Sunday 19 February 2012

Luce Irigaray Summer Seminar 2012


Invitation to the Seminar of 
LUCE IRIGARAY
10 – 16 June 2012
UK


Invitation to the Seminar of 
LUCE IRIGARAY
10 – 16 June 2012
University of Bristol
Since 2003, Luce Irigaray holds a seminar with researchers doing their PhD on her work. This way, they have the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences between them. The seminar has been welcomed by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year, by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year, by the University of Nottingham the seventh year, and has been co-hosted by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol the eighth year. The seminar will take place at the University of Bristol in 2012.
The framework of the seminar is this: A group of at most fifteen researchers, doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray, stay one week on the university campus. The timetable includes a presentation by each researcher of the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Luce Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, the comments of Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to the questions asked by each one, and also sessions devoted to an explanation of some key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organized on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive, at least in part, hospitality from the university. The language of the seminar is English. 
The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world, they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research – Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, the participants came from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.
If you are interested and would like to participate in such a seminar please send as soon as possible a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5 - 6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2012. You will be in contact, for further practical information, with an office of secretary in the Spring after the selection of the candidates.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray

Invitation to the Seminar of 
LUCE IRIGARAY
13 – 18 June 2011
University of Bristol
Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing their PhD on her work. The seminar offer the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences with other participants. The seminar was hosted by the University of Nottingham during the first three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, the fifth year,  by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year and by the University of Nottingham the seventh year. It will take place at the University of Bristol in 2011.

The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray stay one week on the university campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher on the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is conducted in English.

The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world. They belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research including Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.

If you are interested and would like to participate in the seminar please send, as soon as possible, a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2011. After this, you will be contacted by the University in the Spring with information about accommodation.

Thursday 11 November 2010

CFP: Invitation to Luce Irigaray Post-Graduate Seminar

An Invitation to the Seminar of
Luce Irigaray
Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing their PhD on her work. The seminar offers the opportunity to receive personal teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences with other participants. The seminar was first hosted by the University of Nottingham for three years (see Luce Irigaray: Teaching edited by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New York, 2008). It was then hosted by the University of Liverpool in its fourth year, by Queen Mary, University of London, in its fifth year and by the Goodenough College of London in its sixth year. In 2010, the seminar returned to the University of Nottingham. The location and dates for the 2011 seminar will be announced at a later time.
The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray are invited to stay one week on the university campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher of the aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is conducted in English.
The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world; they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research – Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each participant.
If you are interested and would like to participate in the seminar please send, as soon as possible: a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015 Paris, France). Please be sure to include a telephone number, postal address and email address where you may be contacted. After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you if you can participate in the seminar of 2011. You will then receive further particulars from the university hosting the seminar.

Title and Abstract for Luce Irigaray talk, London 5 December

Luce Irigaray is speaking in London on 5 December, 2010.  Her talk is part of the Sexuate Subjectivities conference taking place at UCL.  Conference programme is here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/conferenceprogramme


This is the title, abstract and biography for her talk: 


Title: Remembering humanity


Neither sciences nor a return to traditional religious values, which render difficult the coexistence between different cultures, can save humanity today. Instead this could perhaps happen thanks to a thought inspired by the heart, the organ that can join our corporeality to our spirituality and allow the "old man" of our Western tradition to attain a new humanity. Thinking as an act that concerns the whole being, and especially the heart, can favour the gathering of each within oneself and the coexistence with the other, with others, through the acknowledgement of all the real, the remembrance of it and the love for it. The role of university is crucial for accomplishing this cultural evolution. Will it be capable of being faced with such a task?


Biography: Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. She is also trained in linguistics, philology, psychology and psychoanalysis. Her work focuses on the elaboration of a culture of sexuate subjects and of their relations. Which represents a basic starting point to meet and share with the other as other, from the most intimate level to the most global and universal level. Luce Irigaray is the author of over thirty books translated in many languages.

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Roundtable on Latina Feminism - CFA

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
ROUNDTABLE on LATINA FEMINISM
April 29-30, 2011
John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH

Abstract Deadline FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Invited Speaker:  María Cotera, Director, Latina/o Studies Program--
                                                           Program in American Culture &
                                                        Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan
                                                        

You are invited to participate in the 2011 meeting of the Roundtable on Latina Feminism, a forum for discussion of Latina feminist theory and Latina feminism in general. Abstracts exploring all themes on Latina feminism are welcome.  Suggested themes include but are not limited to the following:

*Immigration                                                                    *Selfhood
*Frontiers and Borders                                                 *Latina Embodiment
*Visual Representations of Latinas                                *Political Activism
* Group Identity/Cultural Identity                                    *History of Latinas in the U.S.
*Mestizaje                                                                        *Mulataje
*Queer Latinidad                                                             *Latina Theology
*Latina Pedagogy                                                            *Latina Aesthetics
*Latina Literary Theory           
*Coalitions across difference
*Works on individual Latina/Chicana feminist writers and theorists (Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo, Marta Cotera, Aída Hurtado, María Lugones, Linda Martín-Alcoff, Cherríe Moraga, Paula Moya, Anna Nieto Gomez, Sonia Saldovar-Hull, Emma Perez, Chela Sandoval,  Ofelia Schutte and others)

Guidelines for Sumission:

1.     Abstracts should be approximately 900 words.
2.     Abstracts should be suitable for anonymous review.  In a separate document, please include your name, affiliation, contact information, brief bio, and the title of your presentation.
3.     Please submit all proposals electronically to Mariana Ortega at mortega@jcu.edu. Please note “Roundtable Submission” in the subject line.
4.     For more information on past roundtables go to

Please Note:  Participants are expected to attend all sessions of the Roundtable

Mariana Ortega
Professor
Shula Chair in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH

Thursday 7 October 2010

Additional Info on Howard University

The team over at feminist philosophers posted additional information for getting in touch with those at Howard:

Addition:
Wondering how likely it is that many people would snail mail a letter to Howard, I went to their site and found a whole bouquet of telephone numbers and email addresses; see below.  And since so many of us have educational addresses, email can add to the credibility.  I think the next step is for us to compose some letters, so people can just copy a letter and email it.  How about seeing some letters showing up in the comments? 

University Officers

**President Sidney A. Ribeau, Ph.D.
202-806-2500
**Provost and Chief Academic Officer James H. Wyche, Ph.D.
james.wyche@howard.edu
202-806-2550
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
 Troy A. Stovall
troy.stovall@howard.edu
202-806-2050
Senior Vice President
Strategic Planning, Operations & External Affairs & Chief Technology Officer
 Hassan Minor, Ph.D.
svp@howard.edu
202-806-2530
Senior Vice President and
Executive Dean for Health Sciences 
Eve J. Higginbotham, M.D.
eve.higginbotham@howard.edu
202-865-7470
General Counsel Norma Leftwich, J.D.
nleftwich@howard.edu
202-806-2650
Vice President of Research & ComplianceFlorence Bonner, Ph.D.
fbonner@howard.edu202-806-4759
–>**Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara L.J. Griffin, Ph.D.
Johnson Administration Building, Suite 201
bgriffin@howard.edu
202-806-2100

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Irigaray conference - London - Registration open



I am, of course, going to this one:






Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics

UCL, London

Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010


Please register now via the website.


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/



This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity  ‘sexuate subjects’ ­ through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, and with reference to Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’. It explores how these positive ethical subjectivities for women and men are constructed through spatial, material and textual feminist poetics and politics. Over three days, it will examine especially how sexuate subjects (people/disciplines) aid interdisciplinary responses to contemporary global crises of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing.



Sexuate Subjects will focus on these issues as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice in disciplines including:

architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. Nine panels and invited keynote speakers examine the following themes:

-    environmental and social crises

-    sustainable ecologies

-    poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies

-    the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being



By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, the event

will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build

sexuate futures for all. Such approaches aim to contribute towards

developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures

and their academic and public intersections. International experts from

higher education, professional and public realms, as well as young

researchers and practitioners, are invited to attend.



Confirmed Invited Speakers



Principal Keynote:

Luce Irigaray, Doctor in Philosophy and Director of Research in Philosophy

at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris,



Keynotes:

Dr Caroline Bergvall, AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts,

School of Humanities, University of Southampton,

Dr Karen Burns, Department of Architecture, Monash University,

Australia,

Professor Lorraine Code, Department of Philosophy, Toronto University,

Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies,

Rutgers University, New Jersey - video conference presentation.

Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey

University, New Zealand,

Dr Doina Petrescu, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée and the Department of

Architecture, University of Sheffield,



Invited:

Professor Katja Grillner,

Dr Meike Schalk,

Dr Katerina Bonnevier,

Brady Burroughs  of FATALE, School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm,

Dr Gillian Howie, Department of Philosophy, Liverpool University,

Professor Mary Rawlinson, Departments of Philosophy and Comparative

Literature, Stony Brook University, State University of New York,

Dr Margrit Shildrick, School of Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work,

Queen’s University, Belfast,

Professor Gail Schwab, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature,

Hofstra University, Long Island NY

Professor Judith Still, School of Modern Languages and Culture, The

University of Nottingham

Taking Place: Feminist Spatial Practice collective



For more information and contact details please go to the Conference

website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sexuate-subjects/