From vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au Thu Nov 21 17:02:55 2019 From: vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au (Vrasidas Karalis) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:02:55 +0000 Subject: [Moderngreek-l] CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS SYMPOSIUM Message-ID: ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES November 29th, 2019 THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building AUTONOMY AND PHILIA (????????? ??? ?????) IN CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS' LIFE AND THOUGHT Drawing from Aristotle's suggestion that '...cities are held together by philia [friendship] and legislators should study it more than justice,' we want to explore philia as found in Cornelius Castoriadis' theoretical thinking and understanding of politics. Since his youth Castoriadis established life-long friendships with many individuals whose life, ideas and practical engagement had a permanent presence in his own work. The symposium wants to bring together the abstract and the concrete, the life of the philosopher with the social ontology of his theory. During the one-day meeting, we would like to explore the concept of political or civic friendship especially within the overall Castoriadis project to restore democratic politics to the immediacy and radicalism of their origins in classical Athens. After the recent death of the philosopher and friend Agnes Heller, papers are invited to address friendship as political virtue in contemporary anti-political societies. 10.00-10.30 ARRIVAL REGISTRATION CANESSA AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building 10-30-11.15 Professor Peter Murphy Friendship and the Socratic Daimonion ("divine something"): Agnes Heller, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and others. A recollection of the 1980s. 11.15-11.30 BREAK Coffee/tea 11.30-13.00 Professor John Rundell 'Celebrating Imagination: elective affinities between Agnes Heller and Cornelius Castoriadis' 13.00-14.00 LUNCH 14.00-14.45 Tristan Bradshaw Castoriadis, Aristotle, and the Prospect of Democratic Philia 14.45-15.30 Danica Jenkis A Modern Ithaca: Autonomy and the Wisdom of Open-endedness in Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze 15.30-16.15 Vras Karalis The romance of a friendship: Agis Stinas and Cornelius Castoriadis Entrance Free All Welcome. Sponsored by the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies School of Languages and Cultures The University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au Wed Nov 27 16:10:51 2019 From: vrasidas.karalis at sydney.edu.au (Vrasidas Karalis) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:10:51 +0000 Subject: [Moderngreek-l] REMINDER: CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY 29TH 2019, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Message-ID: ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS IN THE ANTIPODES November 29th, 2019 THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building Convener: Vrasidas Karalis Entrance Free All Welcome. AUTONOMY AND PHILIA (????????? ??? ?????) IN CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS' LIFE AND THOUGHT Drawing from Aristotle's suggestion that '...cities are held together by philia [friendship] and legislators should study it more than justice,' we want to explore philia as found in Cornelius Castoriadis' theoretical thinking and understanding of politics. Since his youth Castoriadis established life-long friendships with many individuals whose life, ideas and practical engagement had a permanent presence in his own work. The symposium wants to bring together the abstract and the concrete, the life of the philosopher with the social ontology of his theory. During the one-day meeting, we would like to explore the concept of political or civic friendship especially within the overall Castoriadis project to restore democratic politics to the immediacy and radicalism of their origins in classical Athens. After the recent death of the philosopher and friend Agnes Heller, papers are invited to address friendship as political virtue in contemporary anti-political societies. Sponsored by the Department of Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies School of Languages and Cultures The University of Sydney [cid:image001.jpg at 01D5A53D.3C7A6520] 10.00-10.30 ARRIVAL CANESSA AAIA Rm 480 Madsen Building 10-30-11.15 Professor Peter Murphy Friendship and the Socratic Daimonion ("divine something"): Agnes Heller, Cornelius Castoriadis, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and others. A recollection of the 1980s. 11.15-11.30 BREAK Coffee/tea 11.30-13.00 Professor John Rundell 'Celebrating Imagination: elective affinities between Agnes Heller and Cornelius Castoriadis' 13.00-14.00 LUNCH 14.00-14.45 Tristan Bradshaw Castoriadis, Aristotle, and the Prospect of Democratic Philia 14.45-15.30 Danica Jenkins A Modern Ithaca: Autonomy and the Wisdom of Open-endedness in Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze 15.30-16.15 Vras Karalis The romance of a friendship: Agis Stinas and Cornelius Castoriadis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 15051 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: