PLENARY SESSION BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
PLENARY KEYNOTE LECTURE:
LUCE IRIGARAY
18:30-20:00 TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2002
[SENATE ROOM]
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY
WELCOME:
IAPL 2002 CONFERENCE
COORDINATOR: HENK OOSTERLING, PHILOSOPHY, ERASMUS UNIVERSITY, ROTTERDAM
INTRODUCTION:
ANNEMIE HALSEMA, PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY FOR HUMANIST STUDIES, UTRECHT, THE
NETHERLANDS
LUCE IRIGARAY
(1930) received a
Master's Degree from the University of Louvain in 1955, a Master's Degree in
psychology from the University of Paris in 1961, a Diploma in Psychopathology in
1962, and was trained as an psychoanalyst. In 1968 she received a Doctorate in
Linguistics, later published as Le langage des déments (The Hague:
Mouton, 1973). From 1970-1974 she taught at the University of Vincennes, where
she was a member of the EFP (Ecole Freudienne de Paris), a school directed by
Lacan. Irigaray's second Doctorate thesis, "Speculum of the Other Woman" was
closely followed by the cessation of her employment at the University of
Vincennes. After that Irigaray taught at different institutions, such as the
Collège International; in 1982 she held the chair in Philosophy at the Erasmus
University in Rotterdam. From 1985 onwards she has been director of research at
the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and supervised
international research in linguistics. Irigaray's work has influenced the
feminist movement in France and Italy considerably, and is one of the most
important philosophers in international feminist theory. Among her main
publications are Speculum: Of the Other Woman (1974/1985), This Sex
Which Is Not One (1977/1985), Marine Lover: Of Friedrich Nietzsche
(1980/1991), Elemental Passions (1982/1992), L'oubli de l'air: The
Forgetting of Air (1983/1999)Sexes and Genealogies (1987/1993), Je,
Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference (1990/1993), An Ethics of Sexual
Difference (1982/1993), Thinking the Difference: For a Peaceful
Revolution (1994), I Love To You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in
History (1992/1996) and most recently To Be Two (1994/2001), and
Democracy Begins Between Two (1994/2001).
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH,
2002
20:30 - 22:00 [AULA]
ZUIDELIJK TONEEL/ HOLLANDIA
The world-famous Dutch theatre group
performs
TWO VOICES
A PLAY BASED ON THE DIARIES OF PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
VOICES
Voices is a moral
and political debate about a world in which our lives are shaped by such
unelected experts. Based on the writings of iconoclastic Italian film–maker Pier
Paolo Pasolini, a single performer, Jeroen Willems, inhabits five characters in
turn, as they sit around a table over the remains of an extravagant dinner
party, full of wine and self–importance. In a series of mesmerising
metamorphoses, Williams becomes a bloated businessman, a sniggering criminal,
and an unnerving drag act expounding a story about a leading intellectual trying
to outwit the Devil. Some of these characters are obvious targets for Pasolini’s
sharp satire, but the unmasking also comes closer to home – how many of the
audience shift uncomfortably in their seats when, in the words of a Dutch
reviewer, even the average environmentally–conscious, ethically–responsible,
justice–loving Western citizen of the world with all his fine ideas is turned to
pulp...? Jeroen Willems’s virtuoso shape–shifting brings even intricate
intellectual and political philosophising to life, engaging us all in a
dialectical debate about the future of a society which seems increasingly to be
run by hypocritical industrialists and corporate apologists.
Written by Elaine Peake.
Voices has toured extensively around the world and has received numerous awards
including the Dutch Theatre Festival Prize, the first prize at the Festival
Politik im Freien Theater, Stuttgart, the European prize New Theatrical
Realities and an award for excellence for actor Jeroen Willems at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.
PLENARY X 16:45-19:45
THURSDAY,
JUNE 6, 2002
[B3]
BETWEEN INSCRIPTIONS AND
TEXTUALITIES –
HUGH J. SILVERMAN THEORIZING THE POSTMODERN
HUGH J.
SILVERMAN (1945) is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at
Stony Brook University. He was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities
at the University of Vienna (2000-01) and has been Visiting Professor at the
Universities of Warwick and Leeds (England), Nice (France), Torino, Rome
II - Tor Vergata, and Milan (Italy), Cork (Ireland), Trondheim (Norway),
Helsinki (Finland), Sydney (Australia), and three times at the Universität-Wien
(Austria). He is Executive Director of the International Association for
Philosophy and Literature and has served fo
r six years as Executive Co-Director
of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (1980-86). Author of
Inscriptions: After Phenomenology and Structuralism (Routledge, 1987;
second edition Northwestern University Press, 1997), Textualities: Between
Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1994), and more than 100 book
chapters and articles in continental philosophy, aesthetics, philosophical
psychology, and literary/cultural/art/film theory (appearing in a variety of
different languages), Professor Silverman has lectured widely in North and South
America, Britain and Ireland, Continental Europe, Scandinavia and Finland, and
Australia. His edited books include the Routledge Continental Philosophy series: Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty (Routledge,
1988/ Northwestern, 1997), Derrida and Deconstruction
(1989), Postmodernism -- Philosophy and the Arts (1990), Gadamer and Hermeneutics (1991),
Questioning Foundations: Truth/ Subjectivity/ Culture (1993), Cultural
Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier (1998), Philosophy and Desire (2000), and Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime
(2002) as well as Writing the Politics of Difference (SUNY, 1991)
and Piaget, Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Northwestern University
Press, 1997). He has also coedited Jean-Paul Sartre: Contemporary Approaches
to his Philosophy (Duquesne/Harvester, 1980), Continental Philosophy in
America (Duquesne, 1983), Descriptions (SUNY, 1985), Hermeneutics
and Deconstruction (SUNY Press, 1985), Critical and Dialectical
Phenomenology (SUNY, 1987), The Horizons of Continental Philosophy:
Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty (Nijhoff/Kluwer, 1988),
Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY, 1988), The Textual
Sublime: Deconstruction and its Differences (SUNY, 1990),
Merleau-Ponty’s Texts and Dialogues: On Philosophy, Politics, and Cultural
Understanding (Humanities, 1992, 1996), and Textualität der
Philosophie -- Philosophie und Literatur (Oldenbourg, 1994).
ORGANIZER, CHAIR,
AND INTRODUCER:
CHRISTINA
HOWELLS is Professor of
French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College. She works at
the interface between French Literature and Philosophy, having published
widely on Sartre, including in particular Sartre: the Necessity of Freedom,
and 'The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, and more recently on Derrida,
i.e. Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics. Her current
work focuses on contemporary French women philosophers, and she is preparing
for Routledge a Reader containing about thirty new translations of texts on
different aspects of Subjectivity, Alterity and Identity.
PLENARY SESSION
SPEAKERS:
THOMAS
R. FLYNN is Samuel
Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He has been He has
served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and
had been on the Executive Committee of the International Association for
Philosophy and Literature as well as the Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy. He is author of Sartre and Marxist Existentialism
(Chicago, 1984) and coeditor (with Dalia Judovitz) of Dialectic and
Narrative (SUNY Press, 1993). The first of his two volume study Sartre,
Foucault and Reason in History, Vol. 1 Toward an Existentialist Theory
(Chicago, 1997) has already appeared and the second is scheduled to appear in
2002. He is author of over seventy-five articles in areas of continental
philosophy, including political philosophy, history of philosophy, ethics, and
philosophy of religion.
TONY
O'CONNOR is
Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland,
where he has taught for more than three decades. He is currently
President of the British Society for Phenomenology and has been an active
participant in the development of Continental Philosophy in Ireland and
Britain. He has published in the areas of Continental Philosophy,
Epistemology, Aesthetics, and Social Theory. He is on the Advisory Board
of Continental Philosophy, and among other publications, he has contributed an
essay on Merleau-Ponty to the volume Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since
Merleau-Ponty, edited by Hugh J. Silverman (Northwestern, 1997), the
upcoming volume on Continental Philosophy in the USA, edited by Erik
Vogt (to be published in German with Turia & Kant, 2002).
ERIK
VOGT is currently
teaching German at Oxford University, England. He has been Gastprofessor
in the Philosophy Department at the University of Vienna, Austria (2001) and
previously taught Philosophy for a number of years at Loyola University, New
Orleans in the US. He published Sartre’s Wiederholung (Passagen,
1995) and is completing a book on Austrian Politics and Culture. He has
translated many books in American Continental Philosophy into German for his
book series with Turia + Kant, including works by Hugh J. Silverman, James R.
Watson, Wilhelm S. Wurzer, and Slavoj Zizek His published articles focus
on contemporary German and French philosophy.
SERGE
TROTTEIN is Associate Director of the Center for
the History of Modern Philosophy (CHPM) at the CNRS in Villejuif, France. He
taught previously at Dartmouth College (1985-1990). His research and
publications focus on Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Postmodern philosophical
aesthetics. His publications include "La textualité sans texte ou l’esthétique
en philosophie", in Textualität der Philosophie: Philosophie und Literatur,
ed. Ludwig Nagl and Hugh J. Silverman (Oldenbourg, 1994), "L’humanisme
esthétique d’Agostino Nifo", in La dignité de l’homme, ed. Pierre
Magnard (Champion, 1995), "Esthétique ou philosophie de l’art?", in Kants
Ästhetik/Kant’s Aesthetics/L’esthétique de Kant, ed. Herman Parret (de
Gruyter, 1997), Humanisme et esthétique. Analyse et traduction du De
Pulchro (1531) d’Agostino Nifo (Vrin, 1997), and "The Beauty of the
Postmodern Sublime," in Afterwords: Essays in Memory of Jean-François
Lyotard, ed. Robert Harvey (Stony Brook Humanities Institute, 2000). He
has also edited the volume L’Esthétique, naît-elle au XVIIIe Siècle?
(Presses Universitaire de France, 2000).
KUISMA
KORHONEN has studied and taught comparative
literature in the universities of Helsinki, Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and
Toulouse-II (Le Mirail). He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow
in the Finnish Graduate School for Literary Studies. He has published over 50
essays and articles in Finnish, English and French on literature and
philosophy, especially on the essay as the genre of encounters. His next major
publication in English is entitled Impossible Encounters. Essaying Textual
Friendship from Plato to Derrida.
PLENARY XIII
PETER GREENAWAY PLENARY
17:00-19:00
FRIDAY,
JUNE 7, 2002
[AULA]
IAPL INVITED SPEAKER: PETER GREENAWAY (filmmaker)
Presentation/ Recent Projects
INTRODUCTION BY HUGH J. SILVERMAN (IAPL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
PETER GREENAWAY
(1942)
was trained as a painter, wrote
(still unpublished) n
ovels
and short stories, worked for eleven years as film editor for the Central Office
of Information, but is known as one of the great film directors of our time, an
innovative curator and a challenging philosopher of cinema. His multi-media
approach surpasses traditional media forms and aims at a visual language in its
own right. Greenaway is based in Amsterdam and London. Starting his filming
career in the beginning of the sixties, his vast oeuvre got known with films
like A Walk Through H (1978), The Falls (1980), The
Draughtsman's Contract (1982), Four american composers. Ashley, Cage,
Glass, Monk (1983), A Zed and Two Noughts (1985), The Belly of an
Architect (1987),
Drowning
By Numbers (1988), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
(1989), Prospero's Books (1991), The Baby of Mâcon (1993); The
Pillow Book (1996), Eight and a Half Women (1999). In 1991 he start
ed
in Amsterdam with a series of exhibitions all over Europe arranging the objects
of museums under various themes. In 1994 he began his open air Stairs
exhibitions on ten themes of
filmmaking and the language of films in the cities of Geneve, Munich, London and
others. He has curated Flying Out Of This World (Paris 1992), The
Physical Self (Rotterdam 1992), 100 Objects To Represent The World
(Vienna 1993), Stairs (Geneva 1994, Münich 1995). He also produced two
opera in cooperation with The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen: in 1992 Rosa
en in 2000 Writing to Vermeer. His current project is the multimedia
project The Tulse Luper's Suitcases.
XIV
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
09:00-12:30
SATURDAY,
JUNE 7, 2002
XIV.01:
AN ENCOUNTER WITH PETER GREENAWAY
[B2]
PETER GREENAWAY
(see above)
XIV.02: BETWEEN HEGEL AND HEIDEGGER: A CLOSE
ENCOUNTER WITH DOMINIQUE JANICAUD [A2]
DOMINIQUE JANICAUD
is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre de
Recherches d'Histoire des Idees at the Faculte des Lettres, University of Nice,
France. He has been Visiting Professor at Penn State University and Stony
Brook University in the US. His many books include Une genealogie du
spiritualisme francais (Nijhoff, 1969), new edition: Ravaisson et la
metaphysique (Vrin, 1997), Hegel et le destin de la Grece (Vrin,
1975), La Puissance du rationnel (Gallimard, 1985) [The Power of
the Rational ] , L'Ombre de cette pensee: Heidegger et la question
politique (1990) [The Shadow of That Thought (Northwestern, 1996)],
A nouveau la philosophie [Rationalities, Historicities (Humanities Press,
1997)], Chronos. Pour l'intelligence du partage temporel (Grasset,
1997), La Phenenomenologie eclatee (Editions de l'eclat, 1998), and
most recently a massive two volume study of Heidegger in France (Albin Michel,
2001).
XIV.03: THE STRANGER BETWEEN OPPRESSION AND
SUPERIORITY: CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH HEINZ KIMMERLE
[B4]
HEINZ KIMMERLE
(1930) is Professor emeritus of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In
1957, he obtained his Ph.D. with Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg on the topic
of D. E. F. Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics. From 1970 to 1976 he taught
philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) as a lecturer and professor
of philosophy and in 1976 he was appointed as a professor of philosophy at
Erasmus University Rotterdam. His special topics of teaching and of research
were the philosophy of Hegel, the history of dialectical philosophy and
philosophies of difference. In 1989 he worked as a visiting professor in
philosophy at the University of Nairobi in Kenya and the University of Ghana at
Legon/Accra. During the last five years of his teaching he held a special chair
for Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy. After retiring in 1995 he
established the Foundation for Intercultural Philosophy and Art at Zoetermeer in
the Netherlands. In 1997 he was a visiting professor in philosophy at the
University of Venda in South Africa.
He has published 20
monographs and edited numerous publications, including the critical edition of
D. E. F. Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutik (1959, 1974), Die
Zukunftsbedeutung der Hoffnung (1966, 1974) on the the philosophy of Ernst
Bloch, Das Problem der Abgeschlossenheit des Denkens (1970, 1082) on
Hegel’s philosophy during his Jena period (1801-1807), Derrida zur Einführung
(1988, 2000), Philosophie in Afrika – afrikanische Philosophie
(1991), Die Dimension des Interkulturellen (1994), and Philosophien
der Differenz (2000).
XIV.04: THINKING THE INTERVAL: CLOSE ENCOUNTER
WITH JEAN-LUC NANCY [A1]
JEAN-LUC
NANCY (1940) is
Professor of Philosophy at the University
Marc Bloch in
Strasbourg and has been a professor
at the University of California in San-Diego and
Visiting Professor at the University of California,
Irvine and Berkeley as well as in
Berlin. Trained in German languages
and literature, he combines literary theory and Continental Philosophy in order
to redefine socio-political problems concerning
notions of community, globalization, sovereignty
and freedom. He published books on
Hegel, Lacan en Descartes and several texts on art, cinema and lietrature. He
gets his inspiration from Georges Bataille’s philosophy of the community, Martin
Heideggers critique on ontology and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction, but has
taken his own unique position. His work has been trnslated in several languages
and gained international recognition, especially with La communauté
désoeuvrée (The Inoperative Community) (1982). He is the author of
Rejouer le politique (1981), Retrait du politique (1983),
L'impératif catégorique (1983), La communauté désoeuvrée (1990; with
P. Lacoue-Labarthe), Le mythe nazi (1993), Le sens du monde
(1995), La pensée dérobée, Être singulier pluriel (1998), and most
recently in 2001 La Communauté affronté.
XV. PLENARY END-DEBATE:
INTER-ESSE:
BEYOND BORDERLINES
[AULA]
14:00-17:30
SATURDAY JUNE 8, 2002
Organizer,
Chair, and Introduction: HENK OOSTERLING
(IAPL 2002
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR)
HENK
OOSTERLING is.............................
PANELISTS
ROSI BRAIDOTTI (19..)
is Professor
of Women's Studies in the
Arts Faculty of Utrecht University and Scientific
Director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's
Studies. In the academic year 1994-95, she was a
fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton. She has been involved extensively in European cooperation in Women's
Studies for many years and chaired the European Subject Area Evaluation of
Women's Studies in1995. Furthermore she founded the inter-European university
exchange programme, NOISE, linking 10 universities in different European
countries, which offer a yearly European Summer School from interdisciplinary
and multicultural perspectives. Her research and writing concerns
feminist philosophy and cultural studies/studies of popular culture with a
special interest in poststructuralism and psycho-analysis, theories of sexual
difference and the history of feminist ideas. Currently she is working on the
politics of feminist postmodernism from a multicultural perspective and on the
history of scientific teratology. Among her many book
publications are Patterns of Dissonance. A study of women in contemporary
philosophy (1991), Nomadic subjects: embodiment and sexual difference in
contemporary feminist theory (1994), Women, the Environment and
Sustainable Development. Towards a Theoretical Synthesis (1994), Between
Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs. Feminist Confrontations with science, Medicine
and Cyberspace (1996) and Metamorphoses. Towards a
Materialist Theory of Becoming (2002).
HEINZ KIMMERLE
(see above)
JEAN-LUC NANCY
(see above)
SLAVOJ
ZIZEK
(1949) has been
Researcher at the Institute for
Sociology and Philosophy at University of Ljubljana since1979.
He
uses popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and the theory of
Jacques Lacan to explain politics and popular culture.
In 1991 he was Scientific Ambassador for
the Republic of Slovenia.
He has lectured at many different
universities including the Universite
Paris-VIII, SUNY Buffalo, University of Minnesota,
Tulane University, Columbia University, Princeton University, and at the New
School for Social Research in New York. He is the
Founder and President
of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana and Editor
of book series Analecta (in Slovene), Wo es
war (in German), Wo es war (with Verso) and SIC (with Duke UP). Zizek is
probably the most successful and prolific post-Lacanian,
having published over fifty books including translations into a dozen languages.
He was politically active in Slovenia during the 80s, a candidate for the
presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in 1990, and most of his works are moral
and political rather than purely theoretical. A selection of his books
include: The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989),
Looking Awry (1991), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan
(But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) (1992), Enjoy Your Symptom!
(1992), Tarrying With the Negative (1993), Metastases of Enjoyment
(1994), The Indivisible Remainder (1996), The Ticklish Subject. The
absent centre of political ontology (1999), The Fragile Absolute
(2000). In 2001 Did Somebody say Totalitarianism? Five Interventions in the (Mis)use
of a Notion) and On Belief.
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