Nova PhDs

Jamey Findling posted the following in a recent comments thread. I thought it would be worthwhile to have it on the front page, so I am taking the liberty of posting it here, with some minor editing:

"I thought I would pass along this link. It's the homepage for the (rather awkwardly named) society that Ted and I, along with some others, have been working on. Our first conference is this coming weekend, so it'll be nice to see things come to some measure of fruition. There will also be a satellite session at SPEP this Fall, at the usual Thursday morning time, for those arriving early."

I know the conference schedule won't come out for another few weeks, but the official letters of acceptance came out a couple weeks ago--so, I figured that I would let you know that the following Nova PhDs-related panel has been accepted:

The Contemporary Import of Hegel's Aesthetics

Ammon Allred, “On the Lyrical Presentation of History: Hegel and the Modern Poem”

J.C. Berendzen, “The Public Design of the Shape of Spirit: Hegel and Contemporary Architecture”

Theodore George, “Radical Passivity, Resistance, and Art: Agamben’s Unworking Of Hegel’s Aesthetics”

I, personally, am certainly looking forward to sharing the stage with my esteemed former colleagues. The loser of the panel buys the shots...

Are there any other Nova folks out there who are giving papers at SPEP?

I recently learned that an article I submitted to International Philosophical Quarterly has been accepted. The piece is titled “Elements of a Post-Metaphysical and Post-Secular Ethics and Politics: Albert Camus on Human Nature and the Problem of Evil," and it will appear in the June, 2007 (!) edition. The seed of this paper was planted in the "Body Politics" course Tom Busch offered a few years ago.