Derrida Today Conference
The Derrida Today conferences are a means by which to bring together a community of Derrida/deconstruction scholars from around the world, and to showcase the latest work in Derrida Studies, and its relevance to cultural, political, and social practice.
Call for Papers
CFP for 3rd Derrida Today Conference
Venue: University of California, Irvine, USA.
Host: Professor Stephen Barker (UCI)
Date: 11th -13th July, 2012
Keynotes:
David Wills came to Albany in 1998 from Louisiana State University, where he was chair of the department of French and Italian. He holds a joint appointment in French and English. His BA and MA degrees are from the University of Auckland, and his doctorate from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (1979). His original research was in Surrealist poetry but his published work has concentrated on literary theory, especially the work of Derrida, film theory and comparative literature. He teaches classes in 20th century literature, literary theory, and film.Wills’s major work, developed first in Prosthesis (Stanford, 1995), concerns on the one hand the originary technology or "non-naturalness" of the human, and on the other, the ways in which writing functions as a technological in/outgrowth of the body. Those ideas are extended via what he calls “dorsality,” a thinking of the back and what is behind - the other of the facial - where the emphasis is on certain ethical, political and sexual implications of a technological rewriting of identity. In recent work he also investigates the question of conceptual invention against the background of musical improvisation, for example in jazz, and the instrumentality or technology of the voice.Wills is also a translator of Derrida, notably The Gift of Death, Right of Inspection, Counterpath, and The Animal That Therefore I Am. His most recent book is Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics (Minnesota, 2008).
Penelope Deutscher specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender. She studied in Paris with Sarah Kofman (DEA, University of Paris 1) before completing her PhD at the University of NSW under Genevieve Lloyd. Her main publications include Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge 1997); A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Cornell University Press, 2002), How to Read Derrida (Granta/Norton 2006), and The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2008).She is co-editor with Kelly Oliver of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (Cornell University Press, 1999), and, with Françoise Collin of Repenser le politique: l'apport du féminisme, an anthology of French translations of contemporary Anglo-American women political philosophers (Paris: Campagne première /Les cahiers du grif, 2004.). She also guest edited for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy the special issue 'Contemporary French Women Philosophers' (15:4, 2000). Other areas of special interest include theories of genealogy and biopolitics (Nietzsche, Foucault, Agamben).She has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2007-8), a Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, UK (2007); a N.S.W. Residency Expatriate Scientists Award at the University of Sydney (2005); and an Australian Research Council Large Grant (1999-2001).
Tom Cohen’s work began in literary theory and cultural politics and traverses a number of disciplines—including cinema studies, digital thought, biopolitics, and more recently the contemporary shift of 21st century studies in the era of climate change. He has published broadly on American authors and ideology (Poe, Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, pragmatism, Morrison, among them) as well as on Greek and continental philosophy. His Anti-Mimesis—from Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge UP, 1994) explored the relations between close reading techniques alter the paradigms of historical representation, while Ideology and Inscription - ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge, 1998) examined modes of thinking cultural and interpretive politics in relation to scriptive memory. In his two volume work on Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies, Cohen explored cinema’s hyperbolic links to writing, perceptual memory and representational politics. His current interests focus on how the dawning “era of climate change” resets the protocols of 20th century theoretical concepts. To pursue this horizon he founded the Institute on Critical Climate Change, IC3, in which the term “critical” references theoretical and conceptual paradigms. He is also a co-author, together with Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, of the forthcoming Theory in the era of Climate Change - de Man on Benjamin, with Routledge. And he is co-editor of the series Critical Climate Change, with the new web-based Open Humanities Press. Cohen has essays in forthcoming volumes or special journal issues on Nietzsche and Media, War, Digital Theory, the Materialist Spirit, The Technologies of ‘The Book,’ 'Deconstruction and “Life,”' among others. Book projects that are “in progress” include a study of Faulkner, “race” and technics (titled Catafalque); a monograph on the Brazilian director Jorge Padilha’s Bus 174 and cinema “after” biopolitics; and a book on the Aporia of Travel, a counter-narrative inquiry into temporalities and contemporary “travel.” He is contributing editor of Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: a Transdisciplinary Reader, (Cambridge UP, 2002).
Due dates for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: 21st November 2011
Call for Papers: The Derrida Today Conference will focus on the ongoing value of Derrida’s work to the political-ethical, cultural, artistic and public debates and philosophical futures that confront us.
The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We will accept papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work or deconstruction in relation to various topics and contemporary issues, such as: philosophy, phenomenology and other theoretical/philosophical thinkers, literature, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, law, film and visual studies, haptic technologies, photography, art, music, dance, embodiment, feminism, race and whiteness studies, politics, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory, sexuality, education, science (physics, biology, medicine, chemistry), IT and multimedia, technology, etc.
Instructions
Individual Participants: submit 300 words abstract for a 20 minute paper. Please include a bio (no more than 100 words), affiliation and contact details.
Panel Proposals: Panels will consist of 3 papers of 20 minutes delivery and 10 minutes discussion time each. Panel organizers should submit an overall panel proposal of 100 -200 words, plus individual abstracts of 300 words for each paper, along with personal bios and contact details (email, address and phone), and their university affiliation, of each member of the panel. The panel organiser should also supply their bio and contact details and affiliation.
Due Date for Abstracts and Panel Proposals: 21st November 2011.
Individual Abstracts & Panel Proposals should be sent as an attachment to:
derridatodayconference@gmail.com
All enquiries about the conference ONLY, to this email address.
The conference is based on the journal Derrida Today (general editors: Nicole Anderson & Nick Mansfield, reviews editor: Martin McQuillan, Associate Editor: Simon Morgan Wortham). The journal is published by Edinburgh University Press, ISSN: 1754-8500).
EUP Journal Website: http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/drt
Derrida Today Journal email: dteditors@gmail.com
Enquiries about the journal and submissions should be sent to this address ONLY.
Participants will be invited to submit article length versions of their papers for consideration for publication in the journal.