Schelling Society Conference Schedule

FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SCHELLING SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (SSNA) 

AUGUST 30 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON USA) 

THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 30, 2012 

Except where otherwise noted, the conference takes place in Piggott 100

6:00 PM Address and words of welcome: Jason Wirth and Sean McGrath

6:15 PM – 7:45 PM SESSION 1 Moderator: Sean McGrath (Memorial University)
1. Lore Hühn (Freiburg University), “Schelling’s Metaphysics of the Will: Schelling’s Freedom Essay and 19th Century Philosophy”
2. Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn), “Mythology and Modality: On the Very Idea of a Positive Philosophy”

7:45 PM Reception Piggott 106

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012 

9:00 AM-10:30 AM CONCURRENT SESSIONS (SESSIONS 1A AND 1B)
PANEL ONE-A Moderator: James Kilcup (Loyola Marymount)
1. Benjamin Berger (Warwick, UK), “Schelling’s Speculative Astrophysics”
2. James Depew (Western Ontario), “Schelling’s “Ethnogony”: Indigeneity as Lived Mythology”

PANEL ONE-B Moderator: Anthony Bruno (University of Toronto) ROOM TBA
1. Jared McGeough (University of Western Ontario), “An Indigestible Remainder: ‘Spinoza’ in Schelling and Hegel”
2. Christopher Yates (Grove City College), “Offspring of Chaos: Artistry and Imagination in Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift”

10:30 AM-10:45 AM coffee

10:45 AM-12:15 PM SESSION 2 Moderator: Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
1. Rainer Zimmermann (University of Munich), “Deriving Kalokagathía from Schelling’s Grounding of Nature”
2. Iain Hamilton Grant (UWE Bristol, UK), “The Depth of the Unfathomable: Epistemology and Potency in Schelling’s Dynamics”

12:15 PM-1:45 PM lunch (on your own)

1:45 PM-3:15 PM SESSION 3 Moderator: Benjamin Graham Woodard (Western Ontario)
1. Michael Vater (Marquette University), “Bringing Nature to Light: Schelling's Naturphilosophie in the Early System of Identity”
2. Devin Zane Shaw (University of Ottawa),“‘From the Original Night of Particularity’: Nature and System in Schelling’s Aphorisms on the Philosophy of Nature”

3:15 PM-3:30 PM coffee

3:30 PM-5:00 PM SESSION 4 Moderator: Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario)
1. Bruce Matthews (Bard College), “Plato's “Sublime Idea” and Schelling's Inversion of the Kantian Architectonic”
2. Edward Beach (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), “Schelling versus Hegel on the Problem of Circular Logic”

5:00 PM -5:15 PM break

5:15 PM-6:45 PM SESSION 5 Moderator: Kyriaki Goudelli (University of Patras)
1. Joe Lawrence, “The Harrowing of Hell: On the Birth and Death of God”
2. Philipp Schwab (Freiburg University), “Schelling’s ‘Failure’ and the Non-ground: Heidegger’s Readings of the Freedom Essay”

6:45 PM Reception Piggott 106

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 

9:00 AM-10:30 AM SESSION 1 Moderator: James Kilcup (Loyola Marymount)
1. Kamalini Martin (Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India), “Schelling’s Idea”
2. Marcela Garcia (University of Munich), “Emphatical Being and the Late Schelling’s Interpretation of the Copula”

10:30 AM-10:45 AM coffee

10:45 AM -12:15 PM SESSION 2 Moderator: Moderator: Bernie Freydberg (Duquesne)
1. Sean McGrath (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Post-Ecclesial Christianity: Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation”
2. Jason Wirth (Seattle University), “Plasticity: Art and Nature”

12:15 PM-1:45 PM lunch (on your own)

1:45 PM-3:15 PM SESSION 3 Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes (Seattle University)
1. Scott Scribner (University of Hartford), “Idealism's Corpse and the Prosthetics of Suicide”
2. Christopher Lauer (University of Hawaii-Hilo), “Be Still, Our Beating Heart: Schelling on the Organics of Intimacy”

3:15-3:30 PM coffee

3:30 PM-5:00 PM SESSION 4 Moderator: Benjamin Graham Woodard (Western Ontario)
1. Bernard Freydberg (Duquesne University), “’…More Aristophanic than Tragic…’?: Schelling’s Provocative Urfaust Interpretation”
2. Kyriaki Goudelli (University of Patras, Greece), “The Eternal Beginnings of the Divine and the Present Future”

5:00 PM-5:15 PM break

5:15 PM-6:45 PM SESSION 5 Moderator: Bruce Matthews (Bard College)
1. Tilottama Rajan (Western Ontario), “’Idea’: The History of the Term in German Idealism from Kant to Schelling”
2. Andrzej Wiercinski (Freiburg University), “The Restoration of the Unity between Nature and Spirit: Schelling’s Eschatology in the Stuttgart Private Lectures”

6:45 PM Reception Piggott 106

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: OPTIONAL NATURFORSCHUNG AT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK

THE 2013 MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO AND THE 2014 MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT BARD COLLEGE IN NEW YORK

CFP: The Monster Child

The Monster Child: New Essays on Children, Horror and Monstrosity in Film

A call for papers for a proposed collection co-edited by Markus Bohlmann and Sean Moreland

As an area of research which has to date gone largely unexplored, the many variations on the image of the child-as-monster in global popular cinema invite critical consideration through a variety of theoretical approaches.

We are soliciting abstract submissions for a collection of original essays which explore various critical themes and theoretical angles related to "monstrous" children in film, a topic which has to date been paid too little attention, not only within the field of childhood studies, but also those of film and horror studies.

We welcome approaches including, but not limited to, the following:

- childhood and youth studies

- horror/gothic studies

- queer studies

- gender studies

- postcolonial studies

- narrative studies

- psychological/psychoanalytic studies

- film studies

- family structures

- camp studies

- sexuality studies

- closet-structures

- Approaches inspired by Deleuze/Guattari, Lacan, Sedgwick, Foucault, Zizek, 

  Powell, Kincaid, Stockton, Edelman.

We invite considerations of films that situate themselves in terms of the horror genre (for example, The Exorcist, The Unborn, The Bad Seed, Village of the Damned, The Brood, It's Alive, Grace, Children of the Corn, Interview with the Vampire, Let the Right One In, The Pit, The Orphan, Phenomenon (aka Creepers), Twitch of the Death Nerve (aka Bay of Blood), but also films that court other genres and styles which feature some variation on the theme of the child-as-monster.

Even in films where the monster-child may appear in a minute role, its presence can radically change the effects of a cinematic text, lending itself to a unique opportunity for exploration and investigation into a wide array of interconnecting domains.

Contributors are invited to submit an abstract (250-500 words), current contact info and brief bio (or CV) as attachments (doc, docx, or rtf files) by no later than October 31, 2012 to: monstrouschildren@gmail.com. Please include “abstract submission” and the title of your abstract in the subject line.

Sean Moreland earned his PhD at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches sessionally.  His research interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, Gothic and horror fiction and film, and psychological theory and criticism. He has written a number of recent articles on contemporary American, Canadian and Indian horror films. He is co-editor of the volume Fear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror (McFarland, 2012) and is also in the early stages of co-editing a volume on horror and diaspora.

Markus Bohlmann is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, where he also teaches. His doctoral thesis examines the Deleuzian contours of "the child" in 21st century American literature and film. His research interests include Deleuze studies, childhood studies, queer studies, and sexuality studies.