Luce Irigaray Summer Seminar 2012
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.
The team over at feminist philosophers posted additional information for getting in touch with those at Howard:
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-
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-