May 3–4, 2013
Franke Institute for the Humanities
Friday, May 3rd
Opening Remarks (12:45 p.m.)
Michael Gallope and Geneviève Rousselière (Weissbourd Co-Chairs, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
Tensions of Community (1:00–2:30 p.m.)
Chair: Robert Richards (Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of Science and Medicine , Professor of History, Philosophy and Psychology)
Carly Lane (Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
“Passionate Appeals, Constitutive Ideals: Arendt, Foucault, and Kant on the Structure of Thought and Formation of Community"
Rafeeq Hasan (Philosophy, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“Two Forms of Autonomy: Rousseau and Kant”
Jap Makkar (English, University of Virginia)
“A Universal Method: The Dialectic in Hegel and Marx”
Aesthetic Interventions I (2:45–4:15 p.m.)
Chair: Richard Strier (Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English)
Nicholas Nardini (English, Harvard University)
“The Province of the Poem is the World”: William Carlos Williams’s Cold War Poetics of Universality”
Christopher Sloan (English, Indiana University)
“Media and Uninhabitable Space: Atmosphere as a Limit to Universality, 1793/1835”
Karl Swinehart (Linguistic Anthropology, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“The Potosí Principle and Andean Hip Hop”
Keynote Presentation (4:30 p.m.)
Jean-Michel Rabaté (Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania)
"Reasons of the ‘Absurd’: Paradoxes of the Universal from Kafka to Badiou"
Respondent: Eric L. Santner (Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, Committee on Jewish Studies)
Saturday, May 4th
Justice, Ethics, and Love (9:00–10:30 a.m.)
Chair: Nathan Bauer (Philosophy, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
Hannah Mosher (Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
“Choosing Oneself in the Universal: The Existentialist Ethics of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or”
David Svolba (Philosophy, Fitchburg State University)
“Harry Frankfurt on the Limits of the Will”
Josh Preiss (Philosophy, Minnesota State University)
“Should a Theory of Justice be Universal or Particular?”
Lineages of Normativity (10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.)
Chair: Bernard Harcourt (Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, Criminology and Political Science)
Jennifer Frey (Philosophy, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“How Universal Are Practical Norms?”
Jonny Thakkar (Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
“Forms as Formal Causes in Plato’s Republic”
Shanna Carlson (Romance Studies, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“Lacan Sexes the Universal, Finds it ‘Futile’”
Lunch (provided) (12:15–1:00 p.m.)
Aesthetic Interventions II (1:00–3:00 p.m.)
Chair: Rebecca Zorach (Professor of Art History & Romance Languages, Senior Chair, Society of Fellows)
Timothy Michael (English, Loyola University Maryland)
“One with all these Things: Instances of Universality in Hopkins and Swinburne”
Morgan Thomas (Art History, University of Cincinnati)
“Abstraction, Universality and ‘Human Need’ in Rothko’s Painting”
Michael Gallope (Musicology, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“Negative Cosmopolitanism in Janka Nabay's Bubu Music”
Benjamin McKean (Political Theory, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“Terrence Malick's Ambiguous Politics of Wonder"
Bodies, Struggles, and Subjects (3:15–4:45 p.m.)
Chair: Zhivka Valiavicharska (Rhetoric, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
René Koekkoek (Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University)
“The Haitian Revolution and Citizenship: Contesting the Logic of Universalism”
Satyel Larson (Anthropology, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
“Biopolitics and Embodiment: The Sleeping Baby in the Mother’s Womb from Norm to Counter-norm in Twentieth-Century Moroccan Law and Society”
Glenn Mitoma (Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut)
“Universality, Historicism, and the History of Human Rights”
Epistemes (5:00–6:00 p.m.)
Chair: Geneviève Rousselière (Political Theory, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
James Chappel (History, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
"Big Data and the Strange Case of William Playfair”
Jacqueline Feke (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Chicago Society of Fellows)
"Can We Write a History of 'Science'?”
Happy Hour (6:00–7:30 p.m.)
THURSDAY, MAY 23 9:30 AM
Swift Hall, 1025 E. 58th St., Commons Room
The 800th Anniversary of Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed will be celebrated by a conference featuring lectures by Bernard Septimus (Harvard University), Jonathan Dauber (Yeshiva University), Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University), Sarah Pearce (New York University), Maud Kozodoy (New York University and Jewish Theological Seminary), and Tamas Visi (Palacky University). Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies and the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
Contact: Nancy Pardee, Center for Jewish Studies
npardee@uchicago.edu
First Annual Conference of the Society for Psychoanalytic Inquiry
University of Chicago, May 17-19, 2013
What Kind of Science (if any) is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis and Sexual Freedom
Sisyphean Tasks: Psychoanalysis and the Reform of Social Institutions
Psychoanalysis, Ethics and Politics
The Future of Psychoanalysis
This year’s keynote is Leo Bersani, who is an American literary theorist and Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books include Intimacies (with Adam Phillips) and Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays.
Contact:contact@freudians.org
http://freudians.org/conference.html