The European Philosophy Research Group (EPRG) is concerned with developing research in European philosophy between The Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED) and the School of History , Philosophy, Religion and Classics (HPRC). Members include
Dr. Michelle Boulous Walker,
Dr. Marguerite La Caze, and
Dr. Aurelia Armstrong.
The aims of the group are to promote research and interest in European philosophy through a series of conferences and workshops. Speakers, both national and international, will be invited to these events. On occasion, visiting scholars will be invited to stay for short periods of time to present papers and consult with postgraduate students. The EPRG was responsible for organizing the 2003 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference: Imagination ( Brisbane , November 20-22, 2003). Invited speakers included Professor Moira Gatens, Emeritus Professor Max Deutscher and Professor Paul Patton.
Previous Conferences
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference November 2003.
The conference theme was Imagination. Invited speakers were Professor Moira Gatens, Emeritus Professor Max Deutscher and Professor Paul Patton.
Mini-Conference: Virtual Mathematics July 2005
The mini-conference presented a range of papers from the collection Virtual Mathematics: the logic of difference, ed. Simon Duffy. Invited speakers included: Arkady Plotnitsky, Jean-Michel Salanskis, Daniel W. Smith and David Webb.
Sartre (1905-1980) Centenary Celebration November 2005
Speakers: Paul Crittenden, Greg Hainge, Joe Hardwick, Diane Josey, Jennifer Ang Mei Sze, Michelle Boulous Walker and Marguerite La Caze.
Lévinas Centenary Conference July 2006
My ‘Place in the Sun’: Lévinas Today. Invited speakers: Deborah Bird Rose, Ghassan Hage and David L. Clark.
Previous Speakers
Alison Ross, Monash University, 2004 The Work of Art after the 'The Origin of the Work of Art'
Simon Lumsden, University of New South Wales, 2004 The Question of Subjectivity in Deconstruction
Colin Gordon, 2004 Citizenship, Conduct and Spirituality in Histories of Thought
Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, 2005 Deleuze, Bergson, and Becoming
Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales, 2005 Derrida and the extraordinary responsibility of inheriting the future-to-come
Andrew Schaap, University of Melbourne, 2005 Politics, forgiveness and the invocation of polity
Jana Sawicki, Williams College, 2006 Foucault and Sexual Freedom: Should we embrace an ethics of pleasure?
Max Deutscher, Macquarie University, 2006 The Magic of Judgement, 2007 Living on the premises
Marion Tapper, University of Melbourne, 2006 Sartre on Being-in-itself
Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University, 2006 Only Agamben can save us: thoughts against ontological messianism
Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, 2007 Grace and Violence: Desire and Politics in von Trier's Dogville.
Catherine Mills, University of New South Wales, 2007 Genetic Screening and Selfhood: Toward a Bioethics of Singularity.
Arthur O’Neill, University of Melbourne, 2007 Nietzsche
Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne, 2008, ‘Taking Hegel to Cronulla beach: From Recognition to Negotiation.’