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Program - Day 2

 

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Thursday 5 October, 2006
8:00-4:00 Registration and information Location: 111 St. Johns's College (Quiet Room)
9:00-10:45 Concurrent sessions A1 – A4
A1: Beginning: à venir Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: Melanie Branagan PhD candidate, Department of English, University of Manitoba
Elina Staikou Research Fellow, University of London Re-markable Singularities: Translation, Testimony, and the Question of the Idiom
Josh Toth PhD candidate, Department of English, University of Western Ontario A Certain Perhaps: The Decisiveness of Derrida’s Indecision
Patricia Palulis Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa In the hospes of the text: mourning [with] Derrida… un/e pleurant/e…
Patrick O'Connor Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Galway Derrida's Legacy: A World of Responsibility
A2: Derrida and Religion Location: 303 Tier Building
Session Chair: Elizabeth Alexandrin Department of Religion, University of Manitoba
Eddis Miller PhD candidate, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Toward a New “Reflecting Faith”: Derrida’s Religious Legacy
Takao Hagiwara Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Case Western Reserve University Derrida and Zen: Desert and Swamp
Mourad Laabdi MA candidate, Department of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam Islam and Derrida: Islam as the Undecided in Derrida’s Thought?
Raja Sekhar Patteti Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University The Comparative Dialectics of Deconstruction and Ambedkarism
A3: Questions of Ethics and Justice Location: 307 Tier Building
Session Chair: Anne McGillivray Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba; Editorial Board Member, Mosaic
Stella Gaon Department of Political Science, Saint Marys’ University Derrida’s desire… for justice
Robert L. Zacharias PhD candidate, Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English, Guelph University “And yet”: Derrida on Benjamin’s Divine Violence
Rebecca L. Nicholson PhD candidate, Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University Jacques Derrida “On Forgiveness”: Repentance, Coercion, and Reconciliation in the Public Apology
Mario Dufour Département de philosophie, Université du Québec à Montréal Vers une responsabilité affirmative
A4: Relations Between Two Location: Concourse Lounge, University College
Session Chair: Enrique Fernandez Department of French, Spanish and Italian, University of Manitoba
Martin McQuillan Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Leeds Hölderlin in America
Marta Segarra Universitat de Barcelona Politiques de l’amitié et de la traduction. Derrida et Cixous
Jeremiah Alberg Department of Philosophy, University of West Georgia The Dangerous Supplement…is a Sort…of Scandal
Antony Hudek PhD candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art On the defusion of differences: Between “Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard”
10:45-11:15 Coffee Two Locations: 111 St. John's College and 307 Tier Building
11:15-1:00 Concurrent sessions A5 – A8
A5: Panel: After Derrida: Histories of the Present Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: Dennis Cooley Department of English, University of Manitoba
David L. Clark Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University “The Palestinians, living among us”: Kant’s Neighbourhoods
Dennis Desroches Department of English Language & Literature, St. Thomas University The Archiviolithic Text(Book): Derrida and Scientific Knowledge Dissemination
Dana Hollander Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University Derrida on “Philosophical Nationality”
Tilottama Rajan Canada Research Chair in English and Theory, University of Western Ontario The University Outside the Nation: Derrida After Foucault
A6: Derrida and Kant Location: 307 Tier Building
Session Chair: Judith Owens Department of English, University of Manitoba
Joris van Gorkom Faculty of Philosophy, Tilburg University What If? Derrida on Secret, Respect, and Specter
Othmar Kastner PhD candidate, Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Studies, University of Vienna Kant and Derrida on Acting out of Duty
Peter Milne PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, Emory University The Infinite “Without”: Rereading Derrida Reading Kant
Joanne Valin PhD candidate, Department of English, University of Manitoba Tulips, Anemones, and Other Rootless Blooms: Gathering Breath and the Sans of the Pure Cut in Derrida’s Posy
A7: Gesture/Performance/Scenes of Writing Location: E3-160 Engineering 2
Session Chair: George Toles Department of English, Film Studies, University of Manitoba; Editorial Board Member, Mosaic
Clark Lunberry Department of English, University of North Florida The Theater and its Derridean Double: Derrida’s Theater of Thought
Howard Caygill Department of History, University of London Derrida’s Coup
Peter Zeillinger Institute for Fundamental (Foundational) Theology, University of Vienna Derrida’s More-than-performative Speaking (of) the Event
A8: Archive Location: Concourse Lounge, University College
Session Chair: Chris Trott Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba; Editorial Board, Mosaic
Fanie de Beer Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria Archive Fever: A Deconstructive Reading of Archiving and Archives
Matthew R. McLennan PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa Archiving “the Native”: A Derridean Impression
Amy Villarejo Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, Cornell University Tuning In: Television and the Virtual Archive
1:00-2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:30 Concurrent sessions A9 – A12
A9: Derrida’s Thinking of Death Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: Kevin Bongiorni Department of French and Italian, Louisiana State
Andrzej Dziedzic Department of Foreign Languages, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ‘To philosophize is to learn to die’: The Notion of Death in Jacques Derrida’s Thought
Lee Morrissey Department of English, Clemson University Is Adieu a Word of Welcome? Derrida’s Legacies for The Condition of Reading
S. K. Keltner Department of History and Philosophy, Kennesaw State University The Being-up-until-death of Sexual Difference: Derrida and the Meaning of Finitude
A10: Spectral Politics Location: 224 Education
Session Chair: Stephan Jaeger Department of German & Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba
Majero Bouman PhD candidate, Department of English, York University Racism’s Specters: Inheriting the Unthought Future
Pamela McCallum Department of English, University of Calgary Questions of Haunting: Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx and Raymond Williams’s Modern Tragedy
Brett Parker PhD candidate, Department of English, University of Calgary “in the future, remember to remember the future”: Jacques Derrida and the Legacy of Critical Resistance
A11: Between Laughter and Tears Location: 307 Tier Building
Session Chair: Marilyn Baker School of Art, University of Manitoba; Editorial Board Member, Mosaic
Fereshteh Zangenehpour English Department, University of Göteborg A Burst of Laughter: A Derridian Reading of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Mustapha Marrouchi Department of English, Louisiana State University Derision Never Comes in Tears
Anais N. Spitzer PhD candidate, Philosophy in Religion and Myth, Pacifica Graduate Institute Soliciting Derrida’s Tears: To Think Sa Otherwise
A12: The Eye and the Ear Location: 206 Robson Hall
Session Chair: Jila Ghomeshi Department of Linguistics, University of Manitoba; Director, University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities
Arina Rotaru PhD candidate, Department of German, Cornell University Derrida’s Hermeneutics of Recognition
H-Dirksen L. Bauman Department of ASL and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University Listening to Phonocentrism with Deaf Eyes: Derrida’s Mute Philosophy of (Sign) Language
Gabriela García Hubard PhD candidate, Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Javier Bassas Vila PhD candidate, Université la Sorbonne Paris IV Joana Masó PhD candidate, Université Paris VIII – Vincennes-Saint-Dénis Santiago Borja visual artist Echo-Graphic Images
3:30-4:00 Coffee Two Locations: 111 St. John's College and 206 Robson Hall
4:00-5:30 Concurrent sessions A13 – A17
A13: Architecture Location: 307 Tier Building
Session Chair: Constance Cartmill Deparment of French, Spanish and Italian, University of Manitoba
Jehanne Dautrey Directrice de programme, Collège International de Philosophie La musique, entre-deux de la littérature et de l’architecture, de la langue et de l’espace
Louise Burchill Language Department, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne Re-aligning ‘Spacing’ and the khôra: Rethinking ‘Space’ Following Derrida
Rea Wallden PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, Cardiff University From Semiotics to Metaphysics: the spatio-temporal epistemology of deconstruction
A14: Phenomenology Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: Morny Joy Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary
John Mowitt Departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities “Reason thus Unveils Itself”
Gregory Cameron Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, Wilfred Laurier University Politics and Humanism: The Legacy of Husserl’s Anti-Naturalism in the Thought of Jacques Derrida
Marie-Eve Morin Department of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg The Community of Witnesses: Derrida Inheriting Husserl and Blanchot
A15: Heterologous Heritage Location: 224 Education
Session Chair: Laurence Broadhurst Department of Religion, University of Manitoba
Steven D. Scott Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University Reading/Derrida/Reading/Spielberg: Derrida’s Acts of Religion and/in/on Spielberg’s Munich’
Badea Warwar PhD candidate, Department of English, York University The Specter of Beginnings: Derrida and Frankenstein
William D. Melaney Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo Derrida’s Religious Difference: Autobiography and Postcolonial Reason
A16: Derrida and the Gift Location: 206 Robson Hall
Session Chair: Pam Perkins Department of English, University of Manitoba
Rauna Kuokkanen Post-Doctoral Scholar, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University The Logic of the Gift: Does it Remain Impossible?
Katrina Harack PhD candidate, Department of English, University of California at Irvine Tracing Literature and Its Secret: Derrida and the Gift of Art
Miriam Nichols Department of English, University College of the Fraser Valley Derrida’s Gift: The Turn to Love in The Gift of Death
A17: Aporia and Responsibility Location: 207 Robson Hall
Session Chair: Julie Boivin PhD candidate, Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto
Ida Nursoo PhD candidate, Political Science Program, Australian National University “En attendant Démocratie”: Derrida, Cosmopolitics, and Temporality
Sarah Blacker MA candidate, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University Renal Generosity: Derrida’s Theory of the Gift in Relation to “Altruistic Stranger” Kidney Donation
Elsebet Jegstrup Department of Philosophy, Elon University Derrida's Gift: the way . . . of the justice-to-come
7:30 Keynote Address: Catherine Malabou Department of Philosophy, Université Paris X – Nanterre Again: “The wounds of the Spirit heal, and leave no scars behind.”
Welcome: Jay Doering Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba
Introduction: Louise Renée Department of French, Spanish and Italian, University of Manitoba; Editorial Board Member, Mosaic
Thanks: Dana Hopkins MA candidate, Department of Religion, University of Manitoba; Studen Intern, Mosaic
Reception Location: Asper Commemorative Room, Drake Centre