Research Projects

Presentations

2023

  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Derrida's Institutional Engagements: Homo-Hegemony and Democracy.” Invited presentation to the "Colloquium for Political Theory," "University of Bremen, Germany, 6 June 2023.
  • Gavin Rae, "Disruptive Genealogies: Evil, History, and the Problem of Secularization." Invited keynote speaker at 'The Language of Evil and its Uses and Abuses Today' conference, University of Sussex, England, 24 March 2023.

 

2022

  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "No Accounting for Taste”: Aesthesis and Decolonial Thought." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

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    Gavin Rae, "Fear, the Intolerable, and Abjection: Shock-experiences and Self-transformation." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

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    Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Aesthesis: The Limits of Aesthetic Reason." Invited presentation to the 'The Limits of Reason' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 01 June 2022.

  • Gavin Rae, "The Ontogenesis of Reason: Castoriadis on the Limits of Identity Thinking." Invited presentation to the 'The Limits of Reason' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 01 June 2022.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Digital Public Space? Philosophical and Political Problems." Invited presentation to the 'CEIVINDICO: Challenges to European Identities and Values in Digital Communities,' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 12-13 May 2022.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Decolonizing the Syllabus: The Name and End of Deconstruction." Invited presentation to the 'Decolonialization and Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 23rd February 2022.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "The Sick Subject: Agency and Illness in the Poststructuralist Subject." Invited presentation to the 'Agency and Subjectivity: Rethinking Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 26th January 2022.
  • Gavin Rae, "Misunderstanding as a Condition of Collective Agency." Invited presentation to the 'Agency and Subjectivity: Rethinking Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 26th January 2022.

 

2021

  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Performative Investigations: Speech Acts in Austin, Derrida & Searle." Invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milan, Italy, 14 December 2021.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Is there a Politics to Friendship? Derrida’s Critique of the Couple." Invited presentation to the ‘Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy’ conference, Bond University, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.
  • Gavin Rae. "Derrida on the Ground of Politics." Invited presentation to the ‘Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy’ conference, Bond University, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.
  • Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "At Sea in Gaston Bachelard's Logosphere: Radio and the European Public Sphere." Invited presentation to the 'Periodicals as/in Media Constellations' conference hosted by the University of Cologne, Germany, 25-26 November 2021.
  • Gavin Rae. "Castoriadis and the Creation of the Individual." Invited presentation to the ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Artistic Agency’ conference hosted by the Deakin University, Australia, 19 November 2021.
  • Gavin Rae. "Derrida, Autoimmunity, and Critique." Invited presentation to the ‘Critique in times of Covid Capitalism’ conference hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Hertfordshire, England, 02 September 2021.
  • Gavin Rae. "The Ontology of Crisis." Invited presentation to the ‘Transdisciplinary Encounters: A Discussion about (Im)mobility through the Conceptual Lenses of Crisis, Borders, and Precarity’ conference, Webinar hosted by the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 February 2021.