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 7th, 2007 |
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration and Coffee |
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9:00-9:30 | Opening Remarks |
Mary C. Rawlinson , Co-Chairwoman: Luce Irigaray Circle |
9:30-10:45 | Keynote Address |
Elaine P. Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio.
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10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
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11:00-12:05 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Panel A: Irigaray & Feminist Aesthetic Practice |
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| Moderator: TBD | ||
| 11:00-11:20 | Michael Eng, Pratt Institute. "We’re going to show them our sexts!": Nancy Spero and la peinture feminine |
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| 11:20-11:40 | Kimberly Lamm, Pratt Institute. The Matter of the Excluded Middle: The Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop and Luce Irigaray’s "Envelope" |
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| 11:40-11:50 | Katie Grosh, Villanova University. Response |
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Panel B: Erotic Love |
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| Moderator: Leslie Aarons, NY Laguardia | ||
| 11:00-11:20 | Danielle Poe, University of Dayton. The Transformative Power of Erotic Love in Luce Irigaray’s Work |
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| 11:20-11:40 | Stephanie Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University. By Our Lips We Are Women: Transgendered Bodies and Essentialism in Irigaray’s Memesis |
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| 11:40-11:50 | A. Z. Perry, Miami University of Ohio, Response | |
12:05-1:30 | Lunch Break |
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1:30-3:00 | Panel C: Irigaray & Psychoanalysis |
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| Moderator: Emanuela Bianchi, Haverford College | ||
| 1:30-1:50 | Sara Beardsoworth, Southern Illinois University. The Feminine and the Unconscious Between East and West |
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| 1:50-2:10 | Claire Potter, Université Paris VII. Torn letters and reading letters letter by letter: The poetic eschatology / epistemology of Lacan’s La femme n’existe pas via an Irigarayan and a Hardyan track |
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| 2:10-2:30 | Britt Marie Schiller, Webster
University. Gendering Drives: Amae, Philotes, and the Sensible Transcendental |
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| 2:30-2:40 | James Manos, Depaul University. Response |
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3:40-5:00 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Panel D: Comparative Literature |
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| Moderator: TBD | ||
| | 3:00-3:20 | Simone Roberts. Jorie Graham, First in the Wake of Irigaray |
| 3:20-3:40 | Jillian Canode, Purdue University Love of Mother: Irigaray’s Love and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother | |
| 3:40-3:50 | Chung-yi Chu, Stony Brook, Response | |
Panel E: Feminine Voice |
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| Moderator: Kathleen Hulley, Stony Brook University | ||
| 3:00-3:20 | Emma Jones, University of Oregon. Imagining Difference Sexually: Otherness and Ertoic Tension in Irigaray’s Vision of Embodied Speaking |
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| 5:45-6:05 | Hannah Gruber, Webster University. Locating Irigaray’s Hysteria in Operatic Masquerade |
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| 3:40-3:50 | Kyoo Lee, John Jay College, CUNY, Response | |
4:05-4:20 |
Coffee Break |
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4:20-5:20 | Panel: The Nature of Sexual Difference: A Discussion Section |
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| Lauren Hesse, Stony Brook University | ||
| Sabrina Hom, Stony Brook University | ||
| Jane Jones, Stony Brook University. | ||
4:05-4:20 |
Artist Presentation |
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| Moderator: Megan Craig, Stony Brook University | ||
| 5:20-5:50 | Jill Downen, Washington University in St. Louis Body/Building: Involuntary Anatomies |
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| 5:50-6:00 | Rebecca Walsh, Miami University of Ohio, Response | |
7:00-10:00 | Conference Dinner |
Copper Chimney Restaurant, 128 E. 28th St. (Registered Participants only) |
Saturday, September 8th | ||
9:00-9:30 | Registration and Coffee |
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9:30-10:45 | Panel G: Lingustics / Anthropology |
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| Moderator: Christopher Cohoon, Stony Brook University | ||
| 9:30-9:50 | Gail Schwab, Hofstra University. Creating Inter-Sexuate Inter-Subjectivity in the Classroom? Luce Irigaray’s Linguistic Research in its Latest Incarnation |
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| 9:50-10:10 | Mary-Beth Mader, University of Memphis. Luce Irigaray and Anthropological Thought |
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| 10:10-10:20 | Julie Sushytska, Stony Brook University. Response |
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10:45-12:15 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Panel H: Contemporary Interlocutors |
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| Moderator: Krista E. Hughes, Drew University | ||
| 10:45-11:05 | Cathy Hsiao, Stony Brook University. Irigaray and Das Unheimlich in Heidegger, Kristeva and Freud: the Politics of Home and Belonging |
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| 11:05-11:25 | Janae Sholtz, University of Memphis. Wondering about Alice Through the Looking Glass in Irigaray and Deleuze |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University. "An Oblivion of Death:" Irigaray’s Reading of Heideggarean Finitude |
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| 11:45-11:55 | Daria Rogers, Stony Brook University, Response | |
Panel I: Mother-Daughter |
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| Moderator: Ree Boddé | ||
| 10:45-11:05 | Phyllis Kaminiski, St. Mary’s College. Some Flashes of Lightning and A Long Pause |
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| 11:05-11:25 | Fanny Soderback, The New School for Social Research. Returning to the Beginning: On Maternal Genealogy in the Work of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva |
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| 11:25-11:45 | Emily A. Holmes, Emory University. The Gift of Breath |
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| 11:45-11:55 | Adrian Switzwer, Emory University, Response | |
11:00-11:15 | Lunch |
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1:45-2:00 | Keynote Introduction |
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Danae McLeod, Co-Chairwoman: Luce Irigaray Circle |
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2:00-3:15 | Keynote Address |
Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women’s Studies, Rutgers University |
3:15-3:30 | Coffee Break |
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3:30-5:15 | Concurrent Sessions |
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Panel J: Irigaray & Butler |
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| Moderator: Alyson Cole, Queens College, CUNY | ||
| 3:30-3:50 | Sarah Hansen, Vanderbilt University. Butler, Irigaray and the Politics of Bodily Vulnerability |
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| 3:50-4:10 | Erin McCarthy, St. Lawrence University. Corporeal Cues East and West: Ethics and the Body |
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| 4:30-4:50 | Anne VanLeeuwen, The New School for Social Research. Spatiality and Embodiment: Towards An Ontology of Difference |
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| 4:50-5:00 | Maria Prado, Stony Brook University, Response | |
Panel K: Politics |
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| Moderator: Anne O’Byrne, Hofstra University | ||
| 3:50-4:10 | Christopher Ian Foster, City University of New York. "Approaching the Other as Other:" Futures of Feminist Globality from Luce Irigaray to Gayatri Spivak |
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| 4:10-4:30 | Gertrude Postl, Suffolk County Community College. "Neither One Nor Two"—Civil Identity and Sexual Difference |
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| 4:30-4:40 | Serene Khader, Stony Brook University, Response | |
5:15-5:30 | Coffee Break |
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5:30-6:45 | Plenary Session |
Mary C. Rawlinson, Stony Brook University
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6:45 | Closing Address |
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| Gail Schwab, 2008 Irigaray Circle Conference Chairwoman | ||
8:00 |
Advisory Board Meeting & Dinner, TBD |
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