FNS Conferences

Since its inauguration at the conference 'Nietzsche's Moment' in 1990 (University of Essex, Colchester), the Friedrich Nietzsche Society has held sixteen annual conferences:

• 1991: University of Warwick ('The Fate of the New Nietzsche').
  Papers from the conference were published as The Fate of the New Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson and Howard Caygill (Avebury, 1993).
• 1992: Middlesex Polytechnic, Trent Park Site.
• 1993: Royal Holloway College, University of London.
  Papers from the conference were published as a special issue of German Life and Letters (48/4, October 1995), ed. Carol Diethe.
• 1994: Clyne Castle, University College of Swansea ('Nietzsche's Happy Returns', held in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Nietzsche's birth).
• 1995: University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus at Wall Hall ('Nietzsche and the Future of the Human').
  Papers from the conference were published as Nietzsche's Futures, ed. John Lippitt (Macmillan, 1998)
• 1996: Manchester Metropolitan University, Didsbury Campus ('Nietzsche: Questions of Life and Death. Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis').
• 1997: University of St Andrews ('Nietzsche and the German Tradition').
  Papers from the conference were published as Nietzsche and the German Tradition, ed. Nicholas Martin (Peter Lang, 2003).
• 1998: University of Greenwich, Avebury Hill Campus ('Nietzsche and Religion').
  Papers from the conference were published as a special issue of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies and as Nietzsche and the Divine, ed. John Lippitt and Jim Urpeth (Clinamen, 2000).
• 1999: University of Southampton ('Nietzsche and Post-Analytic Philosophy').
• 2000: University of Durham ('One Hundred Years of Nietzsche: Culture, Society, and Education').
  In 2000 the Society also co-sponsored the Jubilee Conference at the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London: 'Ecce Opus: Nietzsche Revisions in the Twentieth Century'. Papers from this conference were published as Ecce Opus. Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Rüdiger Görner and Duncan Large (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003).
• 2001: Emmanuel College, Cambridge ('Nietzsche and Science')
  Papers from the conference will be published as Nietzsche and Science, ed. Gregory Moore and Thomas H. Brobjer (Ashgate, 2004).
• 2002: University of Glasgow ('Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition')
  Papers from the conference were published as Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, ed. Paul Bishop (Camden House, 2004).
• 2003: University of Warwick ('Nietzsche, Art and Aesthetics')
• 2004: University of Sussex ('Nietzsche and Ethics')
  Papers from the conference were published as Nietzsche and Ethics, ed. Gudrun von Tevenar (Peter Lang, 2007).
• 2005: Peterhouse, Cambridge ('Nietzsche on Time and History') Papers from the conference published as Nietzsche on Time and History, ed. Manuel Dries (De Gruyter, 2008).
• 2006: No conference
• 2007: University of Leiden, Netherlands ('Nietzsche, Power and Politics')
• 2008: No conference
• 2009: "Nietzsche on Mind and Nature" (St Peter's College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009)