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 16th, 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
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
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)