ASCP 2013 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Day 1: Tuesday 3 December 9.20 - 9.30 Conference opening EA.2.13 (LT02) Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Dimitris Vardoulakis, Chair of Philosophy@UWS 9.30 - 10.30 Keynote Address EA.2.13 (LT02) James Martel Anarchist all the way down: Walter Benjamin's subversion of authority in text, thought and action Chair: Charles Barbour 10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 12.15 Parallel Session 1 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Hal Ginges Samuel Cuff Snow John Cleary Toby Juliff Simone Drichel Book Panel: Dalia Nassar, The Romantic Thematic panel: Sartre reconsidered Thematic panel: Spinoza's Authority The Thing-in-itself is not a Thing: Kant, The Promise of Irony: Kierkegaard and “Withered by the identical neutrality of ‘If I contend with thee’: Hopkins and The Disaster of Postcolonial Narcissism Absolute: Being and Knowing in Goethe and the Apprehension of Essences Schiller the gulf” : The concept of the Event in Derrida, in a field in Yorkshire German Romantic Philosophy 1795- Russell Grigg Gregg Lambert the Philosophy of Alain Badiou. Joanne Faulkner 1804 Speaking for myself: Freedom and On Spinoza and “signs” Daniel Wilson Wojciech Kaftanski Maebh Long The Coming Postcolonial Community: Responsibility in Sartre and Freud Reconciling contemporary art with Kant’s Plato's and Kierkegaard's Reading of Chris van Rompaey Absolute Nonabsolute Singularity: Political Ontology of Aboriginal Damion Buterin Dimitris Vardoulakis principles of fine art Imitation Jean-Luc Nancy’s Deconstruction of Derrida and Fragmentation Childhood in Bringing Them Home Paul Redding Talia Morag Inequality as a Critique of Authority Christianity: A Badiouian Critique Simon Lumsden Keeping psychology personal: Sartre, Murray Robertson Jeffrey Hanson Terri Bird Chair: Simone Bignall Bad Faith and the Unconscious Chair: Justin Clemens Can a numinous noumenon exist? He Speaks in Tongues’: Hearing the Truth Alexander Karolis Flesh to frame: reconsidering material Chair: Damian Buterin of Abraham’s Words of Faith Ontological Intersections: Jean-Luc relations through practices of Chair: Jon Roffe Chair: Diego Bubbio Nancy and Martin Heidegger contemporary art Chair: Richard Colledge Chair: Alex Ling Chair: Matheson Russell 12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Session 2 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Ben Hjorth Valerijs Vinogradovs Alex Ling Jessica Whyte Paul Macovaz Tim Flanagan Thematic panel: Sartre reconsidered Thematic panel: Spinoza and Literature A strange kind of inbetween thing': Lack of Productive Imagination in Sellars' The Categorial Imperative: On Badiou’s Fail again: Fail better? The ‘weak state The Plastic Screen : Cinema's corporeo- Deleuze and Disquiet Translating Hegel with Anne Carson Appropriation of Kantian Imagination Mathematics of the Transcendental crisis’ and the language of failure. cognitive foil Robert Sinnerbrink Moira Gatens Hannah Stark A Dangerous Mind: Sartre, Huston and Deliberative Fictions: Spinoza and the James Muldoon Gene Flenady Justin Clemens Timothy O'Leary Cameron Ironside Corn Man Walking: Deleuze and Plants the Freud Screenplay concept of an ars Would Hegel be a Foucaultian Today? Making Sense in/of Discourse, Figure: Polemic as logic in the work of Alain Get Over Yourself! Foucault’s Critique of Film and the Metaphysics of Possible Lyotard's Reading of Hegel and our Badiou Ethical Experience Worlds Emma Shea Davies David MacArthur Anthony Uhlmann Michael Leininger-Ogawa Reading of Lyotard Who cries when a rock dies? The Sartre, Wittgenstein and the Logical Spinoza and Understanding and Paul Veyne's Foucault Chair: Alex Ling Chair: Miguel Vatter Conall Cash connection between grief and ethics in Form of Language Meaning in Nature and in Art Lucian Green Immediacy and Representation in the the human-nonhuman relationship Chair: Paul Alberts Overturning Hegel’s experience of Cinema of Lee Chang-dong Chair: Eleanor Kaufman Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis alienation through five-fold humanities Chair: Craig Lundy lenses Chair: Greg Flaxman Chair: Peter Banki 14.30 - 14.45 Break 14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Session 3 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Tiffany Plotzza Louise Richardson-Self Demanding Tessa Clews Fiona Jenkins Mathew Abbott Craig Lundy Book panel: Genevieve Lloyd, Thematic panel: Animal Voices Subjectivity and the Other: The founding Respect: Rainer Forst’s Reflections on The Emasculating Angel: An Anti-Oedipal Law's Deformability and the Politics of Cinematic Scepticism: Abbas Bergson, History and Ontology Enlightenment Shadows role of the Other in the formation of the Tolerance and Luce Irigaray’s Philosophy Reading of Castrations in Film Address Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Christopher Peterson subject in the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. of Sexuate Difference Sean Bowden Anik Waldow The Monolingualism of the Human Thierry Jutel Marcelo Svirsky Laurence Simmons Ontological Relativity and Indirect Dalia Nassar Lisa Slater Jeff Stewart Location, locality and place: Pacific Rim, Subjectivity and Profanation The Unfilmable Discourse: A Potted History with a Max Deutscher Chris Danta Waiting at the border: impossibility, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Heidegger, Luce The Hobbit and Global Hollywood Deleuzian Coda "Might sovereignty be devouring?" generosity and settler Australian amnesia Irigaray, and the no-longer-book Chair: Sarah Sorial Chair: Robert Sinnerbrink Chair: Paul Patton Derrida and the Fable Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough Chair: Jon Roffe Liz Dean Rebecca Hill The Banality and Transcendence of Evil: Chair: Dinesh Wadiwel The Ethics of an Encounter; habits and Fold: on the Implication of Ideas and the Tragic Hero as a grovelling Nazi in change Becoming Lars von Trier’s Images of a Relief Chair: Lubica Ucník Chair: Elizabeth Stephens Chair: Saige Walton 16.15 - 16.30 Afternoon Tea Foyer Area Building EA 16.30 - 17.30 Keynote Address EA.2.13 (LT02) Elizabeth Rottenberg Jacques Derrida and the "Question" of the Death Penalty Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Day 2: Wednesday 4 December 09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Session 4 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Emma Wilson Astrid Lorange Amy Stefanovic Thomas Ryan Onni Hirvonen Knox Peden Goetz Richter Thematic panel: Deleuze’s Dramatic The Psyche of the Spectacle: An aesthetic account of new Democracy is Common Knowledge Nietzsche's cure from the metaphysical The possibilities of Hegelian group The Irony of Equality: Rancière and Heidegger's Music Concepts: The Dark Precursor and Kristeva's Theory of Revolt in a Post- materialisms and dissonant need recognition History the Spiritual Automaton Revolutionary Age feminisms Janice Richardson Sally Macarthur Spinoza, Information and Privacy Paul Alberts Mirjam van der Heide Matheson Russell Deleuzianising the Composer Identity Simone Bignall Emma McNicol Martyn Lloyd Nietzsche: Relationality and the Struggles for dignity Kojève's Phenomenology of Right The Obscure Drama of the Political Insights gained from Simone de Re-Reading Wahl: Le Malheur de la Ozgur Yalcin Conditions for Naturalism Chair: Greg Hainge Idea Beauvoir's (recently published) conscience dans la philosophie de The constitution of democratic Andrea Mattia Marcelli Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis diaries Hegel and French Hegelianism’s society: Rawls or Habermas? David Rowe Hermeneutics as epistemic ground: Gregory Flaxman ‘First Wave’ Nietzsche's Negative View of Freedom A Foucauldian trail Thinking/Cinema Daniel Mafe Chair: Daniel McLoughlin A notional ekphrasis: describing the Amanda Third Chair: Joanne Faulkner Chair: Heikki Ikäheimo Eleanor Kaufman unimaginable, Pontormo and Contracting Pleasures: Sex, The Dark Precursor and What Lyotard’s affect phrase Infidelity and Gender in Erotic Follows Fiction Chair: Marguerite La Caze Chair: Gregg Lambert Chair: Fiona Jenkins 10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 11.45 Parallel Session 5 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 Book panel: Charles Barbour, The Book Panel: Max Deutscher, In Response panel: William Franke Book panel: Jeff Malpas, ‘We Response panel: Robyn Ferrell Free ASCP Postgraduate Professional Marx-Machine: Politics, Polemics, Sensible Judgement The New Apophatic Universalism: Hyperboreans’: Towards a Stuff: Development Session Ideology Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Nietzschean Topography The Cost of Culture Michael Carey Open Togetherness in the European James Martel Michelle Boulous Walker Tradition Respondent: Paul Alberts Respondent: Jess Whyte Anna Yeatman Chair: Paul Crittenden Respondent: Chris Hackett Chair: Peg Birmingham Chair: Allison Weir Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Chair: Diego Bubbio 11.45 - 12.00 Break 12.00 - 13.00 ASCP Annual General Meeting EA.2.13 (LT02) 13.00 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 15.00 Parallel Session 6 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Damion Buterin Dimitri Vouros Mike Grimshaw Pat McConville Valeria Pashkova Severin Staalesen Book panel: Justin Clemens, Thematic panel: Animal Studies Hegel's Rejoinder to Nominalism Reinterpreting Hegelian Totality Hermeneutic capitalism? A Truths The Hand Can Touch: Towards A Hannah Arendt and the tradition of Something's got to give: Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy and Abstract Universality in precursor to Vattimo & Zabala Bioconservative Existentialism Western thought phenomenology, cognitive science, Derrida's animals Emily Finlay Adorno's Philosophy