Date: Tuesday 20th Wednesday 21st Thursday 22nd Friday 23rd 2018 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference: Overview Time Time 8.00am Level 9: 1PSQ Parramatta ASCP Day 1 ASCP Day 2 ASCP Day 3 9.00am Postgrad Seminar Registration Registration Registration 9.00-9.30am Level 9, 1PSQ Parramatta Morning Session 1(A) Morning Session 1(E) Morning Session 1(I) 9.30-11.00am 10.00am 10.00-10.30am Registration/Morning Tea 10.30-12.00pm Applying for ARC grants 11.00am Speakers: Miriam Bankovsky and Joanne Faulkner Break Break Break 11.00-11.30am Chair - Hannah Stark Morning Session 2(B) Morning Session 2(F) Morning Session 2(J) 11.30-1.00pm 12.00pm 12.00-1.00pm Lunch 1.00pm 1.00-2.30pm Publishing as a Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Lunch Lunch Lunch 1.00-2.30pm Speakers: Sigi Jöttkandt and Timothy Laurie 2.00pm Chair - Anisha Sankar 2.30-3.00pm Afternoon Tea Afternoon Session 1(C) Afternoon Session 1(G) Afternoon Session 1(K) 2.30-4pm 3.00pm 3.00-4.30pm The University as a Site of Struggle and Change Panel discussion organised by Briohny Walker, Jacinta Sassine 4.00pm and Anisha Sankar Break Break Keynote: 4.00-4.30pm Afternoon Session 2(D) Afternoon Session 2(H) James Risser 4.30-6.00pm 5.00pm 5.00-6.30pm Keynote: Chair - Jacinta Sassine. Introduction: Dennis Schmidt Chair - M. Kelly Peg Birmingham - Democracy, Populism, and Superfluity: 6.00pm Lessons from Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism Keynote: Plenary: 6.30-8pm 7.00pm 7.00-9.30pm Opening reception Walter Brogan Genevieve Lloyd Chair - J. Mensch Chair - D. Vardoulakis 8.00pm Conference Dinner 8.30-10.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm Date Wednesday 21st November Floor Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Room 01.2.36(LS) 01.2.59 (LS) 01.2.71 (LS) 01.3.29 (LS) 01.3.39 (LS) 01.3.69 (LS) 01.3.82 (LS) 01.4.23 (LS) Time Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3 Stream 4 Stream 5 Stream 6 Stream 7 Stream 8 7.30am 8.00am 9.00 - 9.30am Registration 9.30 - 11.00am Morning Spinoza 1: Chair - Janice Richardson Chair - Andrew Lac Mimetic Theory and Star Wars: Chair - Chris Fleming Social Imaginaries 1: Chair - Moira Gatens Feminist and Queer Politics: Chair - Allison Weir Trauma and Affect 1: Chair - Joanne Faulkner Chair - Luke Fischer Contemporary Problems in Deleuze Scholarship: Chair - Sean Bowden Session 1(A) Erik Kuravsky Allison Weir Norma Lam-Saw Sean BoWden Tristan BradshaW On the various senses of transcendence in Heidegger Diego Bubbio Suzi Adams Decolonizing Feminist Critical Theory Marguerite La Caze Bartleby at the Margins: Weak Refusals ‘Becoming-equal to the act’: the temporality of Utility’s Politics in Aristotle and Spinoza Anoop George A Sacrificial Crisis Not Far Away: Star Wars as a Castoriadis and Taylor on Social Imaginaries Trauma and resistance in Pablo Larrain’s No (2012) action and agential responsibility Modern Sense of the Sacred: Heidegger and Genuinely Modern Mythology Louise Richardson-Self Harry Fairless Tim Flanagan Jon Rubin Taylor in Dialogue Natalie Doyle ‘She Looks Like a Dike’: On the Heterosexism of Online Misogyny Robert Sinnerbrink Processual Materiality in Philip K. Dick’s Ubik The Distance Between Immanence and Emanation Is Spinoza's third kind of knowledge useless? Tadahiro Oota John McDoWell The debate between Alain Badiou and The Act of Witnessing: Cinematic Ethics in The Look of Jon Roffe On the Role of Thing in itself in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy Violent Desire: Abrams' Star Wars Marcel Gauchet: structural autonomy and contemporary capitalism Hannah Stark and Timothy Laurie Silence Nanda Jarosz Anti-production: brief genealogy of a concept from Anti-Oedipus Deleuze, Transfeminism and Feminist Politics Kant's Literary Sublime 11.00 - 11.30am Morning Tea 11.30 - 1.00pm Morning Spinoza 2: Chair - Jon Rubin Renaissance philosophy : Chair - Valery Rees Social Imaginaries 2: Chair - Suzi Adams Queer Nature: Chair - Rebecca Hill Trauma and Affect 2: Chair - Marguerite La Caze Chair - Harry Fairless Session 1(B) Haig Patapan Book Panel: Paolo Diego Bubbio, ‘Intellectual Sacrifice Rebecca Hill Peter Banki Robin Rodd Book Panel: Michael J Bennett, Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics: Janice Richardson Machiavellian Flattery and Other Mimetic Paradoxes’ (MSU Press: 2018) Jeremy Smith The Queer Tendencies of Sexual Difference Re-imagining Reconciliation with Jankélévitch and Emergency Art, Memory Museums and the Banality of Evil The Image of Nature Spinoza’s Ethics and Techniques of Power: A Feminist Perspective Political Imaginaries and Nationalist Traditions in the Americas Luara Karlson-Carp Aboriginal Thought Valeri Codesido Anna Corrias Chair - John McDowell Limits of Nature, Limits of Gender: Performing Sexual Difference The Iconic Structure of Postmodernism in the Australian Films from Chair - Sally Macarthur Dimitris Vardoulakis Marsilio Ficino in Search of Aristotle Speakers: Chris Fleming, John O'Carroll Craig BroWne in the Time of the Anthropocene Joanne Faulkner the Seventies Panel: Jon Roffe, Sean BoWden (Deakin), and Paul Alberts (Western Sydney). Spinoza, legality, Adam, the Fall Respondent: Diego Bubbio The Problem of Hierarchy and the Modern Political Imaginary Yannik Thiem Remembering Oblivia: Collective Trauma and the Scott Robinson Respondant: Michael Bennett Francesco Borghesi Weaponizing Queerness: The Unbearable Whiteness of Life Wounded Aboriginal Child’ in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book The irony of abstraction in Gordon Bennett’s Number series: Pico della Mirandola, Concord and Dignity After Performativity Post-colonial Politics, Art and Philosophy in Australia 1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch 2.30 - 4.00pm Afternoon German Philosophy of Nature: Chair - Jennifer Mensch Chair - Anoop George Political and Economic Theology 1: Chair - Nick Heron Trauma and Affect 3: Chair - Peter Banki Chair - Andrew Inkpin Chair - Paul Alberts Session 1(C) Dalia Nassar Pierre-Jean Renaudie Round table: E&D plenary panel: Mentoring women for professional Ahlam Mustafa Peter Jin Goethe's Philosophy of Nature: Conditions rather than Causes The Excess of Meaning : Phenomenology and the Limits of Sense Daniel McLoughlin Dwelling, Sovereignty, Ethics: Heidegger, Derrida, success in Continental Philosophy. Living with Monsters: Literary Representations of The Aesthetic and Critiques of Weimar Democracy: The Counter and Alain Guillemain Fifi Wong Between Foucault and Debord: Giorgio Agamben on the Levinas and Climate Refugees Memory and Trauma in Radwa Ashours Works Complement to Carl Schmitt’s Political Myth The link between frustration and ontology: a Deleuzian remedy Kristi SWeet Reapproaching the issue of Heideggerian Governmental Machine Chair - Simone Bignall Ian AndreWs Kant's Natural Cosmology in the Critique of Judgment world disclosure Chair - Nicole Anderson Speakers: Fiona Jenkins, Joanne Faulkner, Emily Hughes, Neil Vallelly Erlebnis: aesthetics, nihilism and the will to power Michael Hearn Bernardo Ainbinder Alison Ross Speakers: Nick Mansfield and Elaine Kelly Hannah Stark. ‘The Place was not a Place’: A Critical Phenomenology of Luke Fischer Vulnerability: The Ethical Potential of The Blush and Embarrassment Jennifer Mensch The Logic of “Life”: Modes of Beings, What is Walter Benjamin's idea of communist society? Forced Displacement Hölderlin’s Philosophical Poetics: From ‘Aesthetic Letters’ Form and Force: Kant and Goethe on the Organisation of Life Substance Templates and Kinds of Generality to the New Mythology 4.00 - 4.30pm Afternoon Tea 4.30 - 6.00pm Afternoon Chair - Tristan Bradshaw Chair - Kristi Sweet Political and Economic Theology 2: Chair - Alison Ross Chair - Mark Kelly Just Sex?': Affect, institutions, and sexual ethics: Trauma and Affect 4: Chair - Katrina Jaworski Chair - Ian Andrews Chair - Marilyn Stendera Session 1(D) Jeremy Kane Ryan Walter Chair - Timothy Laurie Joel Glazebrook The Significance of the Concept of Essence in Chris van Rompaey Smith’s Invisible Hand: Providence in Text and Context Lachlan Ross Anna Hush Cindy Zeiher AndreW Inkpin Analogical reasoning and political ontology Spinoza's Epistemology In Pursuit of Beauty: Baumgarten, Winckelmann Nicholas Heron Simmel and Foucault on the bonds of modernity Beyond ‘consent as contract’: Transforming sexual imaginaries The Jouissance of Unsayability Heideggerian Authenticity and the Narrative Self Reto Oechslin Philip Martin and the Founding of Art History World History as Last Judgment: A Reception History in higher educational institutions Rhenus Rhyax: Rehearsing The Fourth Affect in Motion: The Dynamics of Aesthetic Emotion in Spinoza Miguel Vatter Christopher Davidson Millicent Churcher: Reimagining Sexual Ethics: Jeanne-Marie Viljoen Krzysztof Ziarek Algebras of Franz Brentano and Abhinavagupta Toshiro OsaWa ‘Only a god can resist a god.’ Goethe's Frank Speech to Napoleon. Discipline and Punish and Educate: The Silent Consent, Self-regard, and Reciprocity: Part I Ongoing violence and the ineffable: a closer look at 'Waltz Heidegger's Poetic Way of Thinking Zhaolu Lu Michael-Francis Polios Why Conscience Can Be Mistaken: Baumgarten contra Kant On Gnosticism and Political Theology Production of ‘Autonomy’ in Kant According to Foucault Moira Gatens: Reimagining Sexual Ethics: with Bashir' (Folman and Polonsky 2009) Has the Mind-Beyond-Brain Theory been born? Spinoza and the Limits of Reason Consent, Self-regard, and Reciprocity: Part II 6.00 - 6.30pm Break: Level 9 6.30 - 8.00pm Keynote: Walter Brogan Conference opening: Richard Colledge The Human Being and the Animal: Reconsidering Agamben's Critique of Heidegger. Chair - Jennifer Mensch Date Thursday 22nd November