In late November I am off to Malta to speak at Engaging the Contemporary 2026: Experiences of Life and Death. I’ll be presenting another paper in my series of Nietzsche books vs cinema. This one is on The Gay Science and titled ‘Nietzsche’s “comedy of existence” and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life’

Engaging the Contemporary is a yearly conference organised and hosted by the University of Malta’s Philosophy Department. The aim of the conference is to foster international and multidisciplinary dialogue among researchers working in philosophy and related fields. For the 2026 edition, the focus is to engage with contemporary experiences of life and death, with special focus on its phenomenological, ethical, political, existential, technological, and ecological dimensions.

Engaging the Contemporary 2026: Experiences of Life and Death
Convened by the Department of Philosophy, University of Malta, Malta, 18-20 November 2026.

Check out more on my paper and the Malta event…