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RECOVERING OUR EMBODIED LIFE | 2023 ATLANTIC REGION PHILOSOPHERS’ ASSOCIATION (ARPA) CONFERENCE

Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Kearney

Conference Theme: Recovering Our Embodied Life
Venue: University of Prince Edward Island

The UPEI Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome you to this year’s meeting of
the Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association (October 13-14, 2023). The theme of
this year’s gathering is Recovering Our Embodied Life.

This year’s keynote speaker is distinguished philosopher, public intellectual, novelist,
and poet, Professor Richard Kearney. Prof. Kearney will give a talk entitled “Are We
Losing Our Touch?”. Prof. Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at
Boston College and has previously served as a Visiting Professor at University of
College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), the Australian Catholic University,
and the University of Nice. He is the author of more than 24 books in philosophy and
literature, including 3 novels and a volume of poetry, and he currently serves as the
International Director of the Guestbook Project — Hosting the Stranger: Between
Hostility and Hospitality.

Papers from all areas of philosophy relating to the conference theme are especially
welcome. Sessions will be 50 minutes long. Papers should be no longer than 30
minutes, to ensure adequate time is left for discussion.

Submissions should assume the form of abstracts no longer than 300 words and
include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and complete contact information.
Abstracts should be sent as Word or PDF files to Max Schaefer at mschaefer@upei.ca,
with the subject line “ARPA Submission”. Queries relating to the conference can be
directed to the same address.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Thursday, August 31st, 2023.

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Crisis and Ecology: On Ian Angus’s Phenomenological Marxism

Existential Phenomenological Theory and Culture
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 27 – June 2, 2023)
“Reckonings and Re-Imaginings”
York University, Toronto

Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons)

Ian H. Angus’s Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism is a major work exploring the convergences between Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Marx’s Capital I. While many have recognized overlaps between Marx’s early writings and phenomenology, Angus explores the correspondence between Husserl’s late discussion of Galilean science (mathematization of nature; the crisis) and Marx’s theory of value (surplus value; abstract labour). Beyond revealing these convergences, Angus also reveals that the arguments succumb to parallel critiques. Both arguments, though in different ways, fail to consider the necessity of natural fecundity. While for Husserl the realization of phenomenological significance of bodily lived experience had pointed in the direction of biology as a basis for a rigorous science, for Angus the recognition of the fecundity or excess of nature suggests an ecological phenomenology. The Groundwork offers a profound critical engagement with and opening up of Marx’s theory of labour and Husserl’s understanding of the lifeworld. The work ends with reflections on ecological phenomenology and the possibility of dialogue with what Angus calls place-based Indigeneity.

The object of this panel is to critically engage and develop Angus’s Groundwork with particular attention to his notion of an ecological phenomenology and its potential for opening dialogue with place-based Indigeneity. Papers engaged with any aspect of Angus’s work—technology, labour, capital, lifeworld, modern science, ecology, Indigeneity, etc—that contribute to the theme of crisis and ecology and the general theme of the 2023 Congress, “Reckonings and Re-Imaginings”, will be considered. Ian Angus has agreed to respond to the papers presented.

Possible themes to be explored and developed include, but are not limited to the following:

• Marxism and/or Phenomenology and Ecology
• Phenomenological Marxism
• Abstract Nature and Abstract Labour
• Intercultural Dialogue
• Technology and Capital
• Science and Ecology
• Ecological Horizons
• Ecology and place-based Indigeneity
• Post-Husserlian Phenomenological Marxism(s)
• Critical theory, Phenomenological Marxism, and ecology
• Lifeworld, Labour, Culture
• Ontology of the Lifeworld/Ontology of Labour
• Late Marx/ Early Marx and Ecology

Submission Instructions

Interested authors should submit the following electronically in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format:

1. A copy of your paper, not more than 4000 words, and prepared for anonymous review (identifiable by paper title only), and
2. A separate abstract, not more than 100 words, listing the paper’s title, author’s name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address.

While complete papers are preferred, long abstracts (750–1000 words, plus bibliography) will also be considered. Please prepare this for anonymous review, and submit along with a separate cover sheet listing the title, author’s name, address, etc. Please also include a short CV.

Papers and/or Abstracts should be submitted to Gregory Cameron (grcameron@wlu.ca) no later than 15 January 2023. Papers will be blind reviewed and decisions will be made by 1 March. Final, edited versions of papers are to be submitted by 15 April 2023.

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2023 Arendt Circle

June 26-29 Verona, Italy

The Arendt Circle meets annually to share research on any aspect of
Hannah Arendt’s work. This year’s conference will be in person with
presentations in English at the University of Verona.

Deadline for submission: Dec 1, 2022

Submit a 750-word abstract, prepared for anonymous review, as a
Word Document or PDF, to thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com.

Our working groups are in flux due to Covid and this year’s international conference. Updates on the working groups will be posted to our website at thearendtcircle.com.

2023 Organizing Committee

Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University
Magnus Ferguson, Boston College
Valentina Moro, DePaul University and University of Verona
Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona