Tag: conference
14 Sep, 2024
Concluding words: Silence and meaning
Very briefly to round off this conference and I will just go straight into it. It won’t be very long so that we can have a nice rest all of us.First I will do some pragmatics, even though I’m not …
12 Jun, 2023
Welcome speech at the 2023 Ereignis Conference
Hello everyone, and welcome to this third Ereignis conference.
The theme of this year’s conference, Beyond Dualism, resonates with debates that have a long and venerable history in thought. Many…
6 Jun, 2019
Watch: talk on Hamsun and psychoanalysis
Here is a video taped talk on Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun’s On Overgrown Path and his relation to psychoanalysis. After the war Hamsun was accused of treason and subjected to involuntary psychiatric …
10 Jan, 2018
On Melgaard and Munch at MECCSA 2018, London
Upcoming presentation: The 2018 MECCSA Conference at the School of Arts & Creative Industries, London South Bank University tomorrow with a talk on Norwegian-Australian artist Bjarne Melgaard and …
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator with PhDs in Philosophy (European Graduate School, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton University, 2012). His latest books include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019). Fjeld regularly publishes articles in journals such as Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and Journal of Silence Studies in Education. Fjeld serves as Head of the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts. He is a Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions. Fjeld has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa.