All concurrent sessions held at the Leeds Town Hall

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 09:00-12:00

5. GROUP - ORGANIZED SESSIONS

5.01 (OS-01): THE UNIVERSITY IN THE EYES OF ITS PUPILS [Spark Room]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Graham Allen (English Literature, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

1. * John William Phillips (Critical Theory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, )

Destined to Disappear: the University’s Address

2. *Roy Sellars (English Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, DENMARK)

Educational Remains: Hegel, Adorno, Derrida

3. *Sarah Wood (English Literature, Kent University, Canterbury, Kent, ENGLAND)

Hidden Terror

4. Mark Currie (English Literature, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, ENGLAND)

The University and the Universal

5.02 (OS-02): WRITING AS THE SPACE OF MEMORY [Kramer Room]

Organized by *Brian Elliot (Philosophy University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)

Chaired by *Gary Banham (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, ENGLAND) 

1. *Brian Elliot (Philosophy University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)

Speaking of a Different Space: Rilke, Heidegger, and Bachelard 

2. *Rachel Jones (Philosophy, University of Dundee, Dundee, SCOTLAND)

Mourning Eurydice: Cavarero and Blanchot

3. *Mary McAllester Jones (French Studies, Strathclyde University, Strathclyde, Glasgow, SCOTLAND) 

Spaces of the Self: On Bachelard as a Constructor of Linguistic Space 

4. *Douglas Smith (French, University College Dublin, Belfield, IRELAND)

A Place Apart: Towards a Genealogy of the Imaginary 

5. *James Williams (Philosophy, University of Dundee, Dundee, SCOTLAND) 

No Escape! On the Return of the Unconscious Memory 

5.03 (OS-03): THE AESTHETICS OF TEMPORALITY [Sullivan Room]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Sophia Gabriel-Panteliadou (Philosophy, University of Vienna and Galerie Gabriel, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

1. *John Lechte (Sociology and Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Beauty, Mimesis and Time 

2. +Kyoo Lee (School of English and the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, ENGLAND)

Written Once and For All, Read All Over Again: The Materialist Aesthetics of Temporality in Benjamin and de Man

3. *Elisabeth Sattler and *Reinhold Stipsits (Educational Theories, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

The Sands are Running Low: Diverse Remarks on Narratives of Temporality

4. *John P. Manoussakis (Philosophy, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA)

From Plato to Heidegger: In a Moment Beyond Time

5.  Susanna Morgenstern: Video

On Time, Temporality, and Signs

5.04 (OS-04): WOMEN WRITING ART [Albert Room]

Organized by *Gertrude Postl (Philosophy and Women's Studies, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, USA).

Chaired by *Christine Battersby (Philosophy, University of Warwick, Warwick, ENGLAND)

1. *Linda Fisher (Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY)

Does Genus have a Sex? Reflections on Gender and the Concept of Artistic Genius

2. *Mary Wiseman (Philosophy, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA)

Painting Women: Lisa Yuskavage and Kiki Smith

3. *Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA)

Iris Klein’s Dolls: Writing the Pose in Photographic Discourse

4. *Gertrude Postl (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, USA)

Signs on and of the Body: The Function of Language in Feminist Art

5. *Maria Bussmann (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Universitaet fuer angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Drawing Merleau-Ponty’s Invisible: Drawings as Sign-Theoretical Process

5.05 (OS-05): HENRY V IN THEORY AND PRACTICE [Grimshaw Room]

Organized by Martin McQuillan (Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)

Chaired by Gretchin Puff (Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, UK)

1. Willy Maley (English Literature, University of Glasgow, UK)
British III Done: Shakespeare's MacMorris and of Chorus of Disapproval

2. Barrie Rutter (Director, North Broadside Theatre Company)
Directing Henry

3. Michael Maloney (actor)
Being Henry

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-13:00

purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL registration desk for QUO VADIS (opposite the Leeds Town Hall)

6. GROUP - GENERAL SESSIONS

6.01 (GS-17) HEIDEGGERIAN AESTHETICS [Spark Room]

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

1. *Gerard C. Bucher (Philosophy and French Literature, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA)

Heidegger’s Approach to Art and the Thing

2. *Amalia Hermann (German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

The An-Aesthetic of Heideggerian Causality

3. *Petar Ramadanovic (English, University of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH, USA)

Mimesis after Heidegger

6.02 (GS-18) WRITING SHAPES OF HUMOR [Kramer Room]

Chair: Sara Crangle (English, Cambridge University, Cambridge, ENGLAND)

1.  *Costantino Costantini (Comparative Literature, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, TURKEY)

Expecting Nothing: Humor and the Sublime in Kant

2. *Julie Piering (Philosophy and Liberal Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA)

Cynic Aesthetics: Humor and Freedom at the Heart of Ethics

3. *Adriana Bontea (European Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, ENGLAND)

Walter Benjamin’s Project on Comedy

4. *Ib Johansen (English, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DENMARK)

Shape-Shifters, Inc.: Reflections on Metamorphosis in Western Culture—from Apuleius to Marie Darieussecq

6.03 (GS-19) POETICS OF THE ABYSS: HÖLDERLIN, CELAN, JABÈS [Grimshaw Room]

Chair: TBA

1. *Derek Hillard (German Studies, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA)

The Original Aesthetic Ideology: Poetic Unreason from Hölderlin to Celan

2. *Gabriela Basterra (Spanish, New York University, New York City, NY, USA)

Creating Victims

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

Writing Against Aesthetics

4. William Franke (Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

The Writing of Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Jabès and Celan

6.04 (GS-20) HERMENEUTICS AND DECONSTRUCTION [Elgar Room]

Chair: TBA

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

The Language of Wholes in Gadamer’s Philosophy of Art

2. *Nel van den Haak (Philosophy, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)

Metaphorical-Poetical Writing in Paul Ricoeur

3. *William Melaney (English and Comparative Literature, American Unversity in Cairo, Cairo, EGYPT)

Derrida’s Allegory of Difference: Literature and the Limits of Critical Theory

4. *Roman Altshuler (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

The Aesthetics of Freedom and Sovereignty

6.05 (GS-21) GAZE/IMAGE/LIGHT [Albert Room]

Chair: *Brigitte Hipfl (Media and Communication Theory, Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA)

1. *Asbjorn Gronstad (Film Studies and American Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, NORWAY)

The Gaze of Tiresias: Joyce, Rossellini and the Iconology of The Dead

2. *Jan Jadgodzinski (Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta CANADA)

The Oral Eye: Putting Film Art into the Abyss

3. *Jay Murphy (Independent Scholar, New York City, NY, USA)

Flusser, Baudrillard, and the Photographic Field

4. *Jennifer Svienty (French, Emory University, Atlanta, GA USA)

Exiting the In-Between: Claude Cahun and her Photography

6.06 (GS-22) FEMINIST AESTHETICS II [Walton Room]

Chair: *Petee Jung (Mathematics, Albright College, Reading, PA USA)

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

Writing Aesthetics: Feminism and the Later Foucault

2. *Elaine P. Miller (Philosophy, Miami University, Ohio OH USA)

Irigaray, Adorno and the Aesthetics of Nature

3. *Tsu-Chung Su (Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan, ROC)

Writing/Aestheticizing Melancholy: A Feminist Reading of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy

6.07 (GS-23) AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE IMAGINARY [Sullivan Room]

Chair: Reidar Due (French, Oxford University, Oxford, ENGLAND)

1. *Lewis K. Johnson (History and Theory of Art, Sabanci University, Istanbul, TURKEY)

Contraband of the Imagination: Synaesthesia, Hallucination, and Memory in Sartre’s L’Imaginaire 

2. *Margaret Ozierski (French Literature, Duke University, Durham, SC, USA)

Boredom, Spleen, and Revolution: The Aesthetics of Erfahrung

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

The Explication of Hollywood Aesthetics: Godard's Le Mépris

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 16:00-19:00

7. GROUP - ORGANIZED SESSIONS

7.01 (OS-06): WRITING AS PERFORMATIVE POLITICAL ACT [Walton Room]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Kristian Klockars (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

1. *Marie-Eve Morin (Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet, Freiburg, GERMANY)

Derrida’s Schibboleths: Writing/Reading Us to the Point of Bleeding

2. *John Namjun Kim (German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Mixing Messages: The Ambivalence to Revolution in Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace

3. *Pol Vandevelde (Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA)

Writing and Politics: The Case of Ernesto Sabato

4. *Peter Zeillinger (Fundamental Theology, University of Vienna, Vienna AUSTRIA)

Derrida's Speaking in the Mode of the Perhaps

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Kuisma Korhonen (Comparative Literature, Finnish Graduate School for Literary Studies, University of Turku and Helsinki, FINLAND)

1.*Brendan Moran (Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA)

Ru(i)ned: The Indifference of Art in Early Works of Walter Benjamin

2. *Jim Keller (American Literature, Bard College, Iowa City, IA, USA)

“Time is the Fire”: The Life and Strange Times of the Middle Generation in American Poetry

3. *Pajari Räsänen (Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND)

Derrida on Celan’s “Poetics as Bearing Witness - But Testamentary Witness”

7.03 (OS-08): WRITING LYOTARD'S 'AESTHETICS': PHILOSOPHY, ART AND THE FIGURE OF THE ANTI-AESTHETIC [Grimshaw Room]

Organized, Chaired and Introduced by *John Gerard Moore (Philosophy, Humanities Division, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, USA)

1. *Patrick Roney (Comparative Literature, Koç University, Istanbul, TURKEY)

The Names of Elision

2. *Karin Fry (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI USA)

Writing the Sublime: Lyotard on Philosophy, Art, and Politics

3. *Maria Muresan (French, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA)

Belated Strokes: Writing Aesthetics in Lyotard’s Confession d’Augustine

4. *Dalia Judovitz (French and Italian, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Echoing Voices, Affecting Psalmodies

7.04 (OS-09) FILM AESTHETICS [Albert Room]

Organized by *Roberta Imboden (English, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Chaired by *David Grimshaw (Math, Physics and Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

1. *Bruce Elder (Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

The Violence and Charity of Perception

2. *Lia Hotchkiss (English, Central Connecticut State, New Britain, CT, USA) 

Inter-arts Aesthetics in the Cinema of Peter Greenaway

3. *Roberta Imboden (English, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

Sam Mendes' American Beauty Rose

4. *Angela Krewani (Literature and Media, University of Siegen, Siegen, GERMANY)

Virtual Bodies and the Digital Media. 

5. *Lazslo Tarnay (Philosophy, Faculty of Hermeneutics, University of Pecs, Pecs, HUNGARY)

Images of Temporality 

7.05 (OS-10): MEMORY AND THE IMMEMORIAL [Spark Room]

Organized by *Anne O’Byrne (Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA)
Chaired by TBA

1. *Janet Donohoe (English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia, ??GA USA)

Collective Memory and Immemorial Places

2. *Karmen McKendrick (Philosophy, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY USA)

Forgetting Original Sin

3. *Anne O’Byrne (Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA)

Visitation and Nativity: Remembering Birth

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

The Immemorial or the Tragic: Does Levinas’ Phenomenology Overcome his Tragic Vision of Being?

7.06 (OS-11): ADORNO AND AESTHETICS [Sullivan Room]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Erik Michael Vogt (Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA)

1. *Carrie Johanna Curtis (English, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)

What Speaks Out of the Artifact: Aesthetic Semblance in Hegel and Adorno 

2. *Peter Osborne (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, UK)

Adorno: "Against Aesthetics"

3. *Max Paddison (Music, University of Durham, Durham, ENGLAND)

Adorno, Beckett and the Non-Identical 

4. *James R. Watson (Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, USA)

Adorno and Benjamin Contra Cultic Employment of Photographic Images

5. *Wilhelm S. Wurzer (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Ambiguities of Expression: Adorno, Hitchcock and Fritz Lang

8. PLENARY - IAPL INVITED SPEAKER

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:15-21:00

LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY <http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/>

(Next to the Town Hall), The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA

Introduction by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

Daniel Charles (Professor of Aesthetics Emeritus, Université de Nice, Nice, FRANCE)

AESTHETICS BEYOND WRITING

RECEPTION 21:45-22:00 - SILVER GALLERY (Leeds City Art Gallery)

Food, one free drink (IAPL 2003 registered participants receive a ticket with registration packet), and cash bar