Just received an email about this conference which looks right up the street of this corner of the blogosphere. Sadly any US conferences are currently out of bounds for me financially:
Villanova University
16th Annual Conference in Philosophy
“The Return of Metaphysics”
April 8-9, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Graham Harman
Department of Philosophy, American University in Cairo
The “end of metaphysics” is a perennial theme in contemporary
Continental philosophy, which has taken many forms, including the
critiques of onto-theology, the metaphysics of presence, and
(phallo)logocentrism, with consequent emphases on philosophical
practices such as textual interpretation, cultural criticism, and
socio-political interventionism. Recently, however, a “return to
metaphysics” has been initiated by movements such as speculative
realism, object-oriented ontology, actor-network theory, non-
philosophy, and others who re-affirm the possibility and even
necessity of (speculative) metaphysical thought.
We invite critical papers on the status of metaphysics in contemporary
philosophy (for example, concerning the possibility of its “end” or
“return”), including its relationship to its precursors in the
philosophical tradition, mathematics, the contemporary natural
sciences, ecological thought, and literature.
Submission Guidelines:
We encourage submissions from faculty and graduate students of
abstracts (300-500 words) or papers (3,000 to 4,000 words). Please
format these for blind review—personal information, such as name,
institutional affiliation, and contact information, should be either
in the body of your email or on a page separate from the rest of your
paper, and not in the paper itself.
Please email your submissions (and any questions you may have) to
villanovaphilosophy@gmail.com by February 1, 2011.
