[Foucault-L] Conference: Ontology and Politics

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ONTOLOGY AND POLITICS CONFERENCE

June 16th, 2008

Presented by the Politics Department and the Graduate School for Humanities
and Social Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London

9:00am Registration

9:30am Panel 1: Delimiting the Absent Grounds of the Political

Kevin Inston (University College London): "Representing the
Unrepresentable: Rousseau's Legislator and the Impossible Object of the
People."

Alexandros Kioupkiolis (University of Cyprus): "Keeping It Open:
Ontology, Ethics, Knowledge and Radical Democracy."

Gerald Moore (Université Paris XII): "To Have Done with The End of
Sacrifice."

11:10am Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 Panel 2: The Political Subject Between Immanence and Transcendence

Nemonie Craven (Queen Mary): "Je suis nécessaire à la justice. Emmanuel
Levinas, from conatus to fidélité a soi."

Patricia Farrell (Manchester Metropolitan): "Responsibility without
capability, responsibility within capability: the encounter with the
Other in Levinas and Deleuze."

Giorgos Fourtounis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): "Immanence and
Subjection: Foucault, Althusser and the aporia of the subject."

1:10pm Lunch Break

2:15pm Panel 3: Ontology and Engagements with Politics

Ignaas Devisch & Kathleen Vandeputte (Ghent University): "Nancy and
Ontological Pluralism: The Absence of A Political Program."

Johanna Oksala (University of Dundee): "Foucault's Politicisation of
Ontology."

Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill): "Ontologies, Politics, Dialectics: The
Ordering of Stable and Unstable Moments."

4:15pm Keynote Address

Simon Critchley (New School)

Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)


To register or for questions please contact Paul Rekret(p.rekret@xxxxxxxxxx)

All sessions take place in: Room 326, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary,
University of London (Mile End Campus) Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS

Directions and Map: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html

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