The Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University is organizing this year’s conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.

Where: Parramatta City Campus (Peter Shergold Building)

When: November 21-23, 2018.

On November 20, there will be Postgraduate Day followed by the official opening to the conference, a keynote address and a reception.

Keynote Speakers:

- Peg Birmingham (DePaul University)

- Walter Brogan (Villanova University)

- Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University)

- Plenary Panel on the work of Genevieve Lloyd

Please submit your papers by June 15. For more information and for submission of papers, please go to: www.westernsydney.edu.au/westernascp

In order to foster the lively exchange of ideas, we encourage the submission of the proposal of papers, panels, or streams of panels on any topic in philosophy. We particularly encourage submissions in areas that have had little attention in previous ASCP conferences, such as, but not limited to, comparative philosophy, philosophy of race, ancient philosophy, and the history of philosophy, as well as to interdisciplinary connections with literature, political science, and gender studies.

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The 2018 Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference will be held at Bond University on the Gold Coast from 6-8 July.  Professor John Gardner will deliver the opening keynote. 

https://www.aslp.org.au/conference

Keynote speakers:

Margaret Davies, Flinders University

John Gardner, Oxford University

Organisers:

Jonathan Crowe, Bond University

Call for Papers​

The ASLP welcomes philosophical or theoretically-oriented papers from any field of legal inquiry. The aim of the ASLP Conference is to provide a forum for the discussion and debate of a range of issues in legal theory, broadly defined. It is by no means restricted to analytic legal philosophy, and we strongly encourage the involvement of participants from other disciplines and the inclusion of topics from outside mainstream legal theory.

Postgraduate Workshop

​A Postgraduate Workshop for PhD students will be held on Friday immediately prior to the formal commencement of the conference. The workshop provides PhD students with the opportunity to receive feedback on works-in-progress in a supportive and collaborative environment. We welcome submissions on any topic in legal theory, broadly defined

Venue: Department of Germanic Studies and Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney 

https://www.thesgir.org/cfps---conference-announcements.html

Call for Papers: The Society for German Idealism and Romanticism is inviting submissions for the 2018 Annual SGIR Conference to be held at the University of Sydney (December 5-7) on the theme of "Conceptions of Life in German Idealism and Romanticism." The SGIR welcomes papers on all aspects of the the notion of "life," from its role in Hegel's Science of Logic to "natural ends" in Kant; from natural and cultural conceptions of life (e.g. qua Bildung), such as can be found in Goethe or Hölderlin's thought to Schelling's philosophy of nature. We will give preference to those papers that specifically and directly take up an account of the role that the idea of "life" plays in the thought of the Idealists and Romantics. Talk time for submitted papers will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes for Q&A. As such, submissions should be 4-5,000 words. SGIR membership is required prior to paper submission. Membership is free (see homepage of the SGIR website).

The submission deadline is 1 June, 2018. Email submissions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The double-blind review process will conclude at the end of July and decisions will be announced in the first week of August. Graduate student submissions will be considered for the annual SGIR Graduate Paper Award.

Keynote Speakers:

• Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University)
• Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University) 

Invited Speakers:

• Camilla Flodin (Uppsala University)
• Ina Goy (University of Tübingen)
• Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney University) 
• Karen Ng (Vanderbilt University)
• Paul Redding (University of Sydney) 

Organizers:

• Gerad Gentry (University of South Carolina and Yale University)
• Cat Moir (University of Sydney)
• Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney)

This conference is jointly hosted by the Department of Germanic Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney.

https://www.thesgir.org/cfps---conference-announcements.html

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble: Educational possibilities brewed with place, people and philosophy

7-11 Dec 2018, Rotorua, New Zealand

https://pesa.org.au/conference

The 2018 annual PESA conference is set in the city of Rotorua. In Rotorua, the elemental forces of Ruaumoko are ever-present: the air sulphurous; the history and landscape shaped by eruptions; the land constantly shifting, bubbling, and burning. In recognition of these forces that constitute Rotorua, the PESA conference theme invites participants to explore the provocations inherent in the natural world, and the creativity of human responses to the world, in attending to the past, present and future of the philosophy of education.

Important Dates

•     3  April 2018 - Call for Abstracts Open
•     17 July 2018 - Abstract Submissions Close
•     1 September 2018 - Full Paper Submission Close
•     16 September 2018 - Early Bird Registration Close
•     8-10 December 2018 - PESA Conference

In this geothermal city we are reminded of the familiar words of the weird sisters. The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth provide this conference theme with a literary invitation that turns to provocations of prophesises and spectres. The sisters greet Macbeth with the prophecy that he shall be king. While appealing, the prophecy is also unsettling. Macbeth is mesmerised and haunted by his imagined future and haunted by his memories of a blood-soaked past. While the future remains uncertain, the past is always on hand as a haunting reminder. What then are the spectres that haunt education? How does the philosophy of education respond to, for instance, the Spectres of Marx? Derrida’s hauntology invites many fields of investigation, from the visual arts to philosophy to politics, fiction and literary criticism. These investigations invoke new ghosts, and make possible the return of something other, at some time in the future – hence in this conference we invite new, and old prophesies of the Other.

In Macbeth we are confronted with the Other in many haunting forms. For instance Shakespeare pens a range of women’s roles unusual for a 17th century, or indeed any play in the English language – not only the witches, sources of a particular kind of knowledge, both leading and misleading, but the central figure of the ambitious, complex Lady Macbeth. 

In Rotorua the prophesising of the Other is evident in the city’s sociopolitical history. Rotorua is also an important site for early Māori-Pākehā interactions. Māori tourism began in Rotorua, and it is first city in the country to declare itself officially bilingual, in 2017. How does the idea of the Other haunt education? What prophesies might the philosophy of education take, and make?

MSCP Evening School Semester 1, 2018

We've got four 12-week courses on offer running 6.30-8.30pm Mon-Thurs. Three of the courses will be held at the Arena Project Space in Fitzroy, and one course will be at the Kathleen Syme Centre in Carlton. See all the details on the website. Multiple subjects are very heavily discounted as always. Distance enrolment is available for all courses. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact admin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Full Details and Enrolment:
https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-semester-1-2018

Evening Schools Courses:

Mon 6.30-8.30pm Starting 5 Mar
Deleuze Seminar 8: Influences and Themes 1
Lecturer: Dr Jon Roffe

Tues 6.30-8.30pm Starting 6 Mar
Jacques Lacan: From the divided subject to the encounter with the real
Lecturer: Dr Russell Grigg

Wed 6.30-8.30pm Starting 7 Mar
The Works of Gilles Deleuze
Lecturer: Dr Jon Roffe

Thur 6.30-8.30pm Starting 8 Mar
Fredric Jameson: An Examination of his Critical Theory
Lecturer: Liam O'Donnell
 
https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-semester-1-2018

The Lacan Circle of Melbourne, an Associate Group of the New Lacanian School, World Association of Psychoanalysis, invites papers for a two-day conference on Lacan’s later work to be held in Melbourne 14-15 July 2018.

https://lacancircle.com.au/events/the-late-lacan/

Keynote Speaker

Stijn Vanheule, Professor of Psychoanalysis, University of Ghent, member of the New Lacanian School, author ofThe Subject ofPsychosis:A Lacanian Perspective(Palgrave, 2011),Diagnosis and the DSM(Palgrave, 2014) andPsychiatric Diagnosis Revisited(Palgrave, 2017).

Call for Papers

Please submit a title and abstract by 1 March 2018 using this form. The organising committee will notify all the contributors of an outcome mid-March 2018, and successful contributors will be given a 30 minutes time-slot for their paper.