Venue: Room B107, Health Sciences Building, UCD
Friday 12th June 2009
09:00-09:45 – Registration and Coffee
09:45-10:00 – Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:50 – Plenary Lecture
Chair: Seferin James (University College Dublin)
Christina Howells (Oxford University)
“Deconstruction-to-come: Religion and Politics in America”
11:00-12:30 – Derrida and the American Academy
Chair: Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University)
Samir Haddad (Fordham University)
“Rereading the Story of Deconstruction in America”
Martin Woessner (City University of New York)
“(Re)Made in the USA: Derrida, Deconstruction, and the History of Theory”
Vivienne Orchard (University of Southampton)
“Derrida in America: the ‘Invisible College of Theory’ or Theory as Transdisciplinary Transgression”
12:30-13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 – Derrida and Rorty
Chair: Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
Carolyn Quinn (University College Dublin)
“Rorty, Derrida, and Politics”
Lorenzo Fabbri (Cornell University)
“The Resistance of Theory: Remarks on Rorty’s Domestication of Derrida”
Clayton Chin (Queen Mary, University of London)
“The Political Consequences of Contingency: Two-Dimensional Instability in Rorty and Derrida”
15:00-15:15 – Coffee Break
15:15-16:45 – Derrida and Genres of American Art
Chair: TBC
Dara Downey (Trinity College Dublin)
“‘The Body without Body’: Hauntology and Materiality in American Gothic Fiction”
Lilia Loman (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo)
“The blood jet is/as poetry: The Unavowable Truth of Confessional Writing”
JP McMahon (University College Cork)
“Postcards from Greenberg: Michael Fried, Vito Acconci, and the New York art scene of the 1970s”
16:45-17:00 – Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 – Derrida and ‘America’ as Signifier
Chair: Seferin James (University College Dublin)
Isabelle Alfandary (Université de Lyon-2)
“De quoi l’Amérique est le nom: Derrida and philosophy in America”
Sinead Hogan (University College Dublin)
“Amerika with a k”
18:00-19:30 – Food and Wine Reception
Saturday 13th June 2009
09:30-10:00 – Coffee
10:00-10:50 – Plenary Lecture
Chair: Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University)
“‘Again, no I won’t be able to, no, no’: Derrida and America”
11:00-12:30 – Derrida and Democracy in America
Chair: Christina Howells (Oxford University)
Niva Arav (University of Haifa)
“Rogue: Justice, Law and Powerlessness in Democracy”
Oisin Keohane (London School of Economics)
“Philosophical Rights-of-Way: The Passage of Philosophy in America”
Mauro Senatore (University Federico II, Napoli / University of Leeds)
“The Self-(De)-Constitution of the (American) Ego”
12:30-13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 – Derrida and Contemporary American Arts
Chair: TBC
Rebecca Lindenberg (University of Utah)
“What a Poem Can Mean: Derrida, Rifaterre, and the Influence of Structural and Poststructural Literary Theory on Contemporary American Poetry”
Lisa Guenther (McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, Montreal)
“Other White Mythologies: Reading Race in America”
Emmanuelle Ertel (New York University)
“Derrida on Translation and His (Mis)reception in America”
15:00-15:15 – Coffee Break
15:15-16:45 – Derrida and American Messianisms
Chair: Hugh J. Silverman (Stony Brook University, New York)
Inge-Birgitte Siegumfeldt (University of Copenhagen)
“Waiting for the Messiah”
Gerald Moore (Université Paris-12, Val de Marne)
“Derridobama, antimessiah?”
Oli Stephano (The New School for Social Research)
“Spectral Reckonings: Memory and Messianism”
16:45-17:00 – Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 – Roundtable Discussion on “Derrida and America”
Chair: Adam Kelly / Seferin James (University College Dublin)
Participants: Christina Howells (Oxford University
Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University)
Hugh J. Silverman (Stony Brook University, New York)
18:00 – Conference Close
19:00 – Conference Dinner, Tenor Bar and Grill, Donnybrook