Splijtstof Student Conference: ‘Fantasy’

The Splijtstof Editorial Team is proud to present their first student conference, based on the theme of ‘Fantasy’!

You are invited to attend a day of philosophical inquiry into ‘Fantasy’ and its manifestations in various specialisations, from object-oriented ontology, critical disability studies, philosophy of technology, animal ethics, political philosophy and much more. The event will take place from 10:00 – 17:00 on November 28, 2024, in Radboud University’s Erasmus Building (E15.39/41). It will be moderated by Dr. Rae Aumiller (Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology), Tim Miechels (PhD Candidate in Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology) and Sophie Ingle (Ethics and Political Philosophy).

The Splijtstof Student Conference has been organised in collaboration with Tim Miechels.

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Schedule

10:00 – Welcome

10:10 – 10:40 – Jonathan Zackor – An Infinite Present Without Consequences: The Absurd Promise of Liminal Space

10:50 – 11:20 – Marleen van Haalen – The Realness: What the Fantasy of Drag Can Teach Us About Reality

11:30 – 12:00 – Panel Discussion on ‘Fantasy’, Drag and Reality with Dr. Rae Aumiller, Tim Miechels, Marleen van Haalen and Charlie Chowdhry

12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch

13:00 – 13:30 – Charlie Chowdhry – Disabled Dreams of Accessible Academia: Fantasy, or Feasible?

13:40 – 14:10 – Saar Boter – Frutiger Aero: A Fantasy of a Better Future

14:20 – 14:50 – Sophie Ingle – Phenomenological Reflections on Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Liminality in a Fantasy World of Pokémon

14:50- 15:10 – Break

15:10 – 15:40 – Susana Reis – CRISPR and The Fantasy of Human Immortality: Using Imagination to Assess This Possibility

15:50 – 16:20 – Jacque Marliin – Narrating Self-Destruction: Hegemony and Nihilist Strategy
An Alternative Interpretation of David Fincher’s Fight Club

16:30 – 17:00 – Mark den Dekker – The Fantasy of Capitalism: How Capitalist Ideology is Literally Magic

17:00 onwards – Drinks in the CultuurCafé