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Friday
6 October, 2006
8:30-3:00
Registration and information
Location: 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
9:00-10:45
Concurrent sessions B18 – B20
B18:
Life/Repetition
Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: John Lent
Department of English, Okanagan College
Leonard Lawlor
Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis
The Animal and Rogues: Concerning the Concept of Life in Derrida
Michael O’Driscoll
Department of English, University of Alberta
“The great scene of the legacy”: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Repetition
Claire Potter
Doctoral de Recherches en Psychanalytique, Université de Paris VII
~ And every fair from fair some-time declines: Line 7, Sonnet 18 under the shadow of a Derridean umbrella, or spectres of Shakespeare revisited
B19:
The University
Location: 107 Drake Centre
Session Chair: Denise Egea-Kuehne
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Louisiana State University
Simon Morgan Wortham
School of Social, Historical, and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth
Counter-Institutions and the “Double Keeping” of Jacques Derrida
Rebecca Gagan
PhD candidate, Department of English, University of Western Ontario
On Being True to Your School: The University After Derrida
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell
Following Derrida’s Teaching: Transformative Hauntology and the 21st Century University
B20:
Panel: La puissance et la vitesse
Location: 105 Drake Centre
Session Chair: Sarah Rocheville
Department of French, Spanish and Italian, University of Manitoba
Laurent Milesi
Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University
La puissance et la vitesse: Reading H.C. pour la vie, c'est à dire...
Ginette Michaud
Département d’études françaises, Université de Montréal
H.C. pour la vie, c'est à dire …, ou le « vivier du vivement » pris à la lettre
Mahité Breton
PhD candidate, Littérature Comparée, Université de Montréal
Rêve qui peut : la pensée du rêve dans Fichus
Marie-Joëlle St-Louis Savoie
PhD candidate, Département d’études françaises, Université de Montréal
Poétique testamentaire de l’hommage: l’usage de la citation selon Jacques Derrida
10:45-11:15
Coffee
Two Locations: 111 St. John's College and 105 Drake Centre
11:30-1:00
Concurrent sessions B21 – B23
B21:
Seeing/ Work(s) of Art
Location: 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room)
Session Chair: Sharon Alward
School of Art, University of Manitoba
Andrew Benjamin
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney
Drawing/Painting: Derrida and Art Work
Stephen Barker
School of the Arts, University of California at Irvine
Derrida’s Subjectile Vision: Drawing On/In Artaud and Nietzsche
Joseph Cohen
Directeur de Programme, Collège International de Philosophie – Paris
Wording Impossible Words: On Specters and Sacrifice in Derrida
B22:
Legacies for Literature
Location: 105 Drake Centre
Session Chair: Diana Brydon
Department of English, University of Manitoba
Adam Kelly
PhD candidate, Modern English and American Literature, University College, Dublin
Derridean Decision and the Singularity of Literature
Michael Thomas
Department of English, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business
Being Hospitable to Derrida: Intolerance and the Literary Reception of Deconstruction
Jonathan Singer
School of English and Liberal Studies, Seneca College
A Post Script: Derrida's Post Card and the Crisis of Divisibility in the Epistolary Novel
Alan Roughley
Department of Arts and Humanities, Liverpool Hope University
The “Literary” Jacques Derrida and Deconstructive Anthony Burgess: From “Punctual Positions” to “Grouped Textual Fields”
B23:
Panel: New Approaches to Jacques Derrida’s Early Writing
Location: 307 Tier Building
Session Chair: Kenneth MacKendrick
Department of Religion, University of Manitoba
Joshua Kates
Department of English, Indiana University
Response and Responsibility: The Legacy of Derrida’s Early Writings
Jay Lampert
Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph
What Is An Early Work?
Andrew Payne
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
Derrida Today: Thinking between Language and Life
Richard Wellen
Division of Social Science, York University
Politics and the Limits of Philosophy: Kates on Rorty on Derrida
1:00-3:00
Lunch (on your own)
3:00
Keynote Address: Michael Naas
Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
Come si, comme ça: Fictions of Self, State, and a Sovereign God
Location: 210 University Centre, Killarney Room
Introduction: Dawne McCance
Editor, Mosaic; Department of Religion, University of Manitoba
Thanks: Rob Zacharias
PhD candidate, Joint PhD in Literary Studies/Theatre Studies in English, Guelph University; Student Intern, Mosaic 2005-06
Reception
Location: 210 University Centre, Killarney Room
6:30
Film: Derrida
a documentary film by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman (Zeitgeist Films, 2004)
Location: 210 University Centre, Killarney Room
Introduction: Stephen Barker
School of Arts, University of California at Irvine
7:30
Session B24
B24:
Panel: Five Faces of Derrida
Location: 210 University Centre, Killarney Room
Session Chair: Stephen Barker
School of Arts, University of California at Irvine
Bent Sørensen
Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics, Aalborg University
A Dialogue on Derrida/Derrida
Søren H. Balle
MA candidate, Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics, Aalborg University
On Derrida’s Difficulty, or How to Appreciate Derrida as a Late Romantic
Steen L. Christiansen
PhD candidate, Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics, Aalborg University
Why I Have Never Seen Derrida
Camelia Elias
Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics, Aalborg University
Transmitting (to) Derrida