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2 December, 2024
Semiar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar On Walter Benjamin with Prof. Em. Chris Norris on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
31 October, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death with Dr. Susana Viegas on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 @ 16h00 Central European Time (CET).
4 October, 2024
Podcast: Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson in conversation about Every house has a door, Jon Fosse, poetry, and more. Listen to our podcast on Spotify or on our podcast page.
27 September, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on geopolitical states of power, surveillance, and freedom of speech, with reference to George Orwell’s 1984 with Professor (em.) Jørgen Veisland on Wednesday, October 2, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
6 September, 2024
Videos: Keynotes and the round table discussion at Pausing Time/Timing the Pause — sayability in the arts, philosophy, and politics: the fourth Ereignis Conference are now available on our video page. Please register or log in to watch them!
1 September, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Temporal castration and capitalist realism beyond psycho-analysis with Professor Andrew Jorn on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
23 July, 2024
Inscriptions: Vol. 7, no. 2, of Inscriptions is out with essays by Andrew Tayler Jorn, Philipp Quell, and others. Reviews of Vivek Narayanan’s After, and of Catherine Malabou’s Stop Thief!
9 July, 2024
Conference: The programme for the hybrid 2024 Ereignis Conference is now available. Join us August 10-11 in Gdynia or online.
22 May, 2024
CfP: We invite chapter proposals for Bergman Obscure, a new edited volume on the lesser-known Ingmar Bergman. Read the CfP.
14 May, 2024
CfP: Inscriptions invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue that will explore the intersections of environmental studies with aesthetics, literary narratives, and critical theory.
23 April, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on The Aporia of the Wolf: Beuys with Freud with Professor Dror Pimentel on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
3 April, 2024
Talks: Watch free talks with James Bahoh, Gisle Selnes, and Christopher Norris on our media page.
2 April, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Memory and Informalist Aesthetics in Manolo Millares’s Burlap Works with Dr. Anda Pleniceanu this Wednesday, April 3, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
26 March, 2024
Conference: Chris Norris (Cardiff) and Anda Pleniceanu (Western) will join us as keynote speakers at the 4th Ereignis Conference this August.
19 March, 2024
Forum: Where do process philosophy depart from static ontologies? Register or log in to read Dr. Mehdi Parsa’s response in our forums.
5 March, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Einstein and Philosophers on Time with Dr. Mehdi Parsa this Wednesday, March 6, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
5 March, 2024
Seminar: There was a glitch in the email with the link to tomorrow's seminar. The seminar takes place in Zoom room is 889 5898 9405 tomorrow March 6 @ 16h00 CET. Find the passcode to the room by scrolling to the bottom of the email you received. Contact us with any problems.
27 February, 2024
Conference: Groundbreaking thinker and arts practitioner Matthew Goulish (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will join us as a keynote speaker at the 4th Ereignis Conference this August.
5 February, 2024
Seminar: Join us for the Ereignis Seminar on Bergman Obscure with Dr. Jytte Holmqvist and Dr. Torgeir Fjeld this Wednesday, February 7, 2024 @ 16h00 CET.
24 January, 2024
Conference: Pausing Time/Timing the Pause: sayability in the arts, philosophy, and politics. Submit your abstract to the 4th Ereignis Conference (August 10-11) by 1 June, 2024.
17 January, 2024
Gallery: Our new gallery “VALUBL OBJX: Afterword [CODA]” holds eight panels with short essays by Paul McLean.
15 January, 2024
Inscriptions 7n1 is out: Essays on dualisms in philosophy and psycho-analysis by Jørgen Veisland, Jeremy Fernando, Lucy Huskinson, and David Antolínez. Jeremey Spencer on Godard’s Tout va Bien, Mikołaj Marks on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and Jan Gresil Kahambing on meta-curation.
5 January, 2024
Upgrade: Our web page is being upgraded. Check in soon to see all the new features!
6 October, 2023
Seminar: Introducing the open and free Ereignis Seminar: Wednesday 1 November, 2023 @ 16h00 CET on Zoom.
8 September, 2023
CfP: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming themed issue, Beyond Dualism. Deadline 15 September/15 October, 2023. Read the full CfP.
15 July, 2023
Journal: Inscriptions 6, n2, Open issue, is out. Anda Pleniceanu on Adorno’s negative dialectic. Georgios Tsagdis on Agamben. Creative criticism.
4 July, 2023
Honorary professor: Prof. Dr. Jørgen Veisland (University of Gdańsk) joins us as honorary professor.
14 June, 2023
Talks: Watch talks with Lucy Huskinson, Jørgen Veisland and others from the third Ereignis Conference for free.
6 June, 2023
Poetry: Christopher Norris new volume of poetry, A Listener is out on utopos.
25 May, 2023
Journal: Inscriptions, our peer-reviewed journal, now lists all published articles with stable digital object identifiers (DOIs) and authors with persistent digital identifiers (ORCIDs).
11 May, 2023
Conference: Beyond dualism, the 2023 Ereignis Conference, is now open for registration. Save up to €8 in fees by registering on our site.
8 May, 2023
Conference: Before the 2023 Ereignis Conference: Watch the Online Theatre Manifesto by director Wang Chong; food for thought before Professor Jørgen Veisland’s keynote address, set to discuss the theatricality of Kierkegaard’s or rather Constantin’s Repetition. Link in the Abstract.
3 May, 2023
Conference: Lucy Huskinson (Bangor) speaks on Psychoanalysis and Architecture: mediating our connection to the material world at the at the third Ereignis Conference in Gdynia on June 10. Read the abstract.
26 April, 2023
Summer School: Seminars with Chris Norris (Cardiff) and Andrew Jorn (Tsukuba Gakuin). Free attendance at the 2023 Ereignis Conference. June 4-11.
14 April, 2023
Offer: We have reduced the price from €80 to €10 on some of our pre-recorded modules. Find out what we’re about by signing up!
5 April, 2023
Keynote: Accomplished professor Lucy Huskinson (Bangor) joins us as a keynote speaker at the at the third Ereignis Conference in Gdynia on June 10.
28 March, 2023
Keynote: We are delighted to welcome acclaimed poet Prof. Vivek Narayanan (George Mason University) as keynote speaker at the third Ereignis Conference, on June 11.
13 March, 2023
Conference: Beyond dualism, the 2023 Ereignis Conference, is now open for registration at Eventbrite.
28 February, 2023
FAQ: Can I study at at the Ereignis Institute while I’m enrolled with a different instituion? Read our FAQ!
17 February, 2023
Keynote: Professor Paul Bowman joins us as a keynote speaker at the third Ereignis Conference, on June 11.
3 February, 2023
CfA: Beyond dualism — philosophy, religion, science. Submit your abstract to the third Ereignis Conference (June 10-11) by 1 May 2022.
2 February, 2023
Seminar: Our online research seminar with Dr. Adam Staley Groves starts on February 15. Join here.
17 January, 2023
Journal: Inscriptions 6, n1, Technology’s danger, is out. Pedro José Grande Sánchez uncovers Michel Henry’s “life philosophy”.
13 December, 2022
School: Christopher Norris, celebrated author of Deconstruction, joins us for our inaugural 2023 Summer School.
5 December, 2022
Seminar: Our online research seminar with Dr. Adam Staley Groves starts on February 15. Join here.
29 November, 2022
Ereignis: We have added two factor authentication and other features to increase security for our registered members. Your data is safe with us.
31 October, 2022
Ereignis: We have thoroughly redesigned our web-page: Register now. It’s free.
7 September, 2022
Study: Ethics after Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality: join our online course module with Dr. Mehdi Parsa.
23 August, 2022
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 4, Adam Staley Groves talks about Wallace Stevens and what it means to be an artist.
18 July, 2022
Journal: Inscriptions 5, n2, is out with texts by David Ritchie, Gorica Orsholits, Gianluca Ronca, and others.
5 July, 2022
Poetry: Christopher Norris’s new collection of poetry, After Rilke: verse renderings, parodies, rejoinders, and anima q`1h67s is due out on utopos August 1st.
22 June, 2022
Study: Wallace Stevens: Theōria and Technic, online course module with Dr. Adam Staley Groves.
16 June, 2022
Talks: All keynotes from the 2nd Ereignis conference and a roundtable talk with Jørgen Veisland, Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth, and Gisle Selnes are now available on our YouTube channel.
8 June, 2022
Keynote: Chris Norris (Cardiff) will speak on “Neither/Nor: Kierkegaard Between Philosophy and Literature” at the 2nd Ereignis Conference on June 11-12.
31 May, 2022
Keynote: Gisle Selnes (Bergen) is speaking on Ereignis, Lacan and Assange at the 2nd Ereignis Conference, online and on-site in Gdynia, Poland, on June 11.
19 May, 2022
Programme: The programme for the Second Ereignis Conference is live. Sign up to attend online or on-site in Gdynia, Poland.
26 April, 2022
Conference: For the Love of God? Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth on Hägglund’s misunderstanding of Fear and Trembling at the Second Ereignis Conference, June 11-12, 2022. Read the abstract.
11 April, 2022
Conference: CfA extended deadline. Submit your 300-word abstract to Kierkegaard: Acts of philosophy, the Second Ereignis Conference, by 1 May 2022.
6 April, 2022
Conference: What’s in a name. Jørgen Veisland on Melville, Camus and Auster at the Second Ereignis Conference, June 11-12, 2022. Read the abstract.
22 March, 2022
School: Chris Norris’s seminar in June, Deconstruction and the Politics of Truth, is now open for registration. Read more here.
11 January, 2022
Conference: Kierkegaard: Acts of philosophy - the Second Ereignis Conference on June 11-12, 2022. Mark the date in your calendar. Deadline for submission: April 15.
21 December, 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 3, Christopher Norris reads from Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia.
24 November, 2021
Event: Online talk on December 9th with Christopher Norris on his latest book, Damaged Life: poems after Adorno’s Minima Moralia, out now on utopos publishing.
15 November, 2021
Study: Philosophies of life technologies, 12 week course with Dr. Torgeir Fjeld.
19 October, 2021
Journal: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming open issue. Deadline 15 March, 2022. Read the CfP.
12 October, 2021
Study: We are delighted to be able to present the first two courses in our portfolio. Join today.
4 August, 2021
Ereignis: Get your Ereignis tee or mug in our new Etsy Ereignis Store.
3 August, 2021
Talk: Watch Mehdi Parsas’s keynote address to the 2021 Ereignis Conference, “Ethics of psychosynthesis: desiring the event.” 40 mins.
27 July, 2021
Talk: James Bahoh on “Event, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger’s Ontology.” Keynote address to the Ereignis Conference. 52 mins.
15 July, 2021
Journal: Inscriptions 4, n2, is out with texts that explore the essay form, poetics, and the role of art in politics. Also: Niall Gildea on Derrida.
30 June, 2021
Talk: Sharif Abdunnur’s workshop “Think existentially, act on your personal mythology” at the Ereignis Conference. 35mins.
24 June, 2021
Talk: Jørgen Veisland on “Dismantling totalitarianism”. Keynote address to the Ereignis Conference. 42mins.
16 June, 2021
Gallery: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick: From The Truppe Fledermaus’s Memory Theatre of 1932.
8 June, 2021
Talk: Chris Norris reads his poem “The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alan Badiou” at the Event and Becoming conference on June 11. Get your ticket to attend.
26 May, 2021
Gallery: Grace Weir: stills from ‘In Parallel’ (2017), a rumination on Euclid’s Elements.
17 May, 2021
Gallery: Surabhi Saraf: a selection of art from the multimedia project ‘Awoke & the Awokened.’
5 May, 2021
Conference: Programme is live. Sign up for a free seat.
28 April, 2021
Journal: Inscriptions invites contributions to our upcoming issue on Being and Event. Deadline 15 09, 2021. Read the CfP.
6 April, 2021
Conference: James Bahoh on Event, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger’s Ontology. Read the abstract.
5 April, 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 2, featuring Mehdi Parsa on Being and Event in Deleuze.
4 April, 2021
Ereignis: New two-minute video introduction to Ereignis Center: who we are, what we do, our upcoming courses.
22 March, 2021
Conference: Mehdi Parsa on the Ethics of Psychosynthesis. Read the abstract.
8 March, 2021
Podcast: Ereignis Podcast no. 1, featuring Stefan Chazbijewicz.