All concurrent sessions held at the Leeds Town Hall
15. GROUP - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
15.01 (CE-01) THE ART OF THINKING ABOUT ART : GARY SHAPIRO’S AESTHETIC [Sullivan Room]
Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Stephen Barker (School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)
1. *Mark A. Cheetham (Fine Art, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA)
LandPhil: Why Robert Smithson?
2. *Babette Babich (Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA)
Foucault, the Body, and Art: Gary Shapiro's Sculptural Eye
3. Robert Mugerauer (Architecture, Univerity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Spiraling Around Nietzschean Aesthetics
4. Howard Caygill (Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, ENGLAND)
5. *Penny Florence (Director of Research, Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, ENGLAND)
Alcyone on the Jetty
6. *Joel D. Black (Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA)
Nonsites and Non-sense:Towards an Iconoclastic Aesthetics
Responses by *Gary Shapiro (Philosophy, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA USA)
15.02 (CE-02) Zeroing in on J. Hillis Miller: A Close Encounter [Kramer Room]
Organized by *Derek Attridge (English, University of York, York, ENGLAND) and *Rolland Munro (Management Studies, University of Keele, ENGLAND)
Chaired and Introduced by *Rolland Munro (Centre for Culture, Social Theory & Technology, University of Keele, Staffordshire, ENGLAND)
*J. Hillis Miller (English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA) will present a paper on Zero in Literature
1. *Derek Attridge (English, York University, York, ENGLAND)
Miller's Tale
2. *Thomas Docherty (English, University of Kent, Canterbury, ENGLAND)
One
3. *Claudia Egerer (English, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, SWEDEN)
A Commitment to Literature: Reading J Hillis Miller
4. *Tom Cohen (Literary, Cultural and Media Theory, University at Albany, Albany, NY USA)
Life Without One
Responses by *J. Hillis Miller (English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)
15.03
(CE-03) MEMORIAL SESSION: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERESA
BRENNAN
Organized by Kelly Oliver (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA)
Chaired by *Violet Theresa Szilvas (English, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)
1. Bice Benevenuto (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Rome, ITALY)
Transmission and Affect in Teresa Brennan’s Work
2. *Susan James (Philosophy, Birkbeck College London, London, ENGLAND)
The Transmission of Affect
3. *Sarah Kay (French, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England)
Containing Bodies
4. Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
What’s Not Seen
5. Jennifer Hansen (Philosophy, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA)
Detours and Delays
6. Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA)
History after Teresa Brennan
15.04
(CE-04) CRITICISM AND THE "METAPHYSICS" OF ART: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER
WITH DONALD KUSPIT [Albert
Room]
Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Mark Van Proyen (Art History, Painting and Digital Media, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA)
1. *Lucy Bowditch (Art History, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY, USA)
Considering Kuspit on the Teutonic Chill and Other Life and Death Issues in Contemporary Art
2. *Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Director, Centre for Contemporary Art Research, University of Southampton, Southampton, ENGLAND)
Abstraction, Authoritarianism, Authority
3. *Tom Ettinger (Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA and Director, Lite Byte Gallery, Miami, FL, USA)
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics and the Logic of Authenticity
4. *Stephen Newton (Art, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, ENGLAND)
Donald Kuspit: Prophet in the Wilderness
5. *Robert Shane (Art History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Future of an Illusion: Psychoanalysis and Spirituality in the Work of Donald Kuspit
6. *Lynn M. Somers (Independent Scholar, New York City, NY, USA)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Some Recent Analyses of Perversion in Art by Donald Kuspit
7. *Randall K. Van Schepen (Independent Scholar, New York City, NY, USA)
Dialectic and Selfhood in Kuspit’s Criticism
Responses by *Donald Kuspit (Art History and Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
15.05
(CE-05) PERFORMATIVITY, MATERIALISM, ETHICS: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH JUDITH
BUTLER
Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by *Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (English, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN USA)
1. *Joanna Zylinska (University of Surrey Roehampton, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, London, ENGLAND)
The Universal Acts
2. *Angela McRobbie (Communications, Goldsmiths College, London, ENGLAND)
Butler's Antigone: Life and Death After Marxism and Feminism?
3. Cecilia Sjoholm (Aesthetics, South Stockholm University, Stockholm, SWEDEN)
Rules of Engagement; Judith Butler and Ethics
4. *renee c. hoogland (Lesbian and Gay Studies, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS)
Orchestrating a Self: Performativity and the Aesthetics of Becoming
5. *Gayle Salamon (Pembroke Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
Morphological Imaginaries, Material Figures: Judith Butler, Transgender Theory, and the New Materialism
6. *Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (Artist, Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, Paris, FRANCE, and Professor in AHRB Center at the University of Leeds, Leeds, ENGLAND)
Perpetual Exile and Enigmatic Afterlife: Butler's Search for Livability
lunch break 12:30-14:00
purchase tickets at the IAPL registration desk for QUO VADIS (opposite the Leeds Town Hall)
16. - PLENARY - ROUND TABLE ON AESTHETIC IDEOLOGY
Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:00-17:00
VICTORIA HALL, Leeds Town Hall
Organized, and Introduced by Martin McQuillan
Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley, CA USA)
'The Content of the Form'
Ortwin de Graef (Professor of English Liteature, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM)
J. Hillis Miller (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, CA USA)
Zero as the Undoing of Aesthetic Ideology
Nicholas Royle (Professor of English, University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex, ENGLAND)
De Man Trap
the building.
Home made soup of the day (vegetarian)
Choice between:
Thai Spiced Prawn and Salmon Kebabs
Roast Vegetable feta and Filo Parcels (V)
Wild Mushroom Risotto (V)
North Yorkshire Smoked Chicken Salad
Grilled Yorkshire Pork and Herb Saugage
(All dishes will be served with a mixed seasonal salad, vegetables and
sauté potatoes.)
A choice of sweets / desserts
Coffee