Past WCPC Conferences
Here you can find information regarding past WCPC conferences. On the right side (bottom on phones and tablets), you can find previous conference packs/booklets that include dates of the conferences, timetables, information about keynotes, as well as a book of abstracts (where available).
Below, you can find recordings of previous keynote addresses or roundtables.
WCPC 20-21 Keynote 4 - Stella Sandford: Kant, 'Race', 'Sex'
20:10, Mon 29 Mar 2021
Fourth keynote lecture for WCPC 20/21 Continental Philosophy and its Histories by Stella Sandford.
(MP4 format, 3.1 GB)
WCPC 2019: What is Philosophy?
Foucault Roundtable
[external; Twitter].
WCPC 2019 conference roundtable on Michel Foucault. Wednesday 26th June, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm (UK time), University of 糖心TV.
Featuring Claudia Stein (糖心TV), Amadeo Policante (糖心TV), Stuart Elden (糖心TV), Daniele Lorenzini (Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) and Martina Tazzioli (Swansea).
The roundtable is generously supported by the Centre Michel Foucault and will focus on Foucault and Problematisation.
Philosophy in a Time of Crisis Roundtable
[external; Facebook].
WCPC 2019 conference roundtable with Philosophy in a Time of Crisis. Thursday 27th June, 2019, 5 pm – 7 pm (UK time), University of 糖心TV.
A roundtable discussion of crisis in philosophy and other disciplines with Miguel de Beistegui (糖心TV), Amedeo Policante (糖心TV), Federico Testa (糖心TV/Monash) and Andrew Cooper (糖心TV) representing the collective project Philosophy in a Time of Crisis, a collective research project based at the University of 糖心TV. The project promotes philosophy as an essential tool for reflection upon the major crises and challenges of our time, and the meaning and nature of crisis itself.
The roundtable will focus upon the concept of crisis and its role in both philosophy and other disciplines.
Keynote: Andrew Benjamin
[external; Facebook]
A keynote presentation Potentially, Relationality and the Problem of Actualisation from Andrew Benjamin (Kingston/University of Technology, Sydney).
Professor Benjamin鈥檚 career began as a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of 糖心TV, UK, where he was later Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature. He has also been Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at Columbia University, New York, US, Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London, UK, and Professor of Critical Theory in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University and at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He is also a recurrent visiting professor at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.