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Program - Day 4

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Saturday 9 October, 2010

9:00-11:00 Concurrent sessions C19 – C23

C19: Location: 118 St. John’s College Session Chair: Gaby Divay Archives and Special Collections, Mosaic Editorial Board Member

Hilde Staels Department of English, University of Leuven Desire and Depression in Aritha van Herk's Restlessness

Sabine Till PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin Freud, Schreber, Derrida: The Scene of Writing

Joanne Valin Department of English Studies, Nipissing University What if by Mistake: The Asphyxiation of the Feminine, Freud’s Unheimliche, and the (Il)logic of Dread

C20: Location: 201 St. John’s College Session Chair: Christopher Trott Department of Native Studies, Mosaic Editorial Board Member

Alyson Brickey PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Toronto Woolf's Gramophone: Listening Between the Acts

Efrat Shapir PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Therapy in Writing

Siobhan Fitzgerald PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Edinburgh The Auditory Double: (Supplementing) Freud's “Talking Cure”

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Emory University Sovereignty's Death Drive: Walten and Trieb in Derrida's La bête et le soverain II

C21: Location: 114 St. John’s College Session Chair: Birna Bjarnadóttir Department of Icelandic Language and Literature

Eugene Muzica Independent Scholar Reading Freud against Freud: Laplanche’s Restoration of Seduction Theory in the Context of Derrida’s Meditations on Psychoanalysis

Liran Razinsky Lady Davis foundation Post Doc fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Meeting the Death of the Other: Love and Finitude

Pleshette DeArmitt Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis Derrida, Freud, and the “Narcissism of Minor Sexual Differences”

C22: Location: 115 St. John’s College Session Chair: George Toles Department of English, Film & Theatre, Mosaic Editorial Board Member

Aaron Mauro PhD Candidate, Department of English, Queen’s University Telepathic Fictions: American Literary Prophecies and Mind Reading

Peter Chapin Department of English, Iona College Telepathic Events

James Martell de la Torre PhD Candidate, Program in Literature, University of Notre Dame Derrida on Beckett, or the Painful Freudian Mark

Ofelia Ros Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan Addressing Cruelty without Alibi beyond the Pleasure Principle

C23: Location: 204 St. John’s College Session Chair: Sheila Simonson PhD Candidate, Department of English, Mosaic student intern

Lawrence Burns Department of History, King’s University College, University of Western Ontario Rethinking Personal Immortality in Light of New Biomedical Possibilities: Does the Glas Ring for Thantos?

Luke Donahue MA Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Emory University The Death (Drive) of Deconstruction

Catherine Kellogg Department of Political Science, University of Alberta Amy Swiffen Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University Freud after Derrida: The Politics of Autoimmunity

Alice Andrews PhD Candidate, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London An Autoimmune Death Drive: The Ethics of Defence

11:30-12:30 Keynote Address: David Wills Order Catastrophically Unknown

Location: Robert Schultz Lecture Theatre, 172 St. John's College

Introduction:

Barry Ferguson Department of History, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts Mosaic Editorial Board Member

Thank you:

Alyson Brickey PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Toronto Mosaic student intern and conference coordinator 2008-2010

1:00-2:00 Luncheon

Cross Common Room, 108 St. John’s College

2:30-4:00 Closing Session

C24: Location: Robert Schultz Lecture Theatre, 172 St. John's College Session Chair: Chuck Axelrod Department of Sociology

Dawne McCance Department of Religion, Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, University of Manitoba Animal autobiography: Freud after Derrida

Kevin Miles Department of Philosophy, Earlham College Going after the Father: Plato’s Apology of Socrates & the Freudian Intention of Aggression

Michael Naas Department of Philosophy, DePaul University When It All Suddenly Clicked: Deconstruction After Psychoanalysis After Photography

7:00-11:00 Closing dinner party Conservatory, Assiniboine Park