All recent updates
20 May 2026
Conference: Keynote: Levi R. Bryant — philosopher of OOO and Lacan. Gdynia, 8–9 August. Register by 1 July.
18 May 2026
Conference: ‘An over-all eye-opening experience.’ — Delegate, 2025 Ereignis Conference. Submit by 1 June.
14 May 2026
Videos: Mia Yu on Speculative energies, pitts, and spirits. Watch the recording on our video page.
12 May 2026
Seminar: Proposals now open for the monthly seminar series, convened by Gorica Orsholits. Submit yours today.
10 May 2026
Conference: artifices: AI as alterity, desiring-machine, and symbolic force. Abstracts due 1 June. Gdynia, 8–9 Aug 2026.
7 May 2026
Conference: Early Bird pricing for artifices 2026: members receive 50% off. Deadline 15 May. Secure your place now.
4 May 2026
Seminar: Join us for “Speculative energies,” a seminar with Mia Yu (Art Historian, Artist-filmmaker, Curator) this Wednesday @ 16:00 CET.
27 April 2026
Codebase: We have a new look. The main menu has moved to a collapsible sidebar on the left, and navigation has been simplified. Register or upgrade to member on your profile.
14 April 2026
Member service: We have added a panel for members to view relevant documentation for the Ereignis organisation, and an archive of documents from past General Assemblies.
3 April 2026
Announcement: The Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts does not collect more data about you than strictly necessary. Read our statement on personal data at the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts.
3 April 2026
Seminar: The video recording of Gábor Reichert and Gábor Attila Csúr‘s seminar on László Krasznahorkai is now available on our video page.
27 March 2026
Seminar: Prof Gábor Reichert and Dr Gábor Attila Csúr (both of the University of Budapest) on ‘Ponderously negative sentences and depressing logic in claustrophobic prose’? Uncovering the Sociological and Structural Elements of László Krasznahorkai‘s International Reception. Join the Ereignis Seminar on Wed 1 April @ 16:00 CET.
25 March 2026
General Assembly: Thanks to all those who showed up for our General Assembly yesterday, and to all those who support us! More information about what we do and how we operate is available on our About page.
23 March 2026
General Assembly: Join us for our General Assembly on 24 March 2026. Attendance is open to all members. For more information visit our Assembly page!
9 March 2026
Seminar: The video recording of David Roden‘s seminar Driving the Posthuman Desiring Machine is now available on our video page.
26 February 2026
Seminar: David Roden on Driving the Posthuman Desiring Machine: The Stuff of Xenopoetics and Necroconceptuality. Join the Ereignis Seminar on Wed 4 March @ 16:00 CET.
23 February 2026
Mentoring: Participate remotely in the 6th Ereignis Conference. Scholars and students can join via our hybrid platform. For expert paper guidance and a waived conference fee, enrol in our ongoing hybrid Institute course module. Recorded sessions are available upon registration.
19 February 2026
Conference: Submit your proposal for artifices, the 6th interdisciplinary Ereignis Conference, to be held on August 8 and 9 in Gdynia, Poland, and online. Deadline: June 1st.
11 February 2026
Course: A great thanks to our dear faculty and everyone involved for making the first session of the 2026 Ereignis Institute course module a wonderful experience for students. Register to access the recordings!
5 February 2026
Videos: Watch a recording of Carlos Segovia‘s Ereignis seminar on Dionysus and Apollo Rewired on our video page. Free for members!
2 February 2026
Course: We have reduced the course registration fee for members to €140. Join our center to get this very low rate. Deadline to register: February 7, 2026.
30 January 2026
Ereignis Institute: We have extended the deadline to register for the 2026 Ereignis Institute course module until February 7th. Register on the course page!
30 January 2026
Operativity: Operativity is restored following a security incident. Our systems are secure and we are now back online.
14 January 2026
Inscriptions: Inscriptions 9, no. 1, Hospitality in art and society, is out with essays by Dror Pimentel, Kurt Campbell, and others.
5 December 2025
Videos: Watch Zoran Samardzija‘s Ereignis Seminar on “Negative Aesthetics and Non-orientable History in the Films of Radu Jude” on our Video page.
28 November 2025
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Negative Aesthetics and Non-orientable History in the Films of Radu Jude with Prof. Zoran Samardzija on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
20 November 2025
Videos: Watch Todd Dufresne‘s Ereignis Seminar on “Climate Subjects”, and Lonnie Monka on “What Can We Do With Orality?” on our Video page.
19 November 2025
Workshop: Academic publication and presentation. Four-session workshop with Andrew Jorn and Torgeir Fjeld. Register by January 31.
10 November 2025
Course: Being Other: Reflections on Alterity. Four seminars with Dror Pimentel.
6 November 2025
Course: Schizoanalysis of AI: Machinic Desire, Energy, and Planetary Subjectivation. Four seminars with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee.
27 October 2025
CfP: Consider submitting your academic essay or creative criticism for next year's open issue of the peer-reveiwed journal Inscriptions. Deadline for proposals: March 15, 2026.
22 October 2025
Ereignis Institute: Learn more about our hybrid course module, scheduled for four weekends in 2026. Seminars with Alex Taek-Gwang Lee and Dror Pimentel. Workshop with Andrew Jorn.
9 October 2025
Podcast: In the new episode of the Ereignis podcast Philippe Beck talks about Documentaries with Gorica Orsholits and Torgeir Fjeld.
26 September 2025
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Documentaries: electronic speleology and the archive of the future with Prof. Philippe Beck and Dr. Gorica Orsholits in conversation on Wednesday, October 1, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
20 September 2025
Keynote: Watch Dror Pimentel’s keynote “Hospitality in the Age of Econo-rithm” at Aesth/Ethics, the 5th Ereignis Conference, August 9, 2025.
5 September 2025
New exhibit: Catherine Clover’s “An Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway” bring the sounds of birds into our presence.
29 August 2025
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on “Climate Subjects”: On the Threshold of Disaster, A Brief History with Professor Todd Dufresne (Lakehead University) on Wednesday, 3 September, 2025 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
22 August 2025
Workshop: Catherine Clover’s workshop on “The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway” is now available in our video section.
13 August 2025
Keynotes: Keynotes by Jørgen Veisland and Gal Hertz at Aesth/Ethics, the 5th Ereignis Conference, are now available on our video page. Thank you to all delegates for a wonderful event!
28 July 2025
Conference: Join us for Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society, the 5th Ereignis Conference, August 9-10, in Gdynia, Poland, and online. Keynotes by Dror Pimentel, Jørgen Veisland, Kurt Campbell, and Gal Hertz. Art workshop with Catherine Clover.
21 July 2025
Publication: Inscriptions 8, no. 2, is out with original, peer-reviewed essays, including a special section on Pausing Time/Timing the Pause: sayability in the arts, philosophy, and politics, and three book reviews.
12 July 2025
Conference: Deadline for delegates to register for Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society, the 5th Ereignis Conference is coming up on July 15. Don’t forget to register!
2 July 2025
Holiday: The Ereignis administration is on vacation until next week. We will answer all requests shortly thereafter.
17 June 2025
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.
12 June 2025
Proposals: Last chance to submit your proposal for Aesth/Ethics, the upcoming 5th interdisciplinary Ereignis hybrid conference. Themes: hospitality, aesthetics, ethics, Levinas, Derrida.
4 June 2025
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.
2 June 2025
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.
30 May 2025
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.
29 May 2025
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.
27 May 2025
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!
22 May 2025
Conference: Deadline for proposals to Aesth/Ethics, the 5th Ereignis Conference extended to June 15, 2025
24 April 2025
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).
27 March 2025
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.
19 March 2025
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).
3 March 2025
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).
17 February 2025
Inscriptions: We invite submissions for the forthcoming open issue of Inscriptions. Deadline for proposals: March 15, 2025.
30 January 2025
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).
15 January 2025
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.
2 December 2024
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).
31 October 2024
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).
4 October 2024
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.
27 September 2024
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.
6 September 2024
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!
1 September 2024
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.
23 July 2024
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!
9 July 2024
Conference: The programme for the hybrid 2024 Ereignis Conference is now available. Join us August 10-11 in Gdynia or online.
22 May 2024
CfP: We invite chapter proposals for Bergman Obscure, a new edited volume on the lesser-known Ingmar Bergman. Read the CfP.
14 May 2024
CfP: Inscriptions invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue that will explore the intersections of environmental studies with aesthetics, literary narratives, and critical theory.
23 April 2024
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.
3 April 2024
Talks: Watch free talks with James Bahoh, Gisle Selnes, and Christopher Norris on our media page.
2 April 2024
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.
26 March 2024
Conference: Chris Norris (Cardiff) and Anda Pleniceanu (Western) will join us as keynote speakers at the 4th Ereignis Conference this August.
19 March 2024
Forum: Where do process philosophy depart from static ontologies? Register or log in to read Dr. Mehdi Parsa’s response in our forums.
5 March 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Einstein and Philosophers on Time with Dr. Mehdi Parsa this Wednesday, March 6, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
5 March 2024
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.
27 February 2024
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.
5 February 2024
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.
24 January 2024
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.
17 January 2024
Gallery: Our new gallery “VALUBL OBJX: Afterword [CODA]” holds eight panels with short essays by Paul McLean.
15 January 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.
5 January 2024
Upgrade: Our web page is being upgraded. Check in soon to see all the new features!
6 October 2023
Seminar: Introducing the open and free Ereignis Seminar: Wednesday 1 November, 2023 @ 16h00 CET on Zoom.
8 September 2023
CfP: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming themed issue, Beyond Dualism. Deadline 15 September/15 October, 2023. Read the full CfP.
15 July 2023
Journal: Inscriptions 6, n2, Open issue, is out. Anda Pleniceanu on Adorno’s negative dialectic. Georgios Tsagdis on Agamben. Creative criticism.
4 July 2023
Honorary professor: Prof. Dr. Jørgen Veisland (University of Gdańsk) joins us as honorary professor.
14 June 2023
Talks: Watch talks with Lucy Huskinson, Jørgen Veisland and others from the third Ereignis Conference for free.
6 June 2023
Poetry: Christopher Norris new volume of poetry, A Listener is out on utopos.
25 May 2023
Journal: Inscriptions, our peer-reviewed journal, now lists all published articles with stable digital object identifiers (DOIs) and authors with persistent digital identifiers (ORCIDs).
11 May 2023
Conference: Beyond dualism, the 2023 Ereignis Conference, is now open for registration. Save up to €8 in fees by registering on our site.
8 May 2023
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.
3 May 2023
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.
26 April 2023
Summer School: Seminars with Chris Norris (Cardiff) and Andrew Jorn (Tsukuba Gakuin). Free attendance at the 2023 Ereignis Conference. June 4-11.
14 April 2023
Offer: We have reduced the price from €80 to €10 on some of our pre-recorded modules. Find out what we’re about by signing up!
5 April 2023
Keynote: Accomplished professor Lucy Huskinson (Bangor) joins us as a keynote speaker at the at the third Ereignis Conference in Gdynia on June 10.
28 March 2023
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.
13 March 2023
Conference: Beyond dualism, the 2023 Ereignis Conference, is now open for registration at Eventbrite.
28 February 2023
FAQ: Can I study at at the Ereignis Institute while I’m enrolled with a different instituion? Read our FAQ!
17 February 2023
Keynote: Professor Paul Bowman joins us as a keynote speaker at the third Ereignis Conference, on June 11.
3 February 2023
CfA: Beyond dualism — philosophy, religion, science. Submit your abstract to the third Ereignis Conference (June 10-11) by 1 May 2022.
2 February 2023
Seminar: Our online research seminar with Dr. Adam Staley Groves starts on February 15. Join here.
17 January 2023
Journal: Inscriptions 6, n1, Technology’s danger, is out. Pedro José Grande Sánchez uncovers Michel Henry’s “life philosophy”.
13 December 2022
School: Christopher Norris, celebrated author of Deconstruction, joins us for our inaugural 2023 Summer School.
5 December 2022
Seminar: Our online research seminar with Dr. Adam Staley Groves starts on February 15. Join here.
29 November 2022
Ereignis: We have added two factor authentication and other features to increase security for our registered members. Your data is safe with us.
31 October 2022
Ereignis: We have thoroughly redesigned our web-page: Register now. It’s free.
7 September 2022
Study: Ethics after Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality: join our online course module with Dr. Mehdi Parsa.
23 August 2022
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 4, Adam Staley Groves talks about Wallace Stevens and what it means to be an artist.
18 July 2022
Journal: Inscriptions 5, n2, is out with texts by David Ritchie, Gorica Orsholits, Gianluca Ronca, and others.
5 July 2022
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.
22 June 2022
Study: Wallace Stevens: Theōria and Technic, online course module with Dr. Adam Staley Groves.
16 June 2022
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.
8 June 2022
Keynote: Chris Norris (Cardiff) will speak on “Neither/Nor: Kierkegaard Between Philosophy and Literature” at the 2nd Ereignis Conference on June 11-12.
31 May 2022
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.
19 May 2022
Programme: The programme for the Second Ereignis Conference is live. Sign up to attend online or on-site in Gdynia, Poland.
26 April 2022
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.
11 April 2022
Conference: CfA extended deadline. Submit your 300-word abstract to Kierkegaard: Acts of philosophy, the Second Ereignis Conference, by 1 May 2022.
6 April 2022
Conference: What’s in a name. Jørgen Veisland on Melville, Camus and Auster at the Second Ereignis Conference, June 11-12, 2022. Read the abstract.
22 March 2022
School: Chris Norris’s seminar in June, Deconstruction and the Politics of Truth, is now open for registration. Read more here.
11 January 2022
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.
21 December 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 3, Christopher Norris reads from Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia.
24 November 2021
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.
15 November 2021
Study: Philosophies of life technologies, 12 week course with Dr. Torgeir Fjeld.
19 October 2021
Journal: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming open issue. Deadline 15 March, 2022. Read the CfP.
12 October 2021
Study: We are delighted to be able to present the first two courses in our portfolio. Join today.
4 August 2021
Ereignis: Get your Ereignis tee or mug in our new Etsy Ereignis Store.
3 August 2021
Talk: Watch Mehdi Parsas’s keynote address to the 2021 Ereignis Conference, “Ethics of psychosynthesis: desiring the event.” 40 mins.
27 July 2021
Talk: James Bahoh on “Event, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger’s Ontology.” Keynote address to the Ereignis Conference. 52 mins.
15 July 2021
Journal: Inscriptions 4, n2, is out with texts that explore the essay form, poetics, and the role of art in politics. Also: Niall Gildea on Derrida.
30 June 2021
Talk: Sharif Abdunnur’s workshop “Think existentially, act on your personal mythology” at the Ereignis Conference. 35mins.
24 June 2021
Talk: Jørgen Veisland on “Dismantling totalitarianism”. Keynote address to the Ereignis Conference. 42mins.
16 June 2021
Gallery: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick: From The Truppe Fledermaus’s Memory Theatre of 1932.
8 June 2021
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.
26 May 2021
Gallery: Grace Weir: stills from ‘In Parallel’ (2017), a rumination on Euclid’s Elements.
17 May 2021
Gallery: Surabhi Saraf: a selection of art from the multimedia project ‘Awoke & the Awokened.’
5 May 2021
Conference: Programme is live. Sign up for a free seat.
28 April 2021
Journal: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming issue on Being and Event. Deadline 15 09, 2021. Read the CfP.
6 April 2021
Conference: James Bahoh on Event, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger’s Ontology. Read the abstract.
5 April 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 2, featuring Mehdi Parsa on Being and Event in Deleuze.
4 April 2021
Ereignis: New two-minute video introduction to Ereignis Center: who we are, what we do, our upcoming courses.
22 March 2021
Conference: Mehdi Parsa on the Ethics of Psychosynthesis. Read the abstract.
8 March 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 1, featuring Stefan Chazbijewicz.