Post-Kantian and Continental Philosophy Workshop
POST-KANTIAN AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
The Post-Kantian and Continental Philosophy Workshop (formally known as The Afterlife of Phenomenology) broadly considers philosophical thought after Kant, with special interest in phenomenology as a tool for revisiting the work of philosophers who pre-dated phenomenology. We are open to a broad understanding of 'Post-Kantian,' to include contemporary work in social and political problems, but we generally aim to invite speakers who work in the history of philosophy after Kant and/or who critically connect contemporary problems to the insights from this history.
Some recent examples of talks we have hosted include:
- Lydia Moland, “Hegel on Music: The Sound of Feeling” 2021
- Martin Shuster, “Genocide and the State: An Alternative History of Modern Political Philosophy” 2021
- Naomi Fisher, "On Plato's Influence on Schelling" 2023
- Eyo Ewara, “Strange Returns: Racism, Repetition, and Working Through the Past” 2025
- Andreea Smaranda Aldea, “Restoration, Reactivation, Reorientation: Husserl’s Method for a Historical Critique of the Present” 2025
- Taylor Rogers, “Atmospheric Attention: Towards Rearranging Ourselves and the World” 2025
- Kurt C.M. Mertel, “The Emancipatory Project of Being and Time” 2025
This workshop is organized by graduate students. We invite scholars in their post-doctoral career, of all levels. Given a limited budget, we cannot pay speakers for the talk, but we offer a paid lunch (or dinner) with graduate students after the talk.
If you are a postdoctoral scholar interested in participating in this workshop series as a future speaker, or if you are a Northwestern philosophy graduate student interested in organizing one of the future workshops, please email Abigail Iturra at abigail.iturra@u.northwestern.edu.
Featured Talk
Giulia Valpione, “German Romanticism and Political Ecology: Freedom, Nature, and Institutions”
March 4, 2026
11am-1pm
Philosophy Seminar Room, Kresge 3- 438
