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All participants in the conference, including those not on the Program , must register. 2001 Dues are also required for persons on the Program. For those already registered, please be sure to pick up folders, nametags, dinner tickets, and further restaurant information at the Registration Desk. Conference registrants are entitled to participate in all events.   However, a separate dinner ticket is required for the Saturday evening International Celebration Dinner. Be sure to check out all the new books on display at the IAPL Book Exhibit. Books may be purchased at special discounts during the conference.

 

SUMMARY OF SESSIONS

All concurrent sessions will be held in the Cosby Academic Building. Plenary sessions will be held as listed in the program.

Registration and the IAPL / Publishers' Book Exhibit & Cafe will take place in the Living and Learning Center II Auditorium [LLCII] from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and on Saturday morning until noon.

                             

TUESDAY, MAY 1ST, 2001  - Evening, 9:00 PM - 12:00 Midnight

IAPL 2001 Welcoming Reception

                                “Mart Bridge”

                                Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

                                Atlanta, Georgia

               

WEDNESDAY,  MAY 2ND, 2001                                     

I               General and Proposed Sessions - Morning, 9:00AM - 12:00 noon

/GS-01W=104                Beginning with Ethics: De Beauvoir/ Levinas/  Derrida

/GS-02W=103                Canon-Making and the Limits of the Literary Text

/GS-03W=LL27                Violent Beginnings: Postcoloniality

/GS-04W=LL31                And Then There Was Woman

/GS-05W=LL28                Eyes on Artaud and the Media

/GS-06W=LL29                Material Matters: Beginning with Difference, Gender, or Materiality (Benjamin, Barthes, and Deleuze)

/GS-07W=217                In Principio Erat...

/GS-08W=214                Reclaiming Poeisis: For and Against Heidegger                                                             

 

II   General and Organized Sessions - Afternoon I, 1:00 - 3:30PM

 /GS-09W=217                Beginning/Returning to the Subject

/GS-10W=LL27                Nietzsche out of the Dark

/GS-11W=LL29                The Subject of Sovereign Beginnings: Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille, and Nancy

/GS-12W=LL31                Merleau-Ponty’s New Horizons

/GS-13W=LL28                Foucauldian Inflections: Body, History, Race

/GS-14W=104                Interminable Beginnings – from Parmenides to Nancy and Beyond

/PS-01W =103                Beginnings in Heidegger’s Beiträge

 

III                 General Sessions and Proposed Sessions - Afternoon II, 3:45 - 5:45 PM

/GS-15W=LL29     Revolutionary Beginnings: Rousseau, Benjamin, and Arendt

/GS-16W=104                Originary and Cultural Differences

/PS-02W=LL28                The Beginning of the Good Life

/PS-03W=LL31                Time, History, and Prejudice: Heidegger at the Beginning of Hermeneutics

/PS-04W =n/a                Constituting Freedom in Foucault and Sartre

/PS-05W=LL27                'Coming into the Light?' Re-presenting Race in Spike Lee's "Bamboozled"

 

IV                Plenary Session – Late Afternoon, 6:00 - 7:15 PM

                Cosby Lower Level - Room 32

                SPELMAN COLLEGE WELCOME

Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley, President, Spelman College

                INTRODUCTION

                Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

 

                IAPL INVITED SPEAKER

                 PAUL PATTON (Philosophy, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

                 “BEGINNING AND DELEUZIAN BECOMING”      

                Reception / hors d’oeuvres, 7:15 - 8:30 PM

                Cash Bar

 COSBY LOWER LEVEL LOBBY   

 

THURSDAY, MAY 3RD, 2001

V                Organized Sessions - Morning,  9:00AM - 12:00 noon

 /OS_01T=LL29                 Be(at)ginnings

 /OS_02T=LL31                Beginning with the Body

 /OS_03T=217                Beginning With the End: Thinking Origins and Eschatology

 /OS-04T=104                On Race and Philosophy

 /OS-05T=LL27                The Origins of Deconstruction

 /OS_06T=LL28                Practices of Freedom: Experiments and Transgressions

 /OS-07T=103                Nietzschean Genealogies and the African American Experience

 /OS-08T=214                Beginning the World (Again) as Aesthetic Phenomenon

 

                VI                General and Proposed Sessions - Afternoon I, 1:00 - 3:00PM 

/GS-17T=LL29                Revolutionary Writing/Beginning with Stories

/GS-18T=LL28                Time to Begin to See

/PS-06T= LL27                Beginnings of a Philosopher: Literary Influences on Emmanuel Levinas

/PS-07T= 104                Different Origins: Heidegger, Deleuze, and Marion

/PS-08T= 103                The End of Poetry: The Beginning of Philosophy?

 

VII                Invited Symposia - Afternoon II, 3:15 - 6:15PM

/IS-01W=LL27                Origin/ Birth/ Provenance in Nietzsche and Foucault

/IS-02T=LL29                Textual  Beginnings

/IS-03T=LL28                Film Beginnings

/IS-04T=104                Beginning (Again)

/IS-05T=LL31                Lifeworld/Artwork II

/IS-06T=217                Arché: Heidegger and Aristotle

/IS_07T=103                Black Feminist Agendas for the 21st Century

/IS-08T=204                African-American Encounters with GandhIndian Ideology Post/Colonial Images on Nonviolence and Civil Rights

/IS-09T=329                African Departures

 

VIII                Special Plenary Session – Evening, 7:30 - 10:30 PM

                “Savannah Fish Company,” Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

                “Debuts”d’Oeuvres and Light Dinner

                 IAPL @ TWENTY-FIVE:  BEGINNING A NEW QUARTER CENTURY!

                 Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

1.Thomas P. Brockelman (Philosophy, LeMoyne College and Architecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY), “Academy gets Avant-Garde Disease: Infection tranced to IAPL (details to follow).”

2.Jin Young Park (Religion, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY), “IAPL and the ‘Spirit’.”

3.Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY), “My Life as Julia Kristeva.”

4.Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT), “One Moment In Time.”

5.Stephen Barker (School of the Arts and Director of the University of California at Irvine Program, Lyon, FRANCE), “A Fine Romance.”

6.Wayne J. Froman (Philosophy and Religion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA), “Ten Minutes About the IAPL at 25.”

 

 FRIDAY, MAY 4TH, 2001

 IX                 Organized Sessions - Morning, 9:00AM - 12:00 noon                       

/OS-09F=214                 Beyond Nancy's Birth to Presence

/OS-10F=LL29                 False Starts: Skewed, Disingenuous, and Hidden Assumptions in the Politics of Culture and Tradition

/OS-11F=217                 Genesis/Bereshith: Writing the Beginning of Beginning

/OS-12=n/a                 The Origins of Deconstruction II (see OS-05T)

/OS-13F=103                 Beginningless Beginnings: What Does Asian Thought Do With Beginnings?

/OS-14F=104                 Word/Reason/Flesh: On the Origins of Ethics

/OS-15F=LL27                 Troping Austria 2000: Between Destruction and Awakening?

/OS-16F=n/a                 The Beginning and End of Race:  Should Race be Finished?

/OS-17F=LL28                 After Poststructuralism and Postcolonialism: New Beginnings for Literary Theory?

/OS-18F=LL31                 Heidegger's 'Other Beginning'

 

X                 Special Panels  - Afternoon, 2:00 - 5:00 PM

 /SP-01F=LL29                 Points of Departure

/SP_02F=LL28                 Dionysian Rebirths

/SP_03F=LL31                 Cultural Beginnings

/SP-04F=LL27                 Rethinking Fanon

                              

XI                 IAPL 2001 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Late Afternoon, 5:30-7:00 PM

                Sisters Chapel, Spelman Campus

               

                Preliminary Remarks

                Dr. Cynthia Spence, Academic Dean, Spelman College

                INTRODUCTION

                Beverly Guy-Sheftall, IAPL 2001 Conference Co-coordinator

                Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women's Studies

                Spelman College

 

                IAPL 2001 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

                bell hooks (Feminist Critic and Writer, New York)

                “SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE”

 

                Reception, 7:00-8:00 PM

                Atrium, Manley Hall

 

                Spelman College Jazz Ensemble

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 5TH, 2001

 XI                 Close Encounters - Morning, 10:00AM - 1:30PM

 /CE_01S=LL31                 Encountering Charles Johnson’s Dreamer

/CE-02S=LL27                 Gérard Bucher’s Imagination of Origins (L’Imagination de l’origine [2000])

/CE-03S =103                 The Absolute Secret: John D. Caputo's Radical Hermeneutics

/CE-04S=104                 Gadamer at 101                                                    

/CE-05S=LL29                 Toni Morrison: Up Close

/CE-06S=LL28                 East and West Encounters

 

 XII            Plenary Roundtable - Afternoon, 2:45 - 6:00 PM

                Cosby Academic Center Auditorium

 

RETHINKING RACE AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES

Preliminary Remarks: Dr. Romie Tribble, Associate Provost, Spelman College

 

Organizer and Chair: Roy Martinez, IAPL 2001 Conference Co-Coordinator

                Professor and Chair of  Philosophy and Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

1.                 Elizabeth M. Bounds (Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

2.                 Satya P. Mohanty (English, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

3.                 Leonard Harris (Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

4.                 bell hooks (feminist critic and writer, NY, NY)

5.                 Frank Kirkland (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY, NY)

 

XIII                 Twenty-fifth Anniversary IAPL Reception and Dinner, 7:30PM

 

                Prior ticket purchase required (at Registration Desk - no later than Thursday noon, May 3rd)

 

THE MANSION  (Piedmont at North Ave., Atlanta, Georgia)

 

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

All concurrent sessions will be held in the Cosby Academic Building. Plenary sessions will be
held as listed in the program.

Registration and the IAPL / Publishers' Book Exhibit & Cafe will take place in the Living and
Learning Center II Auditorium [LLCII] from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and on Saturday morning until noon.

[Code = Page number/Session number/First letter of session day Title of Session]

Tuesday, 1 May

Wednesday, 2 May

Thursday, 3 May

Friday, 4 May

Saturday, 5 May

 

Tuesday, 1 May 2001 - Evening

9:00 PM - 12:00 Midnight WELCOMING RECEPTION

"Mart Bridge," Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

 

Wednesday, 2 May 2001

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Daily (until noon Saturday)

REGISTRATION

IAPL ANNUAL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ

(Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the mornings; coffee, tea, and cold drinks in the afternoon.)

I General and Proposed Sessions - Wednesday
Morning  9:00AM - 12:00 noon

 

 

I                General and Proposed Sessions - Morning,  9:00AM - 12:00noon

 

               

GS-01W                Beginning with Ethics: De Beauvoir/ Levinas/  Derrida                (Cosby 104)

Chair:                Jan Plug (Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)

 


 

1.Melanie Eckford-Prosser (English, Mississippi State University,  Mississippi State, MI), “Beginning Anew: Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics, the History of Great Men, and the Birth of a New Genre.”

2.Saul Tobias (Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Religious Language and the Politics of Affliction: Emmanuel Levinas and Simone Weil.”

3.Hugh Miller (Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, IL), “‘Glory,’ Language, and Justice: Levinas Before the Beginning.”

4.Thorsten Hitz (Philosophy, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, GERMANY), “The Beginnings of Friendship: Derrida, Aristotle, and Practical Reason.”

 

 

GS-02W                Canon-Making and the Limits of the Literary Text                (Cosby 103)

Chair:                TBA

 


 

1.Herbert Grabes (English, Universität-Giessen, GERMANY), “Canon-Making: The Creation of ‘English Literature’ through the Writing of Literary Historians.”

2.Kuisma Korhonen (Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, FINLAND and Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, Toulouse, FRANCE), “The Ethics of Essayistic Infinity, from Montaigne to Hypertext.”

3.Ib Johansen (English, University of Aarhus, DENMARK), “Deconstructing Beginnings: The Genealogy of Origin from William Blake to William Goyen.”

4.Maya Maxym (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA),  “‘Beim Tode! Lebendig!’: Catastrophe as the Origin of Paul Celan’s Poetry.”

5.Frédérique Joseph-Lowrey (Foreign Languages, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA), “To begin: Claude Louis-Combet’s Stories.”

 

 

GS-03W Violent Beginnings: Postcoloniality                (Cosby LL27)

Chair: Jeffrey C. Stewart (African-American Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)                         

 


 

1.Gene Blocker (Philosophy, Ohio University, Athens, OH), “A New Beginning in African Political Philosophy.”

2.Jennifer Jeffers (English, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH), “The End of Postcolonial Ireland: The Beginning of EuroIreland.”                                                                                                                     

3.Ryan S. Trimm (English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC), “Between Now and Then: John Fowles and Postimperial National Identity.”

4.Rebecca Saunders (English, Illinois State University, Normal, IL), “Risky Business: Linguistic Indeterminacy and Postcolonial Ethics.”

5.Valerie Loichot (French and Italian, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Opaque and Violent Beginnings: Edouard Glissant’s Carribean Digenesis.”

 

 

GS-04W And Then There Was Woman                (Cosby LL31)

Chair:   Angela Hunter (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 


 

1.Maria Margaroni (Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS), “‘In the Beginning Was______’: Julia Kristeva and the Legacy of the Platonic Chora.

2.Karyn Ball (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CANADA), “Passionate Neutrality.”

3.Vaheed Ramazani (French and Italian, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), “The Mother of All Things: War, Reason, and the Gendering of Pain.”

4.Anne-Marie Bowery (Philosophy, Baylor University, Waco, TX), “Self_Disclosure in Academic Writing: Beginning a Conversation between Anzaldua. Bondi, and hooks.”

 

 

GS-05W                Eyes on Artaud and the Media                 (Cosby LL28)

Chair: Mary Ann Franks (Modern Languages and Literatures, Oxford University, Oxford, UK)

 


 

1.Hannah Aki Hawkins (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “A Race of Magical Origin: Antonin Artaud, Ambassador to Atlantis.”

2.Claudia Jost (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ), “Novelty, Reality, and Crime after Hannah Arendt and Antonin Artaud.”

3.Jay Murphy (Independent Scholar, New York City, NY), “Artaud as Post-media Artist: Guattari contra Baudrillard.”

4.R. L. Rutsky (Film Studies, University of California - Irvine, CA), “Informational Drift.”

5.Daniel Collins-Cavenaugh (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA), “Wrestling - With the Hyperreal: Stone Cold Steve Austin’s Deconstruction Company.”

 

 

GS-06W                Material Matters: Beginning with Difference, Gender, or Materiality (Benjamin, Barthes, and Deleuze) (Cosby LL29)

Chair:                 Collen Zoller (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 


 

1.Ian S. Oakes (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Life as Text(ure): Matter and Narrative.”

2.Dragana Jelenic (Philosophy, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, SPAIN), “Beginnings: A Matter of Action?”

3.Astrid Vicas (Philosophy and Honors, St Leo University, Tampa,  FL), “Agency, Perfectionism, and the Posthuman.”

4.Mary Wiseman (Philosophy,  Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY), “Gender Matters.”

5.Linda Saladin (English, Florida State University, Talahassee, FL), “The Changing Dynamics in Medical Rhetoric.”

 

 

GS-07W                In Principio Erat...                (Cosby 217)       

Chair: Stephen Szolosi (Comparative Literature, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY)

 


 

1.Richard Oxenberg (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “The Problem of Despair: A Kierkegaardian Reading of The Book of Job.

2.Stuart Murray (Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley, CA), "Foucault's Sacred Beginnings: Early Intimations of Power."

3.William Marderness (Writing and Rhetoric, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “Repeatable Beginnings: Eliade’s Myth as a Semiological System.”

4.Kevin O’Neill (Philosophy, University of Redlands, Los Angeles, CA), “From the Annexation of Heaven to Sound Bites for the Soul: Death and Beginnings in American Thought.”                                                             

5.Thomas Pynn (Rhetoric & Writing, Berry College, Rome, GA), “Emergent Nondual Mind in The Dharma Bums.”

 

 

GS-08W                Reclaiming Poeisis: For and Against Heidegger (Cosby 214)

Chair:                TBA

 


 

1.Constantinos V. Proimos (Philosophy of Art, University of Crete, Rethimnon, GREECE), “Beginning and End: Art, Truth, and Politics in Martin Heidegger’s Writings during the 1930's.”

2.Krystyna Lipinska-Illakowicz (General Studies Program, New York University,  NY), “Regressing to the Beginnings: Reclaiming Poesis in the Provincial Space of Bruno Schulz.”

3.John M. Rose (Philosophy, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD), “The Apophantic Showing of Time: Heidegger’s Commentary on the Anaximander Fragment and Anaximander’s Three Inventions.”

4.Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), “Aristotle and Heidegger’s Notion of the Un-heimlichkeit des Anfangs.

 

 

 

 


 

IIGeneral and Organized Sessions - Afternoon I, 1:00 - 3:30PM

 

GS-09W                Beginning/Returning to the Subject                (Cosby 217)

Chair: Apostolos Vasilakis (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 


 

1.Robert Young (English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL) “New Beginnings or the Return of the Repressed?  Toward a Transformative Psychoanalytic Theory of (Racial) Subjectivity.”

2.T. L. Welsh (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “The Subject’s Beginning: A Psychological-Philosophical Study.”

3.Adrian Johnston (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “The Monstrosity of Authority: The Corporeal Origins of the Super-Ego.”

4.A. Samuel Kimball (English, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL), “Contraceiving the Logos: Rereading the Poetics through the Eyes of Oedipus.”

 

 

GS-10W                Nietzsche out of the Dark                (Cosby LL27)

Chair:                 Peter Fristedt (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY)                                                        

 


 

1.Ina Paul-Horn (Institute für Interdisciplinary Research, University of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA), “Metaphors of the Sea:  Nietzsche's Zarathustra as Voyage of Discovery.”

2.Paul Swift (Philosophy, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV), “On Nietzsche's Beginnings: The 1867 Encounter with Schopenhauer's Dark Side.”

3.Christos C. Evangeliou (Philosophy, Towson State University, Towson, MD), “The Beginning of Nietzsche’s Lifelong Attack on Socrates: The Birth of a Tragedy.”

4.David Mikics (English, University of Houston, TX), “Beginning (Again) in Nietzsche’s Daybreak.”

 

 

GS-11W                The Subject of Sovereign Beginnings: Nietzsche, Freud, Bataille, and Nancy                (Cosby LL29)

 


 

Chair:                 TBA

 


 

1.Matthew C. Altman (Philosophy, University of Chicago, IL) and Cynthia D. Coe (Philosophy, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL),  “On Recovering from Train Collisions: Nietzsche, Freud, and the Problem of Historical Subjectivity.”

2.Daniel Price (Honors College, University of Houston, TX), “Sovereignty,  Form and the Beginnings of Art.”

3.John G. Moore (Humanities, Lander University), “Nourishment or Ontology: Philosophy, Literature, and the Question of Beginnings in the Work of Georges Bataille.”

4.Nadia Sahely (French, Elmhurst College, Oak Park, IL ), "Sovereign Beginnings: Bataille,  Nancy, and the Question of Relation."

 

 

GS-12W                Merleau-Ponty’s New Horizons                (Cosby LL31)

Chair:                Christian Paul Holland (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

1.                 Patricia Locke (Philosophy, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD), “ Transition in Space, Enactment in Time: the Case of Chaco Canyon.”

2.                 Janice McClain (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD), “Body and Relationship in Morrison’s Beloved.                                                                                                               

3.                 Brian W. Smyth (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA), “The Kojeve-Fessard Dialogue and the Beginnings of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology.”

4.                 Beata Stawarska (Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain, BELGIUM), “On Breathing and Birth: Beginnings of a Bodily Self.”

 

 

GS-13W                Foucauldian Inflections: Body, History, Race                (Cosby LL28)

Chair: Julie A. Piering (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 


 

1.Jennifer L. Eagan (Philosophy, California State University, Hayward, CA), “Beginning to Become One's Own Body: Foucault, Feminism, and Sport."

 


 

1.Klaus Brax (Institute for Art Research, University of Helsinki, FINLAND), “Probing the Beginnings of a Theory: Fowles and Foucault on Victorian Sexuality.”

2.Patrick W. Bixby (English, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “A Crisis of Origins: Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and the Darwinian Revolution.”

3.Steve Martinot (Humanities, San Francisco State University, CA), “The Invention and Semiotics of Whiteness and Racialization.”

 

 

GS-14W                Interminable Beginnings – from Parmenides to Nancy and Beyond (Cosby 104)

 


 

Chair:                TBA

 


 

1.Phil Hopkins (Religion and Philosophy, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX), “Zeno’s Tortoise: The Parmenidean Beginnings of Philosophy of Language.”

2.Howard Pollack-Milgate (German, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN), "The Infinitesimal Science of Creation: Calculus and Religion in Herman Cohen.”

3.Daniel J. Hoolsema (English, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI), “Blanchot in Nancy: An Interminable Beginning.”

4.Jean-Pierre Faye (Philosophy and Sociology, Université européenne de la recherche, CNRS,  Paris,  FRANCE), “Thinking and Transforming New Beginnings.”

 

 

PS-01W  Beginnings in Heidegger’s Beiträge                (Cosby 103)

Organizer: Francois Raffoul (Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,  LA)

Chair and Respondent: Jonathan Dronsfield (Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, UK)

1.                 Andrew Mitchell (Philosophy, California State University – Stanislaus, CA), “Beginning to Write: Heidegger's Beiträge.”

2.                 David Pettigrew (Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT), “Exceptional Enownings as Beginnings in Heidegger's Beiträge."

3.                 Francois Raffoul (Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,  LA), “The Singular/Plural Structure of Beginnings in Heidegger's Beiträge."

 

 

III                 General Sessions and Proposed Sessions - Afternoon II, 3:45 - 5:45 PM

 

 

GS-15W Revolutionary Beginnings: Rousseau, Benjamin, and Arendt                (Cosby LL29)

Chair: Ben Miller (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)               

1.                 Michael Clifford (Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS), “Tracking the Noble Savage: Genealogy and the "Origins" of Modern Political Identity.”

2.                 Brian M. McGrath (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Revolution, Surprise,and Intention: Reading Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution.”

3.                 David Kelman (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “The Impact of Origin: Walter Benjamin’s Cinema-Event.”

 

 

GS-16W                Originary and Cultural Differences (Cosby 104)

                Chair:                 Jennifer Louis Shaw (Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 


 

1.James Keller (English, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “Avatars of Azlán: Weakly Incommensurate Histories and Chicano Movement Poiesis.”

2.Marilyn Manners (Comparative Literature, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA),  “Jamaica Kincaid: Starting Over, and Over.”

3.Tilottama Tharoor (General Studies Program, New York University, NY), “Bedevilled Beginnings: ‘How Does Newness Come into the World’ in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.

 

 

PS-02W                The Beginning of the Good Life  (Cosby LL28)

Organizer:  Dorothea E.Olkowski (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO)

Chair: TBA

1.                 Simon Glynn (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL), “Hyperreal Ascension: The Beginning of 'The Good Life'.”

2.                 Dorothea E.Olkowski (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO), “Passive Restraint: Masochism in American Culture.”

 

 

PS-03W                Time, History, and Prejudice: Heidegger at the Beginning of Hermeneutics (Cosby LL31)

Organizer and Chair: David Carr (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

1.                 Eric Nelson (Philosophy, Texas A&M, College Station, TX), “When Does Hermeneutics Begin?”

2.                 Beate Obst (Philosophy, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, GERMANY and Emory University, GA), “A New Beginning for Phenomenology? Heidegger's Early Hermeneutics of Dasein.”

3.                 Scott Campbell (Philosophy, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY), “On Being and Life: Heidegger at the Beginnings of Hermeneutics.”

 

                                                                                                                               

PS-04W  Constituting Freedom in Foucault and Sartre (session cancelled)

Organizer: Jackie Gately (Philosophy, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY)

Chair: TBA

 


 

1.Jackie Gately (Philosophy, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY), “A New Beginning at Every Moment: Sartre and the Possibilities for Change.”

2.Dianna Taylor (Philosophy, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY), "Beginning Again: Foucault and Kant's Legacy.”

3.Kevin Boileau (Philosophy, Bellevue College, Seattle, WA) , “The Relation between Foucault and Sartre Regarding Subjectivity and Limits on Freedom.”

 

 

PS-05W  'Coming into the Light?' Re-presenting Race in Spike Lee's Bamboozled                 (Cosby LL27)

Organizer: Joanne Molina (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL)

Chair:                TBA  

 


 

1.Donna-Dale Marcano (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN), “Bamboozled: Is the Black Woman the New Agent of Change?”

2.                 Robin James (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL), “'I am no human, I am DIN-O-MITE!' – Bamboozled, Parody, and a Gay Science."

3.                 Wesley C. Swedlow (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL), “Keep 'Em Laughing.”

 

 

III                 Plenary Session - Late Afternoon, 6:00 - 7:15 PM

               

                Cosby Academic Center Lower Level  LL32

               

                IAPL INVITED SPEAKER

 

                SPELMAN COLLEGE WELCOME

Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley, President, Spelman College

 

                INTRODUCTION

                Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

 

               PAUL PATTON    (Philosophy, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)               

                “Beginning and Deleuzian Becoming”           

                Reception/ hors-d’oeuvres, 7:15 - 8:30 PM

                Spelman College Jazz Ensemble

 

 

Thursday, 3 May 2001

 

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Daily (until noon Saturday)

REGISTRATION

IAPL ANNUAL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ

(Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the mornings; coffee, tea, and cold drinks in the afternoon.)

IV Organized Sessions - Thursday
Morning  9:00AM - 12:00 noon


OS_01T: Be(at)ginnings                (Cosby LL29)

Organizers : John Coker (Philosophy, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL) and Roberta Imboden (English, Ryerson Polytechnic University, CANADA)

Chair:  John Coker (Philosophy, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL)

1.Ann Barrow (English, York University, Toronto, CANADA), "The Lost Cowboy: Jack Kerouac's On the Road.”

2.                 Jonathan Butler (English, Ryerson Polytechnic University, CANADA), "The Road Back Home: Domestic Redemption and Redemptive Domesticity in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.”

3.                 Maria Damon (English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN), "Ethnographies of Loneliness: Bob Kaufman's and John Wieners ''Beat Tableaux'."

4.                 Roberta Imboden (English, Ryerson Polytechnic University, CANADA), "Dean Moriarty's 'Yes, Yes' in Jack Kerouac's On the Road: A Derridean Twist."

  

OS_02T:                Beginning with the Body                (Cosby LL31)

Organizer: Annemie Halsema (University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS)

Chair:  Jennifer Ballengee (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

1.Veronica Vasterling (Philosophy/Center of Women's Studies, University of Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS), “Body and Language.”

2.Jenny Slatman (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS), “Ex-corpore: Integrity and Identity of the Body.”

3.Annemie Halsema (University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS), “Phenomenology in the Feminine.”

4.Tina Chanter (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago,  IL), “Images and Signs: Art, Film, and Abjection.”

5.renee hoogland (Lesbian and Gay Studies, University of Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS), “Transversing Boundaries: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Embodied Subjectivity.”

 

 

OS_03T: Beginning With the End: Thinking Origins and Eschatology (Cosby 217)

 Organizer and Chair:  Dana Hollander (Philosophy/ Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, CANADA)

1.                 Martin Kavka (Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL), "The Encrypted Messiah: The Case of the Mourners of Zion."

2.                 Ferit Güven (Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN), "Eschatological Madness in Heidegger's Anaximander Fragment."

3.                 Peter Zeillinger (Fundamental Theology, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA), "Beginnings Without Origins: Theological Avoidances In and With Derrida."

 

 

OS-04T: On Race and Philosophy                (Cosby 104)

Organizer: Bill E. Lawson (Philosophy, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI)

Chair:                 Kobe Colemon (Philosophy, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA)

1.Barbara Jean Hall (Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA), “When Equal is Separate.”

2.                 Tommy Lott (Philosophy, San Jose State University, CA), "Charles Mills on the Racial Contract.”

3.                 Eric Morton (Philosophy, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA), “Discipline and Punish: The Policy of Neopanopticism -- Teaching Philosophy Radically.”

4.                 Emmett L. Bradbury (Philosophy, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL), “Race, Morality and the Personal Point of View.”

 

OS-05T: The Origins of Deconstruction                (Cosby LL27)

Organizer and Chair:  Martin McQuillan (Cultural Theory and Analysis, University of Leeds, UK)

1.                 Jean-Michel Rabaté (English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), “Extremes Meet.”

2.                 Marc Froment-Meurice (French Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), “Dating – Deconstruction.”

3.                 Robert Eaglestone (English Studies, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK), “Traces: the Holocaust, Levinas and Derrida.”

4.                 Ika Willis (Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK), “From Pretexts to Postcards and Beyond.”

 

OS_06T: Practices of Freedom: Experiments and Transgressions                (Cosby LL28)

Organizer: Tony O'Connor (Philosophy, University College, Cork, IRELAND)

Chair:  Duane Davis (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC)

1.                 Kath Jones (Philosophy, University of Greenwich, UK), “Surveillance Power.”

2.                 Elizabeth Butterfield (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “On the Possibility of Transgression.”

3.                 Joanne Molina (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL), “Hortense Spillers Meets Sterling Brown's 'Slim Greer': Self-reflexivity and Freedom  in the Performance of the Trickster.”

4.                 Elaine Miller (Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH), “Construing Freedom Through Right: Irigaray and the Philosophy of Right.”

5.                 Tony O'Connor (Philosophy, University College, Cork, IRELAND), “Practices of Freedom.”

 

OS-07T: Nietzschean Genealogies and the African American Experience (Cosby 103)

Organizer and Chair:  Jacqueline Scott (Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, IL)

1.A. Todd Franklin (Philosophy, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY), “A Genealogy of Emergence: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and the Consciousness of the Oppressed.”

2.Robert Gooding-Williams (Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), “Nietzsche, the Black Atlantic and Double Consciousness.”

3.                 James Winchester (Philosophy, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA), “Nietzschean's Racial Profiling.”

4.                 Christa Davis Acompara (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY, NY), “Unlikely Illuminations: Nietzsche and Douglass on Power, Struggle, and Freedom.”

5.                 Cynthia Willett (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Male Power.”

 

 

OS-08T:                Beginning the World (Again) as Aesthetic Phenomenon                (Cosby 214)

Organizer, Chair and Commentator:  Stephen David Ross (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture, SUNY at Binghamton, NY)

1.Gertrude James Gonzalez (Humanities, Clayton College, Morrow, GA), "Anima Caribbeana."

2.Laura Tule (English, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA), "To Thine Own Horse be True: A Reconsideration of the Life Force from Pegasus (or Equus) to Misty."

3.Rakha Menon (Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture, SUNY at Binghamton, NY), "Exotic India's Seductions."

4.Jason Wirth (Philosophy, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA), "Ass Festivals: Aesthetics in the Shadow of Philosophy.”

                                                  

 

                V                General and Proposed Sessions - Afternoon, 1:00 - 3:00PM

GS-17T                Revolutionary Writing/ Stories about Art                (Cosby LL29)

Chair:                Michael Goddard (Art History and Theory, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

1.Russell Ford (Philosophy, Penn State University, State College, PA), “Beginning from the Middle: Deleuze and Cixous on Revolutionary Writing.”

2.Ann Leatherwood (English, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL)  "Beginning without Truth: Deleuze and Joyce's ‘Clay’."

3.David Kaufmann (Philosophy and Religious Studies/ English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA), “Telling Stories about Art: The Case of Philip Guston.”               

               

GS-18T  Time to Begin to See                (Cosby LL28)

Chair:                 TBA

1.Daniel C. Madera (Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Lyotard’s Scapeland: Indeterminacy and the Beginnings of Vision.”

2.John Drabinski (Philosophy, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI) “The Dead_Time of the Corpse in As I Lay Dying"

3.Peter W. Wakefield (Halle Institute for Global Languages, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Beginning a Dialogue: Pedagogies of Context, Embodiment and Teaching Moral Argument.”


 PS-06T Beginnings of a Philosopher: Literary Influences on Emmanuel Levinas                (Cosby LL27) 

Organizer: Tanja Staehler (Philosophy, University of Wuppertal, GERMANY and SUNY/Stony Brook, NY)

Chair: TBA

1.                 Tanja Staehler  (Philosophy, University of Wuppertal, GERMANY and SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “Getting Under the Skin: Platonic Myths in Levinas.”

2.                 Christiane Thompson (Philosophy and Education, Bergische Universitaet-Wuppertal, GERMANY), “Poetry and Alterity - the Meaning and Sense of (Poetic)Expression in Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Celan.”

3.                 Alexander Kozin (Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), “The Poetic Vision of Emmanuel Levinas in Light of Alexander Pushkin.”

 

 PS-07T  Different Origins: Heidegger, Deleuze, and Marion                (Cosby 104) 

Organizer: Philip J. (Max) Maloney (Philosophy and Religion, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN)

Chair: TBA

1.Rex Gilliland (Philosophy, Kent State University, Trumbull, OH), “Ontological Difference Reconsidered: The Originality of the Particular.”

2.Valentine Moulard (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN), “Deleuze’s System of Internal Difference: Multiplicities in Unity.”

3.Philip Maloney (Philosophy and Religion, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN) “Liberating Phenomenology: Exploring the Limits of Difference with Marion.”

 

 PS-08T The End of Poetry: The Beginning of Philosophy?                (Cosby 103)

Organizer: Carsten Strathausen (German and Russian Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO)

Chair: TBA

1.Roger F. Cook (German and Russian Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO), “Poetry and Tradition: Heinrich Heine's Turn Against Philosophy.”

2.Peter Gilgen (German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), “The Liquidity of Language: The Problem of Hegel's Poetry.”

3.   Carsten Strathausen (German and Russian Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO),”The Speaking Gaze: Poetry and Philosophy Around 1900.”

  

VI            Invited Symposia - Afternoon II, 3:15 - 6:15PM               

 IS-01T                Origin/ Birth/ Provenance in Nietzsche and Foucault                (Cosby LL27)

Organizer and Chair: Thomas R. Flynn (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

1.Michael Mahon (School of General Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA), "Origin, Descent, Invention."

2.Gabriel Rockhill (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), "The Literary Event: On the Force of History in Interpretation."

3.Kristian Klockars (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND), "Ontology of the Present and the Transformations of the Past as Twin Origins in Foucault's Diagnostic Genealogy."

4.Nicholas Pappas (Philosophy, CUNY-Hunter College, NY, NY) Title TBA

5.David Goicoechea (Philosophy, Brock University, St. Catherines, CANADA), "From The Critique of the Exemplar and the Exemplar of the Critique To Critiques of Institutions and Institutions of Critiques."

 

               

IS-02T:   Textual  Beginnings                (Cosby LL29)

Organizer and Chair:  Christina Howells (French, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK)

Introduction: “Longtemps je me suis couche de bonne heure: Proust and the alterity of the subject.”

1.Oliver Davis (French, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK), “Beauvoir's Old Age and Beauvoir's old age: can ‘I’ begin again?”

2.Melisse Lafrance (French, University of Ottawa, CANADA), “Skin matters: Didier Anzieu and ‘Le Moi-Peau’.”

3.Robert Young (English, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK), “Djamila Boupacha.”

 

 

IS-03T:   Film Beginnings                (Cosby LL28)

Organizer:  Wilhelm S. Wurzer (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA)

Chair:                TBA

1.Wilhelm S. Wurzer (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA), “The Anti-Film of Impossible Beginnings."

2.William Steward (Philosophy, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA), "Heidegger's Keystone Cops/A Script.”

3.Virginia Blum (English, University of Kentucky, KY), "Too much Crinoline – or How the Film Industry Libidinizes the Nineteenth Century."

 

 IS-04T:                Beginning (Again)                (Cosby 104)

Organizer and Chair:  Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Graduate Program, Art Center, Pasadena, CA)

1.John Johnston (English and Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Miraculous Birth, Symbolic Murder: The Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence."

2.Penny Florence (Contemporary Art, Falmouth College of Art, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK), “Ways in:  First Impressions as Afterimage in Art.”

3.Gilberto Perez (Film, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY), "Beginning at the Beginning: Artifice and Improvisation in the films of John Cassevetes."

 

 IS-05T:                 Lifeworld/Artwork II                (Cosby LL31)

Organizer:  Arto Haapala (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)

Chair: TBA

1.Knut Ove Eliassen (Comparative Literature, University of Trondheim, NORWAY), "The Birth of the Visual in the Tactile: From Diderot to Deleuze by Way of Riegl and Worringer."

2.Henk Oosterling (Philosophy, Erasmus University - Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS), "On the Artifactuality of Life: A Hypocritical Reading of the Artlife of Francis Bacon through the Eyes of Bataille and Deleuze."

3.Gerard Bucher (French and Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo, NY), "The Beginning of Art: Heidegger and Bataille."

4.Arto Haapala (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, FINLAND), "The Birth of the Artist: Artistic Existence and Works of Art."

 

 

IS-06T:   Arché: Heidegger and Aristotle                (Cosby 217)

Organizers: Lawrence Hatab (Philosophy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA) and John McCumber (German, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

Chair: Tim Craker (Philosophy, Mercer University, Lithia Springs, GA)

1.Walter Brogan (Philosophy, Villanova University, PA), "Aristotle's Double Arche: Nature and the Twofoldness of Being."

2.Catriona Hanley (Philosophy, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD), "Aristotle and Heidegger: Finitude, Gratitude, and God."

3.Lawrence Hatab (Philosophy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA), "Another Beginning for Ethics: On Heidegger's Incomplete Retrieval of Aristotle."

4.Peter Warnek (Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR), "Autoiatric Logos: Heidegger and Aristotle on Becoming Good."

Commentator:                 John McCumber (German, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL)

 

 

IS_07T:  Black Feminist Agendas for the 21st Century                (Cosby 103)

Organizer and Chair:  Margo V. Perkins (English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT)

1.                 Pearl Cleage (Writer), "When Li'l Kim Meets Diana Ross at the Crossroads or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BET."

2.                 Johnnetta Cole (Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Gender Issues in the African American Community.”

3.                 Robbie McCauley (Theater and Dance, Trinity College, Hartford, CT), “Cultural Health, Cultural Freedom: Using the Arts to Access Public and Private Dialogue on Charged Subject Matter.”

4.                 Kimberly Springer (Women's and Gender Studies/African American Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, MA), “Third Wave or Next Phase?: The Black Feminist Movement Today.”

5.                 Traci West (Religion and Society, Drew University Theological School, Madison, NJ), “Constructing Black Feminist Ethics: Public Policy, Religion, and Black Women's Lives.”

 

 

IS-08T:                African-American Encounters with GandhIndian Ideology Post/Colonial Images on Nonviolence and Civil Rights(Cosby 214)

Organizer: Purushottama Bilimoria (Philosophy, Deakin University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

Chair:                  Elizabeth Goodstein (Culture, History & Theory, ILA, Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

1.Robert Hill (Garvey Papers, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA), ‘‘Garvey, C L R James and their Indian Compatriots/Informants.’’

2.Purushottama Bilimoria (Philosophy, Deakin University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA), ‘‘Reconciling the Imaginary and Images from the ‘‘Pan-Darker Races’’ Connections to the Doctoring of Nonviolent Struggles.’’

3.Barbara Rhodes (Pan-African Studies, California State University at Northridge, CA), ‘‘W E B Dubois, Pan-African History and Gandhi.’’

4.Walter Earl Fluker, (Editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project and Director of the Leadership Center, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA), ‘‘Opening the Gandhian Way: Howard Thurman on Spirituality, Ethics, and Leadership.”

5.Sudarshan Kapur (Iliff College, CO), “Gandhi and Malcolm X: The Quest for Personal and Social Transformation.”

6.Theophus (Thee) Smith (Thurman Initiative, Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “With ‘The Wisdom Tooth of the East’ in Her Mouth: Zora Neale Hurston as Our Wizard through the Gandhi-King Nexus.”

Respondent:   Richard Long (Institute for the Liberal Arts,  Emory University, Atlanta, GA)

 

 

IS-09T:   African Departures                (Cosby 329)

Organizer:  John Murungi (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, Baltimore, MD)

Chair: TBA

1.Esiaba Irobi (Theatre, Towson University, Towson, MD), “Conterserenades: "Western Philosophy and African Literature."

2.Kwado Osei-Nyame (African Studies, University of London, UK)

3.John Murungi (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University, Towson, MD)

4.Sulayman Nyang (African Studies, Howard University, Washington D.C.), “African Political Thought in the Age of Globalization and Localization."

5.Soraya Mekerta (Foreign Languages /French, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA), “The "We" Within: African Consciousness of Departures from the North and its Diaspora"

 

 

VII                          Thursday, May 3rd, 2001 - Evening, 7:30 - 10:30PM

                                Special Plenary Session

                                “Debuts”d’Oeuvres and Light Dinner

                                “Savannah Fish Co,” The Westin Peachtree Plaza

 

IAPL @ TWENTY-FIVE:  BEGINNING A NEW QUARTER CENTURY!          

 Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

1.Thomas P. Brockelman (Philosophy, LeMoyne College and Architecuture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY), “Academy gets Avant-Garde Disease: Infection traced to IAPL (details to follow)."

2.Jin Young Park (Religion, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY), “IAPL and the ‘Spirit’.”

3.Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), “My Life as Julia Kristeva.”

4.Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT),  "One Moment In Time."

5.Stephen Barker (School of the Arts and Director of the University of California at Irvine Program, Lyon, FRANCE), “A Fine Romance.”

6.Wayne J. Froman (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA), “Ten Minutes about the IAPL at 25."

 

 

Friday, 4 May 2001

 

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Daily (until noon on Saturday)

REGISTRATION

IAPL ANNUAL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ

(Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the mornings; coffee, tea, and cold drinks in the afternoon.)

VIII Organized Sessions -Friday
Morning 9:00 - 12:00PM

 

VIII                Organized Sessions - Morning, 9:00AM - 12:00noon

 OS-09F:  Beyond Nancy's Birth to Presence                (Cosby 214)

Organizer: Anne O'Byrne (Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY)

Chair:  Michael Bray (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA)

1.                 William Winstead (Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA), "At the Limit of the Sublime: the Offering of Freedom."

2.                 Irene Klaver (Philosophy, University of North Texas, TX), "Anarchic Beginnings."

3.                 Robert Richardson (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA), "What is Left of the Revolution?: the Logic of the Event."

4.                 Anne O'Byrne (Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY), "The Organic, the Symbolic and the Imaginary."

 

 

OS-10F:  False Starts: Skewed, Disingenuous, and Hidden Assumptions in the Politics of Culture and Tradition (Cosby LL29)

Organizer and Chair: John Burt Foster, Jr. (English and Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)

1.                 Nirmala Singh (Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), "Recolonizing the Nation: Spain, Its Regions, and the Rise of Andalusian Regionalism after 1898."

2.                 Nikita Nankov (Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), "Forging a National Cultural Identity: The Canonization of Thomas Eakins.”

3.                 Nikola Petkovic (English and Philosophy, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX), "Future in the Past: The Serbian Revolution 2000 and the Historical Present."

4.                 Carolyn Hodges (German, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN), "The Color of Blood: Black German Autobiography, Racial Identity Formation, and the Vicissitudes of German Essentialism.”

5.              Donald R. Wehrs (English, Auburn University, AL.) "Beyond the Franco-Algerian Archive: The 'Sensible,' the Maternal, and Feminist Islamic Discourse in Djebar's Fantasia."

 

OS-11F:                Genesis/Bereshith: Writing the Beginning of Beginning          (Cosby 217)

Organizer and Chair: James Hatley (Philosophy, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD)

1.Sandor Goodhart (Jewish Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), "Beginning Bereshiyt:  Reading Hebrew with Levinas."

2.Alan Udoff (Philosophy, Baltimore Hebrew University), "Why Genesis Begins at the Beginning:  Levinas's Gloss on Rashi."

3.Claire Katz (Philosophy/Jewish Studies, Penn State University, State College, PA), “The Genesis of Alterity: Reading Creation through Levinas, Rashi, and Heschel.”

4.Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Loyola College of Baltimore, MD), "Buber's Hermeneutic of Genesis."

5.Antje Kapust (Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, GERMANY),  “Inaugural Violence Confronting Women.”

 

 

OS-12F                 The Origins of Deconstruction II (see OS-05T)

 OS-13F: Beginningless Beginnings: What Does Asian Thought Do With Beginnings?                (Cosby 103)

Organizer and Chair:  Jin Y. Park (Religion, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY)

1.Neela Bhattacharya Saxena (English, Nassau Community College, Hempstead, NY), "In the Beginning is Desire: Vedantic and Tantric Dimensions of Hinduism’s Quest for the Origin.”

2.Franklin Perkins (Philosophy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY), "Roots, Shoots, and Cycles: Beginnings in Confucianism."

3.Jay Goulding (Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada), "Beginnings: The Phenomenal Crossings of Classical Daoism."

4.Frank W. Stevenson (English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN), "Taoist Origin ( ) as Sexual/Textual Embedment."

5.James E. Hartz (Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, The Union Institute, Clarksville, TN), "Re-Birth is Re-Death: Compulsive Self-Identity and the Reproduction of Capital."

 

OS-14F: Word/Reason/Flesh: On the Origins of Ethics                (Cosby 104)

Organizer: Michael Sanders  (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY)

Chair: Christina Hendricks (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Rock County, WI)

1.                 Jena G. Jolissaint (Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR), "The Burden of Situation on Ethical Love: Simone de Beauvoir and the Erotic."

2.David Fryer (Religion, Illinois Wesleyan University, GA), "The Desiring Call of the Other: Levinas and Lacan on the Origins of Ethics."

3.                 Alia Al-Saji (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), "Merleau-Ponty, Bergson and the Intuition of Difference: The Beginnings of Ethics in Merleau-Ponty's Later Work."

4.                 Michael Sanders (Philosophy, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY), "Myths of Origin and the Practice of the Flesh."

 

 

OS-15F:                Troping Austria 2000: Between Destruction and Awakening? (Cosby LL27)

Organizer and Chair: Erik Vogt (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA and University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

1.                 Katherine Arens (German Studies, University of Texas at Austin, TX), "Haider, Habsburg (Otto), and the Deleuzian Conceptual Persona: Austria's Millennial Europe."

2.                 Allyson Fiddler (European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University, LA), "Staging Jörg Haider: Protest and Resignation in Recent Plays by Elfriede Jelinek."

3.                 Geoffrey C. Howes (German, Russian and East Asian Languages, Bowling Green State University, OH), "The Politics of Rhetoric in Some Recent Austrian Essays."

4.                 Matthias Konzett (Germanic Language and Literature, Yale University, CT), "Austria 2000: The Difficult Rebirth of Cosmopolitanism."

5.                 Margarete Lamb-Fafflberger (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Lafayette College, PA), "Beyond the 'Sound of Music': The Quest for Cultural Identity in Modern Austria."

 

 

OS-16F: The Beginning and End of Race:  Should Race be Finished?                (session cancelled)

Organizer:  Maurice Wade (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT)

Chair: TBA

1.Leonard Ortman (Philosophy, Tuskeege University, AL),"The Iconic Face of  Race."

2.Sarah Chinn (English, Trinity College, Hartford, CT), “DNA and the Dissolution of Race."

3.Shannon Sullivan (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College,  PA), "The Unconscious Life of Race."

4.Maurice Wade (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT), "Why Science Cannot End Race."

 

 

OS-17F: After Poststructuralism and Postcolonialism: New Beginnings for Literary Theory?    

            (Cosby LL28)

Organizer:  Merle Williams (English, University of Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA)

Chair:  Pushpa Parekh (English, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA)

1.George Smith (Theory and Visual Studies, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME), “Visual Studies and the New Third Critique: Kant and Levinas."

2.David McWhirter, with Pamela R. Matthews (English, Texas A+M University, TX), “Exile's Return? Rethinking Aesthetics for Literary Studies.”

3.Merle Williams (English, University of the Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA), “Levinas and the Ethical Impulse in Literature.”

4.Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI), “Narrative Theory after Poststructuralism.”

5.Melvin Rahming (Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA), “Towards a Critical Theory of Spirit.”

6.Duncan Brown (University of Natal, SOUTH AFRICA), “Aboriginality, Identity and Belonging in South Africa and Beyond:  New (Old?) Challenges for Literary Study.”

  

OS-18F:                Heidegger's 'Other Beginning'                (Cosby LL31)

Organizer:  Krzysztof Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN)

Chair:                 Michael Schwartz (Fine Arts, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA)

1.                 William McNeill (Philosophy, De Paul University, Chicago, IL), "The Time of the Other Beginning."

2.                 Tamsin Lorraine (Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA), "Beyond Beginnings: A Time Out of Joint."

3.                 Krzysztof Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN), "The Other Beginning: Technicity and Power."

4.                 Iain MacDonald (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA), "Beginning with Repetition: Heidegger and the Search for an Other Beginning."

 

 

IX                Special Panels  - Afternoon, 2:00 - 5:00 PM

 

SP-01F: Points of Departure (Cosby LL29)

Organizer and Chair:  Wayne Froman (Philosophy and Religion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)

1.                 Bernard Flynn (Philosophy, SUNY Empire State College and The New School for Social Research, NY, NY), "The Temptation of Origins."

2.                 Caroline Weber (Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA), "Starting from Scratch: The Vexed Temporality of the Terror."

3.                Hagi Kenaan (Philosophy, University of Tel Aviv, ISRAEL), "By Virtue of a Mistaken Beginning: A Kierkegaardian Parable on the Limits of Philosophy."

4.                 Mary Lydon (French and Italian, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), "Beginnings in Beckett."

 

 

SP_02F:                 Dionysian Rebirths                (Cosby LL28)

Organizer and Chair: Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT)

1.Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA), “Nietzsche’s Anti-Oedipus: Dionysos.”

2.Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI), "What Drives the Dionysian?: Freud and Nietzsche on Drives."

3.Claudia Barrachi (Philosophy, New School for Social Research, NY), "Words of Air: On Breath and Inspiration."

4.Silvana Carotenuto (English, University of Salerno, ITALY), "Adams, Treasures, Huntings: Diasporic 'Dionysus' on the Move..."

 

 

SP_03F:                 Cultural Beginnings                (Cosby LL31)

Organizer and Chair: Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY)

1.Nancy Breslin (Photography/Psychiatry; University of Delaware, Newark, DE/George Washington University, Washington, D.C.) and Peter Caws (Philosophy; George Washington University, Washington, D.C.), “Photographic Beginnings: Between the Natural and Human Sciences."

2.Wolfgang Pircher (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA) and  Marianne Kubaczek (University of Music, Vienna, AUSTRIA), "Schönberg, Eisler and Eisenstein. Composition and Technology in the Early Stages of Sound Movies."

3.                Herbert Lachmayer (Fine Arts and Cultural Studies,  Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, AUSTRIA), “The Beginning of Theory in Interdisciplinary Art Institutes.”

 

 

SP-04F                Rethinking Fanon                                (Cosby LL27)

Organizer and Chair: Ewa Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN)

1.Ronald AT Judy (English, University of Pittsburgh, PA), "Fanon and the Untranslatability of Force."

2.Dina Al-Kassim (English, SUNY/Albany, NY), “‘Mon corps sans dégoűt’: The Fanonian Body.”

3.    Suzanne Gauch (English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA), "Surfaces."

4.Brian Edwards (English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), "Fanon and Cultural Studies."

 

   X                 IAPL 2001 KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Afternoon II, 5:30-7:00 PM

                Sisters Chapel, Spelman Campus

 

                Preliminary Remarks

                Dr. Cynthia Spence, Academic Dean, Spelman College

 

                INTRODUCTION

                Beverly Guy-Sheftall, IAPL 2001 Conference Co-Coordinator

                Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women's Studies

                Spelman College

 

                bell hooks (Feminist Critic and Writer, New York)

              “SPEAK TO ME OF LOVE”

 

                Reception, 7:00-8:00 PM   

                Hors-d’oeuvres and Cash Bar

                Spelman College Jazz Ensemble

 

                Atrium,  Manley College Center

 

 

Saturday, 5 May 2000

9:00 AM - 12:00 noon

REGISTRATION

IAPL ANNUAL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFÉ

(Coffee, tea, juice, and pastries in the morning)

XI Close Encounters - Morning, 10:00 - 1:30PM

XI                Close Encounters - Morning, 10:00AM - 1:30PM

                CE _01S: Encountering Charles Johnson’s Dreamer                (Cosby LL31)

Organizer and Chair:  Robert Kent Bunch (Philosophy, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ)

1.Michael Boylan (Philosophy, Marymount University, VA), “World View and Social Change in Charles Johnson’s Dreamer.”

2.Thomas Slaughter (Philosophy, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ), "Narrative Identity in Charles Johnson's Dreamer."

3.John Whalen-Bridge (English Literature, National University of Singapore,  ), “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: the Poetics of Integration in Johnson’s Dreamer.”

4.Will Nash (English Literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT), "'How shall I live?': The Latter-Day Transcendentalism of Charles Johnson's Dreamer."

5.Richard E. Hart (Philosophy, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ), "The Ethics of the Tightrope Walker: Spirit and Matter, Greatness and Flesh."

6.Patrick Rosal (English Literature, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ), “Jazz Modes: A Pedagogical Approach to Charles Johnson’s Dreamer.”

7.Rudolph Byrd (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), "Mirror, Mirror: the Use and Value of the Double in Dreamer." (Paper to be presented by Opal Moore, Professor and Chair of English, Spelman College).

Respondent:                 Charles Johnson (English/Creative Writing, University of Washington, WA)

 

 

CE-02S   Gérard Bucher’s Imagination of Origins (L’Imagination de l’origine [2000])  (Cosby LL27)

Organizer and Chair: William Egginton (Modern Languages, Literatures and Comparative Literature, SUNY/Buffalo, NY)

1.Wilson Baldridge (Modern and Classical Languages, Wichita State University, KS)

2.Jean-Michel Rabaté (English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

3.Metka Zupancic (Modern Languages and Classics, University of Alabama, AL)

Respondent:                Gérard Bucher (French, SUNY/Buffalo, NY).

 

 

CE-03S   The Absolute Secret: John D. Caputo's Radical Hermeneutics                (Cosby 103)

Organizer and Chair:  Peter Gratton (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL)

                Introduction: “In on the Secret: John D. Caputo in a Nutshell.”

1.James K.A. Smith (Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA), “Nietzsche's Faith: Or, Why We Need an Even More Radical Hermeneutics.”

2.James Olthius (Philosophical Theology, Institute for Christian Studies, CANADA), "Taking the Test of Khőra!"

3.Margret Grebowicz (Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX) “Reading Well: Notes on The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida.”

5.                Charles E. Winquist (Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY), “Theological Meaning in the Philosophy of John D. Caputo.”

6.Graeme Nicholson (Philosophy, University of Toronto, CANADA and Philosophy/Centre for the Study of Religion, Trinity College, Hartford, CT) “On Caputo’s Radical Hermeneutics.”

Respondent: John D. Caputo (Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA)

 

 

CE-04S   Gadamer at 101                (Cosby 104)

1.Organizer and Chair: John Arthos (Communication, Denison University, OH)Brice Wachterhauser (Philosophy, St. Joseph’s University, PA)

2.Joel Weinsheimer (English Language and Literature, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN)

3.Rod Coltman (Philosophy, Collin County Community College, Spring Creek Campus, TX)

4.Richard Palmer (Philosophy, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL)

 

 CE-05S                Toni Morrison: Up Close                (Cosby LL29)

Organizer:   Carolyn Denard (English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA;  Founding President of the Toni Morrison Society)

Chair: Beverly Guy-Sheftall (English and Women’s Studies, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA)

“An Open Discussion on Ethical Approaches to Toni Morrison”

 

 

CE-06S   East and West Encounters                (Cosby LL28)

Organizer:  Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA)

Chair: TBA

1.Alice Benston (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), "Stoppard's 'Indian Ink'."

2.Anthony J. Steinbock (Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL), "Phenomenology in Asia/Asian Phenomenology."

3.David Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ), "Zen as Philosophy and Literature."

4.Jeffrey Loo (Philadelphia Community College, Philadelphia, PA), "Asian-Americans in Asia."

5.Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA), "Textualizing Sinographic Culture: A Metacommentary on Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva.”

6."Kathleen Wright (Philosophy, Haverford College, Haverford, PA), "Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Comparative Philosophy."

 

 

XII            Plenary Roundtable - Afternoon, 2:45 - 6:00 PM

                Cosby Academic Center Auditorium

 RETHINKING RACE AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES

Organizer and Chair: Roy Martinez (IAPL Philosophy and Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA)

1.                 Elizabeth M. Bounds (Christian Ethics, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA), “Practicing Race and Gender.”

2.                 Satya P. Mohanty (English, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), “Redefining Identity Politics.”

3.                 Leonard Harris (Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), “Art or Propaganda?”

4.                 bell hooks (feminist critic and writer, New York, NY), “Feminist Masculinity.”

5.                 Frank Kirkland (Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY, NY), “Race: Its Metaphysical and Existential Turns.”

 

 

XIII          Twenty-fifth Anniversary IAPL Reception and Dinner, 7:30 PM                

                                  Prior ticket purchase required  [last time to purchase - Thursday noon]

                 THE MANSION

                                  Entertainment/Dancing, 10:30PM - 12:30A.M

 

 

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