Conferences

Programme

The Conference is taking place in Room A34 Business School North, Jubilee Campus.

Saturday 20 June 2015
Time Title  Presenter (s)
09.00-09.30 Welcome and refreshments
10.00 Introduction Judith Still (University of Nottingham, UK)
10.15 Changing, Convictions, Changing the World Babeth Babich (Fordham University, USA)
11.45 An Ecological Aesthetics faithful to sexuate Difference: A Critical Perspective on the Contemporary Dialogue of Atmosphere and Affects in Architecture. Andrea Wheeler (Iowa State University, USA)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 Irigaray and Plato: A ‘Different’ Conversation Mahon O’Brien (University of Sussex, UK)
14.40 ’I would rather die than …’:Passive Agency in Samual Richard Clarissa Dana Wight (University of Alberta, Canada)
15.20 Exploring Elemental Relations in Being with a Newly Born Tanja Staehler (University of Sussex, UK)
16.00 New Materialism in Philosophy of Luce Irigaray Katarzyna Szopa (University of Silesia, Poland)
16.45 Refreshments
16.45 How could this Happen?: Beyond Idealist Dreams and Pseudo-materialist Dictates. Luce Irigaray (CNRS, France)
17.00 Booking signing and aperitif (Building a New World: Luce Irigaray Teaching II)
20.00 Conference dinner (The Restaurant, National College for Teaching and Leadership)

 

Sunday 21 June 2015
Time Title  Presenter (s)
09.00-09.30 Welcome and refreshments
09.30 Negotiating Agonism’s Challenge to Peace Harry Bregazzi (University of Bristol, UK)
10.05 The World as We find it: A Suggestion for a Democratic Theory for our Times Tracy Strong (University of Southampton, UK)
10.40 Toward a Chinese Discourse of Feminist Literary Criticism Yan Liu (Guangdong University, China)
11.20 - 12.50 Round Table on Languages and In/Hospitality

Judith Still (University of Nottingham, UK),
Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary University London, UK),
Maria-Rose Lehmann (Sorbonne, France),
Lan Lo (University of Nottingham, UK),
Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge, UK),
David Norris (University of Nottingham, UK),
Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham, UK)

TBC Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (University of Helsinki and Island) (tbc).
End of conference

Sharmista Chhaya

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5799
email: sharmista.chhaya@nottingham.ac.uk