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International Association for Philosophy and Literature
23rd Annual Conference
Trinity College
Hartford, CT
May 11-15, 1999
P o s t m o d e r n
S i t e s
Guide to Program
Welcome to IAPL >99
IAPL Invited and Plenary Speakers
Schedule of Events
IAPL Book Series Information
Hotel and Travel
Note to Moderators
Participants Index
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Welcome to IAPL
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Dear Colleagues:
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature is dedicated
to the exchange of ideas and the development of scholarly research within the humanities.
Founded to provide a context for the interplay of philosophy, literary study, and literary
theory, the Association brings together scholars from the full range of disciplines
concerned with philosophical, historical, critical, and theoretical issues.
With its focus on interdisciplinary topics and concerns, the IAPL, since
its inception in the mid-1970s, has represented and participated in many of the most vital
and exciting developments at the intersection between philosophy and literature. The
Association's annual meetings provide a unique opportunity for dialogue and exchange of
ideas, the articulation of contemporary themes and topics, the exploration of various
expressive arts, and the production of new theoretical discourses.
On behalf of the IAPL, the other members of the Executive Committee and I
are delighted to welcome you to the Twenty-Third Annual Conference on the topic: "Postmodern
Sites. @ We are especially grateful to Drew Hyland, IAPL '99
Conference Coordinator, for his enthusiastic and energetic commitment to making the
conference this year a solid, thoughtful, and rewarding event. It has been a pleasure
working with him. I also wish to express thanks to Andrew Haase who created the initial
program, to Rita Law for her expert program design, to Christine Guilmartin for
coordinating local arrangements, and particularly to Debra Sombic who picked up midstream
and helped sort out a variety of lacunae in the final program preparation. Her consistent
work in communicating with program participants, maintaining records, and filling gaps at
crucial moments is greatly appreciated.
We are also very glad to express our genuine thanks to Trinity College
President Evan Dobelle who saw from the outset the value of holding IAPL =99 at
Trinity College. We are also grateful to the Trinity College faculty, staff, and students
for their support and warm welcome of the 1999 conference participants, guests, and
association members.
Hugh J. Silverman
IAPL Executive Director |
Conference Coordinator:
Drew A. Hyland
Associate Coordinator:
Andrew Haase
Call for Papers and Program Cover Design by
Rita Law
Special Thanks to Debra Sombic and Christine Guilmartin
IAPL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Hugh J. Silverman, Executive Director
(Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY/Stony Brook)
Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California BIrvine)
Wayne J. Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University)
Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College-Hartford, CT)
James E. Swearingen (English, Mobile, Alabama)
Eva Plonowska Ziarek (English, Notre Dame University)
Acknowledgments:
The IAPL Executive Committee would like to thank Trinity College President Evan Dobelle
and former Dean of the Faculty Raymond Baker as well as Interim Dean of the Faculty W.
Miller Brown for their generous support of the 1999 IAPL conference.
| All sessions will be held on
the Trinity College Campus:
Mather Hall, Life Science Center [LSC], and the Austin Arts Center.
Registration and the IAPL Publishers' Book Exhibit & Cafe will take
place in the Washington Room, 2nd floor, Mather Hall from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Wednesday
through Friday and on Saturday morning until noon. |
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INVITED SPEAKER
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
Julia Kristeva
Since arriving in Paris in 1966 as a doctoral fellow, Bulgarian-born Julia
Kristeva has become one of the world's most respected and rigorous intellectuals. Her
writings draw upon various disciplines--philosophy, linguistics, intellectual history,
semiotics, literary theory, and psychoanalysis.
During her early years in Paris, she joined the avant-garde Tel Quel literary
and cultural theory group (which also included Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Marcelin
Pleynet and Philippe Sollers). In this period, she published a number of books including
what has been translated as Desire in Language and The Revolution in Poetic
Language (1974). In these writings, she sets forth her crucial distinction between the
semiotic and the symbolic.
A semiotic understanding of psychoanalysis has been the guiding signifying
discourse for her theoretical work. Out of this commitment, she published Powers of
Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), Tales of Love (1982), a study of the
"love-relation, love-object" and its expression in literary theory, In the
Beginning was Love (1985), on the relations between psychoanalysis and faith, and Black
Sun: Depression and Melancholy (1987). Her Strangers to Ourselves (1988)
responds to current issues of racism and xenophobia in France and examines the role of the
stranger or foreigner in different historical contexts from the Old Testament to the
present and concludes with the psychoanalytic effects of being a stranger to oneself.
Recent publications include Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience
of Literature (1994), the two volumes of Pouvoirs et limites de la psychoanalyse:
Sens et non-sens de la revolte (1996), and La Revolte intime (1997), Contre
la dépression nationale (1998), Le Féminin et le sacré (1998), Proust:
questions d'identité(1998), and L =Avenir d=une révolte (1998).
She has also published several novels: Samurai (1990), The Old Man and the
Wolves (1991), and Possessions (1996). The Portable Kristeva (1997),
edited by Kelly Oliver, provides a useful compendium of her writings over the past two
decades.
Julia Kristeva is Director of Research in the Department of Texts and
Documents at the University of Paris-VII (Denis Diderot). She maintains a private practice
as a psychoanalyst in Paris and has for many years taught at Columbia University, sharing
the Chair of Literary Semiology with Umberto Eco and Tzvetan Todorov. She is also
Executive Secretary of the International Association of Semiology and a member of many
editorial boards. In April 1997, she received one of France's highest honors
"Chevalière de la légion d'honneur" for her thirty years of intellectual work
which has been translated into ten languages.
For her 1999 IAPL Invited Lecture, she will speak about Hannah Arendt and
the idea of a life as narrative.
PLENARY SPEAKER
Saturday, May 15, 1999
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the firm of Frank O. Gehry and
Associates, Inc., which he established in 1962. Before founding the firm, Frank Gehry
worked with architects Victor Gruen and Pereira & Luckman in Los Angeles, and with
Andre Remondet in Paris.
Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los
Angeles in 1947. Frank Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the
University of Southern California, and he studied City Planning at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. In subsequent years, he has built an architectural career that
has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Asia and
Europe. In a 1989 New York Times article, architecture critic Paul Goldberger wrote that
Frank Gehry's buildings Afrom an aesthetic standpoint ...are among the most profound and
brilliant works of architecture of our time." Hallmarks of Frank Gehry's work include
a particular concern that people exist comfortably within the spaces that he creates, and
an insistence that his buildings address the context and culture of their sites.
His work has earned Frank Gehry several of the most significant awards in
the architectural field: the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1977), the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989),
perhaps the premiere accolade of the field, honoring "significant contributions to
humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture," the Wolf Prize
in Art (Architecture) (1992), and the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art
Association to "honor outstanding contributions to the development, popularization,
and progress of the arts"(1992). In 1994, Frank Gehry became the first recipient of
the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Award for lifetime contribution to the arts. He was named a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987, a trustee of the American
Academy in Rome in 1989, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1991. In 1994, the title of Academician was bestowed upon him by the National Academy of
Design.
In 1982, 1985, and 1987-89, he held the Charlotte Davenport Professorship
in Architecture at Yale University, and in 1984, he held the Eliot Noyes Chair at Harvard
University. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of
Architects (A.I.A.) in 1974, and his buildings have received many national and regional
A.I.A. awards.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, May 11, 1999 - Evening
9.15 PM - 12.15 AM Welcoming Reception:
Meet Julia Kristeva.
Cash Bar.
Hilton Club Lounge, Room 2211, 22nd floor
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
8.00 AM - 4:45 PM Daily (until noon Saturday)
REGISTRATION
IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ
(Coffee and pastries in the mornings; cold drinks in the afternoon. )
Washington Room, 2nd floor, Mather Hall, Trinity College
All sessions will be held on the
Trinity College Campus in the Life Science Center [LSC], Mather Hall, and the Austin Arts
Center.
9.00 - 12.00 noon I. GENERAL SESSIONS
GS-1: Postmodern Genres (LSC 136).
Moderator: Dan Lloyd (Philosophy, Trinity College)
1. Jonathan Strauss (French and Italian, Miami University), "An
Elusive Text and the Wording of the Law."
2. William Edelglass (Philosophy, Emory University), "Situating
Montaigne."
3. Krysia Jopek (English, CUNY Graduate Center), "Postmodern Poetics:
The Linguistic Sublime in Twentieth-Century American Poetry."
4. David Kaufmann (English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University),
"Postmodern Allegories and Ancient Benedictions: Archie Rand's 'The Eighteenth'"
5. Claire May (Art Institute of Atlanta), "Coleridge's Kubla Khan:
The Sacred River as the Site of Poetry."
GS-2: Postmodern Cinemas (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Moderator: TomConley (Romance Languages, Harvard University)
1.Thomas Hemmeter (English and Film, Beaver College), "Anxious Space:
Insights from Postmodern Architectural Theory on the Construction of Cinematic
Space."
2.Charles Tryon (English, Purdue University), "Because I know that
Time is Time: Identification and Memory in Chris Marker's Sans Soliel."
3.Kayrn Ball (Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota)
"Memory as Concept."
4. Youngjeen Choe (Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook),
"Redrawing the Line Between Image and Text: Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books."
GS-3: Cyberspace, Hypertext, Virtual Reality (LSC 134).
Moderator: Robert K. Bunch (Social Sciences, New York Technical College).
1.Dennis Weiss (Philosophy, York College), "Cyberculture: A
Postmodern Site?"
2.Mark Gilbert (Sociology, George Mason University), "Postmodern
Pedagogy and Computing: Hypertext as an Enabling Technology for Decentered Learning."
3.Paul Ford (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University), "Virtually
Therapeutic Spaces."
4.David MacGregor Johnston (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "Virtual
Worlds, Virtual Selves, and the Cybernetic Body-Subject."
5.Eyal Amiran (English, Michigan State University), "Sites of Virtual
Intimacy: Absorption/Context/Hypertext."
GS-4: Postmodern Dwelling (Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Roy Martinez (Philosophy and Religion, Spelman College)
1.Richard Capobianco (Philosophy, Stonehill College), "Heidegger and
Building: The Tension Between Centering and De-Centering."
2.Golfo Maggini (Philosophy, New School for Social Research), "From
Time to Place: On Heidegger's 'Site of the Moment'-Toward a Hermeneutics of Place."
3.Karmen MacKendrick (Philosophy, Gettysburg College), "Displaced
Journeys."
4.Eleanor Kaufman (Humanities, Cornell University), "Living Virtually
in a Cluttered House."
5.Arnd Wedemeyer (Humanties, John Hopkins University), "Anchorage:
Heidegger's Thinking into the Ground."
GS-5: Between Ethics and Justice (LSC 132).
Moderator: David Weberman (Law and Philosophy, Harvard Law School).
1. J. Holbrook (Philosophy, Emory University) "Witnessing Postmodern
Sites: Testifying to the Differend of Homelessness."
2. Lisa EllenCox (Philosophy, DePaul University), "Originary
Repetition: God and Blanchot at the Site of the Law."
3. Gabriela Basterra (Spanish and Portuguese, New York University),
"From Intersubjectivity to Justice: Levinas and the Birth of the Third."
4. Ed Young (Philosophy, Penn State University), "The Site of
Chiasmatic Resistance:Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Discourse."
5. Eva Corredor (Language Studies, United States Naval Academy),
"Justice does not take (a) place--La Justice n'a pas (de) lieu."
GS-6: Psychoanalytic Topologies (LSC 133).
Moderator: Renee Trilling (English, University of Notre Dame)
1. Matthew Potolsky (Literature, Harvard University), "Sites of the
Secret: Freud's 'Placing' of the Unconscious."
2. Andrew Slade (Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook), "The
Sublime and Sublimation: Aesthetics and Drive in Malraux's L'Espoir."
3. Adrian Johnston (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "Etchings of Time:
A Reconsideration of the Place of Lacanian Topology."
4. Richard Boothby (Philosophy, Loyola College, Baltimore), "Thinking
Otherwise: Levinas and Lacan."
5. Lysane Fauvel (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "Race and its
Discontents: The Orientation of Aggression towards the Other."
GS-7: Prolegomena to the Postmodern (Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Aaron Smith (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook).
1. Steve Martinot, (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley), "The Site of
Postmodernity in Sartre."
2. Elsebet Jegstrup (Philosophy, Augusta State University),
"Pseudonyms, Subtexts, and Other Ironic Kierkegaardian Sites."
3. Ann Leatherwood (English, University of South Alabama), "In Sight
of First Reality: Voyeurism, Metaphysics, Donne and Deleuze."
4. Lidan Lin (English, Black Hills State University), "The Heritage
of Hegel: Marx, Nietzsche, and Posthumanism."
5. Maria Granik (Philosophy, Boston University), "Time and the
Possibility of Knowledge in Husserl and Derrida."
GS-8: Nietzschean Sites (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Maurice Wade (Philosophy, Trinity College)
1. John Coker (Philosophy, University of South Alabama), "A
Postmodern Uncanny Site of Encounter: A Syncope Between Apollo and Dionysus."
2. Marcella Goldsmith (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University),
"Europe Besieged--Nietzsche's Answer to the Bound Spirit."
3. Tsu-chung Su (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Chi-Nan University),
"The Writing of the Dionysian: A Dithyramb to Writing Sites--for Fellow
Rhapsodizers."
4. Deborah Mullen (Philosophy, Christopher Newport University), "The
Site 'Beyond Good and Evil:' Love and Gift-Giving in Nietzsche."
5. Martha Woodruff (Philosophy, Middlebury College), "The
Music-Making Socrates: A Tragic Hero for Plato and Nietzsche."
9.00 - 12.00 noon SPECIAL INVITED SESSION
IS-1: Reading David Halliburton. (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Paul Armstrong* (Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY-
Stony Brook).
1. Richard Palmer(Philosophy, MacMurry College), "Halliburton's
Marriage of Heidegger and Dewey in The Fateful Discourse of Wordly Things --
Fateful or Fruitful?"
2. Stanley Corngold (German, Princeton University), "Solitude,
Dialectic, Annihilation in Halliburton's Hyperion."
3. Barry Maxwell (Comparative Literature and American Studies, Cornell
University), "Crude Judging".
Respondent: David Halliburton (English and Modern Thought and Literature,
Stanford University).
12.00 noon - 1.30 PM Lunch
Conferees on their own.
1.30 - 4:30 PM II. GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
GS-9: Postcoloniality and Postmodernity (Terrace A, Mather
Hall).
Moderator: Soraya Mekerta (Foreign Languages, Spelman College)
1. Donald Wehrs (English, Auburn University), "The Site of Western
Modernism in Postcolonial African Identity."
2. Jessica Prinz (English, Ohio State University), "Jameson's
Schizophrenia and the Satanic Verses."
3. Robert Shepherd (Cultural Studies, George Mason University),
"Imagining Paradise: Bali and the West."
4. H. Gene Blocker (Philosophy, Ohio University), "Non-western
Philosophy as a Colonial Intervention."
GS-10: Limits of Postmodern Narratives (LSC 132).
Moderator: Klaus Brax (Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki,
Finland).
1. Donald Kaczvinsky (English, Louisiana Tech University), "'Making
Up for Lost Time': Scotland and the Self in Gray's Poor Things."
2. Karin Fry (Philosophy, University of Memphis), "Subjective
Boundaries and Boundaries in Literature; Kristeva and Morrison."
3. Brian Ingraffia (English, Biola College), "Locations of Religion
in Postmodern Culture: Commercial Media as a Site of Spirituality in Don Dellilo's White
Noise and Underworld."
4. James Driscoll (Language and Literatures, Harvard University),
"Variations on a Scheme: Kundera's thematic critique of Modernity."
5. Alina Clej (Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Michigan), "Berlin and the Limits of Postmodernity"
6. Janet Lungstrum (Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures,
University of Colorado), "Designs on Berlin."
GS-11: Between Philosophy and Art (LSC 134).
Moderator: Astrid Vicas (Philosophy, Saint Leo College).
1. Alison Ross (Philosophy, Australian National University, Australia),
"The Decline of Novelty and the Death of Art."
2. Matthew Altman (Philosophy, University of Chicago), "Postmodern
Shock: Ironic Aesthetics in Vattimo's Transparent Society."
3. Effie Rentzou (French Language, University of Paris IV, France),
"How Postmodern is Modernism? A Reading of Surrealism."
4. Nick Nesbitt (French and Italian, Miami University), "Towards a
Dialectical Aesthetics of Jazz: Beyond the Culture Industry, Back to Adorno, Bebop, and
Coltrane."
5. James Hansen (English, University of Notre Dame), "The Aesthetics
of the Incomprehensible: Dialectics and Non-Identity in Adorno and Magritte."
GS-12: Re/Placing the Subject (LSC 133).
Moderator: Gary Paul Gilbert (French, New York University)
1. William Melaney (English, Adirondack Community College),
"Ashbury's Proustian World: Postmodernism in Time and Language."
2. Dan Cavanaugh (Philosophy, Duquense University), "The Right Time
for Fluids: Reading Fluid Language Theory through Bergson's Theory of Duration."
3. Victoria Burke (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Boston),
"From Desire to Fascination: Hegel and Blanchot on Negativity."
4. Sarah Cunningham (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University), "Re/placing
the Subject: Critique and Poetry After Kant."
5. Edward Kazarian (Philosophy, Villanova University), "On
Limits-Critique, Transgression, Genealogy."
GS-13: Language and Violence (LSC 135).
Moderator: Bruce H. Wade (Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College)
1. Mary Ann Franks (Philosophy, Loyola University of New Orleans),
"Playing at Slaughtering: Aporia and Violence in the Postmodern Occult of
Childhood."
2. Michiko Tsushima (Foreign Studies, Kobe University, Japan),
"Language as the Site of Danger: Heidegger's Later Thought on Language."
3. Don Hedrick (English, Kansas State University), "How to Do Things
With Violence: Toward Postmodern Violence."
4. Caroline Weber (Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania),
"The End of Intimacy: Sade, Duchamp, and Indifference in the Boudoir."
5. Wade Roberts (Philosophy, Duquesne University), "America:
Baudrillard and Deleuze on (Writing) the Site of Disaster."
GS-14: The Work of Art in Postmodernity (Rittenberg Lounge,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: Nicholas Mirzoeff (Art History and Criticism, SUNY-Stony Brook)
1. Helene Aubry (Theory and History, Quebec, Canada), "Rhetoric of
Aesthetic Sites, Questioning the Issues of the Idiom of the Postmodernity (1970); to the
Passages of the Virtual Narratives Figures of..."
2. Rico Franses (Art History, Australian National University, Australia),
"Sites of Subversion, Sites of Fantasy. Can Postmodern Body Art Deliver?"
3. James R. Watson (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans),
"Photogrammic Demons and the Pursuit of Imageless Truth."
4. Diane Antonio (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "No Flesh Shall Be
Spared: Diane Arbus and Hardware--Placing the Moral Artist with the Cyborg Myth."
5. Jay Murphy (Independent Writer and Critic), "Gary Hill and 'The
new aesthetic paradigm:' Art, Chaos theory, and Guattari (In the Wake of Heidegger)."
PS-1: The Site of the Passions (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Katherine Rudolph (Honors College and Philosophy, SUNY-Stony
Brook).
1. Sara Heinämaa (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland),
"Introduction to the Theme of Passions in Phenomenology."
2. Martina Reuter (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland),
"Positions of the Passions and the Free Will in Descartes' Correspondence with the
Princess Elisabeth."
3. Alia Al-Saji (Philosophy, Emory University), "The Site of the
Affect in Husserl's Phenomenology: Affectivity and the genesis of the Lived Body."
4. Kym MacLaren (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University),
"Affectivity and the Habit-Body in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy."
5. Anna Petronella Fredlund (Philosophy, Stockholm, Sweden/Paris XII,
France), "The Language of Love."
PS-2: Foucault's Heterotopic Spaces (Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Sara Beardsworth (Philosophy, University of Memphis)
1. David Goldblatt (Philosophy, Denison University), "Self-Spacing:
Foucault's Ventriloqual Tendencies."
2. Johanna Oksala (Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands), "Margins as Foucault's Space for the Ethical."
3. Lissa Skitol (Philosophy, Emory University), "A Foucaudian
Analysis of the Nazi Concentration Camp."
4. Ib Johansen (English, University of Aarhus, Denmark), "Between the
Book and the Lamp: Fantasias of the Library from Poe to Foucault."
5. Xin Zuo (English, Texas Tech University), "Michel Foucault's
Spaces and Pleasure as Expressed in the Confucian Paradigm."
5.00-6.30 PM III. Plenary Session
(Goodwin Theatre, Austin Arts Center)
Introduction of IAPL Invited Speaker
Hugh J. Silverman
IAPL Executive Director
Julia Kristeva
"Hannah Arendt: Life as Narrative"
6:45-8:15pm Reception (President's House).
Dinner
Conferees on their own.
Thursday, May 13, 1999
8.00 AM - 4:45 PM Daily (until noon Saturday)
REGISTRATION
IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ
(Coffee and pastries in the mornings; cold drinks in the afternoon. )
Washington Room, 2nd floor, Mather Hall, Trinity College
All sessions are on the Trinity College Campus in the
Life Science Center [LSC], Mather Hall, and the Austin Arts Center.
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM IV. ORGANIZED SESSIONS
OS-1: Higher Education and Postmodernity, or The Postmodern
Condition Twenty Years After (LSC 136).
Moderators: Dana Ringuette*(English, Eastern Illinois University) and Gary
E. Aylesworth* (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University)
1. Gaby Bedetti (English, Eastern Kentucky University), "From Ivory
Tower to World Stage, From Poetics to Ethics."
2. Brian Macaskill (English, John Carroll University), "Postmodern
Architecture: Sites of Interrogation."
3. Stuart Barnett (English, Central Connecticut State College),
"Postmodernism Institutionalized."
4. Dana Ringuette (English, Eastern Illinois University), "Looking
for the Rules: Currencies, Measures, and Colleges."
5. Gary E. Aylesworth (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University),
"Theorizing the University."
OS - 2: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism: Borderzones of Alterity (LSC
132).
Moderator: Dina Al-Kassim (Comparative Literature, Stanford University).
1. Purushottama Bilimoria* (Cross-Cultural and Philosophical Studies,
Deakin University, Australia), "Postcolonialism's Other Discontent:
Post'modern'isms."
2. Shuling Stephanie Tsai (French, Tamkang University), "Reading the
'Borders' in Marguerite Duras' Writing - L'Amant and Un barrage contre le
Pacifique."
3. Rebecca Saunders (English, Illinois State University), "Toward a
Postcolonial Geography of Gender."
4. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena (English, Nassau Community College),
"Globality, Postmodernity, and Tagore's Anticipations."
OS-3: Alternative Postmodern Topographies: Border Areas, Postcolonial
Metropolises and Liminal Cites, Third World Multicultural Zones (LSC 134)
Moderator: John Burt Foster, Jr.* (English and Cultural Studies, George
Mason University).
1. Marcel Cornis-Pope* (English, Virginia Commonwealth University),
"Urban Cartographies in the Post-Cold War Era: Postmodern Challenges to Ethnocentric
and Globalist Mappings."
2. Roy Chandler Caldwell, Jr. (French, St. Lawrence University),
"Créolité, and the Creole City in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco."
3. Karen Chow (English and American Studies, University of Connecticut,
Storrs), "Border Zones at the Heart of America: Los Angeles' Ethnic Fragmentation and
Radical Collective Consciousness."
4. Anna Klobucka (Portuguese, University of Georgia), "José
Saramago's Postmodern (E)Scapes."
5. Daniel Madera (Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University),
"Lyotard and Development: Encounters on the Threshold of the Amazon."
6. Christian Moraru (English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro),
"'A Piecemeal Atlas of the World:' William T. Vollmann's Anti-Cartography."
OS - 4: Feminist Poetry of Postmodern Spaces (Rittenberg Lounge,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: Silvana Carotenuto* (English, University of Salerno, Italy).
1. Cynthia Pon (English, Chatham University), "Diving into Postmodern
Spaces: Through Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson."
2. Gertrude Postl (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College), "From
Place to Place: Nomadism in Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetry."
3. Christiana Pugh (Literature, Harvard University), "Abstraction and
Empathy: Jorie Grahma's Transformative Ekphraseis."
4. Grant Jenkins (English, University of Notre Dame) ASusan Howe=s Ethics of Sexual
Difference@
OS - 5: Postmodern Musical Sites (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Alessandro Carrera* (Italian, New York University).
1. Bill Martin (Philosophy, DePaul University), "Cage is to Emerson
as Eno is to Rorty?"
2. Daniel C. Melnick (English Cleveland State University),
"Schnittke, Shostakovich and the Situation of Witness."
3. John Rapko (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley), "John Cage: Postmodern Social
Aesthetic."
4. Karen Tongson (English, UC Berkeley), "On 'the Air': The Virtual
Postmodernism and Transnational Economy of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies."
5. Mary Jo Watts (Comparative Literature, Rutgers University), "The
Post-Modern Polyphonist: Glenn Gould and 'The Solitude Trilogy.'"
6. Geraldine Finn (Art and Culture, Carleton University, Canada),
"Music, Identity + the Play of Differance: The Case of Charles Ives."
OS - 6: Lyotard's Philosophy of Religion (Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Christian Doude van Troostwijk* (Philosophy, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
1. Hugh Miller (Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago), "Enchaînement/
Dechaînement: Obligation and The Divine Name in Le Différend."
2. Frans van Peperstraten (Philosophy, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands), "Lyotard: the Jewish 'Inaudible Voice of the Other' and Western
Politics."
3. Lucien van Liere (Systematic Theology, Theological University), With
Lyotard Against the Doctrine of Perfection: Satan and Violence."
4. David Toews (Philosophy, University of Warwick, England), "The
Soul is a Forgotten Name: Lyotard."
OS - 7: The Spaces of Michel Foucault (Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Thomas R. Flynn* (Philosophy, Emory University).
1. Amy Allen (Philosophy, Dartmouth College), "The Space of
Subjectivity in Foucault's Archaeology."
2. Matthias Lütkehermölle (Philosophy, Villanova University), "Of
Utopic and Heterotopic Spaces: Foucault and Benjamin on the Urban Sites of Memory."
3. Trent Hamann (Interpretation and Culture, Binghamton University),
"Subjectivity as Heterotropic Site in Foucault."
4. Bruno Bosteels (Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University),
"The Concept of the Nonplace."
OS - 8: The Site of Plato's Myths (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Francisco J. Gonzalez (Philosophy, Skidmore College)
1. David Roochnik (Philosophy, Boston University), "The Last Site:
The Myth of the Phaedo."
2. Martin Andic (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts), "The Free
Choice of Virtue in the Myth of Er."
3. Alfredo Ferrarin (Philosophy, Boston University), "The Myth of
Prometheus in Plato's Protagoras."
4. Phil Hopkins (Philosophy, Southwestern University), "Myths and
Poeisis: The Site of Authority in Platonic Dialogue."
5. Alessandra Fussi* (Philosophy, Boston College), "Revolutions in
the Afterlife: Gorgias 523e-527e."
12.00-1.00 PM Lunch
Conferees on their own
1.00 - 3.00 PM V. GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
GS-15: Derrida: Spectres/Politics/Art (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Scott DeShong (Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College,
Danielson, CT)
1. Jeffery Weinstock (Human Sciences, George Washington University),
"Haunting the Between."
2. Michael O'Driscoll (English, University of Alberta), "Sites or
Cities: Postmodern in the Archive."
3. Thomas Tucker (Humanities, Chadron State College), "Deridada:
Dusting off Duchamp as Readymade for Derrida."
GS-16: Postmodern Sites in Kant's Critique of Judgment (Terrace
C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: W. Miller Brown ( Interim Dean of Faculty, Trinity College )
1. Kent Still (Philosophy, Emory University), "The Field, the
Archetype, and the Mainland: Lyotard's Reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment and
Other 'Pacific' Expeditions from Across the Atlantic."
2. John Moore (Humanities, Lander University), "Otherwise than
Sharing: Kant and Lyotard on the Communicability of a Feeling."
3. Anne O'Byrne (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University), "What Comes
After Sensus Communis?"
GS-17: Inoperative Communities (LSC 136).
Moderator: Vijay Prashad, (International Studies, Trinity College)
1. Jonathan Kennedy (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "The Language of
the Inoperative Community: The Kaleidescope of Cliches in Postmodern Existence."
2. Maria Ferreira (Languages and Cultures, Universidad de Avero,
Portugual), "The Postmodern Condition: Inoperative Community and Human Cloning."
3. Damian Hey (Journalism and Mass Media Studies, Hofstra University),
"Media Narrativity in the age of the Videotaped President."
GS-18: Ecology and Ethics (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Romie Tribble, Jr. (Economics, Spelman College)
1. Andrew Schmitz (English, D'Youville College) and Ben Friedlander (SUNY
Buffalo), "Levinas and Leopold: Nature, Sociality and Alterity."
2. Emily Brady (Philosophy, Lancaster University), "The Aesthetic
Character of Landscapes: Intergrity, Ecology and Conservation."
3. J. M. Beck (English, Darwin College, Cambrdige University, England),
"Without Form and Void: The Desert as Site and Non-Site."
GS-19: Borders (LSC 132).
Moderator: Laurel Bush (English, University of Helsinki, Finland)
1. Mark Freed (English, Central Michigan University), "'Essayismus'
and Ethics: Robert Musil and Border Theory."
2. Jennifer Eagan (Philosophy, Duquesne University), "In and Out of
the System: Between Lyotard's Fables and Haraway's Science Fiction."
3. Alan Udoff (Philosophy, Loyola College of Maryland), "At the End
of Philosophy and the Thinking of the Unthought: A Reading of Levinas."
PS-3: Between Philosophy and Poetry (Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Moderator: David Rodick (Philosophy, University of Southern Maine)
1. Ferit Guven (Philosophy, DePaul University), "The Site of Poetry:
Heidegger's Erorterung of Georg Trakl's Poem."
2. Julie Piering (Philosophy, Emory University), "From Parrhesia to
Poetry."
3. Cynthia Coe (Philosophy, University of Oregon), "On Forgetting:
Philosophy as Dreamwork."
PS-4: Postmodern Reconsiderations of Race (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather
Hall).
Moderator: Danny Adams (Interdisciplinary Studies, Norfolk State
University)
1. Lee Brown (Philosophy, Ohio State University), "Post-Modernist
Jazz Theory--Afrocentrism New and Old."
2. Jeffery Tucker (English, Ohio University), "Necromancer:
Postmodern Magic in Samuel R. Delany's Atlantis: Model 1924."
3. Laura Doyle (English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst),
"Between Being and Knowing: The Indeterminacy of Race in Faulkner's Light in
August."
PS-5: Ancient Sites (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Joanne Waugh (Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa).
1. Gary Scott (Philosophy, Saint Peter's College), "Before Genre:
Interpreting Socratic Logoi as Philosophical Text."
2. Eleanor West (Philosophy, Long Island University), "Ancient Sites:
Locating Plato's Oral Literature."
3. Lisa Wilkinson (Philosophy, University of South Florida), "The
Intersection of Narrative and Philosophy: The Platonic Dialogue as the Philosophic
Site."
PS-6: Facing Time and Alterity With Levinas (Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Moderator: James Hatley (Philosophy, Salisbury State University).
1. Lanei Rodemeyer (Philosophy, SUNY- Stony Brook), "A Husserlian
Response to Levinas' Time and the Other."
2. Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY- Stony Brook), "The Interval of
Ethics: Corporeity and Temporality in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty."
3. Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Loyola College, Baltimore), "The Site
that is not One: A Phenomenological Unconscious."
3.30 - 6.30 PM VI. INVITED SYMPOSIA
IS-2: James M. Edie Memorial Session (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
[James M. Edie was a member of the IAPL Executive Committee for five
years.]
Moderators: John McCumber* (German, Northwestern University).
1. Cyril Dwiggins (Philosophy, Dickinson College), "The Pivotal
Center: Metaphor in Edie's Phenomenology of Language."
2. William McBride (Philosophy, Purdue University), "James Edie and
the Struggle for Pluralism in Professional American Philosophy."
3. Brice Wachterhauser (Philosophy, St. Joseph's University), "Edie's
Critique of Post-Structuralism."
4. Bruce Wilshire (Philosophy, Rutgers University), "Edie on William
James."
IS-3: Postmodern Space and the Possibility of Citizenship (Terrace B,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: Gareth Williams (Romance Languages, Wesleyan University).
1. Gabriela Nouzeilles (Romance Languages, Duke University), "The
Sense of an Ending: National Community, Liberal Values, and Alternative Localities."
2. Martín Hopenhayn (Economic Commission for Latin America [ECLA]),
"Citizenship and Postmodern Space in Latin America: A Map of Tensions."
3. George Yúdice (American Studies, New York University),
"Citizenship and Consumption."
4. Gustavo Remedi* (Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity College),
"The Aesthetic Foundations of Citizenship: Totalization and Everyday Life."
IS-4: Nietzsche's Corpus as Postmodern Site (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather
Hall).
Moderator/Respondent: Alan D. Schrift* (Philosophy, Grinnell College).
1. Geoff Waite (German Studies, Cornell University), "'The emptiness
of a distant taken' or Why Nietzsche is Unreadable and How Communism is Impossible."
2. Penelope Deutscher (Philosophy, Australian National University,
Australia), "Autobiobodies: Nietzsche and Kofman on the Life-Blood of the
Philosopher."
3. David B. Allison (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), "Writing in
Blood: Corpses in the Corpus."
4. Jeffrey Nealon (English, Pennsylvania State University),
"Nietzsche's Money."
5. Alan D. Schrift (Philosophy, Grinnell College), "Response:
Nietzsche's Corpus as Postmodern Site."
IS-5: Labyrinths (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Gary Shapiro* (Philosophy, University of Richmond).
1. Mary Wiseman (Philosophy, City University of New York), "Minos and
his Maze: Mother, Wife, and Daughter."
2. Dennis Schmidt (Philosophy, Villanova University), "Daedalia: Such
Beautiful Toys."
3. Julie Hayes (French, University of Richmond), "Labyrinths of
Enlightenment."
4. Clayton Koelb (Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina),
"Kafka's Linguistic Labyrinth."
5. Kenneth Surin (Program in Literature, Duke University),
"Labyrinthine Processions: W.G. Sebald's 'The Rings of Saturn: An English
Pilgrimage.'"
6:45 - 8:15 PM Reception (Hamlin Hall).
Dinner
Conferees on their own. Y..
Friday, May 14, 1999
8.00 AM - 4:45 PM Daily (until noon Saturday)
REGISTRATION
IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ
(Coffee and pastries in the mornings; cold drinks in the afternoon. )
Washington Room, 2nd floor, Mather Hall, Trinity College
All sessions are on the Trinity College Campus in the
Life Science Center [LSC], Mather Hall, and the Austin Arts Center.
9.00 AM - 12.00 noon VII. ORGANIZED SESSIONS
OS-9: The Site of Race (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Kelly Oliver* (Philosophy and Woman's Studies, SUNY- Stony
Brook).
1. Paul Taylor (Philosophy, University of Washington), "Racial
Metaphysics and the Repression of Voice: Arrogance, Autobiography, Ambivalence."
2. Ann Reynolds (Art History, University of Texas at Austin), "No
Longer Lost in Space: Racially Charged Imagery in Contemporary Art."
3. Harvey Cormier (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "Speciesism and
Racism; or, Is it Wrong to Eat Black People?"
4. Jennifer Hansen (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook), "Dispossing the
Investment in Whiteness."
OS-10: Intersections of Eastern and Western Thought (Terrace A, Mather
Hall).
Moderator: Hwa Yol Jung* (Political Science, Moravian College).
1. Shigenori Nagatomo (Religion, Temple University), "The Question of
Identity between Aristotle and the Diamond Sutra."
2. Seung-Chong Lee (Philosophy, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea),
"Deconstructionism and Naturalism: Derrida and Zhuangzi."
3. Seung-hee Kim (Korean Literature, Sogang University, Seoul, South
Korea), "Modern Korean Poet, Yi-Sang's Poetic World and the Theory of Lacan and
Kristeva."
OS-11: Dialectic and Deconstruction in Modernist Art (Terrace C,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: John Russon* (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University).
1. Jeremi Roth (Philosophy, SUNY- Stony Brook), "Kant's Barnett
Newman."
2. Constantinos V. Proimos (Philosophy, New School for Social Research),
"Myth and Reality in Joseph Beuys' Art."
3. Caren Irr (English, Pennsylvania State University), "Abject
Fetishes: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document and the Dialectics of Motherhood."
4. Vincent Colapietro (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University),
"Interrogating the Familiar: Alice Neel's Portraits of Friends."
5. Kirsten Swenson (Art History and Criticism, SUNY Stony Brook),
"Medusa and the Grid: Eva Hesse and Body of the Artist."
OS-12: Did Postmodernism Lose its Voice?
Speaking Versus Writing After Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida (Terrace B,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: Alexandria Pallas-Weinbrecht (Religion, Princeton University).
1. P. Christopher Smith* (Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell), "Reading, Writing and Rhetoric: Plato's Sophist After
Heidegger."
2. Sabine Gross (German, University of Wisconsin, Madison),
"Post-Postmodern Narrative: Mediating Texts in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader."
3. Kerstin Behnke (German and Comparative Literature, Northwestern
University), "'Stimmung' or the Site of Affect: Speaking into a Feeling, after
Heidegger."
4. F. Scott Scribner (Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton), "Trauma and the
Machinic: The Mechanics of Spirit and the Possibility of Voice at the Close of
Technological Modernity."
OS-13: Other Memories, Other Sites: The Specters of Toni Morrison's
Beloved (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Cynthia Willett* (Philosophy, Emory University).
1. Linda Wagoner (Philosophy and Multi-Cultural Studies, Sonoma State
University), " Claiming Beloved: The Specter of the Middle Passage in Toni
Morrison's Text."
2. Barbara S. Andrew (Philosophy, University of Montana), "Love's
Ghosts: The Impossible Specter of Love Without Freedom."
3. Amy Coplan (Philosophy, Emory University), "Eros and Hybris: The
Ethical Boundaries of Toni Morrison's Beloved."
4. Pam Hall (Philosophy, Emory University), "Tragedy and Identity in
Morrison's Beloved."
5. Roberta Imboden (English, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada),
"The Reading of Beloved's Invisible Text: The White Cane of Derrida's Memoirs."
OS-14: Art, Nature and Intimacy (LSC 134).
Moderator: Peter Carravetta (European Languages and Literatures, Queens
College, CUNY).
1. Eileen Rizo-Patron (Comparative Literature, SUNY- Binghamton),
"Sites of Reverie: The Divinatory Hermeneutics of Gaston Bachelard."
2. Arto Haapala* (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, Finland),
"Interpretation, Participation and Intimacy: Art Works as Sites of
Communication."
3. Jennifer M. Jeffers (English, University of South Dakota),
"Painting from Nature: Encounter with John Virtue."
4. David Brubaker (Philosophy, University of New Haven), "Sites of
Reenchantment: From the Frankfurt School to Merleau-Ponty."
5. Eric Boynton (Religious Studies, Rice University), "The Idol, the
Artwork, and the Icon."
OS-15: Nature and Natural Kinds (LSC 133).
Moderator: TBA
1. Laura Tuley (Literature, Communications and Culture, Georgia Institute
of Tech), "Human Excesses: Animal and Feminine Nature."
2. Kevin Miles (Philosophy, Villanova University), "Getting Over on
Gaia: Phusical Husbandry and Proprietorial Language."
3. Jason Wirth (Philosophy, Oglethorpe University), "Animal Desiring:
Deleuze, Nietzsche, Bataille and the Question of Animality."
4. Stephen David Ross* (Philosophy, Binghamton University), "The
Abundance of Nature and the Generosity of Kinds, Geschlecht, Genre, and
Genealogy."
12.00-1.00PM Lunch
1:00-3:00PM VIII. GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
GS-20: Cultural Spaces (LSC 134).
Moderator: David Goldblatt (Philosophy, Denison University)
1. Erik Vogt (Philosophy, Loyola University), "On the Conception of
Cultural Space in Hofmannsthal's Discourse on Europe With Constant Reference to its
Postmodern Subversion in Jelinek's Wolken Hei."
2. Julia Jansen (Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook), AThe Sewing of the Subject,
or: Representation as a Site of Transcendental Illusion.@
3. Jennifer Gauthier (Cultural Studies, George Mason University), "A
Symphony of Sound and Light: The Site/ Sight of Canadian Identity."
GS-21: Psychoanalysis and Race (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Benino Trigo (Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY-Stony
Brook)
1. Robert Young (English, University of Alabama), "No, I cannot see
it but I can read it: Theorizing African American Subjectivity."
2. Shannon Winnubst (Philosophy, Southwestern University),
"Interrupting the Gaze of Racism"
3. Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (English, Boston College), "Desiring
Whiteness: A Lacanian Sketch of the Subject of Race."
GS-22: Lyotard and the Arts (Terrace B, Mather Hall)
Moderator: Apostolos Vasilakis (Comparative Literature, Emory University)
1. Stuart Kendall (Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook),
"Dissoi Logoi: Lyotard, Duchamp, Bataille Thinking Uncompleteness."
2. Gregory Spano (Political Theory, University of Massachusetts),
"Actions Out of Synch: The Place Postmodern Art and Criticism in Lyotard's Political
Philosophy."
3. Dwight Furrow (Philosophy, College of William and Mary), "Ethical
Sitings: Lyotard, Tragedy and 'good conscience.'"
PS-7: Green Sites (Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Mark Roberts (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden,
NY)
1. Silvia Benso (Philosophy, Siena College), "Gardened Sites:
Sensuously Cultivating Space in Time."
2. Brian Seitz (Philosophy, Babson College), "The Subject of Nature:
Walking With Rousseau."
3. Brian Schroeder (Philosophy, Siena College), "The Greening of the
'Deleuzian Age.'"
PS-8: Locating the Site of Morality (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Moderator: J. Michael Degener (Comparative Literature, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst)
1. Jennifer Mensch (Philosophy, Emory University), "The Tragedy of
Being: Levinas on Shakespeare and the Drama of the Face to Face."
2. Elizabeth Sikes (Philosophy, DePaul University), "The Praxis of
Ethical Separation in Greek Tragedy: The Role of Embodiment in Hölderlin's Remarks on
Oedipus and Antigone."
3. Timothy Costelloe (Philosophy, Emory University), "The Theatre of
Morals: Remarks on Rosseau's Letter to D'Alembert."
PS-9: Diverse Sites of Feminist Theory (Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Dianne Hunter (English, Trinity College)
1. Sal Renshaw (Philosophy, University of New South Wales), "The
Perjured City: Cixous' Theatre of the Soul."
2. Suzanne Jaeger (Philosophy, York University), "How to Be Things
With Words: Linguistic Ontologies of Embodiment."
3. Erich Hertz (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame), "The Site of
Sexual Ethics in Irigaray's 'Peaceful Revolution,' or 'How to be a Political Militant for
the Impossible.'"
PS-10: The (Non)Place of the Trace in Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis:
The Spectral Site of Postmodernity. (LSC 133).
Moderator: Tim Hyde (Philosophy, SUNY at Stony Brook)
1. David Pettigrew (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University),
"La trace qui genuit la trace qui genuit...."
2. Edward Emery (Psychoanalyst, Northampton MA) "Tracing the Other:
Memory, Spectral Mourning, and the Site of the Analyst."
3. Andrew Mitchell, (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) "Ethos and the
Divine Trace in the Desert of Postmodernity."
Respondent: François Raffoul (Philosophy, CSU Stanislaus).
PS-11: From Nation to Nowhere: Latin America as Contested Site in
Postmodern Literature and Culture (LSC 132).
Moderator: Dario Euraque (History, Trinity College)
1. Hernan Neira Barrera (Universidad Austral de Chile), "National
Culture and the Postmodern Situation in Latin America.
2. Patrick J. O'Connor (Spanish, University of Chicago), "Buenos
Aires as No Man's Land in Contemporary Popular Culture."
3. Dianna Niebylski (Langauges and Literatures, Earlham College),
"Hysterical Texts: Parody, Pastiche and Postmodern Holes in Contemporary Latin
American Fictions by Women."
3:15 IN MEMORIAM (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall).
Albert S. Cook [1925-1998]
(Ford Professor Emeritus of Comparative Studies, Brown University).
Introduced by Dalia Judovitz (Romance Languages, Emory University)
3:30 - 6:30 PM IX. PANELS
P-1: Virtual Landscapes (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Chair: Stephen Barker* (School of the Arts, UC Irvine).
1. Beverly Redman (Drama, UC Irvine), "Determining the
Undeterminable: The Thingness of Things in the Plays of Marguerite Duras."
2. Joseph Fitzpatrick (English, Harvard University) and Bryan Reynolds
(Drama, UC Irvine), "The Transversality of Michel de Certeau: Foucault's Panoptic
Discourse and the Cartographic Impulse."
3. Robert Nideffer (Studio Arts, UC Irvine), "Mapping Agency: The
Virtual Geographies of an Information Personae."
4. Patrick Crogan (Film Studies, University of New South Wales,
Australia), "Logistical Space."
5. Jean-Michel Rabaté (English, University of Pennsylvania),
"Venice, Limestone, and Water."
P-2: The Boundaryless (Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Chair: Wayne J. Froman* (Philosophy, George Mason University).
1. John Izzi (Philosophy, St. Michael's College), "The Desert and the
Non-Site of the Gift."
2.Cecelia Sjoholm (Philosophy and Literature, University of Stockholm,
Sweden and DePaul University), "Mortal Shame: The Function of the Gaze in
'Hippolytus.'"
3.Gerhard Richter (German, University of Wisconsin), "Sites of
Indeterminacy: Benjamin and Zizek on Europe."
4. Véronique Fóti (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University), "To
Apeiron."
P-3: What is the Place of Postmodern Art? (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather
Hall).
Chair: Hugh J. Silverman* (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY
Stony Brook).
1. Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Comparative Literature, Emory University),
"Lyotard's Immateriaux: decentered / unbound."
2. Richard Leslie (Art, SUNY/Stony Brook), "Lyotard, Bataille &
Krauss: S/Citing the Poststructural Matrix in Postmodern Art."
3. Tina Chanter (Philosophy, University of Memphis), "Moving the Art
of Abjection."
4. James Winchester (Humanities, Spelman College), "Caution and
Humility as Postmodern Interpretative Strategies."
P-4: Postmodern Sites, Earthly and Unearthly (Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Chair: James E. Swearingen* (English, Mobile, Alabama).
1. Bruce V. Foltz (Philosophy, Eckerd College), "Strange Beauty:
Environmental Aesthetics after Humanism."
2. Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Studies, SUNY Stony Brook), "This
Order of Things: Play of Chaos and Cosmos in Postmodern Narratives."
3. Al Lopez (English, Florida International University), "Landscape,
Whiteness, and the Colonial Unconscious."
P-5: Alterity and Race in Postmodern Ethics: Levinas and bell hooks
(Alumni Lounge, Mather Hall).
Chair: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek* (English, University of Notre Dame).
1. Marilyn Edelstein (English, Santa Clara University), "Other
Postmodernisms, Postmodernism's "Others:" bell hooks on Gender, Race, and the
Subject of Ethics."
2. Ron Scapp (Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Ed ucation,
College of Mount Saint Vincent), "In Your Face and Under Your Skin: Surface, Depth
and Otherness in bell hooks and Levinas."
3. Cyraina Johnson-Roullier (English, University of Notre Dame),
"Representation, Representativeness and the Discourse of the Other."
4. Dorota Glowacka (Contemporary Studies Programme, University of King's
College), "Ocular Constructions of Race and the Challenge of Ethics."
5. Claudia Eppert (University of Toronto), "(Un)Learning Home:
Emmanuel Levinas, Postmodern Reading Ethics, and Contemporary Ethnic Narratives."
6:45-8:00PM Reception
(Smith House).
8:00PM Jazz Concert: Roxbury Blues Aesthetic
(Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center).
Dinner
Conferees on their own. Y..
Saturday, May 15, 1999
8.00 AM - NOON
REGISTRATION
IAPL PUBLISHERS' BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ
(Coffee and pastries)
Washington Room, 2nd floor, Mather Hall, Trinity College
All sessions are on the Trinity College Campus in the
Life Science Center [LSC], Mather Hall, and the Austin Arts Center.
9.00 AM-12.30 PM X. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
CE - 1: Digital Futures: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (Alumni Lounge,
Mather Hall).
Moderator: Andrew Haase* (Philosophy, Trinity College).
1. David Cook ( Social Sciences, Scarborough College, University of
Toronto, Canada ) "Kroker Inc."
2. Shannon Bell ( Political Science, York University, Canada) "Fast
Theory, Recombinant Ex-change"
3. Stephen Pfohl ( Sociology, Boston College) "Memories of
Overdevelopment: Cybernetics, Bodies, Social Memory."
Respondents: Arthur Kroker (Political Science, Concordia College, Canada)
and Marilouise Kroker (CTHEORY), "Digital Dirt."
CE - 2: Subject, Art, Body: Encounters with the Work of Dalia Judovitz
(Terrace B, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Krzysztof Ziarek* (English, University of Notre Dame).
1. Peg Birmingham (Philosophy, DePaul University) ACommenting on Subjectivity
and Representation in Descartes@
2. Bill Engel ( Philosophy of Education Research Center, Harvard
University), "The Origins of Modern Subjectivity."
3. Craig Adcock (Art History, University of Iowa), "Subject, Art,
Body: Encounters With the Work of Dalia Judovitz."
4. Jim Porter, (Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
"Bodies That Do Matter."
5. Michael Schwartz (Fine Arts, Augusta State University) "On Dalia
Judovitz's The Culture of the Body, 1580-1800"
Respondent: Dalia Judovitz ( French and Italian, Emory University).
CE - 3: Deconstruction, Buddhism and the Work of Robert Magliola
(Terrace C, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Jin Y. Park* (Comparative Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook)
1. Ven. Mettanando Bhikkhu (World Council for Religion and Peace),
"Theravada Buddhism, Empathy, and the Doctrine of Sunyata."
2. Chung-min Maria Tu (Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia
University, Taiwan), "The Meaning of the Middle-Most: Derrida, Deleuze, and
Nagarjuna."
3. Ellen Zhang (Religion, Temple University), "Ji-Zang's
Sunyata-Speech: Derridean Denegation with a Buddhist Difference."
4. Steven Laycock (Philosophy, University of Toledo), "Self and Self-
Image: A Buddhist Validation of Magliola."
5. Hsiao-yu Sun (Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen
University, Taiwan), "From the Lying Truth to the Truth about Lying: Jacques Lacan
and Buddhist Thought."
6. Gad Horowitz (Political Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada),
"Emmanuel, Robert."
7. Simon Glynn (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University),
"Deconstruction of Self in Buddhism and Contemporary Western Philosophy."
8. Shu-chen Chiang (Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chiao Tung
University, Taiwan), "Dissolving Image-motifs in Robert Magliola's On
Deconstructing Life-Worlds."
9. Frank W. Stevenson (English, National Taiwan Normal University,
Taiwan), "Inscribing the Sacred: 'Open 4' in Sollers, Derrida, Magliola."
10. Jane Augustine (Independent scholar), "The Veil Rent in Twain:
Robert Magliola's Deconstructive Buddhist Christianity."
11. Robin Roth (Philosophy, Manchester College), "Nietzsche and
Derrida: Reconfiguring Christianity and Buddhism."
12. E. H. Jarow (Religion, Vassar College), "Flesh, Bones, and Blood:
Deconstructing Inter-religious Dialogue."
Respondent: Robert Magliola (Philosophy, Abac University of Thailand,
Thailand).
CE - 4: Aesthetic Sites (Terrace A, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Costantino Costantini (Comparative Literature, Emory
University).
1. Serge Villandré (Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal,
Canada), "The Sites of Postmodernism in the Light of the Urban Revitalization of
Times Square."
2. Pauline von Bonsdorff (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, Finland),
"History, Memory and Monuments in Postmodern Public Space."
3. Louise Barry (French, Emory University), "Art, Ideology and
Intimacy in 17th Century Gardens."
4. Patricia M. Locke (Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis),
"Intimacy with Death: The Architecture of Isola Sacra."
5. Gunalan Nadarajan (Art Theory, Lasalle-SIA College, Singapore),
"Zoological Encounters: Towards an Ethics of Looking."
CE-5: Gehry's Architectural Sites (Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall).
Moderator: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Art Center College of Design)
1. John Heon (English, University of Pennsylvania), "Blurring
Boundaries: MASS MoCA as Postmodern Art Site."
2. Michael Beehler (English, Montana State University), "'I have
visited the house myself:' Anxiety and Theory at Frank Gehry's Santa Monica House."
3. Roger Bell (Philosophy, Sonoma State University), "From Santa
Monica to Bilbao: Frank Gehry and Postmodern Building Sites."
4. Travis Anderson (Philosophy, Brigham Young University), "Gehry's
Gift: Complicating Heidegger and the Truth of Architecture."
5. Gene Bernard Suarez (English, Stanford University), "On Frank
Gehry: the Place of the Interview in the Arts and in Philosophy"
CE - 6: Edward S. Casey on Space, Place, and Site (LSC 133).
Moderator: Alejandro Valleja (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University)
1. Kent Bloomer (Architecture, Yale University), "Rhythm and
Metamorphosis in Architecture."
2. Nicholas Entrikin (Geography, UCLA): " Space, Place &
Democratic Community."
3. Thomas P. Brockelman* (Philosophy, LeMoyne College), "Construction
& Experience: on Phenomenology & Modernist Space in Casey."
4. Andrew Benjamin (Philosophy, University of Warwick, England),
"Place's Fate: the Problem of Spatial Complexity."
Respondent: Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook).
12.30-1.30 PM Lunch
Conferees on their own
1.30 - 4.30 PM XI. ROUNDTABLES
R - 1: Sites of Thinking (Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center).
Moderator: Drew Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College).
1. Katharine Powers (Studio Arts, Trinity College), "Dancing the Body
of Mother: Maternal Transgressions in the Choreography of Martha Graham."
2. Fred Pfeil, (English, Trinity College), "Freeway Bypass (Detail
from Map)."
3. Mitchell Miller (Philosophy, Vassar College), "Play within the
Play: Mimesis and Parmenidean Journey in the Platonic Dialogues."
R -2: Lyotard's Postmodern Sites (LSC Auditorium).
Moderator: Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY
Stony Brook).
1. Wilhelm S. Wurzer (Philosophy, Duquesne University), "Just
Linking: Lyotard's Kantian Sites."
2. John Lechte (Sociology, Macquarrie University, Australia) "The
Siting of the Name and the Naming of the Site in the Postmodern Era"
3. Henk Oosterling (Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands), "Inter-esse, Inter-mediality and Trans-formance: How to Get Beyond
Lyotard's (Post)Avantgardism?"
5.00-6.30 PM XII. PLENARY SESSION
(Goodwin Theatre, Austin Arts Center).
Introduction of Plenary Speaker:
Drew A. Hyland
IAPL 1999 Conference Coordinator.
Frank Gehry, Architect
"Recent Work"
Respondent:
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Art Center College of Design).
6.45 PM Annual Reception
(Smith House).
8.00 PM New England Clambake
(Vernon Center).
(By prior reservation. Form included in this program.)
10.30 PM-12.30 PM Entertainment/Dancing
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IAPL Book Series Information
Northwestern University Press
Series in Philosophy, Literature, and Culture
Hugh J. Silverman, Editor
The IAPL, in conjunction with the Northwestern
University Press Series in Philosophy, Literature, and Culture is pleased to
invite conference participants to submit final versions of their papers for possible
inclusion in a volume resulting from the meetings. The IAPL reserves the right of first
selection on all papers presented at its annual conferences. Since the number of papers
that can be included is limited, the choice of papers will be based on quality and on
relevance to the thematic integrity of the volume. To be considered for this year's
volume, edited by Drew A. Hyland and Andrew Haase, participants should submit a final
corrected version of their essay to the editors at the following address
Drew A. Hyland
Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy
Trinity College
Hartford, CT 06106
Submissions should include two (2) hard copies of your essay as well as a
disk copy in WordPerfect (PC) and must be received no later than September 1, 1999.
Volumes based on recent IAPL conferences in preparation for the
Northwestern University Press Series in Philosophy, Literature, and Culture include:
Spring and Fall 2000:
Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics, Steve
Martinot (ed..)
Visibility and Expressivity, Wilhelm S. Wurzer (ed..)
Culture/s in Contention: Differences, Affiliations, Liminalities,
John Burt Foster, Jr. and Wayne J. Froman (eds.)
In preparation:
Thinking Between Philosophy and Poetry,
Massimo Verdicchio and Robert Burch (eds.)
Bodytheory,
Stephen Barker (ed.)
Thinking Culture, Thinking Drama:
Between Philosophy and Literature,
Wayne J. Froman and John Burt Foster, Jr. (eds.)
Feeling the Differences,
James Swearingen and Joanne Cutting-Gray (eds.)
Interrogating Images,
Stephen Barker (ed.)
Already published volumes from IAPL conferences (SUNY Press):
The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and its Differences (1990).
Hugh J. Silverman and Gary E. Aylesworth, eds. [Paper $21.95]
After the Future: Postmodern Times and Places (1990). Gary Shapiro,
ed. [Paper $19.95]
Dialectic and Narrative (1993).
Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz, eds. [Paper $21.95]
Signs of Change: --> Premodern --> Modern --> Postmodern.
Stephen Barker, ed. [Paper $24.95]
These volumes can be obtained from SUNY Press, c/o CUP Services, PO Box
6525, Ithaca NY 14851. Or (in the USA) call 1-800-666-2211.
IAPL Members will also be interested in Literature as Philosophy,
Philosophy as Literature, Donald G. Marshall, ed. (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press,
1987), based on the 1984 IAPL Conference.
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C o n f e r e n c e i n f o r m a t i o n
Regular Bus Transportation from the Hartford Hilton Hotel to
Trinity College will be provided throughout each day of the conference.
Lodging
Conference rates are available at the designated IAPL Conference hotel:
Hartford Hilton
315 Trumble Street
Hartford, CT 06103
Cost: $99 per night plus tax.
For reservations call: (800) HIL-TONS or (860)-728-5151.
Located in downtown Hartford, three miles from Trinity College.
All hotel and conference facilities are fully accessible.
For conference rates, be sure to mention IAPL.
DEADLINE FOR SPECIAL CONFERENCE RATE: APRIL 20th, 1999.
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!.
transportation
Conference attendees can reach Trinity by land, air, or rail. Located in
downtown Hartford,
Trinity College is approximately two and a half hours South West of Boston and
approximately
three hours North East of New York City.
by air
Bradley International Airport receives many national and international
airlines. The airport is
approximately twenty minutes from the Hartford Hilton Hotel. Shuttle service is available
for $11.00.
by car
Interstate 84 east/west and 91 north/south both run through the city of
Hartford. Specific directions
to the Hartford Hilton and the Trinity College Campus can be found in the registration
packet.
dining
Several dinning choices are available on and off the Trinity College
Campus including; Halden Hall,
The Cave, The Bistro, and Timothy=s Restaurant on Zion Street.
IAPL in NAPLES 2000
JANUARY 5-7/9-12, 2000
A special event for 2000: an IAPL conference will be held
5-12 January 2000 in Naples, Italy to welcome the new millenium! The topic: TURNINGS/
SVOLTE/ TOURNANTS/ KEHREN in Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts at the Turn of the Century.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Instituto dei Studi Philosophici
in Naples. It will be divided into two parts: a preliminary colloquium at Vico Equense
from January 5-7; and a second larger event at the Instituto dei Studi Philosophici from
January 9-12. Sessions will be held in English, Italian, French, and German. Coordinators
are Massimo Verdicchio (University of Alberta, Canada) and Silvana Carotenuto (University
of Salerno, Italy). Abstracts and proposals for papers have already been received. Consult
the IAPL Webpages for program details and plans for the conference. |
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