Program
Download the full program with abstracts and speaker information here (.pdf).
Location
COMET takes place in room E15.39/41 on the 15th floor of the Erasmus Building located at Erasmusplein 1 in Nijmegen.
Day 1 – Wednesday 8 October
09:30 – 09:45 Arrival and coffee
09:45 – 10:00 Opening
10:00 – 11:00 Erik Kuravsky – Ontological Creativity and Experiencing the Real
11:10 – 12:10 Tim Miechels & Arjen Kleinherenbrink – What Kind of Thing is a Thing?
12:10 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Mehdi Parsa – “Everything is a Machine”: The Outlines of a Machinic Ontology
14:55 – 15:55 Andrea Cimino – Brentano’s Inductive Metaphysics
15:55 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15 Sjoerd van Tuinen – Continental Modal Metaphysics: from Leibniz to Agamben
Evening: dinner at the Refter and drinks at CultuurCafé (own expense)
Day 2 – Thursday 9 October
09:00 – 10:00 Arrival and coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Niels Hexspoor – Why We Have Never Been Post-Human, and Why That’s a Good Thing When it Comes to the Climate
11:10 – 12:10 Aldo Kempen – The Matter of Form: Karen Barad’s Performative Metaphysics and Analytical Philosophy of Science
12:10 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Niki Young – Passion and Allure: On the Mundane and the Disruptive in Lingis and Harman
14:55 – 15:55 Fridolin Neumann – Phenomenological Realism and Heidegger’s Appropriation of Kant
15:55 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15 Iris van der Tuin & Simon Gusman – Integrative Ontologies: Things and the Philosophy of Interdisciplinary Studies
Evening: speakers’ dinner (venue t.b.a.)
Day 3 – Friday 10 October
09:00 – 10:00 Arrival and coffee
10:00 – 11:00 Simon Weir – Ontographers: Narrative Epistemology and Surrealism’s Double Veil
11:10 – 12:10 Michael Ardoline – Meaning and Event: A Modal Argument that Finitude Overcomes Nihilism
12:10 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Shajara NéeHilan Bensusan - Memory assemblages and the dismantling of presence: Addition, Verweisung and δύναμις
14:55 – 15:55 Lucie Wezel – The Critique of Correlationism: Adorno and Speculative Realism Confronting the Kantian Legacy
15:55 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:15 Deborah Goldgaber – Ultra-transcendental Realism and ‘Dark Phenomenology’
Evening: drinks at CultuurCafé (own expense)
Practical information
All speakers are treated to dinner on the first day of the workshop. Two lunches and closing drinks can be joined according to personal preference and budget. Participants must pay their own travel and accommodation expenses.
International trains
If you travel by international train, deboard at Arnhem when entering the country from Germany or Rotterdam when entering the country from Belgium.
From Arnhem, take any of the many Intercity trains that stop at Nijmegen. Travel time is about fifteen minutes.
From Rotterdam, take an Intercity train to either Utrecht or Breda. From there, take an Intercity train to Nijmegen. Travel time is around two hours. When travelling to the Netherlands through Belgium, it can be slightly faster to deboard at Antwerp, take a train to Breda, and then take an Intercity train to Nijmegen.
International flights
The best airport option is probably Schiphol, which has a direct train to Nijmegen every thirty minutes. If Schiphol is not an option, consider Rotterdam The Hague Airport or Eindhoven Airport.
Accommodation
We recommend that you find accommodation in the area around the city center and central station, near the campus, or near the St. Annastraat and Heyendaalseweg streets that run between the city center and the campus (this is easy to identify on any maps website or app). These areas have fast and straightforward public transport connections to the campus venue.
Hostels are about 70 euros per night. Examples are B&B Huize Nijmegen (Location; Website), Pension Bottendaal (Location; Website), Hostel Barbarossa (Location; Website) and Let It B&B (Location. Website).
Hotels start at about 100 euros per night. Examples are Hotel Courage, Hotel Credible, and Guesthouse Vertoef, all easily found on booking websites or through their own websites.
