr. Torgeir Fjeld this Wednesday, February 7, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
Conference: Pausing Time/Timing the Pause: sayability in the arts, philosophy, and politics. Submit your abstract to the 4th Ereignis Conference (August 10-11) by 1 June, 2024.
Inscriptions 7n1 is out: Essays on dualisms in philosophy and psycho-analysis by Jørgen Veisland, Jeremy Fernando, Lucy Huskinson, and David Antolínez. Jeremey Spencer on Godard’s Tout va Bien, Mikołaj Marks on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and Jan Gresil Kahambing on meta-curation.
Journal: Inscriptions, our peer-reviewed journal, now lists all published articles with stable digital object identifiers (DOIs) and authors with persistent digital identifiers (ORCIDs).
Conference: Before the 2023 Ereignis Conference: Watch the Online Theatre Manifesto by director Wang Chong; food for thought before Professor Jørgen Veisland’s keynote address, set to discuss the theatricality of Kierkegaard’s or rather Constantin’s Repetition. Link in the Abstract.
Conference: Lucy Huskinson (Bangor) speaks on Psychoanalysis and Architecture: mediating our connection to the material world at the at the third Ereignis Conference in Gdynia on June 10. Read the abstract.
Keynote: We are delighted to welcome acclaimed poet Prof. Vivek Narayanan (George Mason University) as keynote speaker at the third Ereignis Conference, on June 11.
Poetry: Christopher Norris’s new collection of poetry, After Rilke: verse renderings, parodies, rejoinders, and anima q`1h67s is due out on utopos August 1st.
Talks: All keynotes from the 2nd Ereignis conference and a roundtable talk with Jørgen Veisland, Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth, and Gisle Selnes are now available on our YouTube channel.
Keynote: Chris Norris (Cardiff) will speak on “Neither/Nor: Kierkegaard Between Philosophy and Literature” at the 2nd Ereignis Conference on June 11-12.
Keynote: Gisle Selnes (Bergen) is speaking on Ereignis, Lacan and Assange at the 2nd Ereignis Conference, online and on-site in Gdynia, Poland, on June 11.
Conference: For the Love of God? Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth on Hägglund’s misunderstanding of Fear and Trembling at the Second Ereignis Conference, June 11-12, 2022. Read the abstract.
Conference: Kierkegaard: Acts of philosophy - the Second Ereignis Conference on June 11-12, 2022. Mark the date in your calendar. Deadline for submission: April 15.
Event: Online talk on December 9th with Christopher Norris on his latest book, Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia, out now on utopos publishing.
Talk: Chris Norris reads his poem “The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alan Badiou” at the Event and Becoming conference on June 11. Get your ticket to attend.
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