Participants’ Conference: Saturday and Sunday, August 2-3, 2014

 

In order to facilitate a further exchange of ideas and research, a participants’ conference will be held the weekend before the seminar begins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participants’ Conference Schedule

 

Location: Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (1st Floor of Gumberg Library)

Saturday, August 2nd and Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

 

 

Presenters are each allotted twenty minutes of reading time plus ten minutes for question/answer.

 

 

Saturday, August 2nd

 

Session 1: Formalism in Phenomenology 10:00-11:30am

 

Alexander Gorman – Duquesne University

Cavaillès and the Legacy of Phenomenology

 

David Pena-Guzman – Emory University

Synthesis Without Subjectivity: A Phenomenological Reading of French Historical Epistemology

 

Justin Humphreys – New School for Social Research

Husserl on Symbolic Mathematics and the Problem of Formalization

 

Session 2: Political Theory and Subjectivity: Badiou and Deleuze 11:45am-12:45pm

 

Jan-Jasper Persijn –  Ghent University

Is the need for representation in politics inversely proportional to its emancipatory potential? On Badiou’s revolutionary conception of metapolitics

 

Gil Morejón – DePaul University

The Time of Residue and Excess: Political Subjects in Deleuze and Badiou

 

Lunch 12:45-2:45pm

 

Session 3: Lacan, Plato, and the Structure of the Real 2:45-4:15pm

 

Jennifer Wang – New School for Social Research

Beyond the Sinthome: Unconscious and Structure after Lacan

 

Jeff McCurry – Duquesne University

Experience Beyond Experience: Lacan on Jouissance Beyond Desire

 

Gabriela Gomes Costardi – University of São Paulo

Symbolization and Formalization: Two Readings of the Relationship Between the Act and the Real in Psychoanalytic Cure

 

Session 4: Metaphysics, Emergence, and Totality 4:30-5:30pm

 

Chris Drain – Villanova University

Agentive Emergence and the Ontology of the Event

 

Joshua Heller and Jon Cogburn – Louisiana State University

Post-structuralism, Speculation, and Paradoxes of Totality

 

 

Sunday, August 3rd

 

Session 5: Aesthetics and the Anomalous 10:00-11:30am

 

Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcaraz – Academy of Art in Szczecin

The Epistemological Function and Ontology of Analog and Digital Images

 

Jeff Lambert – Duquesne University

Beyond Monstrosity

 

Clayton Bohnet – Duquesne University

The Topper Falling Off: Lacan and Badiou in Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle

 

Session 6: Badiou: Logic, Science, Structure 11:45am-1:15pm

 

Amrit Mandzak-Heer  – Villanova University

Abstract or Concrete Formalization: Badiou on Syntax and Semantics

 

David Maruzzella – DePaul University

The Torment of Philosophy: Badiou’s Appendix to “Mark and Lack”

 

Becky Vartabedian – Regis University/Duquesne University

Excess, Excrescence, and the Possibility of Resistance

 

Lunch 1:15-2:45pm

 

Session 7: Subjectivity, Life, and Possibility 2:45-4:15pm

 

Michael O’Neill Burns – Loyola University Maryland

Transcendental Materialism and Materialist Humanism: Subjectivity Between Life and Concept

 

Søren Rosendal – Aarhus University

The Possibility of Possibility: Hegel and the Form of Necessity

 

Session 8: Logic and Sexual Difference 4:30-5:30pm

 

Danny Smith – Penn State University

The Logic of Lacan’s Formulas of Sexation

 

Elisabeth Paquette – York University

Alain Badiou and the Feminine