Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II
June 3-5, 2019
Marvin Center, George Washington University
The first Diverse Lineages of Existentialism (DLE) conference took place in June 2014 in St. Louis. It featured a variety of panels organized by diverse scholarly societies and profiled the work, of feminist, critical race, and existentialist theorists. The conference program included many more scholars of color than is typical for academic conferences, and it was truly a memorable event. Inspired by the exciting, intellectually stimulating experience we shared at this conference, I decided to organize a second Diverse Lineages of Existentialism (DLE II) conference from June 3-5, 2019 in Washington, D.C. With 19 participating societies (over twice as many as in 2014), DLE II will showcase the cutting-edge work that feminist, critical race and continental theorists are doing to make visible the lived experience of individuals and groups who have been overlooked (or actively ignored) in traditional philosophical accounts of human existence.
DLE II is being co-sponsored by GWU, American University, and George Mason University and all of the regular sessions will take place on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Marvin Center. Our opening night plenary and reception are being co-sponsored the French Embassy on Monday, June 3rd in their La Maison Française auditorium. The speaker will be Achille Mbembe.
The DLE II website is https://dleii.com/ and it lists the 19 societies who are participating in this historic conference, each of whom will be sending out their own CFPs for the panels they are organizing. Two of the participating organizations, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP), and North American Korean Philosophy and Race (NAKPA) should be of particular interest to faculty and students in the Institute for Korean Studies. We will also be sending out a general Call for Papers in September and we encourage GW faculty and graduate students to submit papers either to a specific society or through the general CFP. We hope to have strong GW representation at this event, which will include an invited book session on Ben Vinson’s monograph: Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico. We are excited that Ben will return to GW from his first year as Provost and Exec. Vice-President at Case Western Reserve University to be the respondent for this session!
