Time: 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
Price:
Registration fee £20/£10 non-KU students (The event is free to KU staff & students, but registration is essential).
Speaker(s): Prof. Elliot Wolfson (Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara)
To attend: booking will be available soon, please check back
Plenary Speaker: Prof. Elliot Wolfson (Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara)
Sessions on: Afterlives of Rose's Thought; Philosophy or Theology?; Broken Middle: Hegel and/or Kierkegaard; Writing: Love's Work; Justice? Philosophy–Sociology–Politics
+ A reading by Jacqueline Rose
Day 1: Wednesday 18 June 2025, 1:30 - 5:30pm
Day 2: Thursday 19 June 2025, 10:00 - 5:30pm
Conference abstract:
‘Keep your mind in hell, and despair not' - Rose's discovery of Silouan the Athonite's maxim provided the occasion for Love's Work and guided its weaving journey along the quotidian verges of hell and despair. Whether passing through the three cities of death or across the thresholds of stormed paradises, Rose's work refuses any alleviation of the state of perdition. For her, trying to keep the mind out of hell is the real council of despair. And yet the promise that sustains her season in hell is not the humility of Christian hope taught by the Athonite nor the pride of Stephen Daedalus evoked throughout Love's Work, but one of divine comedy or fidelity to the movements of the bacchanalian revel and repose in its sin. The Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture conference this year departs from Love's Work in an exploration of the play of promise and perdition throughout the full range of Rose's philosophical writing.
Registration fee £20/£10 non-KU students
The event is free to KU staff & students, but registration is essential.
Book here from 1 April 2025
A reception will be held at the nearby October Gallery after the close of the event, 6.00pm on 19 June 2025.
The conference is organized with the generous support of the Tom Vaswani Family Trust.
For further information about this event:
Contact: Professor Peter Osborne - Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Email: p.osborne@kingston.ac.uk
Directions to Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH:
Professor Peter Osborne - Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
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