FNS conference 2009

Barry Stocker (Istanbul Technical University) has posted a report of the recent 2009 FNS conference in Oxford on his blog.

Nietzschean Thinking: Beyond the “Two Cultures”

Papers are sought for a workshop on “Nietzschean Thinking” as part of the 12th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) in Ankara, Turkey, which is taking place from August 2-6, 2010. The topic of the conference is “Thought in Science and Fiction”. Workshops are four hours long and consist of eight to ten papers.

Examining Nietzsche’s approach to scientific and literary traditions of thought is particularly relevant at a time when scientific knowledge continues to make inroads into areas of human culture once deemed the preserve of the humanistic disciplines. Developments in genetics, evolutionary biology, environmental  science, physiology, and neuropsychology have radically increased science’s relevance to the study of topics as diverse as religious
experience, empathy and emotion, language acquisition and cognition, social interaction, and cultural development. At the same time, scientists are increasingly aware of the”feedback loop” between culture, body, and natural environment, such that scientific reductionism has become increasingly untenable. More than ever, the openness and plasticity of individual and cultural imagination is recognized as complementary to, rather than a refutation of, the latest developments in science and medicine.

In light of science’s increasing application to the disciplines of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, psychology, and anthropology, this workshop explores the relation between (and potential synthesis of) the scientific and imaginative dimensions of Nietzsche’s thought. The workshop also welcomes papers that explore the relevance of
Nietzsche or Nietzschean approaches to problems in social, political, and cultural life that raise issues of science and imagination. Therefore, papers that focus on Nietzsche’s work, as well as papers that apply a broadly Nietzschean approach to contemporary social and cultural issues, are welcome.

Submissions should be sent by email to Dr. Saul Tobias and should comprise an approximately 500-word proposal and the author’s full contact details. Invited participants will be informed by the end of the calendar year.  A conference description and complete details of this workshop (Section V) are available here.

Agonist

Vol II, Issue 2 of The Agonist, the journal of the Nietzsche Circle, is now available online.

Download the entire issue as a single pdf here.  Download individual pdfs or read online in html here.

ESSAY Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham by James Luchte

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Nietzsche Conferencia Internacional: “El de venir de la vida/The becoming of life.”

INTERVIEW Babette Babich interviewed by Nicholas Birns

REVIEWS Maria João Mayer Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) on Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic  by Mary Ann Frese Witt;  Hugo Drochon (St. John’s College, Cambridge) on Aesthetic Transformations: Taking Nietzsche at His Word by Thomas Jovanovski;  David van Dusen (University of Wales) on Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser and Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith by Bruce Ellis Benson; Martine Prange (University of Amsterdam & Maastricht) on Nietzsche and the “English”: The Influence of British and American Thought on his Philosophy by Thomas H. Brobjer;  Katrina Mitcheson on On the Seventh Solitude: Endless Becoming and Eternal Return in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Rohit Sharma;   Véronique M. Fóti (Pennsylvania State University) on Pandora’s Senses: The Feminine Character in the Ancient Text by Vered Lev Kenaan.

Nietzsche Source

Nietzsche Source is a web site devoted to the publication of scholarly content on the work and life of Friedrich Nietzsche. The contents of  the site and its internet addresses are stable and can be freely consulted and used for scholarly purposes. Two editions are currently being published in Nietzsche Source: the digital version of the  
standard critical edition and the facsimile edition of the entire Nietzsche estate.

The genetic editions of two of Nietzsche’s works The Wanderer and his  Shadow and Dawn, including the reproduction of all related  manuscripts, are in preparation. The website is managed by the  Nietzsche Source Organization (formerly, the Association HyperNietzsche), a non-profit organisation hosted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. Its main purpose is to continue work on the edition, commentary and interpretation of Nietzsche’s work.

Nietzsche, Mind, Nature

NIETZSCHE ON MIND AND NATURE
St Peter’s College, Oxford, UK
11 – 13 September 2009

Forty-eight parallel session presentations & seven keynote adresses by

Günter Abel -  Consciousness, Language, and Nature. Nietzsche’s  Philosophy of Mind & Nature
Brian Leiter – Who is the ‘Sovereign Individual’?  Nietzsche on Freedom  & Agency
Graham Parkes - Nietzsche on Soul in Nature: an Ecological Perspective
Peter Poellner - Nietzsche’s Ethics and the Philosophy of Mind
Bernard Reginster - The Genealogy of Guilt
John Richardson - Nietzsche’s Dualism?
Galen Strawson - Nietzsche’s Metaphysics

Registration for this event is now open to the public here. Download the current version of the programme here.

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.