Fiona Hallinan: keynote at The Future as a Present Concern – Online Sept 2021

Hallinan’s abstract out: ‘Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is: On darkness and the study of endings’.

Registration is open for the online international conference between the National University of Ireland Galway, The Irish Philosophical Society, and the British Society for Phenomenology. Six exceptional keynotes and some 70 panel speakers.

Fiona Hallinan will be a keynote speaker at ‘The Future as a Present Concern’, Online, 1-3 September 2021. Hallinan is an artist, researcher, and co-founder of the Department of Ultimology, and a PhD student at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium. Her keynote paper for this year’s conference is titled ‘Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is: On darkness and the study of endings’.

Read Fiona Hallinan’s abstract for ‘Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is: On darkness and the study of endings’.

The Future as a Present Concern (FPC2021) explores the question of the future from phenomenological and other philosophical perspectives. There will be papers on various aspects of this question, whether ontological, ethical, aesthetical, epistemological, and in relation to political theory, gender theory, critical race theory, ecology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and analytic philosophy.

For more information on the conference, including format and registration, check out the FPC2021 website.