The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray: Conference Program

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Please note: while the beginning and ending times of the conference are firmly established, the times of individual panels and events are subject to change.

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

8:15-9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00-9:20
Introduction
9:20-9:30
Opening Remarks
Robert Crease, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University

9:30-10:45

Room A:
Keynote Address

Penelope Deutscher, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University.

  Moderator: Sara McNamara, Stony Brook University
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-1:00
Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Psychoanalysis
Room B
  Moderator: Robert Rosenberger, Stony Brook University
11:10-11:30 Adam Rosen, The New School for Social Research.
The Emancipatory Potential of Psychoanalysis in the Work of Luce Irigaray
11:30-11:50 Suzanne Laba Cataldi, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Narcissism and Nostalgia in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty
11:50-12:10 Cheryl Lawler, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute.
Divine Flesh: Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexuate Love
12:10-12:20 Sara McNamara, Stony Brook University, Response
Panel: Ethics
Room C
  Moderator: Linda Edwards, University of Rochester
11:10-11:30 Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
A relational mystery: Irigaray and the interval between animals and human beings
11:30-11:50 K. Houle, University of Guelph.
Abortion, Jouissance and Responsible Mourning
11:50-12:00 Sara Hyatt, The New School University, Response
1:00-2:15
Lunch
 

2:15-3:30

Room A:
Keynote Address

Tina Chanter, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University.

  Moderator: Danae Mcleod, Stony Brook University
3:40-5:00
Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Aesthetics & Love
Room B
  Moderator: Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University
3:45-4:05 Simone Roberts, Art Institute of Dallas.
In Love the Body is No Object: Irigaray, Murdoch, and Moral Imagination
4:05-4:25 Jena Jolissaint, Oglethorpe University.
On the Boundaries of In-sanity: Madness and The New Poetics of Sexual Difference in Irigaray and Kathy Acker
4:25-4:35 Eileen Chanza, Stony Brook University, Response
Panel: Space
Room C
  Moderator: Hannah Gruber, Webster University

3:45-4:05 Michael Eng, Pratt Institute.
The Possibility of ‘the Body’: Revisiting the Problem of an Architecture of Difference through Irigaray’s Reading of Heidegger
4:05-4:25 Claire Potter, Université Paris VII.
Fishing and thinking, or an Interiority of my Own: Luce Irigaray's Speculâme de l'autre femme (renversé, inversé, retroversé)
  Virginia Costello, Stony Brook University, Response
5:00-5:20
Coffee Break
5:20-6:40
Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Politics
Room B
  Moderator: Adriel M. Trott, Villanova University
5:25-5:45 Gertrude Postl, Suffolk County Community College.
From Playful Repetition to Linguistic Subversion: Luce Irigaray’s Concept of Mimesis
5:45-6:05 Hernando A. Estévez, Lewis University.
Respect for Sexual Difference: An examination of Irigaray’s Notion of 'between two'
6:05-6:15 Brady Heiner, Stony Brook University, Response

Panel: Painting
Room C


  Moderator: Daria Rogers, Stony Brook University
5:20-6:00 Elaine P. Miller, Miami University.
Rethinking Irigaray’s Aesthetics as an Allegory of Nature
6:00-6:40 Apsara DiQuinzio, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Language as Contradiction in the work of Jenny Saville
6:05-6:15 Don Landes, Stony Brook University, Response

7:00-10:00

Conference Dinner and Open Bar
Copper Chimney Restaurant, 128 E. 28th St.
Registered Participants only.

Saturday, September 23rd

8:15-9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00-11:00
Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Spirituality
Room B
  Moderator: Juanita Lara, Latin American Integration Center
9:05-9:25 Gail Schwab, Hofstra University.
Beyond the Vertical and the Horizontal
9:25-9:45 Morny Joy, University of Calgary.
Autonomy and Divinity: An Ambiguous Alliance
9:45-10:05 Jane Jones, Goldsmith’s College, University of London.
"The Relation Between Two": Comparative East/West Philosophy and the Later Work of Luce Irigaray.
10:05-10:15 David Clinton Wills, Stony Brook University, Response
Panel: Gender/Engendering
  Moderator: Katharine Wolfe, Stony Brook University
9:05-9:25 Danielle Poe, University of Dayton.
Can Luce Irigaray’s Ethics of Sexual Difference Be Applied to Transgender Narratives?
9:25-9:45 Britt-Marie Schiller, Webster University.
The Incomplete Masculine: Towards a Psychoanalytic Theory of the Masculine of Sexual Difference
9:45-10:05 Breanne Fahs, University of Michigan.
Rethinking the Market Paradigm: Sexuality and Economic Discourse in Luce Irigaray’s "The Sex Which is Not One"
10:05-10:15 Danae McLeod, Stony Brook University, Response
11:00-11:15
Coffee Break

11:15-1:15

Room A:
Teleconference Address

Luce Irigaray, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Listening, Thinking, Teaching.

1:15-2:45
Lunch
 
2:45-4:45
Concurrent Sessions
Panel: Topologies of Gender in Irigaray's Aristotle
Room B
  Moderator: Julie Sushytska, Stony Brook University
2:50-3:10 Gayle Salamon, Princeton University.
Sameness, Alterity, Flesh: Luce Irigaray and the Place of Sexual Undecidability
3:10-3:30 Emanuela Bianchi, University of California at Berkeley.
Sexual Topologies in the Aristotelian Cosmos
3:30-3:50 D. Rita Alfonso, Grinnell College.
Morphology Interrupted: Towards a Topology of Sexual Indifference
3:50-4:00 Karen Burke, Stony Brook University, Response
Panel: Contemporary Continental Interlocutors
Room C
  Moderator: Rahma Al-Foori, Rustaq College of Education
2:50-3:10 Ieva Lapinska,University of Latvia.
The relationship to the other - Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas
3:10-3:30 Katie Hertzog Grosh, Villanova University.
The Irrational in Philosophy: Irigaray Against Deconstruction
3:30-3:50 Maria Cimitile, Grand Valley State University.
Irigaray Re-approaching Heidegger: “The Way of Love”
3:50-4:00 Lauren Hesse, Stony Brook University, Response
4:45-5:00
Coffee Break

5:00-6:30

Room A: Plenary Session

Tina Chanter, DePaul University
Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University
Mary Rawlinson, Stony Brook University
Gail Schwab, Hofstra University
Moderator: Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University

6:30-8:00
Advisory Board Meeting and Dinner

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