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After words / After Worlds, The Legacy of Jacques Derrida, International Conference

After Words / After Worlds, The Legacy of Jacques Derrida, International Conference

International Conference organized by the University of Silesia in partnership with CEFRES and the French Institute in Poland to reflect on Derrida’s Legacy on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Derrida’s passing

Date: from 5 to 7 November 2024
Place: Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice
Language: English

Organizers:

Partners: CEFRES, French Institute in Poland

Please find thereafter the Thesis of the Conference

Presentation of the conference:

The main axis of the proposed discussion concerns contemporary readings of deconstruction, especially regarding its political and social dimensions. The titles “after-words” and “after-worlds” lead us to reflect on a possible future that could be an alternative to a world plagued by conflicts, climatic and environmental disasters, refugee crises and the tearing of borders and social fabric through the development and constant growth of global Capitalism.

The conference will bring together leading scholars on Derrida’s philosophy from around the world. Among the guests are prof. Anne Berger (University of Vincennes – Paris 8), prof. Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales), prof. Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) and prof. Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London).

 

Program:

Day 1:

9:30 – 9:45

  • Opening Words – Aleksander Kopka (University of Silesia in Katowice)

9:45 – 11:00

  • Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) – Transfers of Thought

11:15 – 11:45

  • Andrzej Leder (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Impatience and Indolence: Jacques Derrida and the Ethico-political Dimension of Epistemology

11:45 – 12:15

  • Jens Schröter (University of Bonn) – Derrida and Media Theory

12:15 – 12:45

  • Mina Karavanta (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Deconstruction “At Large”: The Threshold of “Living Together”

12:45 – 13:15

  • Gloria Freitag (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) – Towards a Hospitality to Come: Deconstructing the Cosmopolitan World

14:15 – 14:45

  • Przemysław Tacik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) – Derrida’s Wadi: How Philosophy Sinks into the Sand

14:45 – 15:15

  • Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster) – Democracy as Work-in-Progress

15:30 – 16:00

  • Julian Culp (American University of Paris) – Towards a Cultural Turn in Democratic Citizenship Education

16:00 – 17:00

  • The Future(s) of Democracy – Discussion Panel with Nitasha Kaul, Julian Culp and Jeremy Gilbert, chair: Aleksander Kopka

 

Day2:

9:00 – 10:15

  • Anne Berger (University of Paris 8) – Politics of the Heart

10:30 – 11:00

  • Alžbeta Kuchtová (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Enemy-Friendship Dynamics in Our Relations with Nature?

11:00 – 12:30

  • Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin) – Sacrificing Sacrifice Through History: On Derrida’s Deconstruction of Truth and Donation

12:30 – 13:00

  • Patryk Rogalski (not affiliated) – Capitalism Without Remainder: Derrida and the Economy of the Impossible

14:00 – 15:15

  • Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London) – Reconstructing Solidarity

15:15 – 15:45

  • Giustino De Michele (Aix-Marseille University) – Deconstruction (in) Practice: Revolution, Value, and Work

16:00 – 16:30

  • Aimilianos Tsakiroglou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Deconstructing Marxist Political Ontology: Towards New Forms of Transgression

16:30 – 17:00

  • Jakub Dadlez (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) – The Conscious Brain to Come: Malabou after Derrida

17:00 – 17:30

  • Daniel Sobota (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Dictatorship of Literacy

 

Day3:

9:00 – 10:15

Vicky Kirby (University of New South Wales) – Originary Humanicity: Rethinking the Anthropocene

10:30 – 11:00

Maria Gołębiewska (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Jacques Derrida’s Contribution to Linguistic Semantics

11:00 – 12:30

Paweł Dybel (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Derrida’s De-conjuring of Marx. Notes on the Margins of the Spectre

12:30 – 13:00

Yuji Nishiyama (Tokyo Metropolitan University) – Deconstruction as the Thinking of Secret

14:00 – 14:30

Yi Chen (Paris Nanterre University) – “In Dreams Begins Responsibility”: the Ethics of Deconstruction and the Poetics of the Unconscious

14:30 – 15:00

Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo (University of Salamanca) – From Deconstitution to Deconstruction: The Influence of Nicolas Abraham on the Origin of Deconstruction

15:00 –15:45

Jakub Momro (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) – Images After Last Skies.  Jean-Luc Nancy: Between Visual Hegemony and Political Deconstruction

16:00 – 16:30

Cezary Wąs (University of Wrocław) – Metaphysics and Architecture: the Case of Jacques Derrida

16:30 – 17:30

The Reception of Jacques Derrida in Poland / Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis – Discussion Panel with Jakub Momro and Paweł Dybel, chair: Aleksander Kopka

17:30

Closing Remarks – Michał Kisiel (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa) and Aleksander Kopka

 

Thesis:

It has been almost twenty years since Jacques Derrida died. Today, perhaps more than ever, as we confront a grotesque and inhumane countenance of what we are accustomed to call global capitalism, the question of what remains after Derrida becomes especially pertinent.

Is deconstructive promise still relevant and captivating, or has it been confined solely to academic departments and turned into what Derrida calls in Specters of Marx “the neutralizing anesthesia of a new theoreticism”?

In other words, is there still a place and demand for a valuable and vigilant deconstructive practice? If that is the case, shouldn’t we accept the responsibility of re-politicizing deconstruction and facing the “dominant intellectual normativity” of our times?

Challenged by these questions, we would like to make a modest attempt at thinking how it is possible to “produce events, new effective forms of action, practice, organization, and so forth,” as Derrida has it. We intend to investigate what can be done to keep the future open and to envision (im)possible worlds as alternatives to programmed barbarism and social homogeneities aggravated by multiple global crises.

Historical Approaches to Technical Creativity

Historical Approaches to Technical Creativity and Innovation

The conference aims to present historical approaches to innovative technology in many fields: from private enterprise to electrification, decolonization, locomotives, watchmaking and the ecological aspects of technology.

Date: October 3, 2024
Place: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, (Technická 2, Prague 6)
Language: French, English

Organizer: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

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INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS

SILF 2024
45th International Colloquium of Functional Linguistics

The colloquium will focus on three main themes: Language and the Media, Europe as a Mosaic of Languages, and Grammaticalization and Dynamic Synchrony. The organizers have also prepared another specific theme, namely a workshop on semiology.

Date: Octobre 2-5, 2024
Location: Faculty of Arts, UP Olomouc, Křížkovského 512/10
Languagee: French, English, Czech

Organizers: SILF (International Society for Functional Linguistics), CEFRES, Olomouc Section of the Linguistic Association of the Czech Republic

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Emancipation through Translation?

Emancipation through translation?
Women trajectories in Central and Eastern Europe (19th–21st centuries)

This international conference is part of the “Femmes et choc(s) d’émancipation” cycle at CIRCE / Eur’ORBEM, developed since 2022 in partnership with CEFRES.

Date: from 17 to 18 Octobre 2024
Place: Czech Centre in Paris, 18 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e
Language: English & French

Organizers: Cécile Gauthier (University of Reims),
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Sorbonne University)
Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University)
Partners: CEFRES, Eur’ORBEM (CNRS-Sorbonne University)

Please read hereafter the thesis of the conference.

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Boundless Affections: Methodologies in Transnational History of Same-Sex Desire

Boundless Affections.
Methodologies in Transnational History of Same-Sex Desire in Literature (19th-20th centuries)

This international workshop is conceived as a preparatory event for the ICLA Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series’ Topic Volume Representing Same-Sex Desire. Local Contexts, Global Circulations in European Literary Cultures. (CHLEL : https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/chlel/).

Date: September 19-20, 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague and online (to register, please write to the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

Organisateurs

Partners          

  • Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series, International Comparative Literature Association (CHLEL-ICLA)
  • National Scientific Research Fund, Belgium (FNRS)
  • Adelphi University (New York), United States
  • French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Prague
  • Department of Czech & Comparative Literature, Charles University, Prague (ÚČLK FF UK)

THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions

Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions:
European Currents and Local Appropriations

A Workshop organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IAH CAS, Prague), within the program Strategie AV 21 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and CEFRES (Prague) with the support of the École pratique des hautes études  (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Julius-Maximilians-Universität (Würzburg), Bayrisch-Tschechische Hochschulagentur (Regensburg), Politecnico di Torino, Universidad de Jaén, Charles University (Prague), National Gallery Prague.

Date: June 11-12, 2024
Locations: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, June 11, 2024, Institute of Art History, Husova 4, June 12, 2024, National Gallery, Prague, Waldstein Riding School; Prague Castle
Language: English

 

Tuesday, June 11 (at CEFRES)

9.30 – 9.45 – Introduction

  • Claire Madl (CEFRES Prague)
  • Sabine Frommel (EPHE – PSL, Paris)
  • Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
  • Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS, Prague)

9.45 – 11.45 – 1st panel

  • Chair: Sabine Frommel (EPHE – PSL, Paris)
  • Miguel Ángel Carrasco Sánchez (University of Jaén), The Benavides Family as Promoters of Renaissance Architectural Language in the Old Kingdom of Jaén
  • Gabriel Pereira (University of Coimbra), The Different Stages of Renaissance Architecture: João de Castilho’s Work in Tomar
  • Jakub Kříž (Masaryk University, Brno), The Renaissance Portal of the Olomouc Town Hall and the Problem of the Antique Mode in Moravia in the 1530s
  • Pablo Ferri (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Medicean Villas in the Annunciation During the Italian Renaissance

11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 – 2rd panel

  • Chair: Valentina Burgassi
  • Felix Schmieder (PALAMUSTO, University of Warsaw), Living Between Cultures: Renaissance Residences of Catherine Jagiellon in Poland and Sweden
  • Lucía Pérez (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Diego Siloé and His Contemporaries: Some Thoughts on Funeral Chapels
  • Mariia Ovsianikova (EPHE – PSL, Paris), The Imaginary Temple: Constructing the Identity of the Christian Temple in Italian Painting of the 15th–16th centuries

13.30 – 14.30 – Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 – 3nd panel

  • Chair: Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg)
  • Clara Léoni (EPHE – PSL, Paris), The Hanged Man: A Visual and Discourse Exploration of Capital Punishment
  • Christina Hablik (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg), Transfer and Transformation of Pictorial Ideas: the Likeness of Julius II as a Means of Propaganda in the Conflict Between the Papacy and France (1510–1513)
  • Annemarie Graf (Julius-Maxmilians-Universität, Würzburg), The Prints of Previous Centuries: Collecting Renaissance Prints in the Second Half of the 17th Century

16.00 – 16.15 – Coffee break

16:15 – 18.15 – 4th panel

  • Chair: Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS, Prague)
  • Corinna Gannon (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Material Hybridity of Rudolfine Kunstkammer Objects and the Notion of Universality
  • Tadeáš Kadlec (Charles University – IAH CAS, Prague), Count Michna’s Palace in Prague: Its Origins and Meanings
  • Robert Seegert (Julius-Maxmilians-Universität, Würzburg), Renaissance Paintings Collected by High-Ranking Clerics in Southern Germany during the 18th Century: The Example of the Würzburg Prince-Bishops
  • Adéla Bricínová (Charles University, Prague and EPHE – PSL, Paris). Projects for the Reconstruction of the Castle Bečov nad Teplou: Castles in the sky of Duke Alfred Beaufort-Spontin

18.15 – 18.30 – Closing remarks

 

Wednesday, June 12

9.30 – 10.15 – Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, collection of historical photography of Renaissance architecture, with its curator Petra Trnková, IAH CAS

10.30 – 12:00 – At CEFRES, 5th panel

  • Chair: Pedro Antonio Galera Andreu
  • Tomáš Murár (IAH CAS, Prague), Weltgeist or Weltanschauung? Search for the Meaning of Italian Renaissance in the Late 19th Century Art History
  • Lorenzo Fecchio (Politecnico di Torino), The Anglo-American Rediscovery of Italian Renaissance Gardens
  • Valeria Sedlerjonok (The Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice), The Art of Reception: Venetian Renaissance Painting as Seen in Early 19th Century Venice

12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch break

13:45 – 15:00 – Exhibition From Michelangelo to Callot. The Art of Mannerist Printmaking, Waldstein Riding School, Malá Strana, metro Malostranská stop; guided tour with the main curator Alena Volrábová, National Gallery Prague and co-author Sylva Dobalová (IAH CAS).

15:30 – 18:00 – Prague Castle, Summer House Belvedere, Ballroom and the context of Emperor’s gardens, with Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague), Sylva Dobalová (IAH CAS).

18:00 – 18:15 – Closing remarks

 

You can download the program here.