Events
For the fall ‘22 season, sessions will take place on many Thursdays at 12pm (Eastern).
A Zoom link, occasional pre-circulated papers, and video recordings of some past sessions are accessible to all workshop email list members. To join the email list, please write to jmyonover [at] princeton.edu.
Please click on the images below in order to learn more about each session.
December 8, Fatema Amijee (U British Columbia), “Du Châtelet's Idealist Turn”
December 1, Luce deLire (JHU) - "Erotics as first philosophy"
November 17, Sanja Särman (Uppsala U) - "Spinoza's Infinite Shortcut to Contingent Appearance"
November 10, Shozo Kamiya (JHU) - "Power and Agency in Spinoza’s Conatus"
Oct. 20, Zachary Gartenberg (JHU) - "Spinoza on Faith"
October 13, Luce deLire (JHU) - "Portrait of Descartes as a Spinozist: Cartesian Infinity Revisited"
October 6, Hao Dong (Princeton U) - "Spinoza’s Conatus Argument and its Context"
September 15, Shozo Kamiya (JHU) - "Spinoza on Substance and Mode"
September 8, Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU), "The PSR in Early Modern Philosophy"
July 21, Workshop: Gersonides and Spinoza with Zeev Harvey, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, et al.
May 11, Dual Book Panel: Recent Work on Salomon Maimon
April 20, Katharina Kraus (U Notre Dame) - “Salomé and Spinoza on Unity, Difference and Harmony”
April 6, Jacob Lettie (JHU) - "Spinoza's Account of Essence and the Triviality Problem"
March 30, Marlis Hinckley (JHU) - “Pseudo-Lullian Material Philosophy and Alchemy"
February 23, Ton Tielen (Independent) - "Live Archival Tour in Amsterdam"
January 30, Jason M. Yonover (JHU), "Nietzsche and Spinoza on Right and Power"
January 23, Steven Nadler (Wisconsin) et al. - Panel: "Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die"
December 1, Yitzhak Y. Melamed (JHU), "Spinoza on the Nature of Necessity"
November 3, Rima Hussein (JHU), "Kant on Individuation and Spatial Objects"
Oct 27, Shapshay (CUNY) & Vanden Auweele (KU Leuven), "Schopenhauer's Dialogue with Spinoza"
October 20, Billet (Yale) followed by Schaefer (Princeton) on Cohen, Kant, and Spinoza
September 26, Sina Mirzaei (JHU), “The Reception of Spinoza in Iran”
September 19, Luce deLire (JHU) - "Spinoza's Distinctions"
Fall 2021 series now underway!
July 25, Tracie Matysik (U Texas) - "How Spinoza Became a Dialectical Materialist"
July 18, Kay Malte Bischof (U Notre Dame) - "Spinoza's Descent to the Many"
July 11, Workshop on Salomon Maimon
June 27, Sandra Field (Yale-NUS) - "Marx, Spinoza, and Radical Democracy"
June 20, Tad Schmaltz (U Michigan) et al. - Panel: "The Metaphysics of the Material World"
June 13, Stephen Harrop (Yale University) - "Spinoza on Space and Motion"
May 30, Jack Stetter (Loyola U) - "Spinoza on Ignorance"
May 23, Sean Butler (Claremont) - "Parallelism Problems"
May 9, Clare Carlisle (KCL) - "Spinoza's Concept of Religion"
April 25, Mogens Laerke (CNRS) et al. - "Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing"
April 11, Hasana Sharp (McGill) - "Spinoza on Childhood"
March 14, Shozo Kamiya (Johns Hopkins) - "Teleology and the Conatus"
Feb. 21, Emanuele Costa (Vanderbilt) - "Spinoza and Trope Theory"
Feb. 7, Alison Peterman (Rochester) - "Spinoza, Cavendish, and Mereology"
Jan. 24, Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins) - "Spinozism from von Stein to Schmitt"
Dec. 20, Luce deLire (Johns Hopkins) - "Spinoza's Theory of Indeterminacy"
Dec. 6, Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) - "The Banishment of Accidents from Spinoza's Paradise"
Nov. 22, Zachary Gartenberg (Johns Hopkins) - "Spinoza on Relations"
