IAPL 2001 Program

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 G�ven (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 Rabat� (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

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: Arch�: 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 21^st 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.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."