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PCT6: Critical Theory - Continental Philosophy


About

Prior to 2017 PCT6 was responsible for coordinating events and conferences for the Perpetual Peace Project and the Society for the Study of Biopolitical Futures (SSBF). A new working group was reconvened in 2017 to coordinate teaching and professionalization of undergraduate and graduate students in Critical Theory, primarily at Cornell and Syracuse Universities. In 2024, the WG re-convened activities associated with phase 3 of the Perpetual Peace Project and hosted a one-day symposium at Cornell University, as well as workshops both at Cornell and Syracuse University.

Open to New People

Active since: 2013

  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University

Collaborative Goals

To support research and teaching by faculty and graduate students across the Corridor in the area of Continental Philosophy. Working Groups are convened around special topics selected by principal investigators, primarily at Cornell University and Syracuse University, to organize conferences and lectures involving collaborative formats with leading scholars and researchers outside the Corridor and/or to bring leading philosophers in this are into contact with students to support their professional training. In the past ten years, seminars in Critical Theory were conducted on more than one campus and a final capstone conference was organized to bring students from different campuses in the Corridor together for a one-day event to present their original research to peers and faculty. The current working group will be convened around the initiative of the Perpetual Peace Project, which will focus on Kant's later philosophy in the context of the current war in the Ukraine.

Group Organizers

Gregg Lambert

Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University

Peter Gilgen

Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies & Associate Professor, Cornell University

Group Outcomes

Perpetual Peace Project

Since 2008, the Perpetual Peace Project has launched a series of public and academic initiatives partnered with multiple institutions, to create the conditions for proposing yet again the idea of peace.