At the Crossroads of Thought: Deleuze and/in Contemporary Philosophy
International Workshop
At the Crossroads of Thought:
Deleuze and/in Contemporary Philosophy
1 & 2 July 2025
School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon
Library Building – Room B.112B
Event organized as part of the activities of Praxis-CFUL
Invited Speakers
Emma Ingala (Madrid)
Daniel W. Smith (Purdue)
Henry Somers-Hall (London)
Pablo Esteban Rodríguez (Buenos Aires)
Gilles Deleuze’s work functions as a philosophical crossroads—not a static intersection, but a zone of conceptual turbulence where traditions collide, mutate, and diverge. Rather than merely interpreting or inheriting philosophical lineages, Deleuze deterritorializes them, constructing a living conceptual ecology that propels thought toward what remains unthought. His philosophical singularity lies less in offering definitive answers than in reconfiguring the very terms of the question—transforming philosophy into a machine for the invention of problems and the creation of new trajectories.
As part of the centenary commemorations of Gilles Deleuze’s birth, this workshop will gather contributions that examine how his work continues to resonate within contemporary philosophical debates from a twofold orientation: a retrospective approach, investigating how Deleuze rearticulates figures and concepts from the philosophical tradition; and a prospective approach, exploring how these reconfigured elements intersect with, challenge, or diverge from current theoretical frameworks. The aim is to develop a cartography of tensions—mapping where Deleuzian concepts provoke, falter, or generate new paths for thought. To stand at this crossroads is to engage philosophy as a practice in motion—an open invitation not to preserve these lines, but to follow, displace, and extend them.
Free attendance and open to the public.
Organizer: Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (Praxis-CFUL, University of Lisbon)
This event is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the project UIDB/00310/Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.