choreographic installation by Johannes Birringer

Monday evening following the OPENING ROUND TABLE

DOUBLE | EDGES

organized by William Watkin

Double Edges of Academic Disciplines

FRIDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING:

Fay Weldon
Iain Sinclair
Christopher Petit
with J G Ballard around the film London Orbital directed and written by Iain Sinclair and Christopher Petit (based on the book by Iain Sinclair: London Orbital: A Walk around the M25 (Penguin, 2002)

THURSDAY AFTERNOON-EVENING EXCURSION TO:

Stratford-upon-Avon - As You Like It - by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Special session held at The Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) in Stratford-upon-Avon with
Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow.

7 JUNE 2009 - SUNDAY - POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION - to Brighton (by the Sea), its Pavilion, and visit to Petworth House and its William Turner art exhibit.

IAPL 2009

GENERAL SESSIONS

AESTHETIC MEDIATIONS
AESTHETICS / RHETORIC
AFFECTIVE POLITICS
APORIAS OF ETHICS
ARCHITECTURE, SPACE, & PLACE
CANONICAL DOUBLINGS
CINEMATIC SEDUCTIONS
ECHOES OF HEIDEGGER
EDGES OF DECONSTRUCTION: ARTAUD, BECKETT, DE MAN, DERRIDA
GEO(LOGO)GRAPHIES
IRIGARAY: RELATIONS, GENERATIONS, DIVINATIONS
LEVINAS AT THE LIMITS OF ALTERITY
MEMORY, IDENTITY, NARRATIVE
MYTH, SYMBOL, AND LITERARY VISIONS
NAMING NAMES: HERMENEUTIC DOUBLES
POIESIS: THE DOUBLE EDGE
POSTCOLONIAL REGIONS
RE-MEMBERING PHENOMENOLOGY
RE-VAMPING THE HUMAN
RHIZOMATICS
SEEING DOUBLE: MIRROR IMAGES
SEXUAL / RACIAL CONFLUENCES
SHIFTING TERRITORIES
TESTIMONY, TRAUMA. SECRETS -- FOLDED TIME
TEXTUAL METAPHYSICS
THE FEMININE OTHER
THE TEXTUAL SURFACES OF MADNESS & LAUGHTER
TRANSFORMATIVE BODIES
TWICE-TOLD: POSTMODERN FICTIONAL TERRITORIES
WILD (WESTERN) AESTHETICS

PROPOSED SESSIONS

Tropics of Release: Displacing Platonic Rhetoric with Kant, Kierkegaard and Deleuze