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UPDATE – PAL: Spirit of Freedom, Schedule change. 

 We regret to inform you that our keynote speakers Nancy Bauer and Martin Hägglund will not be able to attend our conference today and tomorrow. Our schedule remains the same, and there will still be a catered reception outside Smith Warehouse Bay 4 at 6:30pm. We hope to see you all there! In lieu of…

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“The Spirit of Freedom” Duke-Stanford Graduate Conferences

 UPDATED (9/13/22): The Spirit of Freedom: Conference ScheduleSeptember 15-16, 2022Smith Warehouse Bay 4, The Ahmadieh Family Lecture HallDuke University East Campus Thursday, September 152:30 Opening Remarks2:45 Panel 1: Globalism and TechnologyChair: Griseldo Dule 1. “Using Wittgenstein to Think about Freedom on the Internet”Sandra Luksic (Stanford) 2 .“A Radically Hotter Future: Queer Freedoms and the Climate…

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CFP Ordinary Language Philosophy and Resilience

 NeMLA’s 54th Convention Niagara Falls, NY March 23-26, 2023 Abstract deadline: September 30, 2022To submit abstracts, click here:https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/session.htmlThen click on “Go to our CFP to submit an Abstract” and search for “ordinary”. Abstract How can ordinary language philosophy’s (OLP) picture of language as a shared form of life foster resilience? For OLP, language is a peculiarly stable and resilient reservoir of meaning which we share. Speakers agree in language, in form(s) of life, and, “queer as it may sound,” Wittgenstein writes, in judgments. For Sandra Laugier, this is not intersubjective agreement but rather “as objective an agreement as possible.” When we are beset by pain, trauma, or skepticism, we can resiliently recover from this alienation of…

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Jesse McCarthy, Lecture & Writing Workshop

 The Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature is sponsoring a two-day event with Jesse McCarthy, author of the essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?  McCarthy will speak about craft and process. There will be a public lecture, “Writing Race, and the The Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature is sponsoring a two-day event with…

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Call for papers for an OLP Paper at the NeMLA in May

 NeMLA’s 53rd CONVENTION Baltimore, MD March 10-13, 2022 Abstract deadline: September 30th, 2021 Panel: Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Ethics of Care Abstract This panel seeks papers that use Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) to analyze themes of ethics and care in both literature and philosophy. The attention this philosophy pays to language in its everyday use grounds it in community because the meaning of words is in their use. Individual speakers thus become relevant to the construction of meaning, which arises in use as a shared human practice. For J. L. Austin, this picture of meaning involves a sharpened awareness of words and therefore of reality. Cora Diamond calls this attention to reality, detail, and particularity in language Wittgenstein’s “realistic spirit.” Moreover, as Toril Moi explains, our words express and reveal us: the quality of our attention reveals something about our morality. The ethical dimension…

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Stanley Cavell: Constellations of the Ordinary

 Please note this fantastic colloquium on Stanley Cavell and the Ordinary, organized from Lima, Peru. Longtime PAL followers will recognize half the speakers, for they have all visited us at Duke. I believe that most of the talks will be distributed in advance. But to follow the talks and get the full schedule, you need…

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PAL Certificate talk – Kathleen Maxymuk

 Thursday, February 11, 202110:00 a.m. Please join us at 10 am on February 11 for a talk by Kathleen Maxymuk, PhD candidate in Romance Studies! The talk, given as part of the requirements for the Certificate in Philosophy, Arts, and Literature, is titled ‘The Paradoxes of the “Politique des Auteurs”: Reading Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series…

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Stages of Life – The Second Annual Duke-Stanford Graduate Conference

 Co-Sponsored by Duke University’s “PAL” (Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature) and Stanford University’s “Phil+Lit” (The Initiative in Philosophy and Literature) and Hosted by The Franklin Humanities Institute at  Smith Warehouse, Duke University Friday April 5th, Ahmadieh Lecture Hall (Bay 4) of Smith Warehouse 2:00-2:30  Welcome and Mingling 2:30-2:45  Welcome: Toril Moi(James B. Duke Professor of Literature and…

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Submit CFP Ordinary Language Philosophy and Resilience Abstracts

 NeMLA’s 54th Convention Niagara Falls, NY March 23-26, 2023 Abstract deadline: September 30, 2022To submit abstracts, click here:https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/session.htmlThen click on “Go to our CFP to submit an Abstract” and search for “ordinary”. Abstract How can ordinary language philosophy’s (OLP) picture of language as a shared form of life foster resilience? For OLP, language is a peculiarly stable and resilient reservoir of meaning which we share. Speakers agree in language, in form(s) of life, and, “queer as it may sound,” Wittgenstein writes, in judgments. For Sandra Laugier, this is not intersubjective agreement but rather “as objective an agreement as possible.” When we are beset by pain, trauma, or skepticism, we can resiliently recover from this alienation of…

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The Fourth Annual Duke-Stanford Graduate Conference on Philosophy, Arts, and Literature

 PAL is pleased to announce the 2022 Stanford-Duke Graduate Conference in Philosophy and Literature. The conference will be held on September 15-16at Duke University. Our keynote speakers are Nancy Bauer (Tufts) and Martin Hägglund (Yale). Please submit abstracts of 250 words, and a short bio, to dukestanford2022@gmail.com. Applicants will hear back about their submissions in early July. This conference…

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The Existential Turn:  A Symposium on Autofiction

 The Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 April 1-2, 2022 Organized by PAL – Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature Supported by FHI – The Franklin Humanities Institute Friday 1 April 9:00 a.m.        Catered breakfast for participants 9:30 a.m.        Welcome by Professor Ranjana Khanna (Duke, Director of the FHI) 9:35 a.m.        Presentation of conference, PAL…

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