All concurrent sessions held at the Leeds Town Hall
Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:00-12:00
1. GROUP - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
1.01 (GS-01)
FEMINIST AESTHETICS
Chair:
1. *Ellen Miller (Philosophy, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA)
Philosophizing with Sylvia Plath: An Embodied Hermeneutic of Color in ‘Ariel’
2. *Catherine
M. Peebles (Humanities Program and Department of Languages, University
of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH, USA) Anxiety, Fantasy, and the Will to
Power: What’s a Feminist to Do (Now)?
3. *Jennifer Shaw (Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Real and Fantastic Women: Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Painting
4. *Lynn Turner (Visual Culture, Goldsmiths College, London, ENGLAND)
Des Jeunes Nées: for a confusion of the tongue, the lip, and the rim
5. *L. Ryan Musgrave (Philosophy and Religion, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA)
From Liberal to Critical Feminist Aesthetics
Chaired
by
1.
#Torsten Hitz (Philosophy, Staatliche Hochschule
für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, GERMANY)
Writing
and Affirmation: Transcendental Arguments and Normative Conclusions in Derrida
and Kant
2.
*Karen Valihora (English, York University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)
Aesthetics
after Locke
3.
*David Davies (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)
Re-Writing
Aesthetics
4.
*Tracey Stark (Organizational and Political Communication, Emerson College,
Boston, MA, USA)
Writing
and Aesthetics in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
5. *Rudolf A. Makkreel (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Various Modes of Aesthetic Judgment
1.03
(GS-03) Aesthetics and Politics [S ullivan
Room ]
2. *Juan Orbe (Spanish and Humanities, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA, USA)
Chicano Aesthetics in Guillermo Gomez-Pena
3.
Reception Theory: From Aesthetics to Politics
Democratic Struggle and Academic
Critique in the Era of the Digital Text
1.04 (GS-04) AESTHETICS OF THE POETIC
[Waterman Room ]
Chaired
by *Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, CA)
Poetic Fluidity Reconciles Philosophic Rigidity
Processional Aesthetics: Reading Parades in Victor Hugo
Volumes and Fragments: Mallarmé’s Aesthetic of the Book
The Case of H. C. Artmann, or, How to Write Exciting Literature with a Structurlist Aesthetics Based on Synchrony
1.05 (GS-05) THE IRONIC, THE AESTHETIC
AND THE SUBLIME [Elgar Room ]
Kierkegaard’s
Ironic Semblance: The Concept of Irony ’s Ironic Reading
of Hegel’s Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
2.
*Christina Hendricks (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Janesville,
WI, USA)
Foucault,
a Kantian?: Aesthetic Self-Creation and Anthropological Slumber
3.
*William Marderness (Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, Stony
Brook, NY, USA)
Longinus’ Sublime: The Representation of the Numinous
The
Sublimity of Schiller’s The Veiled Image at Saïs
The Aesthetic of Narrative Time: The Epiphantic Sublime
1.06 (PS-01)
WRITING THE SECRET: THE SELF-EFFACEMENT OF AESTHETICS
Organized by *Aleksandar Pjevalica and *Michael Sigrist (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Chaired by +Jakob Lorenzen (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DENMARK)
1. *Matthew Meyer (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
(At)tending to Poets: A Poet’s Task in Derrida and Heidegger
2. *Michael J. Sigrist (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Derrida’s Secret: Belief in Aesthetic Experience
3. *Aleksandar Pjevalica (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
The Force of Secrecy: Derrida and the Poetics of Responsibility
4. *Peter Fristedt (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
The Language of Witnessing
5. *Julia Sushytska (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Writing the Unspeakable?
1.07 (PS-02) THE INCARNATION OF THINKING:
THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL, AND AESTHETIC DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY [K
Organized by *Tanja Staehler (Philosophy, University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)
Chaired by Timothy Mooney (Philosophy, University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)
1. *Christiane Thompson (Philosophy of Education, Martin-Luther-Universitat-Halle, Halle, GERMANY)
The Ambiguity of Experience and the Difficulty of Becoming a Self
2. *James Thompson (Philosophy, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Wuppertal, GERMANY)
The Embodiment of Language in Wittgenstein
3. *Alexander V. Kozin (Philosophy, The Catholic University-Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM)
The Body Artist: An Experience of the Sur-Real in the Contexts of Don DeLillo, Max Ernst, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4. *Ferit Güven (Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN, USA)
The Body as a Weapon
5. *Tanja Staehler (Philosophy, University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)
The Body of Logos in Plato’s Phaedrus
LUNCH BREAK 12:00-13:00
purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL registration desk for QUO VADIS (opposite the Leeds Town Hall)
Tuesday, 27 May 2003 13:00-15:30
2. GROUP - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
2.01
(GS-06) Nietzschean Genealogies
[Elgar Room ]
Chair: *Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA USA)
1. *Magnus Schlette (Philosophy, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Frankfurt-am-Main, GERMANY)
Pulp Fiction: Some Thoughts on the Standpoint of a Theory of Action
2. *John Burt Foster, Jr. (English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA)
Yeat’s Birth of Tragedy: Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectors
3. *Thomas Paul Bonfiglio (Modern Languages, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA)
Toward
a Genealogy of Aryan Morals: Nietzsche and Jacolliot
2.02 (GS-07) TEMPORALITY, TRANSCENDENCE,
REPRESENTATION [Spark Room ]
Chair:
1. Virginia Slachman (English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
A Comparative
Analysis of the Symbol Considered as a Meontic Function
2. *Josh Cohen (English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, ENGLAND)
No Matter: Aesthetic
Theory and the Self-Annihilating Artwork
3. *Klaus Ebner (Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)
The Secret of Las Meninas: Foucault and Lacan on the Problem of Representation
4. *Benjamin Taubald (Social Policy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)
See What I Mean? Textual and Non-Textual Organization of the Public Sphere
2.03 (GS-08) MERLEAU-PONTY AND AESTHETICS
[Walton Room ]
Chair:
1. *Rob Hughes (Languages and Literatures, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, USA)
The Opening Up of Emptiness: Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Aesthetics
2. *Gerald Cipriani (Philosophy, University of Central England, Birmingham, ENGLAND)
The Aesthetic Author and the Paradox of the Responsibility to Disclose
3. David Brubaker (Philosophy, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA)
Merleau Ponty’s Eye and Mind: Cézanne, the Formless, and Postmodern Painting
2.04 (GS-09) AESTHETIC SUBJECTIFICATION
[Grimshaw
Room ]
Chair: *Angela Hunter (Comparative
Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA)
1. *Petrus de Kock (Philosophy, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI, USA)
Exile: the Dis-assemblyline of the subject and subjection
2. *Mao Chen (Foreign Languages and Literatures, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)
Bing Xin’s Aesthetic Gamble: Persona, Gender and Nationhood
3. *Gray Kochlar-Lindgren
(English and Cultural Studies, Central Mighigan University, Mt. Pleasant,
MI, USA) Spectral Aesthetics: Writing the Posthuman
4. *Damian W. Hey (Media Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY USA)
Written on the Avatar: Toward an Aesthetic of the Virtually Mediated Self
2.05 (PS-03) ADORNO’S AESTHETICS:
BEYOND VISUALITY, COGNITION AND CRITIQUE
Organized by *Karyn Ball (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
Chaired by Christopher Bracken (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
1. +Barbara Engh (Fine Arts, University of Leeds, Leeds, ENGLAND)
“A sonorous figure has formed around you…”
2. *Karyn Ball (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)
Aesthetics as Polemics: Documenta 11 and the Global Limits of Enlightenment
3. *Krysztof Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA)
Beyond Critique? Art and Power
4. *Silvia Lopez (Romance Languages, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA)
Reverberations: Testimonio and the Acoustics of Shudder in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
2.06 (PS-04) THE ‘NEW AESTHETICISM’
Organized by *Robert Eaglestone (Philosophy, University of London, London, ENGLAND)
Chaired by *John Joughin (English Literature, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, ENGLAND)
1. *Robert Eaglestone (Philosophy, University of London, London, ENGLAND)
New Aesthetics and the Ethical Significance of Form
2. *Joanna Hodge (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, ENGLAND)
The Timing of Elective Affinity: Walter Benjamin’s Strong Aesthetics
3. *Simon Malpas (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, ENGLAND)
Touching Art: Aesthetics, Fragmentation and Community
4. *Mark Robson (Philosophy, Nottingham University, Nottingham, ENGLAND)
Poetry’s Defenses
2.07 (PS-05) WRITING WITHOUT WRITING
Organized by *Marc Froment-Meurice (French, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
Chaired by TBA
1. *Marc Froment-Meurice (French, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)WWW
2. *Cécile Moreau (Visual Arts, Paris, FRANCE)
Dissolution
3. Darren Hutchinson (Philosophy, Vanderbilt Univeristy, Nashville, TN, USA)
Writing Between Image and Sound
2.08 (PS-06) WRITING IN THE WAKE OF
EMPIRE: NEGRI’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE ART AND POLITICS OF THE MULTITUDE(S)
Organized by Margret Grebowicz (Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, USA)
Chaired by TBA
1. Margret Grebowicz (Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, USA)
Are We Inhuman Yet? Postmodern Feminism and Empire’s Resident Bodies
2. Bryan Kubarcyz (English, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Beneath the World-Picture: Indexical Investigation and the Descent into the Jungle in von Humboldt and Empire
3. *Pierre Lamarche (Philosophy, Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT, USA)
Expressionism and Materialism in Hardt and Negri’s Empire
4. *Michael Goddard (Art History and Theory, University of Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Reading Negri’s Multitude(s)
Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:00-18:00
3. GROUP - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS
3.01 (GS-10) DERRIDEAN PASSAGES [Elgar Room]
Chair:
1. Louise Burchill (Philosophy, Université d’Evry Val d’Essone, Paris, FRANCE)
Deleuze and Derrida’s Re-writing of the Transcendental Aesthetic
2. *Rowena Braddock (Gender Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Philosophy and Literature: An (In)Hospitable Relation
3. *Geraldine Finn (Cultural Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, CANADA)
Giving Space – Making Place – For Truth – In Music
3.02
(GS-11) ARCHITECTURE/BUILDING/DWELLING
1.
*Michael Beehler (English, Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT, USA)
Writing
and Building: Towards an Aesthetic of the Virtual
2.
Jennifer M. Jeffers (Philosophy, Cleveland State University, Cleveland,
OH, USA)
Re-Framing
and Rewriting the Aesthetic of British Landscape Painting
3.
*Susan-Judith Hoffman (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)
Play
and Aesthetic Ideologies
3.03
(GS-12) HETEROLOGICAL WRITINGS OF BATAILLE
Chair:
1.
*Effie Rentzou (French Language, Paris IV-Sorbonne,
Paris, FRANCE)
Surrealism:
Beyond Writing and Beyond Aesthetics
2.
*Frank W. Stevenson (English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei,
TAIWAN)
Inverted
Surfaces: Bataille’s “Pineal Eye” and the Mythopoetics of Augury
3.
*Marie-Christine Lala (Linguistics, Centre de linguistique française, Université
de Paris-III-Sorbonne, Paris, FRANCE)
Writing
Aesthetics in Georges Bataille’s Work
3.04
(GS-13)
Chair:
1.
*Lorraine Markotic (Humanities, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,
CANADA)
Negative
Dialectics and Endgame
2.
+Christopher A. Strathman (English,
Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA)
Death, Writing, Aesthetics: Benjamin, Blanchot, and the Politics of the Epitaph
Masks
and Grafitti: Exploring the Aesthetic Basis of Democratic Natality
3.05
(GS-14) EAST-THETICS
Chair:
1.
*Graham Harman (Philosophy, American University
in Cairo, Cairo, EGYPT)
Aesthetics
as Cosmology
2.
*Neela Bhattacharya Saxena (English,
Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, USA)
Aesthetic
Desire and The Body of Devi: The Universe as Work of Art
3.
*Jennifer Bates (Philosophy, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, CANADA)
Imagination
in Vajrayana Buddhism: A Philosophical Investigation of Tibetan Tangka Symbolism
in the Light of Kantian Epistemology and Hegelian Aesthetics
Chair:
1.
Daniel Smith (Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
Philosophy
and Painting: Gilles Deleuze’s Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
2.
*Richard White (Philosophy, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA)
The Scream: Between Lessing and Francis Bacon
3.
Louise Barry (Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas, Bilkent University, Bilkent,
Ankara, TURKEY)
Writing
Aesthetics: Sensible Language
3.07 (PS-07) NEUROSCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES [Spark Room]
Organized by *Irving Massey (English, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA)
Chaired by *Ann C. Colley (English, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, USA)
1. *Laura Otis (English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA)
The Synergy of Literature and Neuroscience
2. *Irving Massey (English, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA)
Music and Language in Dreams
Papers by the following two speakers will be available at the session:
3. *Patrick Colm Hogan (English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA)
A Neurological Response to Some Traditional Problems of Aesthetics
4. *Jason W. Brown (Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York City, NY, USA)
Borges’ Funes and the Neuropsychology of Memory
3.08 (PS-08) WRITING/TRANSCRIBING THE UNCANNY [Albert Room]
Organized by +Jason Kemp Winfree (Philosophy, California State University at Stanislaus, CA USA)
Chaired by #Asa Andersson (Art, Leeds Metropolitan, Leeds, ENGLAND)
1. *Johanna Hallsten (Fine Art and Philosophy, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, ENGLAND)
The Sensuous Uncanny
2. *Jeffrey Jackson (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
The Uncanny Opacity of Das Fremde: Toward a Phenomenology of Film Spectatorship
3. +Jason Kemp Winfree (Philosophy, California State University at Stanislaus, CA USA).
In Excess of the Uncanny: Sovereignty and the Writing of the Inner Experience
4. PLENARY - THEATRE PERFORMANCE
WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE (QUARRY THEATRE)
Tuesday, 27 May 2003 - Reception at 18:15-19:20; Performance begins at 19:30