IAPL IN NAPLES
TURNINGS/SVOLTE/KEHREN/TOURNANTS
IN
PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE, AND THE ARTS
AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
WELCOME
On behalf of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature and the Istituto per gli Studi Philosophici, I am pleased to welcome all participants to the special conference of the IAPL held in January 2000 to mark (and re-mark upon) the coming of the Turn of the Century at the end of the calendar year.
Our theme for this special conference is "Turnings/Svolte/Kehren/Tournants in Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts at the Turn of the Century." While the turn will take a full year to achieve its trajectory, "turnings" happen in different places and different ways. We will explore some of these ways in which "turnings" occur, mark differences, and effect changes sometimes returning to the same, sometimes going beyond or past what went before.
The conference itself includes two segments and a turn between. The first part will take place in the lovely Hotel Oriente in Vico Equense, situated along the Sorrento penninsula, south of Naples in Italy. All conference events for this first portion will take place in the Hotel Oriente from Wednesday, January 5th until Friday, January 7th, 2000. Registration will take place between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. in the Hotel Oriente. All participants are expected to have paid their registration ($80.) and membership in the IAPL ($35. regular members/$20. student members/$20. retired members) prior to the opening of the conference. The fees cover the whole two-part conference. Participants will be lodged in the Hotel Oriente and reservations (mentioning the IAPL conference) should be made well in advance.
Sessions will focus on the work of three scholars whose work is of especial interest to IAPL members at this juncture: the Australian theorist and culture critic Teresa Brennan (Florida Atlantic University), the British philosopher and political theorist Simon Critchley (University of Essex), and the Italian feminist and philosopher Adriana Cavarero (University of Verona). These sessions will be introduced and organized by Ewa Ziarek (University of Notre Dame), Wayne Froman (George Mason University), and Drew Hyland (Trinity College, Hartford) respectively. The first segment will also feature special sessions on "The Affective Turn" (including the Finnish philosopher and feminist Sara Heinamaa), "Thresholds" (with Stephen Barker from the University of California at Irvine's School of the Arts), and "Religion at the Turn of the Millennium: Derrida/Vattimo/Gadamer" (as conceptualized by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Nagl in dialogues with the Canadian philosopher Graeme Nicholson).
The two day weekend respite will provide an opportunity to visit the local sites and to effect the turn from the pastoral vacation resort of Vico to the heart of Naples with its famed Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Philosophici.
Sessions for the second portion of the conference will take place at the Istituto, beginning with a welcome by Amato Lamberti, President of the Province of Naples, and by Leslie McBee, Consul General of the United States in Naples.
Three plenary sessions are planned, featuring special lectures by Herta Nagl-Docekal (University of Vienna, Austria) on "Feminist Aesthetics," Hugh J. Silverman (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) on "Postmodern Turns," and Henk Oosterling (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) on "Anaesthetics."
Concurrent sessions for the three days, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning, January 10th and continuing until the grand finale dinner offered by the Provinicia di Napoli on Wednesday evening, January 12th will include a wide variety of exciting sessions presented in English, Italian, German, Spanish, and French. Some highlights include papers by Geoffrey Waite (Cornell University, USA), Robyn Ferrell (Macquarrie University, Australia) Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond, USA), Jean-Pierre Faye (European University for Research, CNRS, Paris, France) Kelly Oliver (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), Massimo Verdicchio (University of Alberta, Canada), Alison Ross (Australian National University, Australia), Marilouise Kroker and Arthur Kroker (Concordia University, Canada), Silvana Carotenuto (University of Salerno, Italy), Paul Gordon (University of Colorado at Boulder), and many others.
We hope that you will enjoy your stay in Vico and Naples as we turn to a new century of philosophy, culture, and the arts.
Hugh J. Silverman
IAPL Executive Director
A Special Message from Massimo Verdicchio and Silvana Carotenuto
(Local Arrangements Coordinators)
The IAPL conference in Vico and Naples, at the beginning of the year 2000, promises to be an unforgetable experience. The first part of the conference takes place in Vico Equense, a small town situated one hour by rail from Naples and ten minutes from the famous Sorrento, of Elvis Presley fame. Vico Equense is centrally located between the Sorrento and the Amalficoast, and a short way from Capri. You will stay at the Hotel Oriente, a popular summer resort, impeccably run by the Arpino family and by a nice and friendly staff. Our host is the son Francesco, but the vigilant eye that oversees all is that of the mother, Signora Teresa, and of her husband, the Capitano. When arriving in Capodichino, Naples' airport, conference participants will take a bus that leaves at 12:30, 14:00, 16:00, and 18:00 p.m.
One of us will be there to make sure that all goes well and that there are enough buses. The bus, which goes to Sorrento, make a stop in Vico's main square. Make sure you have enough change in Liras. The ticket should be about 10,000 Lira. From where you get off the bus, it is a short walk down to the Hotel Oriente. We will try to arrange a van to pick up your luggage. We stay at the Hotel Oriente until Sunday, January 9. While in the hotel, members will enjoy the fine dining of the hotel and its oriental flavour, but its charm is entirely neapolitan.
The conference takes place from the 5th to the 7th, while the 8th is reserved for sight-seeing. Sign-up sheets will be placed at the Conference Registration Table for those wishing to go to sites that require hiring a van. Places like Pompei (30 min. from Vico) or Herculaneum (45 min. from Vico), or Sorrento (10 min. from Vico) can be reached by rail (the Circumvesuviana - the rail that circles Mount Vesuvius and runs between Sorrento and Naples). For destinations like Paestum, Elea, Amalfi, Positano, Ravello a van will be necessary. The cost will depend on the number of people travelling, the more people the cheaper. To reach Pompei or Herculaneum, the train fare is under five dollars, but the ticket to the site varies from 12,000 to 15,000 Lire.
We leave Vico for Naples on Sunday, January 9 morning by bus. The cost for the rental bus will depend on the number of people taking it. We will be able to give you a more precise figure when we have a better idea of how many people will be on it. The bus will take us to our hotels.
In Naples, most of the stores will be closed on Sunday, but not the museums nor the churches where most of the Baroque artworks can be found. A map of Naples will be provided so you can find your way to the more interesting places, or simply wander around, or try some of the restaurant and pizzerie (pizza places) available. Naples is where the pizza was born, and you will find that the city is full of places where you can taste the one and only pizza doc. On the map you will also be able to find your way to the via Monte di Dio 14 and the Palazzo Serra di Cassano, where the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici is located. A list of nearby pizzerie and restaurants will be indicated where you can enjoy a lunch or a dinner.
The last night ( January 12) the Province of Naples will host a dinner for all IAPL members. Information as to place will be given later.
Most people will leave Naples on the 13th. There are no arrangements to get to Naples' Airport although some may be made at the hotel where you are staying. Otherwise sharing a taxi to the airport is the best and least expensive way.
Reminders:
And now a few words of advice to make your stay more pleasant:
Money: bring some Liras with you, for the bus, the train, and other spending money. If you bring traveller's cheques you will have to go to a bank with your passport to cash them. I have found, however, that a Visa or MasterCard (Cirrus) is all I need. There are plenty of money machines around.
Clothes: It will be cool and damp, at best. Bring a raincoat and/or an umbrella.
Shopping: Sorrento, ten minutes away from Vico, is a great place to shop for souvenirs. Inlaid woodwork is Sorrento's specialty and you can find them in all sizes and of all prices. In Naples, the most fashionable shops are in Via Toledo, Via Chiaia and Via dei Mille, as well as in the Galleria Umberto I, which has on one side the "San Carlo" Opera house, the Palazzo Reale, and the National Library.
Naples Sights: In Naples, the Museo Nazionale is a must. There you will find everything that you didn't find in Paestum, Pompei and Herculaneum. The Palazzo Reale (the Royal Palace) is also worth a visit as well as the Church of San Francesco di Paola across from it on the other side of Piazza del Plebiscito. Spaccanapoli (literally, a long street which divides Naples), or the Centro Storico (the oldest part of town) is the other place to visit for the numerous baroque churches such as Gesu' Nuovo, Santa Chiara Church with its tiled cloister, San Domenico Maggiore in Piazza San Domenico, and, nearby, not to be missed, the Cappella Sansevero, the chapel of Raimondo di Sangro with its Veiled Christ. The entire baroque chapel is a work of art, rich in allegory and scientific wonders. Nearby there is also Palazzo Filomarino, where Benedetto Croce lived, and now houses the Institute for Historical Studies. Giambattista Vico lived nearby.
Safety: You should not encounter problems getting around in Vico, Sorrento or Naples, but a word of advice. Wherever you go don't make a show of money or other valuables, this is after all the Year of the Jubilee. Avoid showing a lot of money in public. Always carry a small amount for small purchases. If you have a camera use it and then put it away. Use a money bag. If carrying a purse wear it in front of you, and never on your shoulder especially when your purse is on the outside. Be careful in buses which are best avoided because they are very crowded. Walking is best, and if you have to go a distance take a taxi, and be careful.
Food: Food in Vico is always wonderful. Of course, in Vico we eat at the Oriente, and there the food is great. But for a treat sometime, try "Pizza a Metro" or as it is now also called "The University of Pizza". This is a great restaurant where you will find everything but also some of the best pizza around. You can order pizza by the centimeter, with any topping you want. Also in Vico try "Gabriele", up from the main square. It's not only a great cheese shop, but has wonderful dessert like small rum babas, with home made ice cream, limoncello (a lemon liqueur) the specialty of the area, and mandarin liqueur. Limoncello is sold anywhere in Vico, Sorrento and nearby areas. Make sure that you go home with at least a bottle. Drink it cold.
In Naples, you find the best pizza, and you can even have it "fritta" (fried). Pizza is truly an experience and it is cheap. There are a lot of pizzeria doc, those that have on the store front a "pulcinella" the neapolitan mask. Brandi, where the famous "margherita" pizza originated is close to the Istituto and we will tell you how to find it. Also try "sfogliatella", a specialty of Naples made with ricotta and candied fruit, and of course, "coffee", great at any bar, but there is always that one bar that makes it better. You can have it "ristretto" (very little) o "lungo" (a bit more), "macchiato" with a spot of milk, and, of course, caffelatte or cappuccino, or my favourite "caffe' corretto" with some anise, brandy, or, even better, with grappa, just great on those January mornings. For lunch, instead, you may want to start with a "prosecco" a light, dry champagne.
This is some of the information we feel you should have now, especially, to whet your appetite when getting ready to go to Naples. If you have questions do not hesitate to ask either now or later. Happy travel, Happy New Year, and Happy New Millennium.
SOME WEBSITES ON THE ARTS AND CULTURE OF NAPLES
www.napolinapoli.com/disco.htm
IAPL IN NAPLES
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
VICO EQUENSE
General Information
Meals:
Each day, Breakfast is served between 7:00-9:00; Lunch at 12:30; and Dinner at 20:30 in the Hotel Oriente in Vico.
Registration:
All participants in the Conference must register for the full conference ($80. US) and pay IAPL membership for 2000. Payments can be made with VISA/MasterCard/American Express.
Day Trips on Saturday, January 8th:
Sign-ups for Saturday (Jan 8th): Sign-up sheets will be available at the Conference Registration for day trips to Paestum and Elea and Ravello, Amalfi, and Positano. For trips to Pompei and Herculaneum local trains are available. For trip to Capri, boats are available from Sorrento (10 minutes by train).
Transportation to Naples (Jan 9th):
Sign-up sheets will be available for bus transportation from Vico to Naples hotels at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.
Wednesday, January 5, 2000
8:00-10:00 Registration
10:00 - 12:00 Chair: Ewa Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA)
Lecture by
Teresa Brennan
(Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, USA)
"Energetics"
14:30 - 17:00 "Turns in Feminist Theory: A Round Table on the Work of Teresa Brennan"
[organized by Ewa Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA)]
Chair: Lysane Fauvel (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY, USA)
1.Ewa Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, IN,USA)
"Feminist Ethics after Lacan'"
2. Gertrude Postl (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY USA)
"From the Flesh to the Signifier: Teresa Brennan's Account of Language in Contemporary Feminist Perspective"
3. Jane Caputi (Communications and Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University, USA)
"Brennan's theory of energetics"
4. Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
"Femininity exhausts itself in the end: Freud, the death drive, and the case of Marie Bonaparte"
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 20:00 "The Affective Turn: Sexuality, Merleau-Ponty, and Ethics"
Chair: Martina Reuter (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)
1. Sara Heinamaa (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)
"Sexuality, Affection, and Perception"
2. Johanna Oksala (Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS)
"The Subject of Sex: Female Subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's Account of Subjectivity"
3. Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"Sex and the Affective Other: From Sexuality to an Embodied Ethics"
Thursday, January 6, 2000
9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00 -12:00 Chair: Wayne Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, USA)
Lecture by
Simon Critchley
(Philosophy, University of Essex, Colchester, UK)
14:30 - 17:00 A Round Table on the Work of Simon Critchley
[organized by Wayne Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, USA)]
Chair: Wayne Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, USA)]
1. Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Loyola College of Baltimore, MD, USA)
"Calculating with the Incalculable: Politics and the Sub-ject."
2. Fabio Ciaramelli (Philosophy, University of Naples, ITALY)
"Critchley on Ethics"
3. Bernard Flynn (Philosophy, Empire State College, SUNY, USA)
"Nihilism and its Vicissitudes"
4. Mary Lydon, (French, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
"'A lobster couldn't do it': Samuel Beckett's Turn to French."
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 20:00 "Thresholds"
Chair: Gary Shapiro (Philosophy, University of Richmond, VA, USA)
Stephen Barker
(School of the Arts, University of California -Irvine, CA, USA)
"Thresholds"
Friday, January 7, 2000
9:00-10:00 Registration
10:00 - 12:00 Chair: Drew Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA)
Lecture by
Adriana Cavarero
(Philosophy, University of Verona, ITALY)
"The Shadow of Writing"
14:30 - 17:00 In Spite of (Cavarero's) Plato: A Round Table on the Work of Adriana Cavarero
[organized by Drew Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, USA)]
Chair: Thomas R. Flynn (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
1. Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
"Counting"
2. Diane Perpich (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
"Voice and the Other"
3. Silvana Caratenuto (English, University of Salerno, ITALY)
"Shakespearean Bodies: Some Notes on 'Ophelia' in Cavarero's Corpi in Figure"
4. Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA)
"In Spite of (Cavarero's?) Plato"
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 20:00 Religion at the End of the Millennium: Derrida/Vattimo/Gadamer
Chair: Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY, USA)
1. Ludwig Nagl (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
"This Phenomenon, So Hastily Called the 'Return of Religions': Derrida on 'Faith and Knowledge'"
2. Graeme Nicholson (Philosophy, University of Toronto, CANADA)
"The Return of Gods: Reading Derrida, Vattimo, and Gadamer"
22:30 After Dinner Music and Dancing (in the Hotel)
ISTITUTO IN NAPLES
Registration and All Sessions will be held at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Philosophici, via Monte di Dio,14 (Palazzo Serra di Cassano), Naples, ITALY
Monday, January 10, 2000
8:00-12:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Official Welcome
Introduced by
Hugh J. Silverman, Executive Director, International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Prof. Amato Lamberti, President, Provincia di Napoli, ITALY
Leslie McBee, Consulate Generale of the United States of America, Naples, ITALY
9:15 - 12:15
IS-A/General Session 1: Turns and Returns: Heidegger and Nietzsche
Chair: Bernard Flynn (Empire State College, SUNY, New York City, USA)
1. Paul Gordon (Comparative Literature, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA)
"Tragic (Re) Turnings: Yeats/Nietzsche and the Millennium"
2. Geoffrey Waite (German Studies, Cornell University, USA)
"Esoteric Re-turns: Why there is no Real 'Turn' in Nietzsche and Heidegger; How There is in Spinoza, Marx, and Negri"
3. Robert Burch (Philosophy, University of Alberta, CANADA)
"Metaphysics, Apocalypse and the Turns of Salvation"
4. Eva L. Corredor (Language Studies, US Naval Academy)
"The Dead End is Straight Ahead: Long Live Turnings"
IS-B/ General Session 2: Turns of the Century
Chair: Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA)
1. Dragana Jelenic (Philosophy, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, SPAIN)
"A Few Lines on Transcendental Fiction"
2. Elsebet Jegstrup (Philosophy, Augusta State University)
"Shades of Turning"
3. Deborah Fitzgerald (Tryon, North Carolina, USA)
"Kolmar and Malamid: the End of the Artist at the Turn of the Century , as well as the End of Art?"
4. Anthony P. Petruzzi (English, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, USA)
"Two Modes of Disclosure in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: 'The Worlding of the World' in Hermeneutic Freedom and 'When Oblivion Turns About' Enframing World"
IS-C/ French Language Session:
Chair: Mary Lydon (French, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
1. Jean-Pierre Faye (Universite Europeene de la Recherche, CNRS, Paris, FRANCE)
"La philosophie des transformants"
2. Christian Doude van Troostwij (Philosophy, LUXEMBOURG)
"Sveltesse voltante: une question de négativité"
14:30 - 17:30
IS-A/ General Session 3: Visions and Visibilities
Chair: Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA)
1. Gary Shapiro (Philosophy, University of Richmond, VA, USA)
"The Visual Turn"
2. Lisa Trahair (School of Theatre, Film and Dance, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA)
"Preposterous figurality: Lyotard, comedy and the cinema of Buster Keaton"
IS-B/ General Session 4: Heidegger's Turnings
Chair: Graeme Nicholson (Philosophy, University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)
1. Richard Detsch (Modern Languages, University of Nebraska - Kearney, NE, USA)
"The Heidegger Controversy Revisited: His Turning Toward National Socialism as Reflected in His Philosophy and the Views of Contemporaries at the University of Freiburg"
2. Ferit Guven (Philosophy, Earlham College, IN, USA)
"Heidegger, Hegel and Negativity"
3. Krzysztof Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA)
"From Techne to Poiesis: Heidegger's Other Turn"
IS-C/ French/Italian Language Session: Il turbamento della scrittura - Helene Cixous Chair: Silvana Carotenuto ( Foreign Languages, University of Salerno, ITALY)
1. Nadia Setti (Etudes Féminines, Université de Paris VIII, FRANCE)
"La scrittura in movimento di Hélène Cixous"
2. Esther v.d. Osten-Sacken (Berlin, GERMANY and University de Paris VIII, FRANCE)
"'Je continue' par révolutions"
3. Monica Fiorini (University of Bologna, ITALY)
"'Revenances' e 'revolutions' nella scrittura di Hélène Cixous"
4. Doina Petrescu (Architecture, Iowa State University, IA, USA and Paris, FRANCE)
"Tournants et torments de plaisir dans l'apprentissage de l'espace"
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 20:00
IS-A/ Plenary Lecture
Chair: Adriana Cavarero (Philosophy, University of Verona, ITALY)
Herta Nagl-Docekal
(Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
Towards a Feminist Renewal of Aesthetics
20:00 - 21:00 Reception
[sponsored by the Istituto Cervantes di Napoli]
Tuesday, January 11, 2000
8:00-10:00 Registration
9:00 - 12:00
IS-A/ General Session 4: Derrida's Turns
Chair: Wayne Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
1. Rebecca Saunders (Illinois State University, IL, USA)
"The Trope of the Foreign"
2. Alison Ross (Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, AUSTRALIA)
"Derrida and Kant on Aesthetic Presentation"
3. Constantinos V. Proimos (Philosophy and Art History, Polytechnic of Crete, Platanias Chanion, Crete, GREECE)
"Writing before Art, Morality, Reason: Reflections on Jacques Derrida's Account of Ancient Practice"
IS-B/ General Session 5: Turns of Nature, Place, and Reason
Chair: Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
1. Steven Bruhm (English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S, CANADA)
"The Self-Possessed Child, or Nightmare on Sesame Street"
2. Robyn Ferrell (Philosophy, Macquarrie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
"The Force of Genre and the Scandal of Realism"
3. Elaine Miller (Philosophy, Miami University, Miami, Ohio, USA)
"Tropes as Subversion: Transforming the Metaphors of Philosophy"
IS-C/ Organized German Language Session: Fin de Siecle - Vienna
Chair: Gertrude Postl (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, USA)
1. Hermann Rauchenschwandtner (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
Kultur, Leben und Wirklichkeit. Die Antinomie der Kultur im Fin de Siecle
2. Gerhard Treiber (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA) [session organizer]
Philosophie der Zeitenwende im Roman: Hermann Broch-Thomas Mann-Robert Musil
3. Martin Weiß (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)
"Karl Kraus: Schnittpunkt der Jahrhundertwende: Eine biographische Annäherung"
14:30 - 17:30
IS-A/ General Session 6: Witnessing
Chair: Ewa Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA)
1. Kelly Oliver (Philosophy and Women=s Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"Turning from Recognition to Witnessing"
2. Silvia Benso (Philosophy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, USA)
"Turning the Eyes to Witness: Levinas, Memory and the Third"
3. Diane Enns (Philosophy, Paris, FRANCE and SUNY/Binghamton, USA)
"The Witness and the Writer: Responsibility and Politics in the Interregnum"
Respondent: Harvey Cormier (Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA)
IS-B/ General Session 7: Turns in the Labyrinths of Desire
Chair: Diane Perpich (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
1. Maria Dos Santos-Lee (Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sidney, AUSTRALIA)
"Millennium Plateaus"
2. Ib Johansen (English, University of Aarhus, DENMARK)
"Lost in a Maze"
3. Andrew Schmitz (SUNY-Buffalo, D=Youville College, Buffalo, NY, USA)
"Kafka's Options: Perversion and Politics"
4. Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith's College, London, ENGLAND)
"From Pleasure to Desire: involution and anti-climax in Octavia Butler's Dawn"
IS-C/ Italian/Spanish Language Session: Tra arte e filosofia
Chair: Fabio Ciaramelli (Philosophy, University of Naples, ITALY)
1. Fabio Polidori (Philosophy, Università di Trieste, ITALY)
" La svolta che non c'è"
2. Stella Santacatterina (Visual Art, Middlesex University, London, ENGLAND)
"Verso una redifinizione dell'arte: le concretizzazioni specifiche della Poeisis"
3. D.Giugliano (Accademia Belle Arti- Brera- Milano, ITALY)
"Gran-de-mente. Un modello per il nuovo millennio"
4. Laura Borràs Castanyer (Humanities and Philology, Universidad Oberta de Catalunya Diputació, Barcelona, SPAIN)
"Un esempio de ventriloquio poligenerico e intertestuale alla fine del millenio: Hécuba, nómos y música de las ciudadanas e Toda la humanidad habla de Troya"
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 20:00
IS-A/ Plenary Lecture
Chair: Drew Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA)
Hugh J. Silverman
(Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"Postmodern Turns"
20:00 - 21:00 Reception
[sponsored by the IAPL]
Wednesday, January 12
9:00 - 12:00
IS-A/ General Session 8: Turns of the Subject
Chair: Sara Heinamaa (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)
1. Benigno Trigo (Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"The Crisis of Memory: Remembering Machines and Self-Government"
2. Brian Schroeder (Philosophy, Skidmore College, NY, USA)
"Triple Turns: on "The Command that Commands Commanding"
3. Marina de Carneri (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA)
"Turns of the Drive: The Dialectics of Pleasurable Origins"
4. Peter Schwenger (English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S, CANADA)
"The Return of the Thing"
IS-B/ General Session 9: From Vico to Croce to the Next Millennium
Chair: Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Loyola College of Baltimore, MD, USA)
1. Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, USA)
"Vico's Philosophical Pluralism and Transversality in Comparative Philosophy"
2. Massimo Verdicchio (University of Alberta, Edmonton, CANADA)
"Turning the Next Millennium with Benedetto Croce"
3. Martine Lejeune (Philosophy and Literature, Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen, THE NETHERLANDS).
"The cathartic function of historiography according to Croce"
4. Bice Benvenuto (Psychoanalysis, Center for Freudian Analysis and Research, London, ENGLAND and Public Intellectuals Program, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)
"Naples: A Metaphor for Turnings and Upturnings of the End of the Century"
IS-C/ English/Italian Language Session: La svolta del postmoderno
Chair: Maurizio Calbi( Foreign Languages, University of Salerno, ITALY)
1. Ashwani Sharma (Cultural Studies, University of East London)
"The Aesthetics of Post-colonial Theory: Music, Machines and Diasporic Culture"
* Sponsored by The British Council
2. M.O.Driscoll ( English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
"The Return of the Post & the Turn of the Millennium"
3. Evlyn Gould (Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Turning Points in Multicultural Affairs: From Dreyfus to the European Union"
4. Joan-Elies Adell(Teoria de la Literatura, University of Catalana, Spain)
"Svolte nella popular music: negoziazioni nella marginalità"
14:30 - 17:30
IS-A/ General Session 10: Time and Time Again in History
Chair: Peter Gratton (Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA)
1. Thomas R. Flynn (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
"Turnings and Returnings: Sartre and Foucault"
2. Sean Kirkland (Philosophy, Universitat-Wuppertal, GERMANY and State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"The Spectre of Literature and the Possibility of Historical Discourse in Foucault's Order of Things"
3. Adrian Mackenzie (General Philosophy, University of Sidney, AUSTRALIA)
"From temporal time to time of ephemeris: chronometry and incalculability"
4. Brian Seitz (Philosophy, Babson College, Babson Park, MA, USA)
"Turning to the Past: The Future of the Polity"
IS-B/ German/Italian Session: Il teatro ad una 'svolta'
Chair: Massimo Verdicchio (Romance Languages, University of Alberta, CANADA)
1. Hans-Thies Lehemann (Theater- Film- und Medien- Wissenschaft, Joann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY)
"Postdramatisches Theater"
*sponsored by the Goethe Institute
2. Gaetano Biccari, (Linguistics, Università della Calabria- Cosenza, ITALY)
"Il n uovo realismo scenico in Germania: l'esempio di Thoas Ostermeier"
3. Valentina Valentini (Università della Calabria, ITALY)
"Dal cul de sac dell'autoriflessivitàà: per una cultura dell'opera"
4. Clara Fiorillo (Architecture, Naples, ITALY)
"La macchina scenica"
IS-C/ Organized Session: Returning Back to the Future
Chair: Stephen Pfohl (Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)
1. Shannon Bell (Political Science, York University, CANADA)
"Turning Over Women"
2. Gad Horowitz (University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)
"Speeding"
3. Andrew Haase (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA)
"(Returning Back to) the Future of Metaphysics (or How to Think at Escape Velocity)"
4. Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker (Political Science, Concordia University and C-Theory, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)
"Future Oblivion"
5. Stephen Pfohl (Sociology, Boston College)
"When the Future is in the Past"
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 20:00
IS-A/ Plenary Lecture
Chair: Teresa Brennan (Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Henk Oosterling
(Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
"Anaesthetics 0.1: Man as Medium of all Media?"
21:00 Celebration Dinner (location to be announced)
[sponsored by the Provincia di Napoli]
Grateful acknowledgment:
On behalf of the participants in the special conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, the IAPL Executive Committee wishes to express its thanks and appreciation to the following organizations for their support and encouragement of the IAPL in Naples conference: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, La Provincia di Napoli, Ente Provinciale per il Turismo di Napoli, Università di Salerno, Consulate General of the United States of America, Istituto Cervantes, The British Council, Goethe Institut, and the Institut Français de Naples.
IAPL Executive Director
Hugh J. Silverman
IAPL Executive Committee
Hugh J. Silverman (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Stephen Barker (University of California at Irvine)
Wayne Froman (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia)
Drew Hyland (Trinity College, Hartford)
James E. Swearingen (Savannah, Georgia)
Ewa Ziarek (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
IAPL in Naples Local Arrangements Coordinators:
Massimo Verdicchio (University of Alberta, Canada)
Silvana Carotenuto (University of Salerno, Italy)