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Note to Participants:  To find the date and time of your session"> May 1-5 2001 CONFERENCE PROGRAM SUMMARY OF SESSIONS AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Note for speakers and session chairs                  Program index Conference Home   Note to Participants:  To find the date and time of your session"> May 1-5 2001 CONFERENCE PROGRAM SUMMARY OF SESSIONS AND SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Note for speakers and session chairs                  Program index Conference Home   Note to Participants:  To find the date and time of your session, use your browser's "FIND" function (located under the "Edit" tab) to search for your name.  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)   Back to top 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."