[PHILOS-L] Reminder CFA: Continental Philosophy Northwest Research Network - First Workshop

[Nikos Anapliotis]

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Call for Abstracts

Location: Manchester, UK.

Institution: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures - University of Manchester.

Date: 16 May, 2025.

The Continental Philosophy Northwest Research Network is pleased to announce its first workshop. Since research in Continental Philosophy is now mainly conducted by members of departments of Arts, Languages and Cultures in the UK, interdisciplinarity has become ‘second nature’ to such researchers. This, however, results in a lack of a cross-school, cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional reference point: an interdisciplinary research community-network may be the answer. Our workshop will be a starting point for creating a lasting research network of scholars, working in the tradition of Continental Philosophy through a variety of different disciplines in the Humanities beyond ‘Philosophy’. We see the workshop as the founding act of the Continental Philosophy Northwest Research Network, which is to be brought into existence through a series of recurring yearly workshops (and/or other future activities). This will provide research students with the opportunity to present their work in progress, foment future collaboration and exchange, by building a new research community within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures of the University of Manchester, and developing ties to similar research networks and individual researchers from other institutions in the Northwest. PhD students and Postdocs from the University of Manchester, but also from the Universities of the Northwest (Liverpool, Lancaster, Leeds, Sheffield, Keele, RNCM, Salford, and Manchester Metropolitan, and others), are welcome to submit abstracts (max. 500 words).

The conference is general topic, and all submissions will be considered, but the organizers are interested in the broad question: What is the political resonance of Continental Philosophy today? It’s crucial to note the polemical origins of the term ‘Continental’ Philosophy - used pejoratively by anglophone philosophers during the 1950s (e.g., A. J. Ayer and Gilbert Ryle) to deride philosophies that did not conform to their version of a linguistic turn (e.g., existentialists or phenomenologists). The workshop tackles the widespread perception of Continental, as opposed to Analytic, Philosophy today as a discipline detached from the progressive ideals of social responsibility. In contrast to this misconception, Continental Philosophy through its interdisciplinary application in the Humanities, has been attentive to these ideals and it continues to be relevant today, through wide-ranging conceptual discussions beyond the discipline of ‘Philosophy’. Therefore, preference will be given to candidates whose work showcases the political significance of Continental Philosophy and employs relevant topics from this tradition to make original contributions to current debates in Languages, Arts, and Cultures, but the call is also open to research students based on departments of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Format: In-person. Selected papers should not exceed 30 minutes. (Presentation: 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A). Because of practical constrictions the number of presentations will be limited to 12. The workshop will end with a talk by the keynote speaker, Sebastian Truskolaski.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 February, 2025

Notification of acceptance: 20 March, 2025

Please send your submissions to cpnwrnw...@gmail.com. Submissions must include the author’s name(s), email address, and institutional affiliation.

Keynote Speaker: Sebastian Truskolaski.

Workshop organiser: Nikolaos Anapliotis.

Acknowledgement: This workshop is co-sponsored by the PGR budget and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages (University of Manchester).

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