Keynote Speakers: Past and Present
Every year, Stony Brook University invites a distinguished guest to present the keynote lecture at the Philosophy and the Arts Conference. We are honored to have had such notable scholars within the realms of art and philosophy to present their ideas and research at our conference.
Available keynote addresses can be read in each year's conference proceedings journal, located on the pages pertaining to our previous conferences.
Available keynote addresses can be read in each year's conference proceedings journal, located on the pages pertaining to our previous conferences.
Dr. Ted Toadvine
2013 Keynote Speaker:
Ted Toadvine is Head of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, and a Participating Faculty member of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Oregon.
Toadvine's research specializations are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and post-structuralism; philosophy of nature; and environmental philosophy. Ongoing research interests include ecophenomenology, embodiment, animality, environmental aesthetics, philosophy of ecology, ecological restoration, and the role of the environmental humanities within interdisciplinary environmental studies. Toadvine is currently completing two book manuscripts: The Compass of Reflection: Phenomenology and the Resistance of Nature andRhythmic Life: Animality and Ontology.
See the 2013 Keynote Speakers page for more information on Ted Toadvine or view his professional webpage.
Ted Toadvine is Head of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, and a Participating Faculty member of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Oregon.
Toadvine's research specializations are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy, especially phenomenology and post-structuralism; philosophy of nature; and environmental philosophy. Ongoing research interests include ecophenomenology, embodiment, animality, environmental aesthetics, philosophy of ecology, ecological restoration, and the role of the environmental humanities within interdisciplinary environmental studies. Toadvine is currently completing two book manuscripts: The Compass of Reflection: Phenomenology and the Resistance of Nature andRhythmic Life: Animality and Ontology.
See the 2013 Keynote Speakers page for more information on Ted Toadvine or view his professional webpage.
Dr. David Wood
2012 Keynote Speaker:
Dr. David Wood is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of European Studies and Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University. His current philosophical projects include different approaches to the philosophy of nature; developing a nonprescriptive posthumanistic approach to ethics; and providing an account of truth that does justice both to its normative, 'existential' and metaphysical dimensions. His keynote presentation will explore the question of spatial intuition in humans and non-human creatures to ask whether the spatialities of animal dwelling (can) teach us something about our own.
Webpage: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ans/philosophy/faculty /wood.html
Dr. David Wood is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of European Studies and Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University. His current philosophical projects include different approaches to the philosophy of nature; developing a nonprescriptive posthumanistic approach to ethics; and providing an account of truth that does justice both to its normative, 'existential' and metaphysical dimensions. His keynote presentation will explore the question of spatial intuition in humans and non-human creatures to ask whether the spatialities of animal dwelling (can) teach us something about our own.
Webpage: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ans/philosophy/faculty /wood.html
Dr. Kaja Silverman
2011 Keynote Speaker:
Keynote Address: The Pencil of Nature
Dr. Kaja Silverman is a professor of Art History and chair of contemporary art at the University of Pennsylvania, and the 2008 winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her interest is focused on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. Her most recent book, Flesh of My Flesh, was published to glowing reviews in September of 2009.
Webpage: http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/facultysilverman.htm
Keynote Address: The Pencil of Nature
Dr. Kaja Silverman is a professor of Art History and chair of contemporary art at the University of Pennsylvania, and the 2008 winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Her interest is focused on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. Her most recent book, Flesh of My Flesh, was published to glowing reviews in September of 2009.
Webpage: http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/facultysilverman.htm
Dr. Simon Critchley
2010 Keynote Speaker:
Keynote Address: No Ghost, Just A Shell
Dr. Simon Critchley is a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and chair of the philosophy department. He is one of the leading authorities on Continental philosophy in the United States and Europe, and the author of numerous philosophical works, including Infinitely Demanding and The Book of Dead Philosophers. He is also a member of the avant-garde art collective, the International Necronautical Society.
Webpage: http://www.newschool.edu
/NSSR/faculty.aspx?id=10262& DeptFilter=NSSR+Philosophy/
Keynote Address: No Ghost, Just A Shell
Dr. Simon Critchley is a professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and chair of the philosophy department. He is one of the leading authorities on Continental philosophy in the United States and Europe, and the author of numerous philosophical works, including Infinitely Demanding and The Book of Dead Philosophers. He is also a member of the avant-garde art collective, the International Necronautical Society.
Webpage: http://www.newschool.edu
/NSSR/faculty.aspx?id=10262& DeptFilter=NSSR+Philosophy/
Dr. Richard Kearney
2009 Keynote Speaker:
Keynote Address: Narrative Matters: Saying the Unsayable
Dr. Richard Kearney is the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He has authored over twenty books concerning phenomenology, narrative imagination and hermeneutics, and is a published novelist and poet. In addition, he is the former chairman of the Irish Film School at University College Dublin and the international director of The Guestbook Project - Hosting the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.
Webpage: http://www2.bc.edu/~kearneyr/
Keynote Address: Narrative Matters: Saying the Unsayable
Dr. Richard Kearney is the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He has authored over twenty books concerning phenomenology, narrative imagination and hermeneutics, and is a published novelist and poet. In addition, he is the former chairman of the Irish Film School at University College Dublin and the international director of The Guestbook Project - Hosting the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.
Webpage: http://www2.bc.edu/~kearneyr/
Dr. Rosalind Kruass
2008 Keynote Speaker:
Keynote Address: The Parergon's Veil
Dr. Rosalind Krauss is an art critic and University Professor at Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archeology. She is one of the United States' leading scholars of 20th century art and co-founded contemporary art criticism and theory journal, October. She has curated numerous art exhibitions for museums such as the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Corcoran Museum of Art.
Webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory /html/dept_faculty_krauss.html
Keynote Address: The Parergon's Veil
Dr. Rosalind Krauss is an art critic and University Professor at Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archeology. She is one of the United States' leading scholars of 20th century art and co-founded contemporary art criticism and theory journal, October. She has curated numerous art exhibitions for museums such as the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Corcoran Museum of Art.
Webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory /html/dept_faculty_krauss.html
