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Conference
NIETZSCHE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND FEMINISM
Kingston University London
Penrhyn Road campus, John Galsworthy building, Room 0002
November 25-November 26, 2016
10:30-12:30
PLENARY SPEAKER
LUCE IRIGARAY: ‘Why Freudian Psychoanalysis Could Not Rescue Nietzsche’
Response by Willow Verkerk, Kingston University
Please click here to view the programme.
For further information about this event click here or contact:
Willow Verkerk
Email: W.Verkerk@kingston.ac.uk
Social Theory Centre
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Monday 14th November 2016, 17.00-19.00
Luce Irigaray Public Lecture ‘How Could We Truly Live and Talk Together: Beyond Idealist Dreams and Pseudo-materialists Dictates’.
Tuesday 15th November 2016, 13.00-14.00
Luce Irigaray & Stephen Seely in conversation around her latest book Through Vegetal Being (Columbia University Press, 2016), co-authored with Michael Marder.
For further information about this event click here: Social Theory Centre
Program for the Seminar Held by Luce Irigaray
The Global Center for Advanced Studies
Director Creston Davis
12-16 September 2016, 10:00 am to 12:30 am
(Centre Sèvres, 38, rue de Sèvres, 75OO6, Paris)
Too often we consider that reaching a world culture could happen through acquiring new knowledge and an a priori tolerance about other traditions. However, this entails at least a double mistake. First, the life of humanity is henceforth in danger, not only this of our planet and of the biodiversity of other living beings. Second, it is not the acquisition of knowledge and an abstract will to relate to others that can render us capable of „governing the world”, as Nietzsche would say, but a transformation of our way of being and behaving. Thus I will try to approach some conditions which can unable us to deal with the task of guaranteeing a future for our planet and all the human and not human living beings which live on it:
Each of these themes will be treated in a talk followed by a discussion with the participants in the seminar.
Proposal of reading for preparing the seminar:
Meeting 1
Meeting 2
Meeting 3
Meeting 4
Meeting 5
Discussion from written questions in relation to the 4 talks.
To register for this seminar, please visit The Global Center for Advanced Studies page and be in touch with Luce Irigaray at <towardthinking@gmail.com> or via this website.
If you are a researcher working with Luce Irigaray, please be in touch with her on this website for information about the cost for attending.
9th of June
From 10:00 to 12:00 am:
– Visit to the Botanical garden with comments by the responsible of the site on love of some flowers and amorous relations between insects and flowers.
At 12:30 pm:
– Lunch.
At 2:00 pm:
– Welcome coffee with registration of the new arrivals.
From 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm:
– Some words of welcome by Maria Fannin;
– Luce Irigaray (CNRS Paris): Giving Life;
– Lisa Watrous (Arisona State University): Labouring Love.
At 5:00 pm:
– Coffee break.
From 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm:
– Sinith Sittirak (University of Bangkok): Reading Love, Reading Silence; Re-reading the life of Grasroots’ Writing and Fighting for Land Rights in Thailand (1963-2004);
– Andrea Wheeler (Iowa State University): Building Energy, Building Love, Building a Living Architecture.
At 7:00 pm:
– Dinner.
10th of June
From 9:30 am to 11:00 am:
– Maria Fannin (University of Bristol): Immunity as Love: Relations Between Others during pregnancy;
– Randolph Dible (University of Stony Brook): Woman, an Umbilical Unbiblical Genesis.
From 11:00 am to 11:30 am:
– Coffee break.
From 11:30 am to 1:00 pm:
– Katrina Mitcheson (University of the West of England): Louise Bourgeois: Ambivalence and Family;
– Jennifer Carter (University of Stony Brook): Rethinking Generational Relations through Touch.
1:00 pm:
– Lunch.
From 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm:
– Presentation with comments on words and drawings of girls and boys by Luce Irigaray and Jennifer Carter;
– Tanja Staehler made a little film in which her three sons express themselves about sexuation and sexuality and the girls will be invited to react to their words;
– Maria Fannin will organize a visit to a farm situated in a popular area of Bristol where they offer many activities for children. A tea break or a dinner will take place there.
11th of June
From 9:00 am to 1:00 pm (with a coffee break at 11:00am):
– Presentation and Suggestions for a Updated Plato’s Symposium;
– Laura Roberts (University of Queensland): A Revolution of Love: Thinking through a Dialectic that Is Not One;
– Tanja Staeler (University of Sussex): Parental Love beyond Teleology;
– MahonO’Brien (University of Sussex): Socrates: the Unerotic Philosopher;
– Luce Irigaray (CNRS Paris): Giving Birth to one another through Love;
– With shorter interventions by Andrea Wheeler, Jennifer Carter, Lisa Watrous.
At 1:00 pm:
– Lunch.
From 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm:
– Walk and activities in Ashton Court Park, in particular in the rose garden.
The location of the conference is Wills Memorial Hall, Coutts Lecture Theatre Room 3.31, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK.
The location of the seminar: the Southwest Doctoral Training Centre, University of Bristol, 1 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TZ, UK.
The address of the hotel where participants will stay: The Clifton Hotel, St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LX, UK
Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held a seminar with researchers doing their PhD on her work. This way, they have the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences between them. The seminar was welcomed by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, Continuum, London & New York, 2008) by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year, by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year, by the University of Nottingham the seventh year; it was co-hosted by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol the eighth year and hosted by the University of Bristol the ninth, tenth and eleventh years. The seminar will take place at the University of Bristol in 2016.
Link to conference registration: here
Talks will be given in the morning and other activities will be organised in the afternoon in connection with the theme of the day. The conference will be organised by Luce Irigaray in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol, Sussex, and the West of England.
Luce Irigaray is organising the Thinking Love conference and will make the programme available soon.
The location of the conference is Wills Memorial Hall, Coutts Lecture Theatre Room 3.31, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK.
On 9th, 10th and 11th June 2016 a conference on “Thinking Love” will take place at the University of Bristol. Each day will be devoted to a theme: Loving Life; Generational Love; Love Between Lovers.
Classic talks will be given in the morning and other activities will be organized in the afternoon in connection with the theme of the day. The conference will be organized by Luce Irigaray in collaboration with the University of Bristol, of the West of England and of Sussex.
If you have participated in one of the past seminars held by Luce Irigaray and you want to have a talk or to propose another activity, please be in touch with Luce Irigaray (at this postal address: 15, rue Lakanal, Paris, 75015, France or at this email address: <towardthinking@gmail.com>) and send a title and an abstract (no more by email) of your eventual intervention. If you want only attend the conference, tell this at the same addresses. Participants in the seminar of 2016 can attend the conference.
Practical details about the conference will be given later and a site will be open at the University of Bristol for registration.
There will be a conference at the University of Nottingham on ‘Living and Speaking Together (Parler et Habiter Ensemble) on 20th-21st June, 2015. Confirmed speakers include Professor Luce Irigaray and Professor Michael Marder.
Further details will be released shortly.
On 30th October 2014, a meeting around Sharing the World will take place at the University of Bristol (UK). After a talk by Michael Marder, Judith Still and Luce Irigaray, a round table will take place in which you can give a 5 minute talk about Sharing the World, followed by questions to one or more of the main speakers. If you have previously participated in the Luce Irigaray International Seminar, you can give a 5 minute talk in the round table session.
If you want to present a 5 minute talk in this one day meeting, please contact Luce Irigaray with a short proposal, preferably at her postal address: 15 rue Lakanal, Paris, 75015, France. Proposals should be sent to Luce Irigaray by 10th October 2014.
(If you are far away and the post will not work, you may use towardthinking@gmail.com).
If you want only to attend the meeting without participating, please ask for details from the School of Geography at the University of Bristol.
In the evening of 31st October 2014, an informal meeting will take place between people who want to participate in a research network with their university or research centre. This network will aim to sustain the annual seminar held by Luce Irigaray for young researchers who do their PhD on her work, and organise conferences and other seminars.
Luce Irigaray
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