FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Goldwin Smith Hall 258
9:00-9:45: Breakfast & Opening Remarks
9:45-11:30: Aesthetics, Technics, Mimesis
Moderator: Colin Dewey (English, Cornell University)
1. Pedro Erber (Asian Studies, Cornell University): “Challenging the Monopoly of Fiction: Akasegawa Genpei vs. the Japanese State”
2. Michael Cross (English, SUNY Buffalo): “Aesthetic Regeneration Through Care: Mimesis as Technē-cal Pro-duction”
3. Alan Young-Bryant (English, Cornell University): “Genius and Sensus Communis in Kant”
11:30-1:15: Romanticism and Revolution
Moderator: Sean Franzel (German, Cornell University)
1. Ryan Plumley (History, Cornell University): “Legible Subjects: Textuality and Subjectivity in Friedrich Schlegel”
2. Jared McGeough (Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario): “The Time of Taking Back, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Post-Horn: Kierkegaard on Repetition”
3. Robert S. Lehman (English, Cornell University): “The Most Real Event: Remembering the Revolution in the Late Writings of Immanuel Kant”
1:15-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:45: Immanence and Transcendence
Moderator: Heidi Arsenault (English, Cornell University)
1. Aaron Hodges (Comparative Literature, Cornell University): “The Future of Immanence”
2. Audrey Wasser (English, Cornell University): “Deleuze’s Spinozism: From Expression of Difference to Communication of Events”
3. Cynthia Leighton (Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario): “The Politics of the Onto-Political”
4:00-6:00: Michael Hardt (Associate Professor of
Literature, Duke University): Democracy in the Age of Empire, Uris
Hall Auditorium
6:00-7:00: Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Goldwin Smith Hall 258
8:40-9:00: Breakfast
9:00-10:45: Nomos, Mobility
Moderator: Daniel Wilson (English, Cornell University)
1. Andrés Molina-Ochoa (Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton): “Human Rights and Mobility”
2. Rodrigo Mier (Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton): "Zapatismo: From the Ship of State to the Mollusk of Resistance"
3. Jon Solomon (Assistant Professor of Future Studies, Tamkang University; Visiting Professor in the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University): “Event and Translation: The Advent of the Multitude”
10:45-12:30: Futures of Poetics
Moderator: Robin Sowards (English, Cornell University)
1. Alex Papanicolopoulos (English, Cornell University): “’To Create a New Possibility’: The Political Turn of Alain Badiou’s Poetics”
2. Eli Drabman (English, SUNY Buffalo): “An Aesthetics of Immanent Praxis: Adorno on the Force of Radical Form”
3. Thom Donovan (English, SUNY Buffalo): “Hypnogogia and Poetics”
12:30-1:15: Lunch
1:15-3:00: Community/Collectivity/Communism
Moderator: Emma Willoughby (History, Cornell University)
1. Rebecca Colesworthy (English, Cornell University): “Feminine Responsibility”
2. Geoff Waite (Associate Professor of German Studies, Cornell University): “‘The only position outside of communism’ and ‘circulation without circulation time’: A Very Short Genealogy of Two Concepts from Spinoza to Marx, Nietzsche, Bataille, Heidegger, and Other Proper Names”
3. John Hicks (English, Cornell University): “Community and Sensus Communis in Kant’s Third Critique”
3:00-3:15: Coffee Break
3:15-5:00: The Problem of the Event I
Moderator: Joshua Dittrich (German Studies, Cornell University)
1. Douglas McQueen-Thomson (English, Cornell University): “Badiou, Contingency and Rupture: The Event and Its Conditions”
2. Lindsey Hair (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo): “The Open as Site of Creation and Subtraction: Badiou and Wenders on Cinema and Love”
3. Bruno Bosteels (Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University): “The Singular Event”
5:00-6:45: The Problem of the Event II
Moderator: Wyatt Bonikowski (English, Cornell University)
1. Sorin Cucu (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo): “The Superstition of the New: Ethics as Political Program and the Overcoming of Democracy (Alain Badiou and Psychoanalysis)”
2. Ryan Poll (English, UC Davis): “The Politics of the Symbolic and the Return of Totality”
3. Tracy McNulty (Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University): “Wrestling with the Angel”
For more information, contact Rob Lehman, rsl29@cornell.edu
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This event is free and open to the public. Funding provided by the Society for the Humanities, the Class of 1916 Chair, the Department of Romance Studies, the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series, Dominick LaCapra, and the GPSAFC.