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2025 Meeting of the AAS

02 Sunday Feb 2025

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We are pleased to announce that the 11th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Alexandra Colligs and Philip Hogh at the Universität Kassel (Germany). The meeting will be held May 22nd and 23rd, 2025.

More information – including program and registration details – will be posted shortly.

Previous meetings were held at:

May 30-31, 2024 – Université de Picardie

May 5-6, 2023 – University of Sussex

April 26-27, 2019 – University of São Paulo

May 4-5, 2018 – American University in Cairo

March 24-25, 2017 – Duke University

April 29-30, 2016 – Université de Montréal

October 9-10, 2015 – The New School

March 7-8, 2014 – University College Dublin

March 22-23, 2013 – Temple University

March 2-3, 2012 – Johns Hopkins University

2024 Meeting of the AAS

06 Thursday Jul 2023

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We are thrilled to announce that Estelle Ferrarese has very graciously accepted to host the next meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies. It will take place at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, in Amiens, France. The meeting is scheduled for May 30-31, 2024. Details will follow.

Previous meetings:

May 5-6, 2023 – University of Sussex

April 26-27, 2019 – University of São Paulo

May 4-5, 2018 – American University in Cairo

March 24-25, 2017 – Duke University

April 29-30, 2016 – Université de Montréal

October 9-10, 2015 – The New School

March 7-8, 2014 – University College Dublin

March 22-23, 2013 – Temple University

March 2-3, 2012 – Johns Hopkins University

AAS 2023 Meeting @ U. Sussex May 5-6

25 Saturday Mar 2023

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The 9th Annual conference of the Association for Adorno Studies:

May 5th – 6th 2023 in Brighton, UK.

Host: Centre for Social and Political Thought, at the University of Sussex.

Funding: the Mind Association, The Aristotelian Society of GB, and the School of Media Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex.

We have an event brite invitation for the first 50 places.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-association-for-adorno-studies-9th-annual-conference-tickets-578956383127

Venues:

Friday 5th of May, Leonardo Hotel Brighton. 101 Stroudley Road, Brighton, BN1 4DJ, GB Telephone: +44(0) 1273 862 121.

Email: brightonconference@leonardohotels.com

This hotel is right by Brighton Railway Station.

Saturday 6th of May, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront. Kings Road

Brighton, BN1 2GS, GB Telephone: +44(0) 1273 206 700.

Email: brightonwaterfrontconference@leonardohotels.com

This hotel is on the Seafront.

Though Brighton has a lot of other hotels, the conference takes place during the Brighton Festival so rooms will be at a premium and will book up early. Here are some other good hotels we recommend.

Artist Residence Hotel (Regency Square – Central Brighton)

Hotel du Vin (Close to Brighton Sea front)

Harbour Hotel (Brighton Seafront. There is no harbour)

Drakes Hotel (boutique Hotel – Kemp Town)

Blanch House (boutique Hotel – Kemp Town)

PROGRAMME

Thursday May 4th 7.30 p.m. Wine Reception and Book Launch Leonardo Hotel Waterfront, Brighton

Friday 5th May – Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Station

8.45 coffee and tea

Meeting Room

9.20-11.00

Lydia Goehr, Adorno on work, analysis, and critique

Antonia Hoffstätter, Adorno and Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau paintings.

11.00-11.30 coffee and tea

11.30-1.10

Andrew Bowie            Adorno on Music

Fumi Okiji.                 Adorno on Music

1.10-2.30 – lunch – Business Meeting

2.30-4.10

Emily Shyr: “Revealing a Schubertian Constellation: Re-reading Adorno’s ‘Schubert’ through Benjamin”

Roman Thomassen: “Black Metal as Aestheticizing of the Present”

410-4.30

4.30-6.10

Bruno Carvalho. Adorno on Suffering

Adriano Lotito: Adorno on Work

Drinks and Conference Meal tbc

8.45 Coffee reception, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront

9.20-11.00

Lars Rensmann “How Nature Matters: Environmentalism after Arendt and Adorno”

Kathy Kiloh “Involvement and Animal Desire”

11.00-11.30 Coffee and Tea

11..30-1.10

Salima Nait Ahmed: “Adorno and Sartre on Anti-Semitism: A Comparison of Frankfurt School and Existentialist Approaches to Racialization”

Estelle Ferrarese TBC

1.10-2.30. Lunch

2.30-4.30

Panel discussion on Iain Macdonald’s What would be different? Figures of Possibility in Adorno”

Taylor Carmen

Peter E Gordon

Nick Walker

Iain Macdonald

Next Meeting @ University of Sussex, 1-2 May

03 Thursday Oct 2019

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We are pleased to announce that the 9th annual meeting of the Association for Adorno Studies will be hosted by Gordon Finlayson and the University of Sussex. The meeting will be held May 1 and 2, 2020.

More details will be posted shortly.

Previous meetings were held at:

April 26-27, 2019 – University of São Paulo

May 4-5, 2018 – American University in Cairo

March 24-25, 2017 – Duke University

April 29-30, 2016 – Université de Montréal

October 9-10, 2015 – The New School

March 7-8, 2014 – University College Dublin

March 22-23, 2013 – Temple University

March 2-3, 2012 – Johns Hopkins University

Recap of the 8th Annual Meeting

03 Thursday Oct 2019

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On April 26th and 27th 2019, the Association for Adorno Studies convened its 8th annual meeting at the University of São Paulo’s beautiful campus. The meeting was officially opened with remarks by host Vladimir Safatle, Surti Singh, and Pierre-François Noppen. It was the Association’s first meeting in Latin America and a welcome exposure to Adorno studies in Brazil. The well-attended meeting featured a strong program with speakers from Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The papers included excellent engagements with Adorno’s philosophy and aesthetics, as well as timely inquiries into the relevance of Adorno’s thought for current social and political issues. 

Amid threats to academic freedom and invectives against cultural Marxism, our meeting coincided with Bolsonaro’s April 26th announcement on twitter that budgetary cuts would directly target philosophy and sociology. With the humanities facing an uncertain future, and colleagues and students in a dubious position, the meeting embodied a spirit of solidarity. Subsequently, a 30% cut to all university budgets was announced and the situation remains precarious today, with some universities uncertain about how they will conclude their current semesters. 

During our business meeting, held on the second day, we discussed the general aims of the Association, possibilities for publication in the Association’s journal, Adorno Studies, plans for next year’s meeting with several options in Europe, and the future possibility of returning to Latin America.

On behalf of the entire Association, we’d like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Vladimir Safatle and Eduardo Socha for being such generous hosts, navigating us through the fascinating city of São Paulo, and for all their work and organization into making this yet another successful and productive meeting. 

For more information about cuts to education in Brazil, Vladimir Safatle’s article is here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/brazils-conservative-revolution/.

And here are some photos of the event:

Recap of the 7th Annual Meeting

24 Thursday May 2018

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Earlier this month (May 4-5, 2018), members of the Association for Adorno Studies gathered at the American University in Cairo for our 7th annual meeting. As summer was taking a early start in Egypt – with temperatures surging to 40°C/104°F! – the meeting was held in the sumptuous (and cool) Oriental Hall of the Tahrir Square Campus.

Surti Singh (our host), Robert Switzer (Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at AUC) and Pierre-François Noppen (our outgoing President) opened the meeting with remarks. (Our outgoing Vice-President, Roger Foster, couldn’t attend the meeting this year.) Speakers from Canada, the US, Norway, France, Brasil and Egypt were invited to present their latest work on Adorno. The sharp, insightful and thought-provoking papers fueled open and very stimulating discussions throughout the meeting. Continue reading →

Change of the executives…

26 Monday Oct 2015

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At the latest meeting of the society, new officers were elected (Kathy and I had agreed to serve an initial 3 year term). So we think this photo aptly summarizes how we are now fading into the background…at least as far as the executive operations of the society are concerned.

We will still be involved with the website and will, of course, be moving forward with the journal.

But, for the next three years, please welcome Pierre-François Noppen (president) and Roger Foster (vice-president)!