CONFERENCE PROGRAM

IAPL 2004 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY AND LE MOYNE COLLEGE

MAY 19TH-25TH

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19TH

MORNING VAN SERVICE FROM AIRPORT

Supplementing regular hourly van service provided by the Sheraton Syracuse

University Hotel, the Le Moyne College Van Service will transport IAPL participants

arriving at the Syracuse Airport to the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel (9 am-noon).

Afternoon van service from the Sheraton Hotel to and from Le Moyne College.

AFTERNOON VAN SERVICE FROM AIRPORT

Van 1 (Sheraton–LMC) 1:20 pm-4:00 pm

Van 2 (Sheraton–LMC) 2:00-4:20 pm

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

IAPL REGISTRATION, Grewen Auditorium, 1:30 pm-6:00 pm

IAPL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFE, Grewen Auditorium, 1:30 pm-6:00 pm

Pick up your registrations materials—including virtual ones—at Le Moyne College, Grewen Auditorium.

Visit the IAPL book exhibit. Acquaint yourself with the serene hilltop Le Moyne College.

If you didn’t reserve a t-shirt online, you have an opportunity to purchase one—a great souvenir of the conference.

At Le Moyne, you will receive your conference book, tote, nametag, lunch, brunch, reception, and Ambrosiafest tickets.

You will need your nametag as proof that you have registered for the conference. Registered participants will receive tickets for a free drink at each of the

many conference receptions.

1.00 IAPL WELCOMING RECEPTION, 9:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Meet Mario Perniola, IAPL 2004 Invited Speaker

After-dinner reception held in the Upper Lobby of the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel.

Reception for IAPL 2004 conference speakers, chairs, and participants.

THURSDAY, MAY 20TH

THURSDAY MORNING—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

IAPL REGISTRATION, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

IAPL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFE, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

2.00 GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS, TH 9:30-NOON

2.01 (PS-01): ARS ET SIMULACRUM: ART AND REPRODUCTION, IMAGE,

AND REFERENCE [G203]

Organized by Pierre Lamarche (Philosophy, Utah Valley State College, Orem,

UT, USA)

Chaired by Alan Paskow (Philosophy, St Mary's College of Maryland, St Mary's

City, MD, USA)

1. Pierre Lamarche (Philosophy, Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT, USA)

Studium and Punctum of the Bossa Nova

2. Julie Piering (Philosophy and Liberal Studies, University of Arkansas at Little

Rock, AK, USA)

Authenticity, Artist, and Audience: Reproduction and Transformation in the

Work of Art

3. Brian Kubarycz (English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

Infinite Generations: The Apparatus of Criticism and the Textuality of the Will

2.02 (PS-02):THE ANAMNESIS OF THE VISIBLE: THE VIRTUAL SPACE OF

HOLOCAUST MEMORY [G207]

Organized by Dorota Glowacka (Contemporary Studies, University of King’s

College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA)

Chaired by Dalia Judovitz (French, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

1. Lily Markiewicz (Art, Centre CATH, University of Leeds, England, UK)

Out of the Blue: The Artist’s Narrative

2. Petra Schweitzer (Comparative Literature, Georgia Institute of Technology and

Emory University, Altanta, GA, USA)

Traces of a Crime Scene: Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall

3. Cliff Spargo (English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA)

The Ethical Ambiguity of the Image

2.03 (PS-03): VAGARIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS [G219]

Organized by Gregory Flaxman (English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

NC, USA)

Chair to be announced

1. Gregory Flaxman (English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

The Free Play of Consciousness

2. Peter Gilgen (German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Of Bats and Beetles: Consciousness and the Literary

2. Jeffrey J. Williams (English, University of Missouri, Columbia, MI, USA)

Academic Consciousness

2.04 (GS-01): IN/DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS: KIERKEGAARD AND

NIETZSCHE [G417]

Chaired by Roy Martinez (Philosophy and Religion, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA)

1. Kenneth Surin (Critical Theory, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)

A Known and Intolerable Country: Kierkegaard on Tragedy and Love

2. Clifford Lee (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Anxiety and the Demonic: the Work of Freedom as Communication in The Concept of Anxiety

3. Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith (Independent Scholar, New York, NY, USA)

Nietzsche, the Aphorist

2.05 (GS-02): LITERATURE MATTERS [R440]

Chaired by Matthew Pateman (English, University of Hull, Scarborough, UK)

1. H. Frederick Filice (Butler and Syracuse Universities, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Existence and Shadow: The Creation and Maintenance of Character in the

Modern American Comic Book

2. Sean Scanlan (American Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)

The Nostalgic Uncanny in New York Novels

3. Mary Helen Kolisnyk (Comparative Literature, New York University, NY, USA)

Decadent Description: Huysmans’ A Rebours

2.06 (GS-03): LOCATING PERFORMANCE [R340]

Chaired by Joseph DiPonio (Music, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

1. Timothy Scheie (French, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, USA)

Live Performance in the Virtual Age

2. Deanne Bogdan (Theory & Policy Studies in Education, University of Toronto,

Ontario, CANADA)

Situated Sensibilities and Search for the Pre-discursive: Aesthetic Response in

Times of Crisis

3. Eugene Young (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Surfaces of Reproduction: Steve Reich’s Violin Phase

LUNCH BREAK (Lunch Tickets available at the IAPL Registration Desk)

THURSDAY AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

3.00 GENERAL SESSIONS, 1:45-4:45 PM

3.01 (GS-04): DYSTOPIC UTOPIAS [G203]

Chaired by Jeremy Bell (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

1. Juan Noblejas (Communication, Universita della Santa Croce, Roma, ITALY)

Personal Identity in De-virtualizing Dystopian Worlds

2. Farhang Erfani (Philosophy, Villanova University, PA, USA)

Of Ideology in Orwell’s 1984: A Ricoeurian Perspective

3. Leyla Ercan (English, University of Erlangen, GERMANY)

Descending into the Vortex: Figurations of the Virtual in the Works of Edgar

Allen Poe

4. John T. F. Lang (Humanities, York University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

Out of Feuerbach’s Frying Pan and into Blake’s Fire

5. David Parry (English, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA)

Ludology, Subjectivity, New Media and the Logic of the Game

3.02 (GS-05): MEMORIALIZING THE HOLOCAUST [G207]

Chaired by Berel Lang (Humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA)

1. Michael Kagan (Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Negotiating with Ghosts—Recognizing and Redeeming the Past: An

Examination of Confrontation with Enduring Past Experience in Some of the

Shorter Works of Lisa Goldstein

2. Dan Leshem (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Body = Pain = Death: Jean Améry, Testimony, and Torture

3. Ann Taylor (Philosophy/Humanities, Diablo Valley College, Alameda, CA, USA)

(Im)material Devils: The Question of Responsibility in the Holocaust in

Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus

4. Lila Töke (Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University, NY, USA)

Neither a Muslim Nor a Shell—The Muselmann as Abject

3.03 (GS-06): MATERIAL POLITICS AND VIRTUAL GUARANTEES [G219]

Chaired by Soraya Mekerta (Foreign Languages, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA)

1. Karyn Ball (English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA)

Death-Driven Futures

2. Laura Gioscia (Political Theory, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, URUGUAY)

Unstable Citizenship

3. Nancy Mardas (Philosophy, St. Joseph’s College, Hartford, CT, USA)

Here All Dwell Free: An Ontological Foundation for Philosophical Nationality

4. Max Gulias (Philosophy and English, Southwest Oregon Community College,

Coos Bay, OR, USA)

Tracing the Vi rtual in the Material in US Imperial Ideology: Strauss’

Neoconservatism and Postmodern Counterhegemony in Theory and Praxis

3.04 (GS-07): PROMISES PROMISES [R340]

Chaired by Reinhold Stipsits (Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna,

Vienna, AUSTRIA)

1. Eleanor Godway (Philosophy, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA)

The Act of the Promise and the Promise of Action (Is the “Materiality” of

Action “Virtual” or Real?)

2. Samir Haddad (Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)

On the Uses and Abuses of Auto-immunity

3. Sergiy Kurbatov (Philosophy, Sumy State University, THE UKRAINE)

Could Being Be Virtual?: An Attempt to Re-read Heidegger and Borges in an

IT Century

4. Gary Hall (Cultural Studies, Middlesex University, London, UK)

IT: The Future of the Humanities in a Virtual World

5. Josephine Huang (English Literature, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA)

On Materializing Distant Contact: A Beginning of Technological

Consciousness

3.05 (GS-08): SHAKESPEAREAN ETHICS [G417]

Chaired by Michael Degener (Classics and Comparative Literature, Boston

University, Boston, MA, USA)

1. Jennifer Bates (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Universities of Guelph

and Toronto, CANADA)

Tearing the Fabric: Hegel, Antigone, Coriolanus and Kinship-State Conflict

2. Eva Freisleben (Educational Theory, Philosophy, and German Literature,

University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Virtue and the Virtuality of the Human. Shakespearean Ethics in Karl Kraus’

Die Fackel

3. Ken Frieden (Judaic Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

J. Gordin’s Reading and Rewriting of Hamlet

4. Neil MacGregor (Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA)

An Hegelian Account of Othello

3.06 (GS-09): VIRTUALIZING MATERIALITY [R440]

Chaired by Peter Fristedt (Philosophy, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal,

GERMANY and Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

1. Mark Poster (Film and Media Studies, and History, University of California-

Irvine, CA, USA)

The Digital Self: Virtual Materiality and Identity Theft

2. Patrick Roney (Communications, Koç University, Istanbul, TURKEY)

Materiality as Limit Experience

3. Benjamin Tallent (Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Stony Brook University,

Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Virtual Selves: Chuck Palahniuk and the Contagion of Subjectivity

4. Damian Ward Hey (Media Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY,

USA)

The Enlightenment Duality of Virtual and Material Phenomena in Thomas

Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon

Bus Transportation from Le Moyne College to Syracuse University.

(See detailed bus and van schedule at back)

THURSDAY LATE AFTERNOON—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM, SCHINE STUDENT CENTER

4.00 IAPL INVITED SPEAKER, 6:30-8:00 PM

Welcome by Cathryn Newton, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University

Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director

Mario Pe r n i o l a

Professor of Aesthetics, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, ITALY

The Fourth Body

Buffet Dinner (IAPL Registrants Only) 8:00-10:30 PM

Panasci Lounge, Schine Student Center

Sponsored by Syracuse University, Departments of English, Religion, and Philosophy

FRIDAY, MAY 21ST

FRIDAY MORNING—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

IAPL REGISTRATION, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

IAPL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFE, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

5.00 ORGANIZED SESSIONS, FRI 9:00-NOON

5.01 (OS-01): DERRIDA AND THE VIRTU(E)ALITY) OF TIME [G207]

Organized by Sophia Gabriel-Panteliadou (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Chaired by Apostolos Vasilakis (Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

1. Elisabeth Sattler (Educational Theories, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Time(s) to Come? Derrida’s Remarks on Time and Virtue(ality)

2. Burak Büyük (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Virtueality of Time by Derrida

3. Sophia Gabriel-Panteliadou (Philosophy, University of Vienna, AUSTRIA)

Actuality, Subsequence, Recollection

4. Anna Aloisia Moser (Philosophy, New School University, New York, NY, USA)

Time as Virtue of the Thing

5. Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Philosophy & Theory of Art, Centre for

Contemporary Art Research, University of Southampton, England, UK)

Derrida, Time, and Responsibility

5.02 (OS-02): PHENOMENALITY AND MATERIALITY IN AESTHETIC

EXPERIENCE [G203]

Organized by Iain Macdonald (Philosophy, Université de Montréal, Quebec,

CANADA)

Chaired by Bettina Bergo (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

1. Michael Newman (Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)

Materiality without Phenomenality in Deleuze: On Cinema and Painting

2. Marc Furstenau (Institute for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster,

England, UK)

Sense and Celluloid: Cinema’s Dematerialization

3. Olivier Mathieu (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)

When Do We Encounter the Work of Art? A Look at the Concepts of Fest and

Verweilen in Gadamer’s Aesthetics

4. Iain Macdonald (Philosophy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, CANADA)

Art and Idea: Aesthetic Ideality in Adorno and Yves Klein

5. David Davies (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)

Unclear on the Concept: Drawing the Right Lessons from Conceptual Art

5.03 (OS-03): PHILOSOPHY IN THE FLESH: SOMA, CORPUS, BODY [G219]

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

Chaired by Karmen MacKendrick (Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse,

NY, USA)

1. Patricia Locke (Philosophy, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD, USA)

The Somatics of Aristophanic Navel-gazing

2. Jami Weinstein (Philosophy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)

Transhuman Corporeality: Affect, Force, and the Trans-species Body

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

Body Singular Plural: Nancy’s Thinking of Corporeality

4. Ralph Acampora (Philosophy, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA)

Sarx/Species/Sight

5.04 (OS-04): BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS, ORGANS WITHOUT BODIES:

AROUND DELEUZE AND ZIZEK [G417]

Organized by Daniel W. Smith (Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette,

IN, USA)

Chaired by Lisabeth Duhring (Philosophy, Columbia University, New York,

NY, USA)

1. Valentine Moulard (Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK)

Superior Optimism: Alcoholism, Death, and the Crack

2. Robert Sinnerbrink (Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Ideology or Nomadology?: Zizek’s Critique of Deleuze

3. Louise Burchill (Languages, Université d’Evry, Val-d’Essonne, FRANCE)

Quid of Continuity in Respect of the Intensive Spatium and the BwO?:

A Kantian Conundrum

5.05 (OS-05): HEIDEGGER’S MATERIALITIES [R440]

Organized by Krzysztof Ziarek (Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA)

Chaired by Donna Marcano (Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA)

1. Krzysztof Ziarek (Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA)

The Matter of Art: Heidegger on the Artwork

2. Robert Bernasconi (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN, USA)

Rasse and Erde in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie

3. Alison Ross (Comparative Literature, Monash University, Victoria, AUSTRALIA)

The Artwork after The Origin of the Work of Art

4. Ellen Armour (Religious Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA)

Material Differences: Heidegger’s Others

5. Stephen Watson (Philosophy, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, USA)

Heidegger and Klee

LUNCH BREAK (Lunch Tickets available at the IAPL Registration Desk)

FRIDAY AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

6.00 GENERAL AND PROPOSED SESSIONS, FRI 2:00-4:30

6.01 PS-04: IMPLICATE PHILOSOPHIES: VIOLENT HISTORIES AND TRAUMA

[G203]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Monika Wadman (English, Syracuse

University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

1. Simon Ortiz (English, University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

and

2. Gabriele Schwab (English & Comparative Literature, University of California,

Irvine, CA, USA)

Volatile Memories: Land, Loss, History, Time

3. Scott Richard Lyons (Native American Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse,

NY, USA)

Indians Hating Indians: A Family Story

6.02 (GS-10): APRES NOUS LE DELEUZE [G207]

Chaired by Jay Lampert (Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, CANADA)

1. John Lechte (Sociology, and Creative Arts, Macquarrie University, Sydney,

AUSTRALIA)

Deleuze and Virtual Bodies

2. Peta Malins (Criminology, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

Virtual Folds, Material Folds: Overdose Memorials and the Aesthetics of

Body-Space Assemblages

3. Carla Maria Macchiavello (Art, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Blowing Up Oedipus and Some of its Postmodern Consequences

4. Alan Lopez (English and Comparative Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA)

Deleuze avec Carroll: Schizophrenia and Simulacrum and the Real of Lewis

Carroll’s Nonsense

6.03 (GS-11): CLINICAL BODIES AND MATERNAL ECONOMIES [G219]

Chaired by Sharon Meagher (Philosophy, University of Scranton, PA, USA)

1. Ann Murphy (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Beyond Performativity: Sexuality and the Specular

2. Jennifer Purvis (Philosophy, English, and Women’s Studies, University of

Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA)

Politics and Corporeal Paradigms: A Feminist Investigation of Irigaray’s

(Marxist) Placental Economy

3. Tadd Ruetenik (English and Philosophy, Penn State University, Altoona, PA, USA)

The Damned Shape: Powers of Horror in the Writings of Henry James Senior

and Julia Kristeva

4. Cindy Linden (English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Clinical Concepts and Cultural Stereotypes: Chronic Pain, Patients,

Narrativity, and the Ethics of Disease Language

6.04 (GS-12): ENVISIONING PLACELESS PLACES [G417]

Chaired by Marcel Swiboda (Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, England, UK)

1. Russell Ford (Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington D.C., USA)

Materiality & Invisibility

2. Sarah B. Cunningham (American Academy for Liberal Education, Washington D.C., USA)

Architectural Orientation and the Kantian Subject

3. Ib Johansen (English, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DENMARK)

Reflections on the Politics of Vision in Western Fiction and Philosophy—from

Charlotte Perkins to Claude Louis-Combet

6.05 (GS-13): VIRTUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT [R440]

Chaired by Andrew Tate (English, University of Lancaster, England, UK)

1. William Marderness (Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, Stony

Brook, NY, USA)

Heaven and Hell Remythicized

2. Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree (English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

The Cyber-Thief and the Materiality of the Virtual

3. Ward Blanton (Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)

Apocalyptic Materiality? Images of Early Christianity in the Materialism of

Slavoj Zizek

6.06 (GS-14): POETRY AND THE LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS [R340]

Chaired by Joseph Pestino (English, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, USA)

1. Phillip Stambovsky (Philosophy and Literature, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA)

Emily Dickinson, Rudolf Otto, and the “Vi rtual Materialities” of the Numinous

2. Daniel Fineman (English, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Dickinson and Reference

3. Virginia Slachman (Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA)

The Symbol Considered as a Meontic Fulcrum

Bus transportation from Le Moyne College to the Everson Museum of Art.

Bus 1 departs LMC 4:45 pm (ends rotation at 6:00 pm)

Bus 2 departs LMC 5:00 pm (ends rotation at 6:30 pm)

(See detailed bus and van schedule at back)

FRIDAY LATE AFTERNOON—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART, DOWNTOWN SYRACUSE

7.00 EVERSON PLENARY SPEAKERS, FRI 6:00-8:00 PM

(Sponsored by the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts)

Welcome by Pam McLaughlin, Curator of Education, Everson Museum of Art

Introduced by Gregg Lambert, IAPL 2004 Joint Conference Coordinator

Peter Weibel

Director, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, GERMANY

Ideas of Images: From Immaterial to Virtual

Jeffrey Shaw

Co-Director, Center for Interactive Cinema Research (iCINEMA), University of

New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film

Followed by a reception for IAPL registrants at the Everson Museum 8:00-9:00 pm.

Bus transportation from the Everson Museum of Art to Armory Square, Hanover

Square, and the Sheridan Syracuse University Hotel.

Van service Everson-Sheraton 8:00-9:30 pm.

Shuttle service Everson-Armory-Hanover-Sheraton 8:00 pm-1:00 am.

SATURDAY, MAY 22ND

IAPL REGISTRATION, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

IAPL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFE, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

SATURDAY MORNING—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

8.00 GENERAL SESSIONS, SAT 9:00-NOON

8.01 (GS-15): ALLEGORICALLY SPEAKING [G203]

Chaired by Anne Mamary (Liberal Arts, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA)

1. Sarah McLaren (Aesthetics, University of Rome-Tor Vergata, Rome, ITALY)

The Idea of Magnificence in Italian Aesthetics

2. Daniel Selcer (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Philosophical Allegory and the Iconography of the Possible

(Boethius/Valla/Leibniz)

3. Brenda Machosky (Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)

A Body Doubtfully Construed: The Invisible Absolute in Spenser’s The Faerie

Queene

4. Eileen Rizo-Patron (Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Binghamton

University, NY, USA)

Tempering the Imaginary: Bachelard ’s Alchemical Hermeneutics

8.02 (GS-16): MERLEAU-PONTY AS MEDIUM [G207]

Chaired by Michael Sanders (Philosophy, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, USA)

1. Jonathan Kim-Reuter (Philosophy, New School University, New York, NY, USA)

Should We Be Reading Montaigne? Situating the Essays Within Merleau-

Ponty’s Experience of Perception

2. Bryan Smyth (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)

Risible Visible Lisible Death: Vi rtual Self-Sacrifice in Bataille and Merleau-Ponty

3. Alia Al-Saji (Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA)

Life, Vision and the Virtuality of the Flesh

4. Bahar Zaker (Visual Studies, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA)

I Am the Medium

5. Randall Johnson (Psychiatry, private practice, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

Life: Thickness of Immanence and Transcendence

8.03 (GS-17): VIRTUAL E-RACE-ING [G219]

Chaired by Romie Tribble (Economics, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA)

1. Rebecca Saunders (Comparative Literature, Illinois State University, Normal,

IL, USA)

Disgrace in the Time of a Truth Commission: An Analysis of the Collateral

Damage of “Truth”

2. Susan Booker Morris (Philosophy and Humanities, Ferris State University, Big

Rapids, MI, USA)

Cultural Voodoo and Racism

3. Robert Young (English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)

Beyond Anti/(Post) modernist Impulses in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Will to

Power and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: Toward a Theory of Historical

Materiality

4. Linda Waggoner (American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University,

Sonoma, CA, USA)

Posing Indian: Manifest Manners in the Progressive Era and the Subversion of

William “Lone Star” Dietz

8.04 (GS-18): PHOTO SHOPS [G417]

Chaired by Lucy Bowditch (Art History, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY)

1. Jay Murphy (Independent Scholar, New York, NY, USA)

Baudrillard, Flusser, and the Photographic Field

2. Louis Kaplan (Art and Art History, University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

Exposing Being-in-Common: Photography and Community through the Lens

of Jean-Luc Nancy

3. Shari Goldberg (English, University at Albany, NY, USA)

Witnessing the Photograph in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

4. Michelle Druon (French, California State University-Fullerton, CA, USA)

Virtual Materialities in Barbara Kasten’s Photographic “Constructs”

8.05 (GS-19): THROUGH A LENS DARKLY [R440]

Chaired by Neela Saxena (English, Nassau Community College, Garden City,

NY, USA)

1. David Boothroyd (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, University of Kent, England, UK)

Film Heroins and Narcotic Modernity

2. Julie Grossman (English, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Film Noir’s Femmes Fatales: Moving Beyond Gender Fantasies

3. J. Heath Atchley (Philosophy, Religion, and Art Theory, Alfred University, Alfred,

NY, USA)

Current Event: Deleuze, Emerson, Frogs

4. Thomas Nesbit (Religious Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA)

Manufacturing the Sacred in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle

5. Maria Walsh (Art and Art History, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London,

England, UK)

From Affect to Sensation: Faceification & Spectatorship in Lynne Ramsay’s

Morevern Callar (2002)

8.06 (GS-20): THE LANGUAGE OF IM/MATERIAL PHILOSOPHIES [R340]

Chaired by Tara Needham (English, University at Albany, NY, USA)

1. Kristian Klockars (Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)

Character and Aims of Merleau-Ponty’s Political Philosophy

2. Gerard Bucher (French, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA)

Deconstruction and Atheology

3. Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

WI, USA)

The Matter of Language: Agamben’s Notion of Virtual Impotentiality

4. Peter Carravetta (European Studies, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY, USA)

Toward a Hybrid Criticism: The Challenge of Métissage

LUNCH BREAK (Lunch Tickets available at the IAPL Registration Desk)

SATURDAY AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

9.00 (CE-01) CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SAT 2:00-5:30 PM

9.01 CE-01: MARIO PERNIOLA’S TRANSITS: RITUAL THINKING AND THE

METABODY [G203]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy and

Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

1. Gary E. Aylesworth (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA)

Sign and Simulacrum: Reading Perniola Reading Heidegger

2. Robert Shane (Art, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Perniola, Deleuze and Bataille’s Story of the Eye

3. Marc de Kesel (Philosophy and Political Theory, Catholic University, Nijmegen,

THE NETHERLANDS)

A Transit(ont)ological Question to Perniola

Responses by Mario Perniola (Philosophy, University of Rome-Tor Vergata,

Rome, ITALY)

9.02 CE-02: CLOSE ENCOUNTER: PETER WEIBEL AND JEFFREY SHAW

[G219]

Organized and Chaired by Phil Novak (English and Film Studies, Le Moyne

College, Syracuse, NY)

1. Eyal Amiran (English, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, USA)

Virtual Art and the Poetic Sphere

2. Ellen McCallum (English, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, USA)

picture s @ e x h i b i t i o n . o rg

3. Elizabeth Walden (Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Bryant College, Providence,

RI, USA)

New Media and the Avant-Garde

4. Mark Hansen (English, Princeton University, Princeton, NY, USA)

Jeffrey Shaw and the Embodied Aesthetic of the New Media

Responses by Peter Weibel (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe,

GERMANY) and Jeffrey Shaw (College of Fine Arts and Center for Interactive

Cinema Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Bus transportation from Le Moyne College to the Sheraton Syracuse University

Hotel and from the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel to Armory Square

Bus 1 departs LMC 5:15 pm (ends rotation at 7:00 pm)

Bus 2 departs LMC 5:45 pm (ends rotation at 7:30 pm)

EVENING SCHEDULE: Shuttle service Sheraton-Armory-Hanover 7:00 pm-1:00 am

(See detailed bus and van schedule at back)

SUNDAY, MAY 22ND

SUNDAY MORNING—EXCURSION TO CAZENOVIA

Bus 1 departs Sheraton-Cazenovia 8:00 am

Bus 2 departs Sheraton-Cazenovia 8:30 am (both return 12:30 pm)

Stroll the historic village of Cazenovia, visit Cazenovia College, and enjoy the park

at Cazenovia Lake (a much sought-after resort area).

Savor a unique and relaxing brunch at the famed Lincklaen House.

Transportation and luxurious brunch (sponsored by Cazenovia College) is only $12 for confer -

ence registrants. You must purchase tickets no later than Thursday, May 20th.

10.00 “ABOUT CAZENOVIA” John Robert Greene Professor of History and

Humanities at Cazenovia College will give a brief talk at the conclusion of the

Brunch at the Lincklaen House. (Sponsored by the President and Vice-President of

Cazenovia College, visit arranged by Michael Sanders, Philosophy, Cazenovia

College)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

11.00 INVITED SYMPOSIA, SUN 2:00-5:00 PM

HALL OF LANGUAGES [HL], SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

11.01 (IS-01) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE POSTMODERN CONDITION [HL 107]

Organized by Peter Gratton (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

Chaired by Timothy Ryan (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook,

NY, USA)

1. Peter Gratton (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

From the Human Condition to the Postmodern Condition: Plurality in

another Phrase

2. Marie-Eve Morin (Philosophy, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, GERMANY)

Our Postmodern Condition; or What happened to the Social Bond?

3. Kent Still (Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

Les Immatériaux and the Metamorphoses of the Postmodern

4. Andrew Slade (Philosophy, University of Dayton, OH, USA)

Rewriting the (Post)modern

5. Kellie Bean (English, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA)

A Conspiracy of Signifieds: Post 9/11 Political Discourse and Lyotard's

Critique of Language

11.02 (IS-02) THE VIRTUAL MATERIALITY OF FILM [HL 114]

Organized by Roberta Imboden (Department of English, Ryerson University,

Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

Chaired by Geraldine Finn (School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carlton

University, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA)

1. Angela Krewani (Digital Media, University of Marburg, Marburg, GERMANY)

Mental Archives and Film

2. Guillaume LaFleur (Comparative Literature, University of Montreal, Montreal,

Quebec, CANADA)

The Cinematic Theatricality of the Actor

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

Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge: Dreaming Materiality

4. Bruce Elder (Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

The Virtual Image and the Material Body

5. Ann Barrow (Communications and Culture, York University, Toronto, Ontario,

CANADA)

The Mask of Victimization and Ignorance: Lars Von Trieir’s Dogville

11.03 (IS-03) THE RETURN OF PAUL [HL 214]

Organized by Eleanor Kaufman (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)

Chaired by Gail Hamner (Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

1. Eleanor Kaufman (Romance Languages, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

VA, USA)

The Saturday of Messianic Time

2. Steven Miller (French Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

The People of God and the Absence of the Book

3. Tracy McNulty (French Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Wrestling with the Angel

4. Victor Taylor (English and Humanities, York College of Pennsylvania, York,

PA, USA)

Turning on Saint Paul

11.04 (IS-04) MATERIALITIES OF THE ESSAY [HL 211]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Kuisma Korhonen (Comparative Literature, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)

1. Beverly Matiko (English and Communication, Andrews University, Berrien

Springs, MI, USA)

Mapping the Material and the Mystical in Annie Dillard’s Essays

2. Mia Panisse (French Language and Literature, Åbo Academi University, Turku,

FINLAND)

Friend or Foe? Marie Susini, the Role of the Reader and the Delicate Art of

Essay Writing

3. R. Lane Kauffmann (Hispanic Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

Non-Cartesian Materialities in the European Essay, 1900-1950

4. Stephen John Dilks (Contemporary English and Irish Literature, University of

Missouri, Kansas City, MO USA)

Activating Essayistic Reasoning (Mediating Between and Among Personal

Expression, Academic Discourse, and Cultural Critique in the Scholarly Essay)

5. Phyllis Frus (English, Hawaii Pacific University, HI, USA) and

6. Stanley Corkin (English, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA)

Textuality and Materiality in “Historical Films”

11.05 (IS-05) CONCEPT AND METAPHOR IN DELEUZE AND DERRIDA [HL 207]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Paul Patton (Philosophy, University of

New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

1. François Zourabichvili (Philosophy, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III,

Montpellier, FRANCE)

Are Philosophical Concepts Metaphors? Deleuze and his Problematic of Literality

2. Daniel W. Smith (Philosophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)

Sense and the Literal: Why There are No Metaphors in Deleuze’s Philosophy

3. Branka Arsic (English, SUNY at Albany,, NY, USA)

Metaphorics of Pain in Deleuze

11.06 (IS-06) LEVINAS, REPRESENTATION, AND THE ETHICS OF THE BODY

[HL 102]

Organized by George Smith (Theory and Visual Studies, Maine College of Art, ME,

USA) and Merle Williams (School of Literature and Language Studies,

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA)

Chaired and Discussion by Donald R Wehrs (English, Auburn University, AL, USA)

1. George Smith (Theory and Visual Studies, Maine College of Art, ME, USA)

Double Trouble: Degas, Levinas, and the Ethics of the Uncanny

2. Carrol Clarkson (English, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, SOUTH

AFRICA)

Embodying “You”: Levinas, Derrida and the Question of the Second Person

3. Chris Thompson (Art History, Maine College of Art, ME, USA)

The Look of Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas, Leo Bronstein, and the Aesthetics of

Reversion

4. Merle A Williams (School of Literature and Language Studies, University of the

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA)

The Ethical Faces and Traces of Levinas

SUNDAY LATE AFTERNOON—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

SCHINE STUDENT CENTER (GOLDSTEIN AUDITORIUM)

12.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS, SUN 6:00-8:00 PM

Introduced by Thomas P. Brockelman, IAPL 2004 Joint Conference Coordinator

Peter Eisenman

Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished Professor of Architecture, Cooper Union,

New York City, NY, USA

The Future of H i s t o ry

Buffet Dinner (IAPL Registrants only) 8:00-10:30 pm

Lobby, Slocum Hall, Syracuse University

Sponsored by Syracuse University School of Architecture

Participants can also view an exhibit of Peter Eisenman's work in Slocum Gallery.

MONDAY, MAY 24TH

MONDAY MORNING—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

IAPL REGISTRATION, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

IAPL BOOK EXHIBIT & CAFE, Grewen Auditorium, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

13.00 ORGANIZED SESSIONS /LIFE & WORK (EDWARD SAID),

MON 9:00-NOON

13.01 (OS-06): ETHICAL, POETIC, AND POLITICAL ADDRESS [G219]

Organized by Gabriela Basterra (Spanish Literature, New York University, NY,

USA)

Chaired by Roger López (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

1. Hagi Kenaan (Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL)

Aesthetic and Ethical Address

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

Ethical and Political Address

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

Acting Without Criteria: Impossible Ethics/Politics of Deconstruction

4. Nick Nesbitt (French and Italian, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA)

The Colonized Public Sphere and the Haitian Revolution: Who is the

Addressee of the Rights of Man?

13.02 (OS-07): INTO THE VIRTUAL: ARTS AND AFFECTS [G203]

Organized by Robyn Ferrell (Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart,

AUSTRALIA)

Chair to be announced

1. Moira Gatens (Philosophy, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

George Eliot’s Fictional Experiments in Life

2. Linnell Secomb (Gender Studies, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Mortal Words: Kofman, Blanchot, Duras

3. Jonathan Holmes (Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AUSTRALIA)

Pat Brassington and the Uncanny

4. Jennifer Biddle (Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Becoming Breasted: Central Desert Women’s Art

5. Robyn Ferrell (Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AUSTRALIA)

Desire and Horror: the Aesthetics of Technology

13.03 (OS-08): WHY IS THE MATRIX A CULT FILM? [G207]

Organized by Ina Paul-Horn (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and

Continuing Education, University of Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA)

Chaired by Gertrude Postl (Philosophy, Suffolk Community College, Ammerman

Campus, Selden, NY, USA)

1. Tracey Stark (Organizational and Political Communication, Emerson College,

Boston, MA, USA)

The Matrix

2. Scott Scribner (Philosophy, University of Hartford, CT, USA)

The Matrix of Materiality and Emergence

3. Amin Erfani (French, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

The Language of the Matrix

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

Nietzschean Materialities in The Matrix

13.04 (OS-09): SURFACE AND IMAGE IN WARHOL AND BAUDRILLARD [G417]

Organized by Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy, Rhode Island College, Providence,

RI, USA)

Chaired by JJ Larrea (Software Architect and Interactive Media Designer, New

York, NY, USA)

1. Christian Kati (Independent Scholar, Bremen, GERMANY)

The Portraiture of Surfaces

2. Petra Kuppers (Performance Studies, Bryant College, Providence, RI, USA)

Cronenberg’s Simulacra: Touching Others

3. Ethan Spigland (Independent Filmmaker, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,

Pratt Institute and Media Studies, New School University, New York, NY, USA)

Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests: The Immaterial Materiality of Images

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

Shocking Images?

13.05 (LW-01): THINKING WITH AND AFTER EDWARD SAID

(1935-2003) [G219]

Organized by Martin McQuillan (Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies,

University of Leeds, England, UK)

Chaired by Eleanor Byrne (English, Manchester Metropolitan University,

England, UK)

1. Muhammed Shuraydi (Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor,

Ontario, CANADA)

Edward W. Said: A Faithful Narrator of Palestinian Dispossession and Staunch

Opponent of the Oslo Accords

2. Patrick Williams (Literary and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University,

England, UK)

The Antinomies of Edward Said

3. Abdirahman A. Hussein (English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)

Edward Said and the Relational Dynamism of Socio-Historical Reality

4. Bill Ashcroft (English, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

After Said

5. Agnieszka Iwona Patkowska (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,

PA, USA)

Theorizing Said, or The Ethics of Representation: Thinking with and After

Edward Said

LUNCH BREAK (Lunch Tickets available at the IAPL Registration Desk)

MONDAY AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

14.00 SPECIAL PANELS, MON 2:00-5:00 PM

14.01 (SP-01): PETER EISENMAN: THE VIRTUAL MATERIALITY OF

THE DIAGRAM [G137]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Thomas Brockelman (Philosophy,

Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA)

1. Roger Bell (Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, USA)

Eisenman and the Archive: Reading Between the Lines

2. Sanford Kwinter (Architecture, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)

Eisenman’s Erkenntnisproblem

3. Mark Linder (Architecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Literal Signs and Virtual Things

4. Robert Somol (Architecture, University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA)

On Peter Eisenman

Responses by Peter Eisenman (Peter Eisenman Architects, New York, NY, USA)

14:02 (SP-02): ARCHE-VIRTUAL MATERIALITIES: CHAOS, CHORA, HYLE [G203]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Drew A. Hyland (Philosophy, Trinity

College, Hartford, CT, USA)

1. Ashley Pryor (Philosophy, University of Toledo, OH, USA)

Poor Excuse of a Shepherd: Topography and Truth in Hesiod’s Theogony and

Works and Days

2. Franco Trevigno (Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA)

Plato’s Artistic Response to the Indeterminacy of Origins: Virtual Realities in

the Space of Explanation

3. Heidi Northwood (Philosophy, Nazareth College of Rochester, NY, USA)

Disobedient Matter: The Female Contribution in Aristotle’s Embryology

14.03 (SP-03): DE MAN READING MATERIALITIES [G207]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Martin McQuillan (Fine Art, History of Art

and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, England, UK)

1. Fred Orton (Art History, University of Leeds, England, UK)

Estrangement and the Law of Beauty

2. Nigel Mapp (English, Cardiff University, Wales, UK)

Marx as Allegory of Reading

3. Mark Currie (English, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, England, UK)

The Temporality of Rhetoric

4. Tom Cohen (Comparative Literature, University at Albany, NY, USA)

Benjamin after de Man: The Global War on Inscription

5. Andrej Warminski (Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine,

CA, USA)

Reading Materiality in De Man

14.04 (SP-04): THE VIRTUALITY OF FORM AND THE POLITICAL [G219]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Henk Oosterling (Philosophy, Erasmus

University, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS)

1. Ike Kamphof (Philosophy, University of Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS)

Silent Agitations: On the (Im)material in Lyotard’s Aesthetics and Politics

2. Ignaas Devisch (Philosophy, Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent, BELGIUM)

Nancian Virtual Doubts about a ‘Leformal’ Democracy, or How to Deal

withContemporary Political Configuration in an Uneasy Way?

3. Aukje van Rooden (Philosophy, University of Tilburg, THE NETHERLANDS)

How to Set the Community to Work? Nancy and Blanchot on Form and

Formlessness

4. Frans van Peperstraten (Philosophy, University of Tilburg, THE NETHERLANDS)

The Retreat of Form: Lacoue-Labarthe and Totalitarian Politics

14.05 (SP-05): VIRTUAL INTERIORITIES [G417]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Gail Weiss (Philosophy and Human

Sciences, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA)

1. Andrea Tschemplik (Philosophy , American University, Washington, DC, USA)

Inside Out: the Problem of Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s

Theatetus

2. Elizabeth Edmonds (Women’s Studies, George Washington University,

Washington DC, USA)

Eating Identity, Ingesting Ourselves

3. Karen Coats (English, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA)

The Neverlands of Jouissance

4. Carolyn Betensky (English, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA)

The Spectral Working-Class Reader in Victorian Fiction

5. Linda Alcoff (Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

Knowledge and Interiority

MONDAY LATE AFTERNOON—LE MOYNE COLLEGE

RECEPTION FOR IAPL CONFERENCE REGISTRANTS

DINING HALL CENTER, LE MOYNE COLLEGE, MON 5:00-6:30 PM

GREETINGS TO IAPL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Charles Beirne, S.J., President, Le Moyne College

Dr. John Smarrelli, Academic Vice President, Le Moyne College

15.00 SPECIAL EVENT: JAZZ CONCERT AT LE MOYNE, MON 6:30-8:00 PM

(Sponsored by the Lively Arts at Le Moyne and the Centre for the Performing Arts)

THE BAD PLUS

Reid Anderson (bass), Ethan Iverson (piano), and David King (drums),

connected with the jazz world and beyond…

Bus Transportation from Le Moyne College to the

Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel

Buses 1 and 2 depart for Sheraton beginning 8:00 pm (drop off only)

TUESDAY, MAY 25TH

TUESDAY MORNING—SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

HALL OF LANGUAGES [HL], SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

IAPL REGISTRATION DESK (“skeleton” table)

Hall of Languages (Morning), outside Gifford Auditorium (Afternoon)

16.00 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS / LIFE & WORK (MAURICE BLANCHOT),

TUES 9:00-12:30AM

16.01 (CE-04): SUBLIME CRITIQUE: THE ART AND AUDACITY OF JEREMY

G I L B E RT-ROLFE [HL 107]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Stephen Barker (School of Arts, University

of California at Irvine, CA, USA)

1. Gilberto Perez (Film Studies, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, USA)

The Sublime (Pleasure) Considered as the Property of an Object

2. N o rman Bry s o n (Visual Arts, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA)

The Transparency and Inflection of the Sublime in Gilbert-Rolfe

3. Penny Florence (Research Programmes, The Slade School of Fine Art, University

College, London, England, UK)

The Ghost of a Blind Spot

4. John Johnston (English and Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta,

GA, USA)

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe’s Sublime as a Function of the Book

5. Rex Butler (English, Media Studies & Ancient History, University of Queensland,

Brisbane, AUSTRALIA)

Is Beauty Another Historicism?: Jeremy Gilbert Rolfe’s Anti-Critical Criticism

6. Tim Murray (Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)

Techno-Sublimity

Responses by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Art Centre College of Design, Pasadena,

CA, USA)

16.02 (CE-05): HWA YOL JUNG: BORDER-CROSSINGS IN PHILOSOPHY,

CULTURAL POLITICS, AND LITERATURE [HL 114]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Jin Y. Park (Philosophy and Religion,

American University, Washington D.C., USA)

1. Fred R. Dallmayr (Political Science and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame,

South Bend, IN, USA)

Finitude and Its Horizons: A Tribute to Hwa Hol Jung

2. Kuang-ming Wu (Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University, E.

Lansing, MI, USA)

Dr. Hwa Yol Jung: World Philosopher on China

3. Jay Goulding (Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA)

Hwa Yol Jung’s Phenomenology of Asian Philosophy

4. Youngmin Kim (East Asian Studies, Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA)

A Fruitful Tension Between Philosophy and Intellectual History: Reconsidering

the Unity of Knowledge and Action

5. John F. Burke (Political Science, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA)

Jung’s Existential Phenomenology and Mestizaje

6. Kimberly W. Benston (English, Haverford College, PA, USA)

Facing (Up To) It: Ethics of Authentic Encounter

7. Jeffrey Ethan Lee (English, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA)

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Poetry: Redefining Caring as a Foundation for the

Aesthetic

8. Alice N. Benston (Theater Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)

The Clash of Cultural Identities in Bernard-Marie Koltes’ Battle with Blacks

and Dogs

Responses by Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, USA)

16.03 (CE-05): THINKING ETHICS AND POLITICS: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER

WITH EWA ZIAREK [HL 207]

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Joanna Zylinska (Media and

Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England, UK)

1. Rosayln Diprose (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney,

AUSTRALIA)

Antagonism in Ziarek’s Ethics of Dissensus

2. Dorota Glowacka (Contemporary Studies, University of King’s College, Halifax,

Nova Scotia, CANADA)

Ethics and Exile: the Itineraries of Displacement

3. Margret Grebowicz (Philosophy, University of Houston Downtown, TX, USA)

Dissensus and Epistemology, From a Science Studies Standpoint

4. Tracey Sedinger (English, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA)

The Gift of Sex

5. Lynn Turner (Fine Art, Middlesex University, London, England, UK)

Thinking through ‘The Dead Zone’

6. Tina Chanter (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA)

The Politics of Thinking through New Imaginary Communities

Responses by Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (Comparative Literature, SUNY

Buffalo, NY, USA)

16.04 (LW-02): THE EVENT OF BLANCHOT (1907-2003) [HL 105]

Chair to be announced

1. William Large (Theology and Philosophy, College of St Marks and St John,

England, UK)

The Neuter and the Narrative Voice

2. Allan Stoekl (Comparative Literature, Penn State University, University Park,

PA, USA)

Blanchot: Sade, Bataille, and Energy

3. Ann Smock (French, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA)

It is not Important to Write

4. Deborah Hess (French, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA)

Logical Reversals in Maurice Blanchot’s Fiction

5. Outi Alanko (Philosophy, Literary Studies, University of Helsinki, FINLAND)

Blanchot Between Heidegger and Levinas

6. Thomas Pepper (Comparative Literatrure, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

MN, USA)

“What is a Night?”

LUNCH BREAK (options at Schine Student Center, Slocum Architecture Building)

17.00 PLENARY ROUND TABLE, TUES 2:00-5:00 PM

GIFFORD AUDITORIUM, CROUSE HALL, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

THE BODY—VIRTUAL OR MATERIAL?

Organized, Chaired and Introduced by Gregg Lambert (English, Syracuse

University, Syracuse, NY, USA)

1. Tom Conley (Romance Languages, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)

2. Dalia Judovitz (French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, Atlanta,

GA, USA)

3. Paul Patton (Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

4. Charles Shepherdson (English, University at Albany, NY, USA)

5. Joanna Zylinska (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of

London, England, UK)

18.00 IAPL 2004 AMBROSIAFEST

BUS TRANSPORTATION FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY TO AMBROSIA

ARMORY SQUARE, DOWNTOWN, SYRACUSE

Bus 1 departs Sheraton to Ambrosia at 6:30 pm

Bus 2 departs Sheraton to Ambrosia at 7:00 pm

Both buses return to the Sheraton at 1:00 am

Finale Dinner, Music, and Dancing at AMBROSIA

AMBROSIAFEST

DON’T MISS IT!

Ambrosia’s Chef Steve Samuels has wonderful dinner treats for the tastes of

carnivores, pescaterians, vegetarians, and vegans (anything special, let us know in

advance).

Featuring the band LOS BLANCOS

(“On any given night, Los Blancos rips through Blues, Memphis Soul, Rockin’

Zydeco, Latin, Outlaw, Country, Funk, Folk, and a dozen other styles.”

“Guaranteed to Fill a Hole in Your Soul.”)

Tickets available at the IAPL Registration Desk (until Friday, May 21st).

$40 includes reception, dinner, and music. Cash bar reception, 7-8 pm.

On Wednesday, May 26th, Le Moyne College Van available for airport drop-off

9:00 am-noon. Sheraton van service to airport (all day until 11 pm. Make reservations

in advance.