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.
