International Conference
Philosophy across Borders
Faculty of Philosophy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
08 June 2022
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Online Link: meet.google.com/weg-fnwf-dzf
(All Times are Madrid, Spain)
0915–0920: Introductory Remarks
Emma Ingala, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
0920–1050: Critique
Philosophy as Möbius Strip
Lisa Foran (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Philosophy without Borders or a “Totality of Critique”
Tamara Caraus (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
The Spatiality of Legal Orders: Re-reading Arendt as a Critical Phenomenologist
Liesbeth Schoonheim (Humboldt University, Germany)
1100–1200: Species-Boundaries
The Boundaries of the Human and the Issue of Community and Difference in Moral and Political Thought
Rosine Kelz (University of Bremen, Germany)
Why Did We Think Only Humans had Politics?
Kennan Ferguson (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA)
1205–1335: Between East and West
The Dialogue between Theology and Philosophy: al-Ghazālī on the Limits of Reason in The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Catarina Belo (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Thinking “Orientally”: Nietzsche and Indian Philosophy
Emma Syea (King’s College London, England)
Post-humanist War Machines: Deleuze and Négritude
Sara Raimondi and Hannah Richter (New College of the Humanities / University of Hertfordshire, England)
1335–1405: Lunch Break
1405–1505: Processes, Metaphors, and the Between
The Symbolic Language of Process Ontology
Eve Judah (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Philosophy in the Threshold
Emma Ingala (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
1510–1610: Sexuality
French Feminism, Whiteness, and the American West: Considering 19th-Century Borders
Carolyn Eichhner (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, USA)
The Queer Philosophy of Judith Butler
Adriana Zaharijević (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
1615–1715: Transformation
Fear, the Intolerable, and Abjection: Shock-experiences and Self-transformation
Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Limiting Dialectics: On Border, Limits, and Boundaries in the Present
Guilel Treiber (KU Leuven, Belgium)
1720–1820: Metaphysics
Absence as Threshold: Visibility in Politics and Aesthetics
Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
The Metaphysics beneath a Limit: Criticism from Contemporary Liminal Thinking
Gonzalo Núñez Erices (Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile)
1820–1830: Closing Remarks
Organizers: Emma Ingala, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Gavin Rae
Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the following projects: (1) “Trans-Border Teaching / Docencia transfronteriza” (n. 144), funded by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; (2)“Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26), funded by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid–Banco Santander; (3) “Differential Ontology and the Politics of Reason,” funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, as part of line 3 of the multi-year agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: V PRICIT Excellence Program for University Professors (Fifth Regional Plan for Scientific Investigation and Technological Innovation); and (4) “The Politics of Reason” (PID2020-117386GA-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain.