archaeologies of the future 2012 IAPL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PROGRAM COORDINATOR Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy and Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA) IAPL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kuisma Korhonen (Literature, University of Oulu, FINLAND) Maria Margaroni (English Studies, University of Cyprus at Nicosia, CYPRUS) Hugh J. Silverman (Philosophy, and Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA) Lynn Wells (English, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, Canada) IAPL 2012 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Host Institution: Tallinn University, Tallinn, ESTONIA and The Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, ESTONIA Host Coordinator: Epp Annus (Cultural Theory Research Group, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, ESTONIA) IAPL 2012 CONFERENCE STAFF Membership and Registration Coordinator: Claire C. Goberman Editorial and Publications Assistant: Steven Lavoie Graphic Designers: Esther Hutfless Information Technology Assistant & Audio-Visual Coordinator: Douglas La Rocca Registration On-site Coordinator: Scott Kravet Registration Staff: Matthew Coate, Matt De La Torre, Thomas C. Was Book Exhibit Coordinators: Nahum Brown and Aaron Krempa Book Exhibit Staff: Arsalan Memon This IAPL Conference Book edited by Hugh J. Silverman & Steven Lavoie Copyright© 2012 The International Association for Philosophy and Literature 2 ABOUT THE IAPL The International Association for Philosophy and Literature is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and to the enhancement of scholarly research in the arts and the humanities. The IAPL provides an opportunity to engage in discussion at the intersections of philosophical, literary, cultural, textual, visual, medial, art, and aesthetic theories. 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Silverman, IAPL Executive Director 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to IAPL 2012........................................................................................... 7 Welcome to Estonia................................................................................................ 13 Important Information for Conference Speakers and Chairs..................... 15 Program Summary................................................................................................... 17 Conference Program............................................................................................... 23 Plenary Sessions Plenary Speakers............................................................................................... 58 Round Tables...................................................................................................... 70 Podium Discussion........................................................................................... 76 Close Encounters.............................................................................................. 78 Special Events Film Screening..................................................................................................... 87 KUMU.................................................................................................................... 89 IAPL 2012 Celebration Dinner.......................................................................... 91 Post-Conference Excursion to Tartu.............................................................. 93 Conference Sites City of Tallinn..................................................................................................... 98 Tallinn University................................................................................................ 100 IAPL 2012 Conference Hotels.......................................................................... 105 In and Around Tallinn Getting Around................................................................................................... 108 Restaurants.......................................................................................................... 111 Publications IAPL Book Exhibit and List of Publishers...................................................... 116 IAPL Publications................................................................................................ 117 Submission of IAPL 2012 Conference Papers.............................................. 120 In Memoriam............................................................................................................. 123 Acknowledgments................................................................................................... 125 Staff Photographs................................................................................................... 129 IAPL 2013 Call for Papers..................................................................................... 133 Participant Index..................................................................................................... 135 5 6 WELCOME TO IAPL 2012 ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: TRACING MEMORIES | IMAGINING SPACES Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director Like two fingers pointing up to the Estonian summer sky, the blue and green arch towers that mark the IAPL 2012 conference logo recall Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Gate of the Moment”–the philosophical arch inscribed with the word Augenblick–the gap at the top of the logo. For those familiar with Nietzsche’s third book of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this moment is an uneasy instant in which one path travels infinitely back into the past and the other infinitely onward into the future. The archaeology of the moment will be–at the same time–an excavation of the imagined spaces of the future and the memorial traces of the past. The gate of the moment–an Augenblick, a blink of the eye, a fleeting present that has no identity without the past behind it and the future ahead of it–can only textualize that which will have been what it is and what seeks to understand what will be what it is not yet. For Nietzsche, this dual path was characterized as the will to live the very moment eternally, as it is. An archaeology of the future, however, will not require such a will to live the present no matter what happens. Rather it will seek to uncover what there is in the past–right up to the present –that will make it possible to understand what will be, what will take place, what will happen, that is, what will have been the event of the now… The future cannot be thought apart from the past along with the very instant of the present. IAPL 2012 with its array of speakers, sessions, inquiries, proposals, interrogations, investigations, and critical projections will seek to interpret, understand, and strategically read the signs of the present by thinking the past in relation to the future. The memories of the past–diaries, memoirs, memorials, monuments, life histories, epitaphs, documentaries, painted scenes of past events, critical readings of aesthetic productions, etc.–are juxtaposed with imagined futures, science fictions, literary reconstructions, filmic inquisitions, plastic potentialities, musical interludes, and philosophical hermeneutics. IAPL 2012 is, after all, the 36th annual conference of one of the most dynamic, exciting, intellectually stimulating international, interdisciplinary professional societies in the broad spectrum of studies and research enterprises in the humanities, arts, and cultural theory. The International Association for Philosophy and Literature has already reached far beyond the frame of its disciplinary names, and yet it maintains its paleonym through the ongoing work of the IAPL as an association of scholars,