IAPL 2002

 

02-05-21   FINAL VERSION


 

 

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THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH              Sessions begin @ noon;

                                                          Lydon Memorial @ noon; Silverman Theorizing the Postmodern Plenary @ 4:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH                     Sessions begin @ 9 a.m. ; Greenaway plenary @  5 p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH             Close Encounters begin @ 9 a.m.;

                                                         End-debate @  2 p.m. ; 

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IAPL 2002

 

INTERMEDIALITIES    JUNE 3-8, 2002

 

ERASMUS UNIVERSITY

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

 


 

MONDAY , JUNE 3rd, 2002

 

OPENING REGISTRATION AND BOOK EXHIBIT   

14:00 - 17:00     D5 & D6

 

 

EVENING WELCOMING RECEPTION

for all

Registered Participants in IAPL 2002

 

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2002

@ 20:00 - 21:30

 

ROTTERDAM TOWN HALL

 

WELCOME BY

THE MAYOR OF ROTTERDAM

               

 

 

TUESDAY, JUNE 4th, 2002

REGISTRATION, BOOK EXHIBIT, AND CAFE

08:00-17:00    D5 & 6

 

 


 

GROUP I        PROPOSED AND GENERAL SESSIONS

                        09:00-12:00  -    TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002            

                        

 


 

 

I.01 (PS-01)Tu:  ROMANTICISM AND INTERMEDIALITY            [C5]

 

Organizer:  John G. Moore* (Philosophy, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, USA)

Chair: Stephen O'Sullivan* (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY USA)

 

  1. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren* (English and Cultural Studies, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA)

Magical Observation: The Veiled Speech of Nature in Novalis, Benjamin, and Derrida

 

  1. Susan Hahn* (Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)

Organic Holism and Living Concepts

 

  1. David M. Kenosian* (German Literature, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)

Poeticizing Nature: The Aesthetics of Alexander von Humboldt's Naturphilosophie

 

  1. Michael G. Vater* (Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA)

Throwing Acid on the Absolute: Logic and Allegory as Reagent for the Experiment of Philosophy in Schelling and Friedrich Schlegel, 1800

 

5.     John G. Moore* (Philosophy, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, USA)

The Fragmentary Imperative: Romanticism and the Intermedial Nature of Thought in Blanchot and the Early German Romantics

 

 

 

I.02 (PS-02)Tu:  LOSING THE (HIGH)WAY: OEDIPUS AT THE CROSSROADS          [C3]

 

Organizer: Maria Margaroni* (English, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS)

Chair: Ginette Verstraete* (Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL)

 

1.     Michael Degener (Comparative Literature, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA)

        The Blinding Caesura: The Suspension of Cathartic Mediation

 

2.     Maria Margaroni* (English, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS)

        The “Trial” of the Third: Oedipus and the Problem of Mediation in Julia Kristeva

 

  1.     Gerald Majer (English, Villa Julie College, Stevenson, MD, USA)
 Oedipus, Contagions and the Between

 

4.     Roi Weiser*(English, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL)

        My Own Private Idaho as Qualification of the Oedipal

 

5.     Antal Bokay* (Literary Theory, University of Pécs, Pécs, HUNGARY)

        Construction and Deconstruction of Oedipus: The Inner Space in Psychoanalysis and Modern Poetry

 

 

 

I.03 (PS-03) Tu:  “LOGOS” AND ITS OTHER: INTERPRETING THE GREEKS WITH HEIDEGGER AND DERRIDA            [C6]

 

Organizer: Tanja Stähler* (Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA)

Chair:                TBA

 

            1.     Ferit Guven*  (Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA)

    Philosophy as Engagement: The Question of Madness in Plato's Phaedrus

           

             2.     Tanja Stähler* (Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA

                     Speaking About Love: Derrida's Interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus

            3.    James M. Thompson* (Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA                                                                    Logos and Truth in Heidegger and Aristotle

            4.    Christiane Thompson* (Philosophy, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, GERMANY)                                                     The Enigma With the Beginning of Thinking - Heidegger’s Interpretation of Parmenides

            5.    Alexander Kozin*(Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA)                                                                                                   The Problem of the Foreigner: From Plato to Derrida

I.04  (GS-01) Tu:  PSYCHO-ANALYSIS REVISITED: AFFECT AND SUBLIMATION                  [D1]

 

Chair: Sophia Gabriel-Panteliadou* (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

 

1.     John Lechte* (Sociology, Macquarrie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

        Memory, Affect, and the Cinema Image in the Work of Kristeva and Deleuze: Between Photography and Cinema

 

2.      Catherine M. Peebles* (Humanities, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of New Hampshire, NH, USA)

        Antigone Between Irigaray and Lacan: The Mother-Bird and the Threat of the Void

 

3.     Adrian Johnston*  (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

        Appealing Inclination’s Guilt: Of Pleasure, Jouissance, Sublimation, and Negative Objects

 

4.      Klaus Ebner* (Medicine and Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

         Dora revisited, Lacan’s Transformation of Freud’s Case

 

5.      Jennifer Molidor*  (Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, USA)

         Difference, Mediation, Attachments: Radicalizing Mother/Daughter Relations

 

 

 

I.05 (GS-02) Tu:  PERFORMANCE AND ETHICS OF PHENOMENOLOGY            [C2]  

 

Chair: Michael Sanders* (Philosophy, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA)

 

1.         Bryan Smyth* (Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, CANADA)

            Flight From Phenomenology? Merleau-Ponty's Soft Spot for Aerial Reconnaissance

 

  1.         Eleanor M. Godway* (Philosophy, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT USA)

    Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity and Truth:  Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir and Irigaray on la conscience          métaphysique et morale

 

3   Johanna  Kristiina Oksala* (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND), University of Helsinki,

Foucault's Philosophical Laughter: Intersubjectivity as Language after Husserl

 

  1.    Lazlo Tarnay* (Philosophy, University of Pécs, Pécs, HUNGARY)

        On Deleuze, Levinas, and the Art of Perception

 

5.     Michael Beehler* (English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

        Breathing Spaces: Celan, Libeskind

 

 

 

I.06 (GS-03) Tu:  CINEMATOGRAPHICS             [C1]

           

Chair: Peter Fristedt (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA)

 

1.     Sharon A. Beehler* (English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA)

        "To Speak of Horrors": Depicting Shakespeare's Sense of the Horrible in Contemporary Films

 

2.     Anthony.Uhlmann* (Humanities, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

        Beckett Film and the Image of Philosophy

 

3.     Oliver C. Speck* (Film Theory and German Literature, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA)

        German Images: Quotation and Memory in Fassbinder’s Cinema

 

4.     David A. Brubaker* (Philosophy, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA)

        Emptiness and Visibility: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Trin T. Minh-Ha's Naked Spaces  –  Living is Round

 

 

I.07 (GS-04) Tu:  STRANGERS, FOES & FRIENDS                    [D2]                                                     

Chair: Frans van Peperstraten (Philosophy, Catholic University Brabant, Tilburg, NL)

 

1.     Petrus De Kock* (Philosophy, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI USA)               

                The Sights of the Stranger: On Friendship outsideness, and the Middle World

  

2.     Dorota Glowacka* (Critical Theory, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA)

                “Forgive me for Forgiving you”: Levinas, Derrida, and the Polish aporias of forgiveness

 

        3.     Tom Dommisse* (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam/University for Humanistics, Utrecht, NL)
The Interval of theFrame: Reflections on the Singular-Plural Being of Intermediality

 

4.     Janet Donohoe* (Philosophy, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA)

                Intermedialities of Tradition and Collective Responsibility

 

 

I.08 (GS-05) Tu:  MEDIATING CULTURE AND THE WORLD PICTURE           [D3]

                                               

Chair: Bill Duvall* (History, Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA)

 

1.     Karyn Ball* (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)

Uncanny Returns, or Philosophical Paranoia in the Age of the World Picture

 

2.     William Marderness* (Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Between History and Legend: The Mirabal Sisters of Julia Alvarez

 

3.     A.C. Goodson* (English & Comparative Literature, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)

Panik und Politik (Freud, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy)

 

 

 

I.09 (GS-06) Tu:  SECULARIZATION, MYTHOS, AND MULTICULTURALISM            [D4]

 

Chair: Awee Prins* (Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)

                       

1      Ib Johansen* (English, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DENMARK)

Narrative Cross Currents and Textual Crossfires

 

2.     T.S. McMillin* (English, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA)

Too Much By Half for Man in the Picture: Writing Between Nature & Culture

 

3.     Walter Lammi* (Philosophy, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, EGYPT)

Between the Human and the Divine: Hans-Georg Gadamer's Linguistic Apriorism

 

     4.      Margaret McLaren* (Philosophy, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL USA)

Intermedialities, Multiculturalism and the Moral Imagination

 

 

I.10 (GS-07)Tu:  NIETZSCHE & WAGNER: BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND MUSIC             [C4]  

 

Chair: Ann Taylor (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA)

               

1.     Duncan Large* (German, University of Wales, Swansea, UK)

                Nietzsche’s “Deaf Spot”: The Music of the Renaissance in Italy

 

  1. Paul S. Loeb* (Philosophy, University of Puget Sound, WA, USA)
The Cinematic Time-Image in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra-Gesamtkunstwerk

 

  1. Volker Kaiser* (German, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA)

Nietzsche's Interval: Reading On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

 

4      David Mikics (English, University of Houston, TX, USA)

Between This and the Other World: Narcissism and Dionysian Divination in James Merrill's Book of Ephraim and Wagner’s Ring

 

5.     David L. Mosley* (Music and Humanities, Goshen College, Goshen, IN, USA)

                Parsifal's Kind: Premodern Romance, Modern Music-Drama, and Postmodern Film

 

             

LUNCH BREAK  12:00-13:00

 


 

GROUP II           PROPOSED AND GENERAL SESSIONS

                             13:00-15:30        TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002

 


 

 

II.01  (PS-04)  Tu:  MELANCHOLY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND LANGUAGE               [D1]

 

Organizer: Benigno Trigo* (Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Chair: Annelies Schulte Nordholt*( French, University of Leiden, and  Dutch Academy of Sciences, NL)

 

1.     Kelly Oliver* (Philosophy and Women's Studies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

                Abjection, Melancholy and Affect in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks

 

2.     Mara Negrón* (Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PUERTO RICO)

                Another Name for Melancholia?

 

3.     Benigno Trigo* (Hispanic, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

                The Mother Tongue: Abjection in Rosario Ferré’s Self-Translations

 

4.     William Rowe (Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK)

Affect or Ontology? Martin Adán’s Machu Picchu and the Agony of Being in Twentieth-Century Peru

 

 

 

II.02 (PS-05) Tu:  BETWEEN THE ENDS OF METAPHYSICS: THE BETWEEN IN HEIDEGGER’S THOUGHT            [D2]

 

Organizer: François Raffoul* (Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)

Chair:  Athena Colman* (Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA)

               

1.     Sakiko Kitagawa* (Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN)

Heidegger, Media, and the Geographical Orientation of Philosophy

 

2.     Peter Trawny* (Philosophy, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, GERMANY)

In the beginning was Apollo

 

3.     Andrew Mitchell* (Philosophy, California State University, Stanislaus, CA, USA)

Between the Between: The Janus-Head of Technology

 

Respondent: François Raffoul* (Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA)

 

 

 

II.03  (PS-06) Tu:  ANGST, SEX, SODOMY, AND SYMPTOMS            [D4]

 

Organizer: Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA) and Claudia Jost* (Germanic Language and Literature, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)

Chair:    Michael Sigrist (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA)

 

1.     Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA USA)

                An Anxious Circle in Vienna: Angst as the Intermediality of Sex and Origin

 

2.     Claudia Jost* (Media Culture and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, GERMANY)

Sex and the Knife: Schreber's New Sex and Contemporary Medicine

 

3.     Tsu-Chung Su* (Language and Literature, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan, ROC)

                Reading the Signs of Hysteria: From Stigmata, Symptoms, to Sinthômes

 

       4.      Chung-yi Chu (Foreign Languages, National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan, ROC)

Toward a Real Sexual Encounter

 

 

II.04 (GS-08) Tu:  DELEUZIAN MOVES             [C5]                                                              

 

Chair: Reidar Due (French, Wadham College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK)

 

1.     Gabriel Rockhill* (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

        Between Time and History: On the Aesthetics of Bergson and Deleuze

 

2.     Joshua Alan Ramey* (Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA)

        He worked it out in his spare time: Gilles Deleuze and the Construct of Film's Mental Image in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

 

3.     Edward P. Kazarian (Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA)

        Deleuze On Narcissus

 

4.     Erik Roraback* (English and American Studies, Charles University, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)

Between Deleuze’s Différence et Répétition and Blanchot’s L’Ecriture du désastre

 

       

 

II.05 (GS-09) Tu:  (IN)DIVIDUALS                    [D3]                                                                

               

Chair:  Sara Heinamaa, (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

 

1.     Anja Lemke* (German Literature, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Essen, GERMANY)

Sharing by Being Shared—On the “Despairing Dialogue” Between Martin Heidegger and Paul Celan

 

2.     Christa Davis Acampora* (Philosophy, Hunter College-CUNY, New York City, NY, USA)

Agonized Subjectivity. Negotiating Liminal Spaces, the Imaginary Domain, and Other Medialities

 

3.     Gerald Cipriani* (Philosophy, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK)

For an Ethics of Hope and Availability in a Multi-relational Culture

 

 4.    Kristy Clark Koth* (French, Independent Scholar, Munich, GERMANY)

                 Layering Identity in Benmussa’s The Singlular Life of Albert Nobbs

 

 

 

II.06 (GS-10) Tu:  MEDIATING VIOLENCE: ETHICS, TERROR & PAROXYSM               [C6]     

 

Chair:     Caroline T. Arruda  (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY USA)

 

1.     Kelly Coble* (Philosophy, American University in Cairo, Cairo, EGYPT)

                The Mediality of the Extreme: Violence and State Power in Scheler, Benjamin, and Musil

 

2.     Shailja Sharma* (English and Comparative Literature, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

                Multiculturalism in a Time of Terror

 

3.     Joanna Zylinska* (Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK)

                Getting even: Ethics and the Price of Death

 

        4.    Willem Elias* (Psychology and Education, Vrij Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, BELGIUM)          

Profiles of Paroxysm

 

 

 

II.07 (GS-11) Tu:  REMEDIATING THE BODY [C2]                                      

 

Chair: Katherine Rudolph*  (Philosophy, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI USA)

 

1.     Silvio Gaggi*  (Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA)

From Cyborg to AI: Prospects for a Disembodied Future

 

2.     Elizabeth Walden* (Philosophy and Humanities, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI, USA)

Re(media)ting the Body in the Ruins of Language

 

3.     Donald R. Wehrs* (English, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA)

Touching Words: The Intermediality of Embodiment and Acculturation: Erasmus, Dostoyevsky, Grass by way of Cognitive Science, Levinas, and Kristeva

 

4.     Talia Welsh* (Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, USA)

Who is the Original Subject – Does Contemporary Psychology Undermine Phenomenological and Psychoanalytic Accounts of the Birth of Subjectivity?

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II.08 (GS-12) Tu:  NEGOTIATING THE VISUAL            [C1]                                      

 

Chair: Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Philosophy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)

 

1.     Tasos Zembylas (Cultural Management, University for Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

The Formation of a Concept of Art

 

2.     Maarten Coolen* (Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL)

A Place to Stand. About Looking at Works of Visual Art

 

3.     Robert Hughes* (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Lacan on the Work of Art: The Emptiness of the Signifier and the Representation of the Thing

 

        4.    Paul Gordon (Comparative Literature/Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA)

Hitchcock/Freud: A Study in Hermeneutical Intermediation

 

 

 

 

II.09 (GS-13) Tu:  MINORIZING LITERATURE          [C4]                                                  

               

Chair:   Kirsten Kalleberg (Comparative Literature, NTNU, University of Trondheim, Trondheim, NORWAY) 

 

1.      Margaret A. Ozierski* (French Literature, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)

The Infinite [E]motion: Witnessing in Maurice Blanchot's L'Arrêt de Mort

 

2.     Artemy Magun* (Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

The Rush of Leisure: The Notion of Empty Time in Two Poems by F. Hölderlin and O. Mandelstam

 

3.     Liedeke Plate* (Literary Studies, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS)

Fashionable Woolf: Text, Image, and In-between

 

 

 

II.10 (GS-14) Tu:  INTERMEDIAL ARTISTIC PRACTICES              [C3]                          

Chair: Gwendolyn Trottein (Art, Bishops University, Quebec, CANADA)

 

1.     Jenny Davis* (French and Italian, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

                Disseminating Narcissus: Questioning the Specular Image

 

  1. Brendan Prendeville* (Art History, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, London, UK)

Varying the Self: Ricoeur, Bacon, van Gogh

 

  1. Amalia Herrmann* (German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

                Thinking Dance, Incorporating Chance: Towards Althusser’s Aleatory Materialism

 

4.    Constantinos V. Proimos*  (Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, GREECE)

               Intermedia.  Ethics and Politics of Primary Materials in Joseph Beuys’ Artistic Practices

 

 

 


 

GROUP III        PROPOSED AND GENERAL SESSIONS

                           16:00-18:00      TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002

 

 


 

III.01 (PS-07) Tu:  AT THE THRESHOLD OF PHILOSOPHY AND ART            [D1]    

 

Organizer: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou *(Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

Chair: Minette Watkins

 

1.     Kalliopi Nikolopoulou* (Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

Of Thresholds in Agamben

 

2.     Yasco Horseman (Comparative Literature, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)

On the Threshold of the Political: Arendt, Agamben and Kristeva on Forgiveness

 

3.     Jason Winfree (Philosophy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)

Writing at the Threshold of Common Sense

 

 

 

III.02 (PS-08) Tu:  THE AESTHETICS OF CAMP            [C5]

 

Organizer: Joanna Hodge* (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)

Chair:                TBA                      

 

1.     Simon Malpas* (English, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)

Camp Reflections and the Structure of Identity in Carroll's Alice Books

 

2.     Joanna Hodge* (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)

Being Rock Hudson; The Politics of Camp

 

3.     Gary Banham* (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)

The Pleasure of Remaking the Visual Body, Or How To Be A Friend Of Dorothy

 

 

 

III.03 (PS-09) Tu:  PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEW MEDIA             [D2]

 

Organizer: Robin Durie* (Philosophy, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

Chair: Jan Verwijnen (University of Art & Design, Helsinki, FINLAND)

 

1.     David Webb* (Philosophy, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

Michel Serres: Intensities, Flows and Paths in The Birth of Physics

       

2.     Robin Durie* (Philosophy, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

The Significance of Virtual Multiplicities for a Philosophy of Creativity

 

3.     Mark Palmer* (Creative and Performative Arts, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

Immanence, Matter and New Media

 

 

 

III.04 (PS-10) Tu:  MEDIATING LANGUAGE AND BODY IN FEMINIST THEORY: PHENOMENOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SEMIOTICS            [D3]

 

Organizer: Gertrude Postl* (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, USA)

Chair: Veronica Vasterling* (Philosophy, Katholieke-Universiteit Nijmegen, NL)

 

1.     Silvia Stoller* (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

                The Body as Medium

       

2.     Gertrude Postl* (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, USA)

Towards a Politics of Mediating Language and Body: Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory

 

3.     Eva Waniek* (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

“Who is Mediating Whom?” - The Production of Meaning and the Relation of Language, Body, and Society

 

 

 

III.05 (PS-11) Tu:  SARAH KOFMAN ON AESTHETICS AND THE POSITION

OF PHILOSOPHY          [D4]    

 

Organizer and Chair: Gerard Kuperus (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL USA)

 

1.     Robin James*(Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

Kofman's Childhood of Art: The Function of the Feminine in Freud's Aesthetics

 

2.     Nathan Ross* (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

“The Good and the Bad Mimesis” in Sarah Kofman’s Appropriation of Plato

 

3.     Brett Charles Buchanan* (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

“The Gesture of Betrayal”: Sarah Kofman and the Ethics of Aporia

 

 

 

III.06 (PS-12) Tu:  IN-BETWEEN DIFFERENCE AND COMMUNITY          [C6]

 

Organizer: Rosalyn Diprose* (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney AUSTRALIA)

Chair: Brett Nicholls* (Film and Media Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND)

 

1.     Rosalyn Diprose* (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney AUSTRALIA)

The Hand that Writes Community in Blood

 

2.     Linnell Secomb* (Gender Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Gender Liminality and Hybrid Communities

 

3.     Robyn M. Ferrell* (Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Shame: The Country Town (Pinjarra 1970)

 

 

 

III.07 (GS-15) Tu:  FRAMING THE VISUAL: PAINTING, FILM, TV, & CARTOONS            [C1] 

               

Chair:   Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine, CA USA)

 

1.     Asbjørn Grønstad*  (Film Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, NORWAY)

Bazin and the Question of Filmicity in the Digital Age

 

2.     Martha Kuhlman* (Comparative Literature, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI, USA)

The Poetics of the Page: City of Glass

 

3.     Juan Orbe* (Languages and Literatures, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA, USA)

Representing Latinos and the Politics of Intermediality

 

 

 

III.08 (GS-16) Tu:  NO ONE'S SEXUALITY             [C2]                                      

 

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

 

1.     Lars Nylander* (Comparative Literature, NTNU University of Trondheim, Trondheim, NORWAY)

        The Discourse Which is Not One.  On the Interdiscursive and Intermedial Eccentricity of Sexual Discourse

 

2.     Dragana Jelenic* (Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN)

        Liminal Experience. A Phenomenological Approach to Art and Pornography

 

 

 

 

III.09 (GS-17)  Tu  PUTTING ON A PERFORMANCE    [C3]                                      

 

Chair:                TBA

 

1.     David Alan Davies* (Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, CANADA)

Performance as Medium, Intermediary, and Work

 

2.     Petra Schweitzer* (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

The Figure That Speaks

 

3.     Steven Bruhm* (English, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA)

Becoming Michael Becoming Dead

 

 

 

III.10 (GS-18)Tu:  CINEMA AND EKPHRASIS             [C4]                                      

               

Chair:                 TBA

               

1.     Linda M. Brooks* (Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA)

Half in Love With Easeful Death: Peter Greenaway as Absolute Cineaste"

 

  1.    Luiz-Claudio Da Costa (Cinema, Universidad Estacio de Sa, Rio de Janiero, BRAZIL)

The Cinematographic Image Writing : The Possibility of Intermediate Images

 

3.     Agnes Petho  (Hungarian Language and Culture, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA)

Media Archaeology or Multiple Ekphrasis: Some Reflexive Figures of Multidimensional Intermediality in the Cinema

 

 

 


 

GROUP IV              PLENARY SESSION 

                                18:30-20:00    TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2002

   


           

 

IV            IAPL INVITED LECTURE            [SENATE ROOM]

 

ERASMUS UNIVERSITY WELCOME:  PROF. DR. JAN H.VAN BEMMEL, RECTOR MAGNIFICUS, ERASMUS UNIVERSITY, ROTTERDAM

 

IAPL WELCOME: HUGH J. SILVERMAN, IAPL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:  ANNEMIE HALSEMA, UNIVERSITY FOR HUMANIST STUDIES, UTRECHT

 

LUCE IRIGARAY

 

 


            

DINNER FOR ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS AT THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT BUILDING   @  20:00

 

 

             

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5th, 2002

REGISTRATION, BOOK EXHIBIT, AND CAFE

08:00-17:00    D5 & 6

 

 

 


 

GROUP V            ORGANIZED SESSIONS

                              09:00-12:00    WEDNESDAY JUNE 5, 2002

 


 

 

V.01 (OS-01) We:  THE THIRD            [D1]

 

Organizers: Silvia Benso* (Philosophy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, USA) and Brian Schroeder* (Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA)

        Chair:  Erik Vogt* (German, Wadham College, Oxford, UK)

 

  1. Thomas Thorp* (Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL, USA)

    `The Withdrawal of the Third: Tyranny and Democracy in Sixth Century Athens

 

2.      Brian Seitz* (Philosophy, Babson College, Babson Park, MA, USA)

       Politology, the Iroquois Social Imaginary, and the Recession of the Third

 

  1.  Brian Schroeder* (Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA)

The Command of the Third

 

  1.  Silvia Benso* (Philosophy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY, USA)

Art: The Third Beside Ethics and Politics

 

  1.   Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto* (Art Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

Maurice Blanchot and the Question of the Third

 

 

 

V.02 (OS-02) We:  HERMES – THE INTERMEDIARY      [D2]

 

Organizer and Chair: Artur R. Boelderl* (Philosophy, Catholic University, Linz, AUSTRIA)

 

1.        Tom McCall* (Comparative Literature, University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX, USA)

What Metaphor Was Before the Greeks Thought About It

 

  1. Simon Glynn* (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)

Hermes the Hermeneutic Intermediary Between Logos and Mythos

 

  1. Sean D. Kirkland* (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA / Bergische Universit@t-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, GERMANY)

Hermes and the Gift of Logos

 

  1. Anna Babka* (Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Hermes, Aphrodity, Hermaphrodity. On the Tropological Constitution and Dis-figuration of the Gendered Subject

 

  1. Gerhard Hammerschmied (Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA)

Kafka – A Hermeneutics of the Unwritten Law}

 

  1. Martin Gerhard Weiss* (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Gianni Vattimo’s Concept of Interpretation

 

 

               

V.03 (OS-03) We:  INTERSUBJECTIVITY FROM HUSSERL TO IRIGARAY             [D3]

 

Organizer and Chair: Morny Joy (Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA)

 

1.     Karin Möller* (English Literature, Växjö University, Växjö, SWEDEN)

Sociality and Self: Contested Notions of Intersubjectivity in the Twentieth Century

 

  1. Elaine Miller* (Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH, USA)

Irigaray and Schelling’s “Intersubjectivity as Groundless Ground”

 

  1. Nancy J. Holland* (Philosophy, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, USA)

Because You Loved Me: Intersubjectivity, Language, and the Development of Consciousness

 

  1. Constantin V. Boundas* (Philosophy, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA)

Paul Ricoeur’s Otherness

   

     5.  Ada S. Jaarsma* (Philosophy and Literature, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)

Possibilities for Intersubjectivity: Irigaray’s ‘To Be Two’ and the Plasticity of Incarnation

 

6.     Virpi Lehtinen* (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)

Intersubjectivity of the Caress: Irigaray with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas

 

 

 

V.04 (OS-04) We:  IN-BETWEEN JACQUES DERRIDA            [D4]

 

Organizer: Peter Zeillinger* (Fundamental Theology, Catholic Faculty, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Chair: Stefan Seeger (Philosophy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY)

 

  1. Louise Burchill* (Philosophy, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, Evry, FRANCE)

In-between “spacing” and the “chôra” in Derrida: Is there room for another spatiality?

 

2.        Matthias Fritsch* (Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH USA)

Between the Media and the Real: Derrida on Technology and Democracy

 

  1. Kristian Erik Klockars* (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

Aporias of Practical Political Reasoning in Derrida

 

  1. Matthias Flatscher* (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Derrida’s “coup de don” and Heidegger’s “Es gibt”

 

  1. Allen Hibbard* (English and Literary Theory, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA)

Straddling Disciplines/Straddling Genres: Derrida Between Philosophy and Literature

 

 

 

V.05 (OS-05) We:  MAGIC MEDIA: DIGITALITY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS (FREUD, LACAN, DELEUZE)         [C1]

 

Organizer: Christian Doude van Troostwijk* (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam/Centre Universitaire Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG)

              Chair:    Sander van Maas (Musicology/ Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL )

 

1.      Stephanie Grace Schull* (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA)

How To Make Yourself Disappear: Doubt, Deception, and Delusion

 

2.     jan jagodzinski* (Secondary Art Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)

The Perversity of (Real)ity TV: A Symptom of Our Times

 

3.     André Nusselder* (Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL)

Visualization as phantasm

 

4.     Nathalie Zaccaï-Reyners* (Social Sciences and Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BELGIUM)

How Fiction (imagination) shapes Reality.  The Role of Play in the Social Mind’s Constitution

 

5.    Christian Doude van Troostwijk* (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam/Centre Universitaire Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG)

Magic Origin: Immanent “Intellectual Intuition” (Freud and Debray)

 

V.06 (OS-06) We:  THE ESSAY AS TEXTUAL INTERMEDIALITY            [C2]

 

Organizer and Chair: Kuisma Korhonen* (Comparative Literature, Graduate School for Literary Studies, Helsinki, FINLAND)

 

  1. Robert Lane Kauffmann* (Hispanic Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

Mimesis and Essayism in Modern Spanish Philosophy

 

  1. Marielle Macé (French Literature, University of Paris-IV Sorbonne, Paris, FRANCE)

Sartre in the Nouvelle Revue Française: The Essayist’s Two Authorities

 

  1. Andy Stafford* (French Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)

Writing the Photograph in French

 

  1. Keith Reader* (Modern French Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

Theological Essay in the Cinema of Robert Bresson

 

5.    Stephen John Dilks* (Contemporary English and Irish Literature, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO USA)

    Using Samuel Beckett to Redefine Academic Essayism

 

               

LUNCH BREAK  12:00-13:00

 


GROUP VI            PROPOSED AND GENERAL SESSIONS

                               13:00-15:30        WEDNESDAY,   JUNE 5, 2002


               

 

 

VI.01 (PS-13) We:  AFFECT -- BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND THOUGHT            [D1]    

 

Organizer:  Dorothea Olkowski (Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA)

Chair:                TBA      

 

1.     Dorothea Olkowski* (Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA)

Love and Hatred

 

2.     Gregory Flaxman* (Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Nietzsche's Memoir - or The Writing of Affection

 

3.     Gregg Lambert* (English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

This is my body on drugs

 

 

 

VI.02 (PS-14)            We:  CORPOREAL ALTERITIES            [D4]

 

Organizer: Gail Weiss (Philosophy, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA)

Chair: Karin Christof* (Architecture, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL)

 

1.     Andrea Custodi* (Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA)

                Writing the Ethnographic Body -- Textuality and Corporeality at the Interstices of Culture

 

2.     Karen Coats* (English, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA)

                Maurice Sendak's Theater of the Abject

 

3.     Ralph Acampora* (Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA)

"Somanimalogy of Morals: Bodily Mediation of Inter-Species Ethics"

     

4.     Merja Hellevi Hintsa* (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

                Psychoanalysis, Body, Transcendental

 

 

 

VI.03 (GS-19) We:  INTER-DISCURSIVITIES: DERRIDA AND …            [D2]

 

Chair:  Peter Zeillinger* (Fundamental Theology, Catholic Faculty, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)