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Friday, May 19, 2023 –
Saturday, May 20, 2023 (all day)
Saturday, May 20, 2023 (all day)
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Glissant and Levinas - Thinking the Relation
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This event is free
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John Molson Building
1450 Guy
Room MB 14.250 and MB.9A
Wheel chair accessible
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Glissant and Levinas: Thinking the Relation
The conference Glissant and Levinas: Thinking the Relation, invites scholars in philosophy, English, francophone, and Caribbean literature, environmental studies, decolonial studies, and Jewish studies, to think about the major point of contact between Édouard Glissant and Emmanuel Levinas: our relation to the other, and its ethical and political significance.
The conference proceedings will be published in the journal Levinas Studies.
This event will be hybrid. Please register on zoom prior to the event.
Program
Friday, May 19th Room MB.9A
10:00-10:15: Welcome by Mérédith Laferté-Coutu
10:15-11:15: Robert Bernasconi (Penn State University), “The Unique and the Exotic: Segalen, Levinas, Glissant”
11:15-11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:30: Justin Wooley (University of Memphis), “Approaching the Condition of Election through Relation: Levinas and Glissant on the Imaginary of the West”
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-13:30 (MB.9B)
13:30 - 14:30: Mérédith Laferté-Coutu (Concordia University), “Between Glissant and Levinas’s Critiques of Rootedness”
14:30 - 15:30: Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez (Penn State University), “Indigenous Philosophies and the Right to Opacity: A Challenge to the Discipline”
15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:15: First Keynote Kris Sealey (Fairfield University), “Fleshing out Relation: Alterity, Opacity and Landed Reciprocity”
Saturday, May 20th Room MB.9A
9:00 - 9:15: Welcome by Andrew Domzal
9:15 - 10:15: Nathan Bell (University of Melbourne), “Glissant, Levinas, Drabinski: Universality and Humanism from the Other Shore” [ONLINE]
10:15-11:15: Vera Napolitano (University of Paris I: Panthéon Sorbonne), “Ethics, Poetics, Apophantics”
11:15 - 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30-12:30: Andrew Domzal (Penn State University), “Heidegger, Levinas, and Glissant: The Problem of Dwelling”
LUNCH BREAK 12:30-13:30 (MB.9B)
13:30 - 14:30: Nicolas de Warren (Penn State University), “Anarchy, the Shock from Elsewhere”
14:30 - 15:30: Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim (Minneapolis College), “Chaos, Myth, and Trembling: Glissant and Levinas”
15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:15: Second Keynote John Drabinski (University of Maryland), “The Time and Memory of Relation; or, Between Diaspora and Archipelago”
17:15 - 18:30: Closing cocktail reception
Contact: Mérédith Laferté-Coutu (m_lafert@live.concordia.ca) and Andrew Domzal (asd5500@psu.edu)
Glissant and Levinas: Thinking the relation
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Co-presented by the Social Justice Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and the Department of Philosophy.
This event is supported by a Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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