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6 PhD Positions in Philosophy (all areas) at the University of Vienna - Application deadline March 6, 2024

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear Colleagues, There is a job opening for six PhD positions (four years, fixed term) in all areas of philosophy in our department. The announcements can be found here: Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - Cluster of Excellence: https://philjobs.org/job/show/25742 Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE Project: https://philjobs.org/job/show/25738 The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024. Applicants can apply for both simultaneously. We would be very grateful if you could help us to spread this call to your colleagues and students worldwide. Thank you very much for your support! Best regards, Raphael Aybar

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25.01. Workshop zu Origen: An early Christian Philosopher // Workshop: Readings in Christianity: The Case of C. P. Cavafy

by Institut für Philosophie

im Namen von Prof. Karamanolis laden wir Sie zu den zwei Veranstaltungen am 25.01 ein: 1. Workshop zu Origen: An early Christian Philosopher (c. 185-254) When & Where: Hörsaal 3A Thursday 26.1.2024 10.00-12.30 Introduction: George Karamanolis: Main Philosophical issues in Origen᾽s Philosophy Vito Limone (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele): Origen and Methodius on the Resurrected Body Mehr Information unten: https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… ______ 2. Workshop: Readings in Christianity: The Case of C. P. Cavafy 25. Jänner 2024 Ort: Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 3. Stock Programme: 13:30: Opening Words 14:00: George Karamanolis (University of Vienna): "Cavafy's ancient Christianity" 14:40-14:50: Coffee Break 14:50-15:30: Katerina Kostiou (University of Patras): "Cavafy's construction of poetic personae: 'Julian in Nicomedia' and repetition as complentarity" 15:30-15:40: Coffee Break 15:40-16:20: Vasiliki Dimoula (University of Vienna): "Christian Pleasures: Reading Christianity's Historians through a fin-de-siècle lens" 16:20-16:30: Coffee Break 16:30-17:10: Martha Vassiliadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): "Refiguring Cavafy's Salome: The female hero and the storytelling mechanism" 17:10-17:30: Coffee Break 17:30-18:10: Maria Boletsi (Leiden University and University of Amsterdam): "From Christianity to capitalism and Back: Cavafy's Noonday Demon" 18:10-19:00: General Discussion, Conclusions 20:00: Workshop's Dinner Mehr information unten: https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail…

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APSE talk by Stella Villarmea on 25 January 2024 at 3pm

by Anne Sophie Meincke

Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to invite you to our next APSE talk on Thursday, 25th January 2024, 3:00 (s.t.) - 5:00 p.m. in HS 3A, 3. OG, NIG. The speaker is Professor Stella Villarmea (Complutense University of Madrid & University of Oxford). She will be speaking about: "Birthing: Vindicating a Visceral Body Philosophically" Abstract: Birth matters matter — and they matter philosophically too. I work on philosophy of birth, that is, I use the tools of philosophy to analyse representations and practices around childbirth. My thesis is that to reorient philosophical conversation toward birth and, specifically, to the origin of our lives in the female body, produces a radical shift. Once we take that turn, many of the tales about our origin truly become 'old-tales'. Are we already imagining a new genealogy, a new logos for genos? Can we philosophically (and medically/obstetrically) represent and vindicate this new genea-logy? The talk will be followed by a dinner. Please let me know if you would like to join. I'm looking forward to seeing you. Best wishes, Anne Sophie -- "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology", Human Development, online first: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421 "Emergent Properties", in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, ed. by A.-S. Maurin & A. Fisher (pp.347-357), Routledge "The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness", Biosemiotics 16 (2023), 281–290: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0 www.annesophiemeincke.com Elise Richter Research Fellow Institute of Philosophy University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Vienna, Austria

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Khôra Colloquim: "CLINAMEN - Bewegtbilder des Denkens", 25.01.2024, 18:30, HS 3f

by Sebastian Krach

Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen, ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra herzlich zum nächsten Colloquium einladen. Termin: 25.01.2024, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3F, Neues Institutsgebäude Thema: "CLINAMEN - Bewegtbilder des Denkens" – An der Grenze zwischen Philosophie und Kunst mit einer Performance von Noemi Call und Philipp Quell Beschreibung: Sarah Kofman wirft in ihrer Beschreibung der Paarung von Kunst und Philosophie eine Frage auf: „Aus der Kunst eine philosophische Frage machen, einen Diskurs über die Kunst führen, der sich diesem System von Oppositionen beugt, heißt das nicht die Herrschaftsgeste der Philosophie zu wiederholen, die immer die Kunst dem Logos und der Wahrheit unterordnen wollte?"(Kofman 1990, "Die Melancholie der Kunst" in: Postmoderne und Dekonstruktion, 224) Die Beziehung zwischen Philosophie und Kunst scheint in einer Sackgasse zu sein. Entweder die Philosophie spricht "über" die Kunst und will erklären, was sie "eigentlich" bedeutet, oder sie muss sie unberührt und für sich selbst sprechen lassen. Doch gibt es neben dieser erstarrten Opposition alternative Wege, Holzwege oder Schleichwege vielleicht, die Kunst und Philosophie in einen "Dialog auf Augenhöhe" bringen? In einem Dialog mit dem Videokünstler H. Arcier, der in seinem Werk die atomistische Kosmologie zum Anstoß nimmt, um eine ganz neue Perspektive auf den Tanz zu eröffnen, wollen wir mit einem performativ-philosophischen Text antworten, indem wir Figuren und Impressionen des Videokunstwerks sprachlich verarbeiten und weiterspinnen. Den Link zu dem Video findet ihr hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXJl6zD9gw Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage. https://www.khora.philo.at/ Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert. Wir freuen uns auf euer Kommen! Mit lieben Grüßen im Namen von Khôra Sebastian Krach

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Dec 14 Guest lecture by Cecile Fabre: "Humankind’s Common Cultural Heritage, Justice and Territorial Rights"

by Sophie Kroiss

Dear colleagues, on behalf of Univ.-Prof. Angela Kallhoff and the Department of Philosophy, I cordially invite you to a guest lecture titled *"Humankind’s Common Cultural Heritage, Justice and Territorial Rights"* by *Cecile Fabre *(All Souls College, Oxford). Thu Dec. 14th, 2023, 6:30 p.m. in HS 3D (NIG) For questions, contact sophie.kroiss(a)univie.ac.at Abstract: The thought that there are cultural landmarks which have universal value is a familiar one. It is at the heart of UNESCO's and the World Heritage's mission, and is affirmed in a number of international declarations, not least the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage. For all its appeal, UNESCO's ideals raise some deep concerns. In particular, it is not easy to articulate an account of universal value; and it is not easy to show why we are under moral obligations in respect of that heritage. Nevertheless, I attempt to defend those ideals. I seek to show that the protection of humankind's heritage, qua humankind's, not only is a moral imperative: more strongly put, it is a duty of justice. I then address one of the most important objections to it - namely that it undermines states’ and their citizenries’ legitimate interest in deciding what to do with landmarks which are located on their territory. /Cecile Fabre a political philosopher, and currently Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research interests are in theories of distributive justice; the philosophy of democracy; just war theory; the ethics of foreign policy, with particular focus on the ethics of economic statecraft and the ethics of espionage. She most recently published Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence (Oxford University Press 2022); Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality (Harvard University Press, 2018), preceded by (among others) Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Morality of Defensive War, co-edited with Seth Lazar (Oxford University Press, 2014), Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, 2012)./ https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_univieevents_pi1… / /

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Day of Parliamentary Research 2024 - Call for Contributions

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear colleagues, please find attached our call for contributions for the *Day of Parliamentary Research 2024*. The conference takes place on June 20, 2024 in the premises of the Austrian Parliament. It is organized by the Legal, Legislative and Research Services (RLW) of the Parliamentary Administration of the Austrian Parliament and will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss their research as well as its potential contribution to parliamentary practice. We invite academic *contributions from all disciplines* without any restrictions on content or methodology. Details on thematic focus, abstract submission, and organisational issues can be found in the attachment. Please inform yourself about all details concerning the abstract submission and send your proposal for a presentation or a poster (in PDF format) *by April 15, 2024 *to parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at <mailto:parlamentsforschung@parlament.gv.at>. We kindly ask you to *forward this call* to potentially interested colleagues and look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions please contact us using the contact details below. If you are interested in how last year’s – and first ever – Day of Parliamentary Research went, please read the report on the website of the Austrian Parliament at Tag der Parlamentsforschung 2023: Tagungsbericht <https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/Tag-der-Parlamentsforschung-2023-…>(in German; including PDFs of the keynote-speech, presentations and posters in English) or the Conference Report in the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies <https://brill.com/view/journals/parl/3/2/article-p309_007.xml>(in English). Details on all initiatives of the Parliamentary Administration concerning parliamentary research can be found at Research | Parliament Austria <https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/>(in English) or Parlamentsforschung | Parlament Österreich <https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/>(in German). Kind regards on behalf of the project team, Christoph Clar *Research and Support in Parliamentary Matters* Parliamentary Administration Legal, Legislative & Research Services (RLW) cid:image001.png@01D945F0.D5961270 1017 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43 1 401 10-2668 Mobil +43 676 8900 2668 For further information see: Parlamentsforschung | Parlament Österreich <https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/>(in German) or Research | Parliament Austria <https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/>(in English) Use of Personal Data The Privacy Statement <https://www.parlament.gv.at/privacy>informs you about how the Parliamentary Administration processes your personal data.

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CfP: XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie

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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, die Einreichungsphase für die XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie hat begonnen! Nach 10 Jahren in Salzburg zieht die Tagung um und wird am 19. & 20. September 2024 zum ersten Mal an der Universität Passau stattfinden. Dürften wir Sie bitten, den Call for Papers an Ihrem Institut und Ihrer Universität zu verbreiten? Insbesondere würden wir uns freuen, wenn Sie ihn an Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Promovierende weitergeben könnten. Einreichungen für Einzelvorträge, Panels und Runde Tische sind bis 15.4.2024 unter https://tagung-praktische-philosophie.org möglich. Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Passau Johanna Sinn -- Tagung für Praktische Philosophie Universität Passau https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/ <https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/> tfpp(a)uni-passau.de <mailto:tfpp@uni-passau.de> XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie: 19.-20.09.2024 Universität Passau *Call for Papers * *XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie * *19./20. September 2024 * *Universität Passau * *Organisation: *Karoline Reinhardt (Passau) in Kooperation mit Birgit Beck (TU Berlin) sowie Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg) und Michael Zichy (Bonn/Salzburg) Die Tagung für Praktische Philosophie zieht nach 10 Jahren in Salzburg um: Am 19. und 20. September 2024 findet die XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie an der Universität Passau statt. Christian Seidel (Karlsruhe) und Eva Weber-Guskar (Bochum) werden die Plenarvorträge halten – die weiteren Beiträge werden noch gesucht. Wir laden daher alle Interessierten, mit und ohne universitäre Anbindung, ein, *Vorschläge für Vorträge, thematische Panels oder Runde Tische* einzureichen. Dabei sind Vorträge aus dem gesamten Spektrum der praktischen Philosophie (angewandte Philosophie, Sozialphilosophie, Ethik, Rechtsphilosophie, politische Philosophie und Theorie, Handlungstheorie, sowohl in analytisch-systematischer wie auch in historischer Tradition) und verwandter Disziplinen willkommen. Für jeden Vortrag sind 20 Minuten plus 10 Minuten Diskussion vorgesehen. Vorschläge für Vorträge sollten einen Titel und eine Zusammenfassung des Vortrags (im Umfang von ca. 500 Wörtern) umfassen. Die Zusammenfassung darf keinen Hinweis auf den/die Autor:in enthalten. Die Einreichung ist bis 15. April 2024 über die Tagungswebsite möglich: www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org <http://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org> Zum gesamten CfP und weiteren CfP für einzelne Panels: https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/call-for-papers.html

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[angewandte kunstgeschichte] Lecture and Exhibition with Kristian Vstrup Madsen

by Institut für Philosophie

Kristian Vstrup Madsen "Good doesn't cut it: quality and quantity in the reception history of Vermeer“ a Lecture on Monday, January 22nd, 7 pm at University of Applied Arts, Vordere Zollamtsstr. 7, 5th Floor, SE 20 In the mid 18th century, the King of Saxony bought a Vermeer because he was told it was a Rembrandt, and he believed it. A few decades on, the King of France declined to buy a Vermeer because it was not a Rembrandt. Vermeer has always been good – anyone could see that. But good doesn’t cut it when you’re selling to kings, oil barons, financiers, and rappers. His example tells us that, across art history, from Old Masters to post-postmodernists, quality is not a given, but subject to trend and capital. In this lecture, Kristian Vistrup Madsen traces how value was attributed to Vermeer's paintings, and how value, over time, made us see those paintings differently. /*Kristian Vistrup Madsen* is a writer and art critic based in Berlin. He has contributed to magazines such as Artforum, Harpers, The White Review, and Kunstkritikk. Doing Time: Essays on Using People was published by Floating Opera Press in 2021./ and "The (Great) Kristian Vistrup Madsen Show. Contemporaneity in Postmedieval Times" an exhibition opening on Tuesday, January 23rd, 6 pm at University of Applied Arts, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, Painting Department, Studios 610 and 621 a cooperation with the departments Philosophy and Painting, in the context of Kathrin Heinrich’s seminar „Art Criticism“. https:__www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net_uploads_TKVMS_s.jpg Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Kernbauer Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna Abteilung Kunstgeschichte | Art History A-1010 Wien| Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2 Besuchsadresse: A-1030 Wien, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Zimmer 444 fon +43-1-71133-2760 fax +43-1-71133-2769 eva.kernbauer(a)uni-ak.ac.at <mailto:sabine.eder@uni-ak.ac.at> www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net <http://www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net/>

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Invitation Vera Bühlmann (TU Wien): The Out-With and the With-Out, Or How to Think of the Digital in Relation to a Philological "Ex Tempore" - January 26th, 6pm, HS 2i (and online)

by Ralf Gisinger

Dear Colleagues, The Reading Circle of the Research Group "Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis" at the University of Vienna cordially invites you to the next public event: Vera Bühlmann (TU Vienna): The Out-With and the With-Out, Or How to Think of the Digital in Relation to a Philological "Ex Tempore" Friday, January 26th 2024, 6-8pm, Hörsaal 2i (NIG), Department of Philosophy (and online), Lecture and Discussion Vera Bühlmann's recent book _The Digital, a Continent? Nature and Poetics_ (Birkhäuser, 2024) presents a natural philosophy way of thinking that draws from the optics and the sensibilities of New Materialisms: Mathematical, poetical and rhetorical ideations help to call, count, measure and proportion impersonal "thought" that "happens" much like the weather does. It foregrounds thereby an agency as we address it when we say "it rains", or "there is wind", or "a storm is coming". The chapters of this book show how for the cunning reason of a Mechanic in the old, artistic sense of the word (literally "one who thinks and acts resourcefully") there is neither a necessity for devotion nor humiliation involved when acknowledging that things _in the first and last instance_ remain cryptic (dependent upon ciphering). For what the mechanic's craft excels in and reveals objectively is how to keep ideas and things moving and morphing, how to make them and render them referential and graspable beyond a strict nature-culture distinction. The knowledge the mechanic aims at conveying is how to domesticate the meanwhile: How can we develop ideations of energy, form and intellect in play together rationally and objectively, and yet in an indefinite variety of ways and across many scales? Such sites of play would have to be articulated and tuned by an architectonics for which world and earth are neither synonymous nor subjected one to the other. The chapters in this book explore the idea that we can better maintain active relations to ourselves and to the currently emerging paradigm(s) of planetary cultures, politics and economies when we study how there is coding at work not only in the human domain but also in the natural world too. But how to think of such an idea of "coding", how to consider the relations between method, poetics, technics and the arts? The talk will explore resonances to Werner Hamacher's _95 Theses on Philology _(2009)_ _as well as his notion of "Ex Tempore" in _On the Brink. Language, Time, History and Politics_ (2020). Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory at Vienna University of Technology TU, and director of the research group Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP. Registration for online participation or to get the referenced texts: ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at Since 2021 the Reading Circle PS-GT-PA includes public events additionally to the monthly readings. Lectures and workshops have been held with Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, Avital Ronell, Didier Debaise, Shomo Choudhury and Alexis Shotwell. More information: poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at [1] For the organizing team of the Reading Circle, Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Ralf Gisinger Links: ------ [1] http://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at

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Roundmail: Anti-Racism Working Group

by Irene Salzmann

Dear all, on behalf of the Anti-Racism Working Group we want to wish u a happy New Year! We are a group of students, Department staff and scholars who want to create cultural change at the Department of Philosophy that is conscious of and proactive in addressing issues around the many kinds of racism endemic to our collective contexts. In November, we organised for the first time a series of events including talks, a film screening and workshops. U can find more infos on our webpage: https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at For the next year, there is a lot more to come, and we are looking for interested people to join us and collaborate with us! We hope for your active participation, feedback, and suggestions. Please do not hesitate to get in contact via antiracism.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at All the best, your Anti-Racism Working Group

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