Conference Programme

ONTOLOGY AND POLITICS CONFERENCE

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

June 16^th, 2008

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

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 (Universite Paris XII): To Have Done with The End of Sacrifice.

 

11:10am Coffee/Tea Break

11:30am Panel 2: The Political Subject Between Immanence and transcendence

Nemonie Craven (Queen Mary): “Je suis necessaire a la justice. Emmanuel Levinas, from conatus to fidelite 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.Panel 2: Delimiting the Absent Grounds of the Political 

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)