The seminar is organized @ Penn State University by Leonard Lawlor (Dept. of Philosophy) and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Dept. of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies), together with The Department of Philosophy, The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Rock Ethics Institute and the Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Our basis for discussion are Jacques Derrida’s “The Ends of Man” (1968) and Sylvia Wynter’s “The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition” (2015).
9:30am-11:30pm On (other) institutions
Introductory statements by Jacques Lezra, Melanie Sehgal, Sybrandt van Keulen
1:00-3:00pm On (reading) opacity
Introductory statements by Esther Peeren, Len Lawlor, Shannon Winnubst
3:30-5:00pm Keynote lecture by Alia Al-Saji (McGill University)
“A Critical Time of Ethics: Hesitation and the Reconfiguration of the Past”
10:00-12:00pm On the ends of (hu)man
Introductory statements by Kathrin Thiele, Sam McAuliffe, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
1:30-3:30pm On (im)possible mutations
Introductory statements by Birgit M. Kaiser, Mercedes Bunz, Tjalling Valdés Olmos, Timothy O’Leary
3:45-4:00pm Book launch
Terra Critica publication Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (eds. M. Bunz, B.M. Kaiser and K. Thiele) meson press 2017
4:00-5:30pm Keynote lecture by Ewa Ziarek (SUNY Buffalo)
“Can Critique be Reparative: A Response to Klein, Kristeva, Sedgwick, and Company”
10:00-12:00pm Concluding session
2:00-4:00pm Terra Critica network meeting
