LIST OF SESSIONS

All concurrent sessions held at the Leeds Town Hall

Tuesday, 27 May 2003 09:00-12:00

GROUP 1 - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS

1.01 (GS-01) FEMINIST AESTHETICS I [Albert Room]
1.02 (GS-02) AROUND KANT [Grimshaw Room]
1.03 (GS-03) Aesthetics and Politics [Sullivan Room]
1.04 (GS-04) AESTHETICS OF THE POETIC [Waterman Room]
1.05 (GS-05) THE IRONIC, THE AESTHETIC AND THE SUBLIME [Elgar Room]
1.06 (PS-01) WRITING THE SECRET: THE SELF-EFFACEMENT OF AESTHETICS [Spark Room]
1.07 (PS-02) THE INCARNATION OF THINKING: THEORETICAL, PRACTICAL, AND AESTHETIC DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY [Kramer Room]

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

GROUP 2 - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS

2.01 (GS-06) Nietzschean Genealogies [Elgar Room]
2.02 (GS-07) TEMPORALITY, TRANSCENDENCE, REPRESENTATION [Spark Room]
2.03 (GS-08) MERLEAU-PONTY AND AESTHETICS [Walton Room]
2.04 (GS-09) AESTHETIC SUBJECTIFICATION [Grimshaw Room]
2.05 (PS-03) ADORNO’S AESTHETICS: BEYOND VISUALITY, COGNITION AND CRITIQUE [Albert Room]
2.06 (PS-04) THE ‘NEW AESTHETICISM’ [Kramer Room]
2.07 (PS-05) WRITING WITHOUT WRITING [Sullivan Room]
2.08 (PS-06) WRITING IN THE WAKE OF EMPIRE: NEGRI’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE ART AND POLITICS OF THE MULTITUDE(S) [Waterman Room]

Tuesday, 27 May 2003 16:00-18:00

GROUP 3 - GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS

3.01 (GS-10) DERRIDEAN PASSAGES [Elgar Room]
3.02 (GS-11) ARCHITECTURE/BUILDING/DWELLING [Kramer Room]
3.03 (GS-12) HETEROLOGICAL WRITINGS OF BATAILLE [Grimshaw Room]
3.04 (GS-13) THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE DIALECTICS [Waterman Room]
3.05 (GS-14) EAST-THETICS [Sullivan Room]
3.06 (GS-15) BACON BITS [Walton Room]
3.07 (PS-07) NEUROSCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES [Spark Room]
3.08 (PS-08) WRITING/TRANSCRIBING THE UNCANNY [Albert Room]

Tuesday, 27 May 2003 18:15-19:20 - Performance begins at 19:30

RECEPTION at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (Congreve Room)

food, coffee and drink (ticket for one free alcoholic drink with IAPL registration packet)

GROUP 4 - THEATRE PERFORMANCE - SHAKESPEARE'S HENRY V

West Yorkshire Playhouse (Quarry Theatre)

A Northern Broadsides production: www.northern-broadsides.co.uk

The Playhouse is located opposite the bus and National Express coach stations.

The first 50 registered and paid conference participants who sign up at the IAPL Registration Desk by 12:00 Tuesday will receive a complementary theatre ticket.

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

GROUP 5 - ORGANIZED SESSIONS

5.01 (OS-01) THE UNIVERSITY IN THE EYES OF ITS PUPILS [Spark Room]
5.02 (OS-02) WRITING AS THE SPACE OF MEMORY [Kramer Room]
5.03 (OS-03) THE AESTHETICS OF TEMPORALITY [Sullivan Room]
5.04 (OS-04) WOMEN WRITING ART [Albert Room]
5.05 (OS-05) HENRY V IN THEORY AND PRACTICE [Grimshaw Room]

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-13:00 - Purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL Registration Desk for QUO VADIS - opposite the Leeds Town Hall

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 13:00-15:30

GROUP 6 - GENERAL SESSIONS

6.01 (GS-17) HEIDEGGERIAN AESTHETICS [Spark Room]
6.02 (GS-18) WRITING SHAPES OF HUMOR [Kramer Room]
6.03 (GS-19) POETICS OF THE ABYSS: HÖLDERLIN, CELAN, JABÈS [Grimshaw Room]
6.04 (GS-20) HERMENEUTICS AND DECONSTRUCTION [Elgar Room]
6.05 (GS-21) GAZE / IMAGE / LIGHT [Albert Room]
6.06 (GS-22) FEMINIST AESTHETICS II [Walton Room]
6.07 (GS-23) AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE IMAGINARY [Sullivan Room]

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

GROUP 7- ORGANIZED SESSIONS

7.01 (OS-06) WRITING AS PERFORMATIVE POLITICAL ACT [Walton Room]
7.02 (OS-07) ESSAYING ART: CRITICAL POETRY / POETIC CRITICISM [Kramer Room]
7.03 (OS-08) WRITING LYOTARD'S 'AESTHETICS': PHILOSOPHY, ART AND THE FIGURE OF THE ANTI-AESTHETIC [Grimshaw Room]
7.04 (OS-09) FILM AESTHETICS [Albert Room]
7.05 (OS-10) MEMORY AND THE IMMEMORIAL [Spark Room]
7.06 (OS-11) ADORNO AND AESTHETICS [Sullivan Room]

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

GROUP 8 - IAPL INVITED SPEAKER - DANIEL CHARLES

Introduction by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

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

AESTHETICS BEYOND WRITING

Leeds City Art Gallery (Next to the Town Hall), The Headrow

Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:45-22:00

RECEPTION - Silver Gallery (Leeds City Art Gallery)

Welcome by the Lord Mayor of Leeds

food and drink (ticket for one free alcoholic drink with IAPL registration packet)

Thursday, 29 May 2003

GROUP 09 - EXCURSION TO FOUNTAINS ABBEY

Coach departs from the Marriott Hotel at 08:00.

Visit of Fountains Abbey begins at 10:00.

Coach departs Fountains Abbey at 12:30 for arrival in Leeds at 13:30.

Bus holds only 50 people, so be sure to sign-up and purchase your ticket at IAPL Registration Desk no later than Wednesday at 12:00. Cost of excursion £15

LUNCH - 12:30-14:00 - Purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL Registration Desk for QUO VADIS - opposite the Leeds Town Hall

Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:00-17:00

GROUP 10 - INVITED SYMPOSIA

10.01 (IS-01) THE MOUNTAIN DEVIL LIZARD DREAMING OF KATHLEEN PETYARRE: 'FEMINIST AESTHETICS' MEETS 'INDIGENOUS ART' [Sullivan Room]
10.02 (IS-02) DIFFERENTIAL AESTHETICS [Albert Room]
10.03 (IS-03) WRITING AESTHETICS, EAST AND WEST [Spark Room]
10.04 (IS-04) DELEUZE-BERGSONISM AND THE ONTOLOGIES OF THE VISUAL / PERFORMATIVE ARTS [Walton Room]
10.05 (IS-05) REMEMBERING ANTONY EASTHOPE [Waterman Room]
10.06 (IS-06) QUESTIONING AESTHETICS [Kramer Room]
10.07 (IS-07) DOMINIQUE JANICAUD AND THE SHADOW OF HIS THOUGHT [Grimshaw Room]

Thursday, 29 May 2003 - Film starts at 18:00

GROUP 11 - DERRIDA THE MOVIE, FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION WITH THE CO-DIRECTOR AMY ZIERING KOFMAN

Moderated and Introduced by Stephen Barker

Ster Century Cinema (The Light, The Headrow, Leeds)

Two minutes walk from the Town Hall (see Leeds City Centre Map)

Thursday, 29 May 2003 - 20:30-22:00

LIFE BAR RECEPTION

The DERRIDA film and discussion will be followed by a reception in the Life Bar.

The Life Bar Café Restaurant is in the Light (just down the street from the Cinema).
Food and drink (ticket for one free alcoholic drink with IAPL registration packet)

Friday, 30 May 2003 09:00-12:00

GROUP 12 - ORGANIZED SESSIONS

12.01 (OS-12) ORIGINALITY AND THE AVANT-GARDE [Albert Room]
12.02 (OS-13) METAPHORS AS BRIDGE CONCEPTS [Walton Room]
12.03 (OS-14) CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FOUCAULT AND AGAMBEN [Spark Room]
12.04 (OS-15) BETWEEN POLITICS AND AESTHETICS [Kramer Room]
12.05 (OS-16) AESTHETICS AND CYBER-CAPITALISM [Grimshaw Room]
12.06 (OS-17) BOLLYWOOD DREAMINGS: AESTHETIC OF A CULTURAL PHANTASIA [Sullivan Room]

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-13:30 - Purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL Registration Desk for QUO VADIS - opposite the Leeds Town Hall

Friday, 30 May 2003 13:30-16:30

GROUP 13 - SPECIAL PANELS

13.01 (SP-01) BEFORE AESTHETICS: GREEK THINKING ON ART [Kramer Room]
13.02 (SP-02): THE AESTHETE AND AESTHETICS IN KIERKEGAARD [Spark Room]
13.03 (SP-03): REINSCRIBING AESTHETICS: INFORMATION, INFORME, INFORMANCE [Sullivan Room]
13.04 (SP-04) FILMING DERRIDA [Albert Room]

Friday, 30 May 2003 18:00-20:00

GROUP 14 - IAPL 2003 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JUDITH BUTLER

Introduction by Martin McQuillan, IAPL 2003 Conference Coordinator

Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA)

PRECARIOUS LIFE

Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds

(20 minute walk up the hill to campus; minibus available upon request)

Friday, 30 May 2003 - 20:00-21:00

UNIVERSITY WELCOME AND RECEPTION

School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies foyer
Baines Wing, University of Leeds ( located opposite the Michael Sadler Building)

Food and drink (ticket for one free alcoholic drink with IAPL registration packet)

Saturday, 31 May 2003 - 09:00-12:30

GROUP 15 - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

15.01 (CE-01) THE ART OF THINKING ABOUT ART : GARY SHAPIRO’S AESTHETIC [Sullivan Room]
15.02 (CE-02) Zeroing in on J. Hillis Miller: A Close Encounter [Kramer Room]
15.03 (CE-03) MEMORIAL SESSION: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TERESA BRENNAN [Grimshaw Room]
15.04 (CE-04) CRITICISM AND THE "METAPHYSICS" OF ART: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH DONALD KUSPIT [Albert Room]
15.05 (CE-05) PERFORMATIVITY, MATERIALISM, ETHICS: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH JUDITH BUTLER [Spark Room]

LUNCH BREAK 12:30-14:00 - Purchase tickets for the week at the IAPL Registration Desk for QUO VADIS - opposite the Leeds Town Hall

Saturday, 31 May 2003 - 14:00-17:00

GROUP 16 - PLENARY ROUND TABLE ON AESTHETIC IDEOLOGY [Victoria Hall]

Organized, and Introduced by Martin McQuillan

Participants: Judith Butler , Ortwin de Graef , J. Hillis Miller , Nicholas Royle

Saturday, 31 May 2003 - Train departs from Leeds Station at 17:56 to Saltaire (all participants must be at the Station no later than 17:40).

GROUP 17: SALTS MILL SATURDAY DINNER

Tickets per person must be paid no later than Wednesday 12:00 at the IAPL Registration Desk. This will be a memorable and very special event, please plan to join us at the unique finale to the conference. Train tickets will be provided along with dinner tickets. Seating is limited, so please purchase dinner tickets as soon as possible.

Welcome at at 18:30 with a drink in the 1853 Gallery (Ground Floor, Salts Mill).

After an opportunity to view the David Hockney paintings and drawings in the gallery, we will move upstairs to the Salts Diner where dinner will be served.

After dinner coffee will be served in the Café, giving people the opportunity to visit the other galleries.

SATURDAY SALTS MILL DINNER MENU

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 Saussage

(All dishes will be served with a mixed seasonal salad, vegetables and
sauté potatoes.)

A choice of sweets / desserts

Coffee

Anyone attending the dinner with special dietary requirements must inform the IAPL Registration Desk and make sure this information is added to a special list -- no later than Wednesday 12:00.

2.01 (GS-06) Nietzschean Genealogies [Elgar Room]

2.02 (GS-07) TEMPORALITY, TRANSCENDENCE, REPRESENTATION [Spark Room]

2.03 (GS-08) MERLEAU-PONTY AND AESTHETICS [Walton Room]