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From: Fanny Söderbäck
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012
Dearest Julia,
This is just a note to tell you that the inaugural meeting of the Kristeva Circle was a HUGE SUCCESS. I opened the conference with the message you sent me, so you were very present from the start. We had great keynote talks by Noelle McAfee and Maria Margaroni, a stimulating roundtable discussion on The Severed Head, panels on topics ranging from feminine spirituality and human vulnerability to temporal revolt, abject art, and disability studies. People gathered from China, England, France, Cyprus, Turkey, Canada and all over the United States. Your work was praised, critiqued and discussed, and functioned as a springboard for a wide range of discussions and interrogations. I think it is a safe to say that the Circle is off to a good start. We will follow up with a satellite session at the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta in December (a panel entitled "Julia Kristeva Today"), a special issue of the Journal for French and Francophone Philosophy, and then of course our next meeting in Nashville for which you will be joining us. Until then, my very warmest regards to you, and best wishes for your seminar in Stockholm later this fall. I think my mother will be there, as well as Swedish friends and colleagues. I wish I could join you for what looks like a great event...
Je vous embrasse,
Fanny
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Fanny Söderbäck, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Siena College
www.fannysoderback.com
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THE KRISTEVA CIRCLE -->
October 11-13, 2012
Siena College
Loudonville, New York
PROGRAM
Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Film Screening
Opening Remarks: Janet L. Shideler, Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Siena College
"Reliance: De l'érotisme Maternel"
Written by Julia Kristeva and Directed by Georgi K. Galabov
"Julia Kristeva: Histoires d'amour et de passerelles"
Directed by Teri Wren Damisch
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Reception
Location Off Campus: Hilton Garden Inn, Fireside Room
Friday, October 12, 2012
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Breakfast and Registration
Location: New Hall, Lobby - Siena College Campus
9:30AM-11:30AM
Abject Art and Photography
Location: New Hall, Room 165 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Alessandra Lopez y Royo, Roehampton University
Robert Shane, The College of Saint Rose
"Commodity Abjection: Birth Imagery in the Performance Art of Paul McCarthy"
David Charlesworth, Boston College
"Between Icon and Spectacle: Gerhard Richter's Dead Photo-paintings and Their Source
Image"
Matthew Stewart, Simmons College
"Witnessing Horror: Kristeva, Psychoanalysis, and the Abject Spectacle of Lynching"
11:30AM - 12:00PM
Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate Break
Location: New Hall, Lobby - Siena College Campus
12:00PM-2:00PM
Concurrent Sessions
Panel A: History, Narration, and Temporal Revolt
Location: New Hall, Room 160 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Lori Marso, Union College
Benjamin Norris, The New School for Social Research
"Collapsing Time and Exploding Gender: Kristeva, Kant and Laruelle"
Athena Colman, Brock University
"Illuminating Oblivion: Kristeva on Aragon and the Intimate Revolt in Surrealism"
Marygrace Hemme, University of Memphis
"Feminine Genius and the Importance of Re-narrating Lives"
Panel B: The Spiritual Feminine
Location: New Hall, Room 165 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Perundevi Srinivasan, Siena College
Jennifer Wang, The New School for Social Research
"The Bond of Love and the Return to the Maternal Spirit"
Carol Martrangelo Bove, University of Pittsburgh
"Kristeva's Therese mon amour: Religion and Modernism"
Marie-Christine Navarro, American University of Paris
"The Mystical Quality of the Feminine from Saint Teresa to Saint Julia: The Story of a Cryptic Passing of Knowledge"
2:00PM-3:00PM
Lunch
Location: New Hall, Massry Commons - Siena College Campus
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Concurrent Sessions
Panel A: Self and Other: Mind, Affect, Subjectivity
Location: New Hall, Room 160 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Raymond Boisvert, Siena College
Melissa Shew, Marquette University
"Kristeva on Compassion"
Jim Bodington, University of New Mexico
"Disentangling the Neuronal Subject: A Kristevan Examination of the Contemporary Metaphorics of Self"
Carolyn Culbertson, University of Maine
"Speech and Ambiguity in Kristeva's Black Sun"
Panel B: Abjection, Animality, Disability
Location: New Hall, Room 165 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Jennifer Greiman, University at Albany
Zeynep Harputlu, King's College
"Spectrality and Abjection in the Stories of Charles Dickens' The Signal-Man and Herman Melville's Bartleby"
Rebecca Tuvel, Vanderbilt University
"The Oedible Kristeva: Finding Resources for an Animal Ethics in Colette"
Melinda Hall, Vanderbilt University
"Abjection and Possibility: Exploring the Horror of the Disabled Body"
5:00PM - 5:30PM
Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate Break
Location: New Hall, Lobby - Siena College Campus
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Keynote Address
Location: New Hall, Massry Commons, Room 167 - Siena College Campus
Introduction: Karen Ng, Siena College
Noëlle McAfee, Emory University
"The Interiorization of Mortality: The Unconscious and Kristeva's Death Drive"
Noëlle McAfee is Associate Professor of Philosophy and an affiliate of Women's Studies at Emory University. Her work is at the intersection of subjectivity and public life, drawing widely on social and political philosophy, feminist theory, American pragmatism, continental philosophy, and new experiments in public media and deliberative democracy. Her books include Democracy and the Political Unconscious, Julia Kristeva, and Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship. She is also the Associate Editor of the Kettering Review and the co-director of the Public Philosophy Network.
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Reception
Location: 33 Fiddlers Lane - Siena College Campus
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9:00AM Shuttle Bus Departure from Hilton Garden Inn Parking Lot to Siena College
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Breakfast
Location: New Hall, Lobby - Siena College Campus
10:00AM - 1:00PM
Round Table Discussion
"The Severed Head"
Location: New Hall, Room 165 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Fanny Söderbäck, Siena College
Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
Pleshette DeArmitt, University of Memphis
Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Elaine Miller, Miami University
Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Lunch
Location: New Hall, Massry Commons - Siena College Campus
2:00PM - 4:00PM
A Politics of Vulnerability
Location: New Hall, Room 165 - Siena College Campus
Chair: Grace Hunt, Bard College
Laurie Naranch, Siena College
"A Philosophy and Politics of Vulnerability"
Janelle Adsit, University at Albany
"The Political Potential of Vulnerability and Mourning in Butler, Kristeva, and Freud"
Georganna Ulary, Marist College
"Revaluing Agonistics in the Rapprochement between Kristeva and Nietzsche"
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Fair Trade Coffee and Chocolate Break
Location: New Hall, Lobby - Siena College Campus
Saturday, October 13, 2012
4:30PM - 6:00PM
Keynote Address
Location: New Hall, Massry Commons, Room 167 - Siena College Campus
Introduction: Sarah Hansen, Drexel University
Maria Margaroni, University of Cyprus
"Julia Kristeva's Voyage in 'the Theresian Continent': The Malady of Love
and the Enigma of an Incarnated, Sharable, Smiling Imaginary"
Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Continental Philosophy, Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (University of Leeds). Her publications include: Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (with John Lechte, Continuum, 2004), Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (with Effie Yiannopoulou, Rodopi, 2006), Intimate Transfers (with Effie Yiannopoulou, special issue of the European Journal of English Studies, 2005) and Violence and the Sacred (special issue of Philosophy Today, 2012). She is currently working on a monograph focusing on the thought of Julia Kristeva (forthcoming with SUNY Press). She is also editing a collection of essays entitled "Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique" (with Apostolos Lampropoulos and Christos Hadjichristos; forthcoming with Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield).