Each
year, the IAPL conducts a spring conference in cooperation
with a major international university. At these meetings
discussions center around an important contemporary theme.
Invited speakers have included scholars as diverse as Jacques
Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Rene Girard, Dominick LaCapra,
Helene Cixous, Stanley Fish, Paul Ricoeur, Agnes Heller,
Paul de Man, Stanley Cavell, Fredric Jameson, Kenneth Frampton,
Drucilla Cornell, Eugenio Donato, Robert Scholes, Rudolf
A. Makkreel, Bernard Williams, Karsten Harries, Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak, Donald Kuspit, Mario J. Valdez, Joan Stambaugh, Nancy
K. Miller, Carlo Sini, Daniel Charles, Arthur and Marilouise
Kroker, Kathy Acker, Katherine Hayles, Mark Taylor, Geoffrey
Hartman, Paul Gilroy, Moira Gatens, Mario Perniola, Paul
Patton, bell hooks, Peter Greenaway, Slavoj Zizek, Dominique
Janicaud, Rosi Braidotti, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, and
Peter Eisenman, and Luce Irigaray.
In
addition, the conference format includes symposia, panels,
organized sessions and seminars cutting across disciplines
as various as literature, art, architecture, history, women's
studies, cultural studies, film, sociology and philosophy.
The
conference program is subject to careful planning and review
by the IAPL Executive Committee.
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