Tuesday, 5 May - Evening

9.00 - 12.00 PM Welcoming Reception

Orange County Airport Hilton Patio

Wednesday, 6 May

8.00 AM - 5.00 PM Registration

Monarch Bay AB, Student Center, UCI campus

9.00 AM - 5.00 PM Daily IAPL Publishers Book Exhibit

Monarch Bay AB until noon Saturday

(Coffee and pastries in the mornings; cold drinks in the afternoon)

9.00 - 12.00 noon I. GENERAL SESSIONS

Emerald Bay A

Sarah Evans (Methodologies for the Study of Western History and Culture, Trent University), "Cast a Glass Eye: Mourning Manet's Passing Figures."

Robert Harvey (SUNY-Stony Brook), "You apostrophize me': Duchamp Between Painting and Language."

Arkady Plotnitsky (Literature, Duke University), "Un-images, Un-interpretation, Un-universes: Marcel Duchamp, Modern Science, Amodernist Art."

Knut Ove Eliassen (Comparative Literature, University of Trondheim, Norway), "Diderot's Interrogations."

Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "A Difficult Juxtaposition: Reinhardt, Simpson, and the 'Place' of Speech."

Emerald Bay B

GS-2: Film and Semiosis

Moderator: Jean-Jacques Poucel (French and Italian, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz (Comparative Literature, Emory University), "Photomontage: a fragment against fascism."

Yasmin Nair (Purdue University) , "Evidentiary Impulses: The Holocaust as Cinematic Imagery."

Stefanie Harris (Comparative Literature, Emory University), "Kinetographie: German Literature and the Moving Image, 1900-1930."

David Johnston (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Cinematic Other."

Emerald Bay C

GS-3: Allegories of Vision

Moderator: Maria Minich Brewer (Philosophy, University of Minnesota)

Charles Tryon (English, Purdue University), "Time Travel, Postmodernism, Spectatorship in Twelve Monkeys."

Jonathan Strauss (French and Italian, Miami University), "Sublime and Dirty Seeing: Barnett Newman and Medieval Backgrounds."

Allen Carlson (Philosophy, University of Edmonton, Alberta), "Tony Hillerman's Landscape: Images and Aesthetic Relevance."

Damian Ward Hey (Comparative Literature, SUNY--Stony Brook), "If Dogs Could Talk: Fantastic Historical Image in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon."

William V. Ganis (Art History and Criticism, SUNY--Stony Brook), "The Eternal Lady: An Analysis of Andy Warhol's Jackie Series vis à vis Friedrich Nietzsche's Eternal Return of the Same."

Emerald Bay D

GS-4: Word and Image

Moderator: Claire May (English, University of South Alabama)

John. P. Leavey (English, University of Florida),"The Apostrophe of a Catachresis: Interrogating Images."

Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Studies, SUNY--Stony Brook), "'Spele(id)ology': A/Entre l'image et le simulacre."

Jacqueline Rattray (Hispanic Studies, King's College, Aberdeen), "A poem is a wound: a poem is a weapon': A Surrealist Interrogation of the Poetic Image."

Sabine Gross (German, University of Wisconsin), "Doubling Mediation: Ekphrasis Revisited."

Richard E. Palmer (Philosophy, MacMurray College), "On Gadamer's View of das Bild in 'Wort und Bild'": Ten Assertions."

Emerald Bay E

GS-5: History/Politics/Image

Moderator: Marjorie Beale (History, UC-Irvine)

Harold D. Baker (Russian, UC-Irvine), "Interrogating Landscape: The Social and National Landscapes in Turgenev's 'Singers.'"

Linda Marie Brooks (Los Angeles, California), "The Commemorative Image: Interrogating Holocaust Monuments."

Alison Ross (Philosophy, University of Sydney), "Kant and the 'Image' of the Political."

Jennifer Bates (Philosophy, University of Victoria, BC), "Hegel and the Imagination."

Fritz Breithaupt (Germanic Studies, Indiana University), "What is History?: On the Distinction of Fiction and History in German Thought Around 1800."

Salt Creek AB

GS-6: Images of Self-Interrogation

Moderator: Apostolos Vasilakis (Comparative Literature, Emory University)

C. Allen Carter (English, Oklahoma City University), "Interrogated by the Image: Kenneth Burke, Levinas, and Derrida."

Kirstin Hendrickson (Psychology, Arizona State University), "Defining the Feminine 'I': Bernean Constructs of Self and Hegelian Bildung."

Peter Krapp (German, UC-Santa Barbara), "Screen Memory: Glas as Derridean Hypertext?"

Jay Murphy (New York), "Derrida on Artaud: The Travails and Vagaries of Deconstructing the 'machine which is breathing.'"

Crescent Bay A

GS-7: Genealogical Aesthetics

Moderator: John Mowitt (Comparative Studies and Literature, University of Minnesota)

Erich Hertz (English, Notre Dame University), "Experiencing the Avant-Garde: Benjamin and Adorno on Surrealism and the Surrealist Image."

Gerhard Richter (German, University of Wisconsin at Madison), "Benjamin's Face-Off: Interrupting the Fascist Image."

Catherine Liu (French and Italian, University of Minnesota), "Frozen Images: Benjamin's Conspiracy Theory of History."

James Mangiafico (Philosophy, University of Michigan), "Resisting Interrogation: The Image in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy."

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou (Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Rochester), "Who Comes After 'the Girl of the Phenomenology": On Jean-Luc Nancy's Genealogical Aesthetics."

Crescent Bay B

GS-8: Levinas and the Image

Moderator: Robert Gibbs (Philosophy, University of Toronto)

William Edelglass (Philosophy, Emory University), "Excess and Dimensionality: A Levinasian Response to the Ancient Quarrel."

Robyn Brothers (French, Brown University), "Images of Ambiguity in Deleuze and Levinas: Creative Epistemologies and the Status of the Ethical."

Margret E. Grebowicz (Philosophy, Emory University), "Ineffability and Ipseity in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas."

Thomas L. Cooksey (Languages, Literature, and Dramatic Arts, Armstrong Atlantic State University), "'Guardaci ben!': Levinas and Dante's Interrogating Image."

Administration 107

GS-9: The Sound of the Image

Moderator: Murat M. Eyuboglu (Music, SUNY-Stony Brook)

Linda Bolton (English, University of Iowa), "The Face of Sarah Winnemucca: Oral Tradition, Translation, Photography."

Fred Moten (English, UC-Santa Barbara), "Music of These Hands: Film Space, Capital Space."

Tom Sheehan (English, UC-Berkeley), "The Production of a Woman: Andrei Tarkovski's The Sacrifice."

Sandra Corse (Literature, Communications, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology), "Musical Imagery and Heterogeneity."

Lewis Johnson (Philosophy of Art, Bilkent University, Turkey), "Listening to Images: Economies of the Unheard."

12.00 - 1.30 PM Lunch

Conferees on their own.

1.30 - 3.30 PM II. GENERAL SESSIONS

(20 minutes reading time)

(Papers selected from general submissions (GS) or proposed sessions (PS)

Crescent Bay A

GS-10: Social Interfaces of Modernity

Moderator: Kevin Newmark (French, Boston College)

Linda Belau (Humanities, SUNY-Binghamton), "Translating Allegory: The Making-Image of Melancholia in Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin."

Alice Benston (Theatre and Film Studies, Emory University), "Painting Silences: The Late Canvases of Willem de Kooning."

Evelyn Cobley (English, University of Victoria), "Critiques of Modernity: Mann's Doctor Faustus and Weber's Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic."

Rebecca Saunders (English, Illinois State University), "Monumentality."

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (English, University of Memphis), "Interrogating the Images of Utopia: Theatricality and the Ends of Representation in Mary Shelley's The Lost Man."

Emerald Bay A

GS-11: Bataille's Images

Moderator: Soraya Mekerta (Foreign Languages, Spelman College)

Nadia Sahely (French, Brown University), "Erotic Phenomenology: The Rhetoric of the Image."

Suzanne Guerlac (French, Emory University), "Bataille and the Useless Image: A Note on the Informe."

Michelle Richman (Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania), "Georges Bataille's Sacrificial Art."

Emerald Bay E

GS-12: Image/Word/Abîme

Moderator: Diedre Sklar (Dance, UC-Irvine)

Glenn Fetzer (French, Calvin College), "Hocquard, Wittgenstein, and the Grammar of Visual Perception."

Terence Diggory (English, Skidmore College), "Aesthetic Formalization and Ekphrasis: Frank O'Hara vs. Paul de Man."

Tsu-chung Su (Foreign Languages and Literature, Chi-Nan University, Taiwan), "Violence in the Photographic Image: An Essay on the Punctum in Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida."

Robert Bennett (English, UC-Santa Barbara), "The White Man's Burden (and His Camera): Literary Deconstructions of Orientalist Photography in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature."

Joseph Litvak (English, Bowdoin College), "Baby Face: Jews, Comic Pleasure, and the Culture Industry."

Emerald Bay B

GS-13: Phenomenology and Aesthetics

Moderator: Andrew Feenberg (Philosophy, San Diego State University)

János Békési (Vienna, Austria), "The Imaginary in Virtual Reality and Electronic Arts: A Phenomenological Approach in Aesthetics."

Gail Weiss (Philosophy, George Washington University), "Imag(in)ing the Horizon."

Alia Al-Saji (Emory University), "Mirrorings of the Flesh: The Role of the Mirror Image in Merleau-Ponty's L'Oeil et l'Esprit."

Zafir Aracagok (Graphic Design, Bilkent University), "Whatever Image."

Emerald Bay C

GS-14: Resurrection and Interrogation

Moderator: Barbara Godard (Toronto, Canada)

Gary Paul Gilbert (French, New York University), "His Fruit Was Sweet to My Taste: Queering the Image of the Song of Songs"

Richard Detsch (German, University of Nebraska at Kearney), "Waterfalls: Images of Hegel and Goethe Anticipating Their Cosmologies."

Michael Beehler (English, Montana State University), "Interrogation and Resurrection."

J. Michael Degener (Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "Symbolon Iphigeneias: The Gorgonic Epiphany of the Graphé in Aeschylus' Agamemnon."

Emerald Bay D

GS-15: Calligraphic Subversions

Moderator: Hwa Yol Jung (Philosophy, Moravian College)

Kirsten Swenson (Art History, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Painting Degree-Zero: Lichtenstein's Paintings in the Chinese Style and Barthes' Empire of Signs."

Julie C. Hayes (Modern Languages and Literature, University of Richmond), "Look But Don't Read: Oriental Calligraphy and Western Desire from John Wilkins to Peter Greenaway."

Caroline Mohsen (Philosophy and Contemporary Literature, Penn State University), "In the Realm of the Margin, the Arabesque, and the Lone Letter: Calligraphy in Contemporary Painting from the Arab-Islamic World."

Salt Creek AB

GS-16: Genealogies of the Image

Moderator: Kenneth Reinhard (English, UCLA)

Elizabeth Duquette (English, New York University), "Cogito ergo Semino: Figuring Philosophy's Modern Father, Descartes."

Erich D. Freiberger (Philosophy, University of Puerto Rico), "The Purloined Plato: What an Image from the Sophist Can Tell Us about Lacan's Reading of 'The Purloined Letter.'"

Irene Harvey (Philosophy, Penn State University), ""Images of Disfigurement in the Works of Paul de Man."

Brian Winkenweder (Art, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Cézanne's Super-Ego and the Iconography of his Paternal Portraits."

Crescent Bay B

PS-1: Juan-David Nasio and the Semblance of Psychoanalysis

Moderator: John Carroll (English, California State University, Stanislaus)

François Raffoul (Philosophy, California State University, Stanislaus), "Rethinking the Unconscious with Juan-David Nasio."

David Pettigrew (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University), "Juan-David Nasio and the Semblance of Psychoanalysis."

Stephanie Grace Schull (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "In-between the Analyst and Analysand."

Respondent: Cora Monroe (French, Yale University)

Administration 107

PS-2: The Temporality of National History: Origins and Futures

Moderator: Claire Nouvet (French, Emory University)

Jacques Duvoisin (Philosophy, St. John's College, Santa Fe), "The Unimaginable Origin in Classical History: Law and the Lawgiver."

Joshua Kates, "The Image of the End of History from Kant to Herder."

Jennifer Otsuki, "Emergent Nations and Declining Empires: Organic Nationalism in Herder, Riehl, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda."

3.45 - 6.45 PM III. INVITED SYMPOSIA

Emerald Bay A

IS-1: Placing the Picture in Question: Das Bild (liche) in Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger

Moderator: Ed Mooney (Philosophy, Sonoma State University)

Kerstin Behnke (German and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University), "'Bildsein' and Bild werden: Thinking Through Images With/in Kant and Heidegger."

Christiaan Doude van Troostwijk (Faculty of Humanities [Philosophy],The University of Amsterdam), "'Kraft einer verborgenen Kunst': Scheme and Matrix in Kant and Lyotard."

P. Christopher Smith* (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell), "The Shield of Achilles: Apollonian Aspects, Dionysian Tones."

Taylor Carman (Philosophy, Barnard College), "The Power of Pictures: Kant, Heidegger, and the Normative Force of the Image."

Emerald Bay B

Emerald Bay C

Emerald Bay E

The Tolkien Room, Middle Earth, UCI campus

8.30 PM Performance

The Barn, UCI campus

The Digital Arts Department, UCI Extension

The School of the Arts

The Office of the Chancellor

present

point of reference

Dinner

Conferees on their own

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Thursday, 7 May

9.30 AM - 12.30 PM IV. ORGANIZED SESSIONS

(Topics and papers selected by the persons designated with an asterisk.)

Emerald Bay A

OS-1: Rendering Images: Composing the Iconic or Graphing Contradictions?

Ann Leatherwood (English, University of South Alabama), "Radiant Image or Icon of Doom: Configurations of the 'Double Poem' in Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott.'"

Albert Cook (Comparative Literature and English, Brown University), "The Prolonged Preoccupation with Image: Yeats, Pound, Eliot."

Brian Caraher* (English, Queen's University of Belfast), "Appropriations and Restitutions: Van Gogh's Images and Texts of Heidegger, Shapiro, Meier-Graefe, and Derrida."

Respondents: Caraher to Leatherwood, Leatherwood to Cook, Cook to Caraher

Emerald Bay B

OS-2: Images and Emotions

Moderator: Arto Haapala* (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki)

Margit Sutrop (Philosophy, University of Konstanz), "The Role of Imagination in the Reader's Response to Fictions."

Emily Brady (Philosophy, Lancaster University), "Imagination and Feeling in the Kantian Sublime."

Elke de Rijlke (French, University of Antwerp), "Emotion and Estrangement II: For a Poetics of 'the Sinister.'"

Emerald Bay C

OS-3: Images of Memories: Literature and Derrida

Moderator: Lia Hotchkiss (English, University of South Alabama)

Jeffrey A Weinstock (Program in the Human Sciences, The George Washington University), "Impossible Images: Doing Justice to the Disremembered."

Florin Berindeanu (Comparative Literature, University of Georgia), "Through the Looking Glass: Derrida as Literature."

Roberta Imboden* (English, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto), "The Subversive Pinkish Hue of Duras' The Lover: A Derridean Meditation."

Jeremy P. Meyer (English, Arizona State University), "The Trace of an Absent Past: Derrida, Memory, and the Failure of Representation in Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies."

Edward Emery (Psychoanalyst, Northampton, MA), "Mnemosyne: Death, Memory, and Mourning."

Emerald Bay D

OS-4: Responsibility and Mimesis

Moderator: Thomas Keenan (Comparative Literature, Binghamton University)

Pamela M. Brown (English, New York University), "Levinas in Ithaca: Answering the Joycean World."

Laura Tuley (Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology), "A Catharsis of Mimesis by Mimesis."

Zsuzsa Baross (Cultural Studies, Trent University), "When the Thinker Blinks: Deleuze and the Logic of Sensation."

Tim Craker (Humanities, Mercer University), "On the Inheritance of Mimesis."

Stephen David Ross* (Philosophy, Binghamton University), "Ecology and Economy: Nature's Simulacra."

Emerald Bay E

OS-5: The Images of History in Question

Moderator: Thomas R. Flynn (Philosophy, Emory University)

Mark Poster (History, UC-Irvine), "The Being of Technologies: On Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology."

Erik Vogt (Philosophy, Loyola University of Ohio), "History's Imagery: Sartre and Benjamin."

Walter A. Davis (English, Ohio State University), "Deracination vs. Deconstruction: The Image in/and History."

Martin Donougho (Philosophy, University of South Carolina), "The Sovereign Image."

Marshall Gregory (English, Butler University), "Images of History: The Historical Novel"

Salt Creek AB

OS-6: Working Women: Images of Prostitution

Moderator: Debra Bergoffen* (Philosophy and Religious Studies, George Mason University)

Gertrude Postl (Philosophy, Suffolk community College), "Prostitution in Marriage: Property and Sexuality in Elfrede Jelinek's Lust."

C. Colwell (Philosophy, Villanova University), "Strategic Subjectivity: The Effacement of the Image of the Prostitute in the Age of Cybersex."

Joanna Hodge (Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitcan University), "Prostitutes and Whores; Journalists and Critics: Images of Substitution"

Ailene A. McGuirk (Honors Program, Villanova University), "Deleuze and the Dominant Bitch."

Dorothea Olkowski (Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), "Under Western Eyes: Asian Sexuality and Patpong Sex Shops."

Crescent Bay A

OS-7: Legacies of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Images of Responsibility

Moderator: Dana Hollander (The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University)

Ken Itzkowitz (Philosophy and Sociology, Marietta College), "The Image of Ethical (Ir)responsibility: The Legacy of Kierkegaard in Bataille and Derrida."

Ladelle McWhorter (Philosophy, University of Richmond), "Foucault's Style."

David Goicoechea (Philosophy, Brock University), "Images of Responsibility: Derrida's Hedgehog, Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith, Nietzsche's Lion."

fabienne-sophie chauderlot (Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University), "Resolving, Solving, or Dissolving: The Nietzsche Case in France."

John C. Coker* (Philosophy, University of South Alabama), "Responding to the Image of Baubo."

Crescent Bay B

OS-8: The Imaginary City: The New Visions of the Metropolis

Moderator: Osvaldo Valdes (SCI-ARC)

Lawrence C. Davis (Architecture, Syracuse University), "Is God in the 'Burbs?: The Broadcast Architecture of the Crystal Cathedral."

Ib Johansen (English, University of Aarhus), "Urban Phantasmagorias: Imaginary Cityscapes Under the Auspices of Modernity and Postmodernity."

Kevin O'Neill (Philosophy, University of Redlands), "Visions of the City/Cities of the Dead: Images of the Ideal City in Rural Cemeteries and Consolation Literature."

Jonathan Scott Lee (Philosophy, The Colorado College), "An Architecture of a Democracy to Come."

Thomas Brockelman* (Philosophy, LeMoyne College), "Collage City/Event City: Architectural Urbanism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde."

1.30 - 4.30 PM V. GENERAL SESSIONS

(Papers selected from general submissions (GS) or proposed sessions (PS)

Joe Chaney (English, Indiana University, South Bend), "Shylock as Image and Sign: Reading the Pound of Flesh in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice."

Emerald Bay C

GS-19: Interrogating Representation and Responsibility

Moderator: Danny Adams (Philosophy, Community College, Baltimore)

Chi-she Li (Comparative Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Traumatic Images and Social Mimesis."

Ed Cameron (Comparative Literature, Binghamton University), "The Self-Relating Image of Responsibility."

Gabriela Basterra (Spanish and Portuguese, New York University), "Images of the End: from Victimization to Responsibility."

Justine McGill (Arts, University of Sydney), "Becoming Actors: Images of the Responsible Subject in Modernity."

Krzystof Ziarek (English, Notre Dame), "The Social Figure of Art."

Emerald Bay D

GS-20: Ethics and Images

Moderator: Roy Martinez (Philosophy, Spelman College)

Don Coble (Philosophy, DePaul University), "The Man Without Images: Musil's Revision of Mach's Ethics of Sensation."

Adrian Mackenzie (General Philosophy, University of Sydney), "An Ethics of the Materiality of the Animated Image-Object."

Del Lausa (English, Syracuse University), "Personal Identity and the Crystal-Image: Toward a Deleuzo-Parfitian Image of Trans-Subjective Ethical Consciousness."

1. Robert Hughes (Comparative Literature, Emory University), "The Art of Impersonation: Brockden Brown, Kierkegaard, and the Literary Contribution to Ethics."

2. Brett R. Wheeler, "Modernism and Mimetic Judgement: Henri Bergson and Georg Lukacs."

Emerald Bay E

GS-21: Interrogations of Desire

Moderator: Carol Jane Powley (Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Keith Peterson (Philosophy, DePaul University), "Desire as Movement--Image of God."

Gina Zavota (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Images of Desire: The Visible and the Ineffable in Lacan and Deleuze."

William Watkin (English, Queen's University, Belfast), "Finishing Desire Off: Decollation of the Gaze and its Role in the Process of Desire."

Julia Saville (English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne), "Bathing Boys: Romance in the Images of Henry Scott Tuke."

Anna Fredlund (Penn State University), "Fragments of Nature: The Pseudo-Erotic Poetry of Ann Jäderlund."

Salt Creek B

GS-22: Problematic Self-Portraiture

Moderator: Steve Martinot (Berkeley, California)

Beatrice Hanssen (Harvard University), "Portrait of Walter Benjamin."

Thea Harrington (English, Hilbert College), "Circumnavigation Circumfessions: performative failure and autobiography in Jacques Derrida."

Daniel J. Selcer (Philosophy, DePaul University), "Example's Repetition: the Image of Method in Descartes."

Jeffrey S. Librett (Modern Languages and Literatures, Loyola University of Chicago), "Metaphor and Metonymy in the Bergsonian Image."

Crescent Bay A

GS-23: Critical Languages of Film

Moderator: Janet Lungstrum (German Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Jeffrey Bell (Philosophy, Southeastern Louisiana University), "Gilles Deleuze and Film: The Time-Image and the Impossibility of Thought."

Kevin Sweeney (Philosophy, University of Tampa), "The Modernist Image: Deleuze on Beckett's Film."

Gregg Lambert (English, Syracuse University), "Cinema, Ideology, and the 'Image of Thought'--Eisenstein and Deleuze."

Christiane Orcel (Humanities, California Institute of Technology), "Interrogating Images: Robbe-Grillet's and Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad."

Crescent Bay B

GS-24: Gender/Image

Moderator: Johanna Oksala (University of Helsinki)

Ann Ciasullo (English, University of Kentucky), "Making Her (In)Visible: Cultural Representations of Lesbianism . . . "

Anthony John Harding (English, University of Saskatchewan), "Imaging 'Whiteness' in a Nineteenth-Century Male Captivity Narrative."

Drew Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College), "The Difference Différance Makes: The Question of Woman in Plato."

Marina de Carneri (Buffalo, New York), "For an Aesthethics of Sexual Difference: On the Kantian Beautiful and Its Relation to the Feminine."

Virginia Blum (English, University of Kentucky), "I Want My Nose to Look Natural: The Aesthetics of Artifice in Cosmetic Surgery."

Administration 107

GS-25: Interrogating Film and Still: The Dark Side

Moderator: Eric Rentschler (Film Studies, UC-Irvine)

Eva Cherniavsky (English, Indiana University), "The Virtual Geographies of Film Noir."

Sarah Maier (Comparative Literature, University of Alberta), "John Doe Reads: Interrogating the Postmodern Serial Killer in Seven."

Rod Heimpel (French, University of Toronto), "Killer Photos: Interrogating the Photographic Image in the True-Crime Novel."

Peter Schwenger (English, Mount St. Vincent University), "Corpsing the Image."

Joel Black (Comparative Literature, University of Georgia), "Forensic Aesthetics: The Assassination Scene from Antonioni to Zapruder."

Salt Creek A

GS-26: Strategic Representations

Moderator: Herbert Grabes (English, Institut für Anglistik, Giessen)

Silvia Dapia (Languages and Letters, Purdue University), "The World Only Occurs Once: Fritz Mautner's Concept of Representation and the Real."

R. L. Rutsky (Communications and Theatre), "Interrogating Images in The X-Files."

Ferit Guven (Philosophy, DePaul University), "A Blind, Mad Traveler: Descartes and Representation."

Annette Hilt (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Living in Images."

Astrid Vicas (Philosophy, Saint Leo College), "Radical Appresentationalism: The Situationist Contribution."

5.00 - 6.30 PM Plenary Session

Humanities Lecture Theatre

Introduction of Plenary Speaker

"Jenni's Room"

VICTOR BURGIN

History of Consciousness, UC-Santa Cruz

Respondent:

Wilhelm Wurzer

Philosophy

Duquesne University

6.45 - 8.00 PM Reception

Humanities Courtyard, UCI campus

8.30 PM Performance

The Barn, UCI campus

The Digital Arts Department, UCI Extension

The School of the Arts

The Office of the Chancellor

present

point of reference

Dinner

Conferees on their own.

…..

Friday, 8 May

9.00 AM - 12.00 noon VI. ORGANIZED SESSIONS

(Topics and papers selected by the persons designated with an asterisk.)

Emerald Bay A

OS-10: Imaging the Gift: Theory at the Crossroads of Ethics/Politics/Economics

Moderator: Alan D. Schrift* (Philosophy, Grinnell College)

David Fisher (Philosophy, North Central College), "Gold and Ashes: Célan's Gift."

Eve Corredor (Language Studies, U.S. Naval Academy), "An Ethical Inquiry into Derrida's Spectres and Lukács's Perspectives."

Emily Zakin (Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio), "Ethics Against Economy: Sacrificing the Law of the Home."

Martha Woodruff (Philosophy, Middlebury College), "An Ethics of Generosity and Friendship: Aristotle's Gift to Nietzsche."

Gary Shapiro (Philosophy, University of Richmond), "Circles and Cycles of the Gift: Ophuls's The Earrings of Madame D."

Emerald Bay B

Emerald Bay C

Dalia Judovitz (French and Italian, Emory University), "Dali and Duchamp: Chess, Deixis, and Art."

Emerald Bay D

Lorraine Markotic (English, University of Calgary), "Miming Representation and Representing Mimesis."

Sam Kimball (English, University of North Florida), "The Scarred Son, the Bound Son: The Invisible Image of Infanticide and the Representation of Reality in Western Literature--Averbach's Mimesis."

Anna Alexander (The Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal, and Département d'études littéraires, Université de Québec à Montréal), "Representing the M/Other: Mimesis and Incorporation in Feminist Conceptions of Self and Other."

Christina Pugh (Comparative Literature, Harvard University), "Non-Pictorial Mimesis in the Ekphrastic Lyric."

Dianna Niebylski (Spanish and Comparative Literature, Earlham College), "Embattled Images: Excess and Rupture as Anti-Mimetic Impulses in Contemporary Latin American Works by Women."

Respondent: Thomas Huhn (Philosophy, Wesleyan College)

Emeald Bay E

OS-14: Figuration and Cultural Studies

Moderator: Steven Ungar (French and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa)

Bruno Bosteels (Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University), "The Plots of Painting."

Amy J. Peterson (Comparative Literature, University of Iowa), "Horror vacui: The Dissolution of the Subject and the Solution of Excessive Ornament in Outsider Text Embellishments."

Alexander Gelley (English and Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine), "What Was 'Schein'?"

Thomas Reinert (English, University of North Carolina), "Figuration and the Civil Rights Movement."

Sabine I. Gölz* (Comparative Literature, University of Iowa), "Figuration and Cultural Spaces."

Salt Creek AB

OS-15: Political Uses and Abuses of 'Nature': New Images for a New Millennium

Moderator: John Murungi (Philosophy, Towson University)

Silvia Benso (Philosophy, Siena College), "Faceless Faces: Imaging Things with Heidegger?"

Richard Doyle (English, Pennsylvania State University), "Giant Squid Sex and Distributed Corporeality."

William Slaymaker (Humanities, Wayne State University), "Politically and Poetically Correcting Nature: Contemporary Aboriginal and Native American Landscape Images."

Daniel W. Conway* (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University), "Energy Circuits."

Anne-Marie Bowery (Philosophy, Baylor University), "Reconnecting with Nature: Hatha Yoga and the Breath."

Crescent Bay A

OS-16: Postcoloniality and Images of Multiculturalism

Moderator: Laurie Patton (Religion and South Asian Studies, Emory University)

Sneja Gunew (English/Women's Studies, University of British Columbia), "The Multiculturalism of Postcolonialism: The Local in the Global."

Nikos Nikos Papastergiadis (Sociology, University of Manchester), "Debating Hybridity."

Purushottama Bilimoria* (Philosophy/Comparative Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne), "From 'hybridity' to 'bastardy' in a postcolonial condition: the antinomies of Anglo-Indian (Personal/Communal) Laws, Sati Acts, and Uniform Civil Codes in Imagined India."

Ziba Rashidian (English, Southeastern Louisiana University), "The Image of History and the Cross-Cultural Imagination: Benjamin in the Caribbean."

David Birch (Literary and Communication Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne), "Whites Looking at Blacks Looking at Whites in Australia: Marking Whiteness in Aboriginal Representations in Media Images of the Law."

Crescent Bay B

OS-17: Digital Photography

Moderator: Gwendolyn Wells (Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania)

Silke Weinecke (German and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan) and Gwen Welles (French, University of Pennsylvania), "Digitalities."

Richard Beardsworth (Philosophy, American University in Paris), "The Specificity of the Digital Image."

John Heon (English, University of Pennsylvania), "The Witz of Digital Photography."

Jean-Michel Rabaté (English, University of Pennsylvania)

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OS-18: Images of Eros and Issues of Ethics: Motherhood and Fatherhood

Moderator: Douglas Kellner (Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin)

Nancy Holland (Philosophy, Hamline University), "The Death of the Other/Father: A Feminist Rereading of Derrida."

Cynthia Willett (Philosophy, Emory University), "Discourse Ethics and the Cult of White Womanhood."

Kelly Oliver (Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin), "The Morality of American Manhood."

Paul Taylor (Philosophy, University of Kentucky)), "Race and Manhood: Paternity and Misogyny in 'Purple Rain.'"

Commentator: Jason Wirth (Philosophy, Oglethorpe College, Atlanta)

Friday, 8 May, 1.30 - 4.30 PM

1.30 - 4.30 PM VII. PANELS

(Topics and papers selected by the persons designated with an asterisk.)

Emerald Bay A

P-1: Interrogating the Postmodern Film

Moderator: Hugh J. Silverman* (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY at Stony Brook)

John Welchman (Visual Arts, UC-San Diego), "Faciality and Postmodern Cinema."

Lisa maree Trahair (Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Australia), "A Taste for Murder: Aesthetic Practice in Silence of the Lambs."

Paul Gordon (Comparative Literature/Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder), "Interrogating the Image: The Unusual Suspect."

Vernon Gras (English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University), "Pondering the AntiNarrative Metaphoric Film: Peter Greenaway's Aesthetic."

David Averbuck (Philosophy, Sonoma State University) and Roger Bell (Philosophy, Sonoma State University), "Disputing Narrative and Image in Wayne Wang's Smoke."

Emerald Bay B

P-2: Interrogating the Unfinished: Discontinuous Myths; Broken Images

Moderator: James E. Swearingen* (English, Mobile, Alabama)

Linda Saladin-Adams (English, Florida State University), "Broken Images and the Alchemy of Lust in Huysman's Against the Grain."

Sara Guyer (Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley), "Marguerite Duras's Destroy, She Said."

Karen Valihora (English, York University), "The Ruin of the Picturesque: The Picturesque and the Tradition of Neoclassical Aesthetics."

Rochelle Tobias (German, Johns Hopkins University), "The History of a Promise: Messianic Strains in Paul Célan's Late Work."

Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Loyola College, Baltimore), "Levinas and the 'Broken' Sculptures of Sosno."

Emerald Bay C

P-3: From Image to Simulacrum

Moderator: Massimo Verdicchio* (Modern Languages, University of Alberta)

Silvana Carotenuto (University of Salerno), "Blake and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man: The Fate of an Image."

James R. Watson (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans), "A11380's Appearing Within Capture's Transparency."

Thomas Kemple (University of British Columbia), "The Social as Simulacrum, or, Politics and Its Discontents."

Daniel W. Smith (Grinnell College), "Deleuze's Concept of the Simulacrum."

Robert Burch (English, University of Alberta), "Unto Simulacra: Consciousness Bewildered and Bewildering."

Emerald Bay E

P-4: Image, Blind Spot, and Word

Moderator: Wayne J. Froman* (Philosophy, George Mason University)

Bernard Flynn (Philosophy, Empire State College/SUNY and the New School), "The Effacement of the Image in the Political Thought of Claude Lefort."

Hanneke Grootenboer (Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester), "Towards a Non-Perceptual Mode of Looking: Trompe-l'oeil Painting and Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Depth."

Arden Reed (English, Pomona College), "Manet, Flaubert, and the Stain of Modernism."

Mary Lydon (French Literature, University of Wisconsin), "Impediments to Writing: Image and Word in Samuel Beckett."

5.00 - 6.30 PM Memorial Session for Jean-Francois Lyotard
(replacing the previously announced session with Rosalind Krauss)

Jean-Francois Lyotard died in Paris at the age of 73 on April 21st, 1998.
Hugh J. Silverman, David Carroll, Dalia Judovitz, Andrew Benjamin, Mary
Lydon,  and Jacques Derrida spoke in memorial about Jean-Francois Lyotard -- the philosopher, the teacher, the colleague, the friend -- in the Humanities Lecture Theatre on the UC Irvine campus.

6.45 - 8.00 PM Reception

Orange County Airport Hilton Patio

8.30 PM Performance

The Barn, UCI campus

The Digital Arts Department, UCI Extension

The School of the Arts

UCI Advancement

present

point of reference

Dinner

Conferees on their own.

..

Saturday, 9 May

Book Exhibit open until 11.00 AM

9.00 AM - 12.30 noon VIII. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

[Ten-minute summary of full papers (available from session organizers in

Emerald Bay A

CE-1: Cross-cultural Interrogations of Postcoloniality

Moderator: Brian K. Smith (Religious Studies, UC-Riverside)

1. Kay Schaffer (Social Inquiry/Women's Studies, University of Adelaide), "'Dancing With Dingoes': Deconstructing images of racial and multicultural difference within an Australian film context."

2. Renuka Sharma (Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia), "Images of Post/Multi/Colonial/Cultural-ism: Locating Winnicott's Specs in Bhabha."

3. Jocelyn Dunphy (Philosophy/Social Inquiry, Deakin University, Melbourne), "Genealogies of Multiculturalism: Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor."

4. Dina Al-Kassim (Comparative Literature, Stanford University), "The Muslim Patient: A Case of Orientalism in Lacan's Theory of Foreclosure."

5. Ramona Fernandez (American Thought and Languages, Michigan State University), "Disney's Labyrinth: An Examination of Disney World's EPCOT Center as a Mocrocosm of the Contemporary Info-Age."

6. Leeha Gandhi (English, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia), "Affective Community, Inter-cultural Friendships in the Late 19^th and early 20^th Century Indo-British Colonial Encounter."

7. Wenche Ommundsen (Literary and Communication Studies, Deakin University), "Multicultural Sleep: Race, Identity, and Backlash Scenarios in Contemporary Australia."

Respondent: Marguerite Waller (English/Women's Studies, UC-Riverside)

Emerald Bay B

CE-2: Imaging in Asian-America

Moderator:Ketu Katrak (Asian-American Studies, UC--Irvine)

Jin Y. Park (Comparative Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook), Imaging in Silence: Chiasm of the Visible and the Invisible in Asian-American Identity."

Shailja Sharma (English, DePaul University), "The Politics of Arrival: Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Divakaturi."

Shumei Shih (Asian-American Studies, UCLA), "Globalization and Minoritization: Gender Politics in the Films of Ang Lee."

Sjiamg Shen (English, Queensborough Community College, CUNY), "Frank Chin, Translation, and the Transnational Context."

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin* (English, Manhattan Community College, CUNY), "Imaging as Framing Apparatus: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Trinh T. Minh-ha."

Respondent: Ketu Katrak

Emerald Bay C

CE-3: From Classical to Post-Modern: Tracing the Platonic Image

Moderator: John Russon* (Philosophy, Penn State University)

Jill Gordon (Philosophy, Colby College), "Why Didn't Plato Just Write Argument? The Role of Image-Making in the Dialogues."

Maria Talero (Philosophy, Penn State University), "Oppositions and Images in the Platonic Dialogues."

Alessandra Fussi (Philosophy, Boston University), "Why is the Gorgias So Bitter?"

Respondent: Robert Metcalf (Philosophy, Penn State University)

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CE-4: Slavic Images, Inside and Out: Stereotype and 'Reality' in Russian, Czech, and Polish Cultural Settings

PART 1: SLAVIC IMAGES ABROAD

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (Russian, University of Osaka), "Tolstoy, Attila, Edison: The Constructed Image of a 'Real' Pacifist Across National Boundaries."

Anna Klobucka (Romance Languages, University of Georgia), Desert and Wilderness Revisited: Returning to Sienkiewicz's Africa."

Daniel Melnick (English, Cleveland State University), Silence and Interrogation in Conrad's Under Western Eyes."

Martha Kuhlman (Comparative Literature, New York University), "Images of the Crowd in Milan Kundera's Novels."

John Burt Foster, Jr.* (English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University), "'Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy': A Russian Classic Between 'First' and 'Third' Worlds."

PART 2: SLAVIC IMAGES AT HOME

Thomas Seifrid (Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC), "'Illusion' as a Category in Modern Russian Culture."

Edith W. Clowes* (Slavic and Comparative Literature), "Conflicting Identities: Images of Jewishness in Vasili Rozanov's Public and Private Prose."

Nikita Nankov (Comparative Literature and Slavic, Indiana University), "The Straight Line and the Circle: The Road and the Master Mind in Two (Post)Stalinist Movies."

Leona Toker (English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "The Reversal of the Public and the Private in Abram Terts/Siniavsky's Goodnight!"

Audrey Shinner (Comparative Literature, University of Georgia), "The Play of Images and Significance Between Political and Literary History in Milan Kundera's Works."

John Bushnell (History, Northwestern University), "The Longing for a Primordial Slavic Culture."

1.30 - 4.30 PM ROUNDTABLES

Emerald Bay AB

R-1: Glancing at the Image: The Unexpected Power of Just Looking

Moderator: Ed Dimendberg (Philosophy, UCLA)

James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "Everything Can Only Be Seen in a Glance."

Veronique Foti (Philosophy, Penn State University at State College)

Martin Jay (English, UC-Berkeley), "Astronomical Hindsight: The Speed of Light and Virtual Reality"

Brian Schroeder (Philosophy, Coastal Carolina University), "Beyond the Image: Ethics and the Vertigo of the Glance."

Commentator: Edward Scot Casey* (Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook)

Emerald Bay CDE

R-2: Consciousness, Cognition, and Image

Moderator: Stephen Barker* (School of the Arts, UC-Irvine)

Richard Haier (Pediatrics, UC-Irvine School of Medicine), "Consciousness, Cognition, and the Brain-Image Itself: Mapping Intelligence."

James McMichael (English, UC-Irvine), "Images of Identity in the Landscape of Poetry."

Alan Nelson (Philosophy, UC-Irvine), "Modernist Images and Consciousness of Self."

Julia Lupton (English and Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine), "Class Consciousness: Out-Reach Re-Search."

Daniel J. Martinez (Studio Art, UC-Irvine), "Consciousness as a Trick of the Gaze; Images of Cultural Boundaries."

Saturday, 9 May, 5.00-6.30 PM

5.00-6.30 PM Plenary Session

Humanities Lecture Theatre

Introduction of IAPL Invited Speaker

Hugh J. Silverman

IAPL Executive Director

"Les Coups d'Artaud: The Question of the Museum"

JACQUES DERRIDA

Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and

Professor of Comparative Literature and French, UC-Irvine

7.00 PM Annual Reception

Phineas Banning Alumni House, UCI campus

8.00PM California Cuisine Fiesta Under the Stars

Phineas Banning Alumni House, UCI campus

(by prior reservation. Form included in this program.)