FNS 2009 registration

Registration for the 2009 FNS conference at Oxford, “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature”, has now begun. See here, where you can also find a first draft of the conference  programme.

Nietzsche’s animal philosophy

Just published: Vanessa Lemm, Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press).

Call for papers: Metal and Power

Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics

10- 12 November 2009, Salzburg, Austria

What makes metal powerful? Is it the power of amplification, the brutality of the music, the violence of its discourse? Is power essential to the core of  metal? Is metal a mechanism for the dissemination of power? The terms ‘heavy metal’ and power may be so strongly related as to suggest they are cultural synonyms. Power in heavy metal music extends well beyond the boundaries of performance, seeping into to other music genres and the cultures and subcultures that compose the scene. Metal power modification may be on plain display, but behind this, deep in the fabric of metal culture a plethora of debates can be surmised on what exactly power is and what can be understood by it, from the stage through to the politics, ideologies, culture and lifestyle in metal. This conference investigates the varied relationships between heavy metal music and sexual potency, social agency, coercion, bodily strength, ideological domination, and myriad other forms of social, psychological, and physical power in modern human existence. The second conference meeting of this project on heavy metal, music and politics aims to bring together papers on the theme of Metal and power. We hope to promote contributions from a range of disciplines, including the sciences.

Abstracts are invited for submission under, but not restricted to the following headings:

* Heavy Metal power (hegemony, commodification, globalization,sexualities)

* Intersectionalities of power and structural relationships (gender, race, nation, class)

* Intersectionalities of theories of identity issues of whiteness * Masculinity and politics

* Lack of power/absence of power

* Power and psychology

* Nietzsche, Foucault and power

* Knowledge production and power discourse

* Nationalism, racism and identity construction in pagan metal

* The power ballad

* Cock rock, poodle hair and power metal

* Battle metal and mythologies of war

* Power, sexuality and the subject

* Post-structural analysis of the construction of the subject

* Gender and Power in Metal

* Homosociality

* Homoeroticism

* Identity Construction

* Sado-masochism

* Scarring, piercing and fashion

* Psychology of the Self

* Self-loathing, self-destruction and violence

* Sublimation of aggression and the erotic in the music and scene

* Power and discharge

* Power in the metal music industry

* Musicology: the powerchord

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300-word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 12th June 2009. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8-page draft paper should be submitted by 9 October 2009. 300-word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Organising Chairs

Niall Scott, Centre for Professional ethics University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK.

Rob Fisher, Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR.

For further details about the project, see here. For further details about the conference, see here.

Nietzsche & Approaches to Ethics

Registration is now open for the conference  Nietzsche and Approaches to Ethics,  which is taking place on 8-9 July, 2009 at the University of Southampton, UK.

Speakers include:

Jessica Berry (Georgia State) Nietzsche’s Retreat from Ethics: The Skeptical Foundations of Nietzsche’s ‘Immoralism’

Allan Gibbard (Michigan): tbc

Robert Louden (Maine): Phantom Duty? Nietzsche versus Koenigsbergian Chinadom

Mark Migotti (Calgary): Bearing Life Lightly, Taking Life Seriously: On the Ethical Significance of Nietzsche’s Schopenhauer Crisis

Robert Pippin (Chicago): Nietzsche on the Possibility of Self-Deception

Peter Poellner (Warwick): Aestheticist Ethics

Alan Thomas (Kent): Nietzsche and Moral Fictionalism

Registration information can be found here.  The closing date for registering is Monday, 15 June 2009. There is a cap on spaces available, so early booking is recommended. Further enquiries should be directed to Simon Robertson.

Nietzsche in New York

Nietzsche in New York 2009

30 April -  2 May

Nietzsche in New York (NINY) is an annual meeting of scholars whose research focuses on Nietzsche’s philosophy and related areas. It is intended to be a productive, interactive event. The NiNY 2009 program is here; see also the conference website. This year’s event will take place in the 8th Floor Faculty Lounge, West Building, Hunter College (68th Street and Lexington Avenue).

All of the events are free and open to the public.

Speakers: Babette Babich (Fordham/Georgetown): “From Nietzsche to Adorno on Anarchy, Socialism and Nihilism: Modern Science, Conservation, and the Anarchist’s Cry: Ni Dieu, ni Maitre”

Jessica Berry (Georgia State): “‘Perfect Moral Skeptics’: Moral Skepticism in Nietzsche and Moral Disagreement in the Skeptics”

Dan Conway (Texas A&M): “The Community Organizer and the Provincial Governor: Beholding Nietzsche in Ecce Homo”

Christian Emden (Rice): “Against Moral Communities: Political Realism in Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Weber”

Ken Gemes (Birkbeck/Southampton): “Freud and Nietzsche on Sublimation”

Robert Guay (Binghamton): “Order of Rank”

Dirk Johnson (Hampden-Sydney): “A Reading of GM II:1-5: Aspects of Nietzsche’s Challenge to Darwin’s Evolutionary Paradigm”

Mark Migotti (Calgary): “Priests, Philosophers and the Ascetic Ideal: Towards a Reading of On the Genealogy of Morality III”

Martine Prange (Amsterdam): “Kant and Nietzsche, Conflict and Cosmopolitanism”

Simon Robertson (Southampton): “Nietzsche and Practical Reason”

Heike Schotten (UMass Boston): “Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-09 War on Gaza”

Gary Shapiro (Richmond): “States and Nomads: Hegel’s World and Nietzsche’s Earth”

For additional information, please contact Rebecca Bamford.

NiNY 2009 is presented with generous support from the Philosophy  Department at Hunter College, and in association with the Journal of Nietzsche Studies.

Nihilism conference

Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Affirmation of Life

15-16 May, 2009

Venue: Stewart House, London, UK. More information here.

May 15

10.00 Coffee & Registration

10.30 – 12.15 Bernard Reginster: “Nihilism, Affirmation, and the Cult of the Untrue”

Lunch 1.30 – 3.15 Simon May: “Affirmation without Justification”

Tea

3.30 – 5.15 Ken Gemes: “Nihilism and the Paradox of Affirmation”

May 16

9.30 – 11.15 Chris Janaway: “Affirmation and the Horrible Truth”

Tea

11.30 – 1.30 Panel Discussion

Sponsored by Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London, in collaboration with the AHRC Nietzsche Project at the University of Southampton, and supported by Oxford University Press.

Agonist

Volume 2: 1 of The Agonist is now available.

Contents: Keith Ansell-Pearson, “On the Sublime in Dawn”; Pierre Klossowski, “Circulus Vitiosus”; interview with Jill Marsden by Christopher Branson; reviews of books by Claire Ortiz Hill, Alexander Nehamas, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and a bibliography of Pierre Klossowski’s works in translation.

Download the entire issue here. Download individual pdfs or to read online in html here.  All previous issues available online for reading and download.

Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics

The AHRC-funded project on Nietzsche & Modern Moral Philosophy is hosting a 2-day workshop on “Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics” on 2-3 April, 2009.

Speakers include Lanier Anderson (Stanford), Kevin Hill (Portland), Paul Katsafanas (New Mexico), Seiriol Morgan (Bristol), David Owen (Southampton).

Places are very limited but anyone interested in attending should contact Professor Aaron Ridley. This forms art of an ongoing series of conferences, workshops and public talks as part of the Nietzsche & Modern Moral Philosophy Project.

Second CFP

A second call for papers has been issued for the conference on Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life in Chile.  The new deadline for the submission of abstracts is 30 March.

Reminder

The deadline for the submission of abstracts to the organizers of the FNS 2009 conference is Sunday, 15 March.