CONF May 7, 2017

The Critiques of Violence (Leuven, 12-13 May 17)

Leuven, Belgium, May 12–13, 2017
violenceleuven2017.ophen.org

Laura Katherine Smith

The Critiques of Violence
International Conference
Institute of Philosophy - University of Leuven

Keynote speakers

Ilit Ferber (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
James Dodd (New School for Social Research, United States)
Howard Caygill (Kingston University, England)

Program

The conference consists of 8 blocks, with papers on violence from various perspectives: phenomenology, psychoanalysis, art history, political philosophy, critical theory, etc. The full program (and also the practical information) can be found at our website: http://violenceleuven2017.ophen.org/

Registration

There’s no registration fee, however, if you would like to attend the conference, please send an email to: violencekuleuven.be and indicate how many days you will participate.

Organizers

Laura Katherine Smith (Faculty of Arts: Literature and Culture)

Stéphane Symons (Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture<https://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/research/cmfc.html>)

Annemarije Hagen and Mathijs van de Sande (Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy<https://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/research/cespf.html>)

Christian Sternad and Lode Lauwaert (Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy<https://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/research/hua.html>

Reference:
CONF: The Critiques of Violence (Leuven, 12-13 May 17). In: ArtHist.net, May 7, 2017 (accessed Sep 21, 2025), <https://arthist.net/archive/15412>.

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