Faculty Bulletin

Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy, will give the keynote address (“A Speculative Reality”) at a conference entitled “The Real World: Concepts and Languages of Contemporary Realism,” to be held at the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, on August 8-9, 2013.

Graham Harman’s recent book Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy is discussed by A.C. Lee in the April 17 edition of the New York Times. Click HERE to read Lee’s comments.

Graham is Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy.

Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy, recently gave the following invited lectures and presentations in Europe:

• “Marcel Zuijderland Interviews Graham Harman,” Felix and Sofie Café. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. April 4, 2013.

• “On Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Philosophy (a debate with Emmanuel Rutten, moderated by Marcel Zuijderland),” Felix and Sofie Café. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. April 4, 2013.

• “A Dialogue Between Graham Harman and Tristan Garcia (moderated by Rik Peters),” Drift Festival, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• “Heidegger und McLuhan – Eine imaginäre Begegnung,” International Vilém Flusser Lecture, Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany. April 8, 2013.

The image below is the poster for the Berlin lecture (designed by Anita Ackermann).

Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy by Graham Harman (Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy) is reviewed by Brian Kim Stefans in the April 6, 2013 Los Angeles Review of Books. The review can be read HERE.

Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy, gave a talk entitled “Object-Oriented Aesthetics” at the University of Oregon on January 24, 2013 that was previously announced here in the Bulletin. Audio of that lecture is now available HERE. The introductory remarks are made by Prof. Michael Allan of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, who was also an AUC Presidential Intern during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy, has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) in Sydney, Australia in early December. Conference details are HERE. The title of Graham’s lecture will be: “A Compact Account of Object-Oriented Philosophy.”

Graham Harman, Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy, has been invited to give the 2014 Haragan Lecture at Texas Tech University. The series is named after President Emeritus Donald R. Haragan, “in recognition of his distinguished and unparalleled service” to the university, and features speakers whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries.

Graham will be the first philosopher to appear in the series since it began in 2001. His lecture will be entitled “Ecology Without Networks,” and will follow other invited talks on the same trip at Rice University, the University of British Columbia, and Lebanon Valley College (PA).

Graham Harman, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Research Administration, gave a lecture at Columbia University, New York, on March 8, 2013, entitled “In Search of the Fourth Table.”

Graham Harman, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Research Administration, recently gave the following lectures in the United Kingdom:

* “Greenberg and Philosophy,” February 25, 2013, Goldsmiths College, University of London

* “Objects in Art and Architecture,” February 27, 2013, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Lecture video is available HERE

* “Phenomenology and Speculative Realism,” February 28, 2013, Department of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, Colchester

* “Two Seminars on ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ (with Michael Newman),” March 1, 2013, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Graham Harman, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Research Administration, is interviewed by Lucy Kimbell of the University of Oxford in the March issue of Design and Culture (Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 103-117). Lucy Kimbell, “The Object Strikes Back: Interview with Graham Harman.”

“At a time when many design professionals concern themselves with designing interactions, experiences, and services, it seems timely to reconsider the role of objects in design. This interview with philosopher Graham Harman offers a summary of his thinking about objects and uses it to reconsider their role in design. Strongly influenced by Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour, Harman’s philosophy is object-oriented in that it treats objects as real but with hidden depths. In the interview Harman describes how objects have been treated in philosophy and what his approach does instead. One implication is to question the idea that design is unproblematically human-centered.”