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.

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/

New posts

Hello blogland.  Sorry to have not been around lately.  I'm still sorting through the crash of my hard drive and just haven't felt compelled to blog since that happened.  However, there are loads of really interesting things going on at the moment, so I shall share.  I promise.

As a side note, I had a postcard from Luce Irigaray the other day.  The nature of our relationship has changed so much so that I now get postcards full of instructions. This one read something like this:

Tell Katz to give you my article and tell her to read the article in the journal I told her about.
Finish your PhD.
Maybe, I want to do a conference for the participants of my seminars. I will let you help me.
I might also let you help me publish something, but I'm not sure yet.

It was absolutely the best postcard I've ever received!  I'm going to buy a book where I can display the cards she sends so one can see the front and back of them.

Luce Irigaray - Public Lecture - 16 June Nottingham

The Centre for Advanced Studies at The University of Nottingham are pleased to announce the following Annual Lecture:

Towards Reciprocal Exchanges with the Other(s)
A lecture from Professor Luce Irigaray, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Introduced by Professor Judith Still, Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham

Wednesday 16th June 2010, 5.00 – 6.30pm
A-30, Arts Centre Lecture Theatre

To be followed by a wine reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Please RSVP to Allison Pearson (allison.pearson@nottingham.ac.uk) in order that we can cater accordingly.
Centre for Advanced Studies
The Orchards, University Park
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 95 14838

Irigaray: Public Lecture in June in UK

I've heard word that Luce Irigaray will be giving a public lecture in the UK in June. I suspect the lecture will be held at Nottingham, but am not yet certain. Watch this space for more details.

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Update: Thanks, anon, for pointing out my rather delicious Freudian slip. I'm rather thrilled with it, I have to say.

Reminder: CFP: Irigaray Summer School

Last weekend, I spoke to Madame Irigaray about the summer seminar for this year and she told me that a few things have changed: The dates have been moved to (I think) 28 June - 3 July. Also, there has been a venue change - the seminar will now take place at the University of Nottingham. There are still a few places left. If anyone was thinking of applying and thought they had missed the boat, there is still time.If you would like to attend, send 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 2010.

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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 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 and by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year. In 2010, it will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in Ireland.

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 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 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 2010. You will be contacted for further practical information by Marita Ryan at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick after the selection of the candidates.

Irigaray - The Age of Breath - Slovenia

I'm really looking forward to the Irigaray conference in May.  I think it's fantastic that one conference can bring together so many people from so many different countries. The program was announced today.  Here it is:

PROGRAM / PROGRAM

*** Thursday / etrtek 6th May / 6. maj

8.00 – 18.00

Registration / registracija

Grand Hotel Portorož, Foyer /

Grand Hotel Portorož, preddverje

9.45–10.00 Inaugural Address / Otvoritveni nagovor Lenart Škof, Faculty of Humanities and Science and Research Centre of Koper, University of Primorska / Fakulteta za humanistine študije in Znanstveno-raziskovalno središe Koper, Univerza na Primorskem

10.00 – 13.00 Panel 1: Bodies, Contexts, and Meanings / Telesa, konteksti in pomeni

Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoi: Anton Mlinar

Bojan Žalec (University of Ljubljana / Univerza v Ljubljani, SI): Irigaray on the Overcoming of the Mono-Subjective View: It’s Meaning / Pomen premagovanja mono-subjektivnega pogleda pri Irigarayjevi

Ovidiu Anemtoaicei (Central European University (CEU) / Srednjeevropska Univerza, RO): Masculinities, Male Bodies and Sexual (In)Difference / Moškosti, moška telesa in spolna (ne)razlika

Maja Kolarevi (University of Nova Gorica / Univerza v Novi gorici, SI): Conceptualization of the Body and Person: Comparison between Ayurveda and Biomedicine / Konceptualizacija telesa in osebe: primerjava ayurvede in biomedicine

Simona Galachi (“Mircea Eliade” Center of Oriental Studies, Metropolitan Library of Bucharest / “Mircea Eliade” center orientalskih študij, Metropolitanska knjižnica v Bukarešti, RO):

The Subtle Body as a Site of Power / Subtilno telo kot mesto moiTomaž Grušovnik (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI): Embodied Education for Environmental Ethics / Utelešeno izobraževanje za okoljsko etiko

Claudia Bruno (Freelance journalist / svobodna novinarka, IT): Beyond East and West, Towards a Shared Desire for Sustainability / Onkraj Vzhoda in Zahoda, na poti k skupni želji po trajnostnosti

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break / odmor za kosilo

15.00 – 17.00 Panel 2: Body, Breath, and Aesthetics / Telo, dih in estetika Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoa: Metka Zupani

Shannon Wong Lerner (University of North Carolina / Univerza Severne Karoline, USA): “Invisible Aesthetics: The Performance of Breath” / “Nevidna estetika: delovanje diha”

Alison Finch (Exeter College / Visoka šola Exeter, UK): ‘An Impossible to Say’ – A Series of Drawings Inspired by ‘The Way of Love’ by Luce Irigaray / ‘Nemogoe upovedati’ – serija slik po navdihu ‘Pot ljubezni’ Luce Irigaray

Nada uki (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI): The Story Behind: Representations of Female Body, Nature and Love by Pre-Raphaelite Painters / Zgodba iz ozadja: reprezentacije ženskega telesa, narave in ljubezni pri

prerafaelitskih slikarjih

Małgorzata Kdziela (Silesian University Katowice / Silezijska univerza Katowice, PL): Air and Breath: Aesthetization of Feminine/Femininity / Zrak in dih: estetizacija ženskega/ženskosti

17.00 – 18.00 coffee break / odmor za kavo Grand Hotel Portorož, lobby / Grand Hotel Portorož, veža

18.00 – 19.30 Lecture by Luce Irigaray: “A New Step for Humanity: Beyond East and West” / Predavanje Luce Irigaray: “Nov korak za loveštvo: onkraj Vzhoda in Zahoda Conference Room / konferenna soba

19.30 Cocktail party and book signing by Luce Irigaray / veerno druženje in podpisovanje knjig Luce Irigaray Grand Hotel Portorož, lobby / Grand Hotel Portorož, veža

*** Friday / Petek 7th May / 7. maj

9.00 – 10.00

Registration / registracija

Grand Hotel Portorož, Foyer /

Grand Hotel Portorož, preddverje / Grand Hotel Portorož, atrio

10.00 – 13.00 Panel 3: Breath and Body between East and West / Dih in telo med vzhodom in zahodom Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoa: Antonia Pont

Tamara Ditrich (University of Sydney / Univerza v Sydneyju,AU): The Concept of Mindfulness in Yoga / Pojem pozornosti v yogi

Metka Zupani (University of Alabama / Univerza v Alabami, USA): Yoga and Anima in the Process of Collective Individuation / Yoga in anima v procesu kolektivne individuacije

Christian Kerslake (Middlesex University / Univerza Middlesex, UK): Irigaray, Eliade and Yoga / Irigaray, Eliade in yoga

Gabriela E. Winquist (Pennsylvania State University / Univerza Pennsylvania State, USA): Irigaray, the Breath, and New Ways of Knowing / Irigaray, dih in novi naini védenja

Rosemary MacBride (University of Queensland / Univerza v Queenslandu, AU): Beyond Eros versus Thanatos: The Body and Buddhist Thought in the Therigatha and the Satipatthana Sutta / Onkraj Erosa nasproti Thanatosu: telo in budistina misel v Therigatha in Satipatthana Sutta

Stefania Cavaliere (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", IT): The Bodies of Feminine in India / Telesa ženskosti v Indiji

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break / odmor za kosilo

15.00 – 17.00 Panel 4: Breathing in Traditions / Dihanje tradicij Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoa: Julie Kelso

Helena Motoh (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI): Qi beyond Mind/Matter – Issues of Translation and Interpretation / Qi onkraj telesa/duha – problematika prevoda in interpretacije

Jana Rošker (University of Ljubljana / Univerza v Ljubljani, SI): The Forgotten Image of Female Thought: The Female Daoist Master Sun Buer and the Binarity of Creativeness and Spirit / Pozabljena podoba ženske misli: daoistka Sun Buer in

binarnost kreativnosti in duha Agnieszka Bdkowska-Kopczyk (University of Bielsko-Biała / Univerza Bielsko-Biała, PL):

Body and Breath in Slavic / Telo in dih v slovanšini Hong Bin-Lim (Korea University / Univerza Korea, KR):

Towards a Great Economy of Nature / Na poti do velike ekonomije narave

17.00 – 17.30 coffee break / odmor za kavo Grand Hotel Portorož, lobby / Grand Hotel Portorož, veža

17.30 – 19.30 Panel 5: Life, Breath, and Body / Življenje, dih, telo Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoi: Tomaž Grušovnik

Elisha Foust (University of London / Univerza v Londonu, UK): Breathing the Political: A Meditation on the Preservation of Life in the Midst of War /

Dihanje politinega: meditacija o ohranjanju življenja sredi vojne

Antonia Pont (University of Melbourne / Univerza v Melbournu, AU): Kumbhaka, Perceptions of Breath, and Structured Nothingness / Kumbhaka, percepcije diha in strukturirana praznina

Anton Mlinar (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI): The Irigaray's Grammar of Relations and Damasio’s Somatic Markers: a Comparison / Slovnica relacij Irigarayjeve in Damasijevi somatini markerji: primerjava

Sara Štuva (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI):

20.00 Dinner / Veerja (Mediterranean and Indian cuisine / Mediteranska in indijska kuhinja) Grand Hotel Portorož, Restaurant / Grand Hotel Portorož, restavracija

*** Saturday / Sobota 8th May / 8. maj

10.00 – 13.00 Panel 6: Body, the Feminine, and Theology / Telo, ženskost in teologija Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoa: Rev. Eleanor Sanderson

Nadja Furlan (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI):

Women's Impurity, Menstrual Blood and the Creation of Taboo: Perspectives from the Field of Christian Feminist Theology / Ženska neistost, menstrualna kri in ustvarjanje tabuja: perspektive s polja kršanske feministine teologije

Victor Godeanu (“Mircea Eliade” Center of Oriental Studies / “Mircea Eliade” center orientalskih študij, RO): Modernity & Transfiguration – An Anthropological Essay on the Biblical Roots of Some Theological and Ecclesiastical Values of the Body and their Modern Expressions / Modernost & transfiguracija – antropološki esej o biblinih koreninah nekaterih teoloških in ekleziastinih vrednot telesa in njihovih modernih izrazov

Julie Kelso (University of Queensland / Univerza v Queenslandu, AU): When Cherubim Touch: The Cleaving Feminine Wing of the Dual-Gendered Cherubim in 2 Chronicles (Divrei Hayammim) 3:11-12 / Ko se kerubini dotaknejo: razdvojeno žensko krilo dvospolnega kerubina v 2. Kroniški knjigi (Divrei Hayammim) 3:11-12

Marjana Harcet (Univerza v Ljubljani / University of Ljubljana, SI): When the Difference Matters: Towards Inclusive Feminism / Ko razlika šteje: na poti do inkluzivnega feminizma

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch break / odmor za kosilo

15.00 – 17.00 Panel 7: The Presence of Breath / Prisotnost diha Conference Room / konferenna soba Chair / Predsedujoa: Nadja Furlan

Rev. Eleanor Sanderson (Victoria University of Wellington / Victoria Univerza v Wellingtonu, NZ): The Prayers We Breathe: The Practice of Embodying the Gift of Life / Molitve, ki jih dihamo: praksa utelešanja daru življenja

Emily A. Holmes (Christian Brothers University / Univerza Christian Brothers, USA): The Gift of Breath: Toward a Maternal Pneumatology / Dar diha: na poti k materinski pnevmatologiji

Lenart Škof (University of Primorska / Univerza na Primorskem, SI): Body, Breath and Spirit: From Schelling to Irigaray / Telo, dih in duh: od Schellinga do Irigarayjeve

Carla Gianotti (Oriental and Comparative Studies, ISU, Rimini / Orientalske in primerjalne študije, ISU, Rimini, IT) Awareness of Breath as Spiritual Fecundity / Zavedanje diha kot duhovna plodnost

Sigrid Hackenberg Almansa (European Graduate School, European University for Interdisciplinary Studies / European Graduate School, Evropska univerza za interdisciplinarne študije, CH): The Distant Stillness that is Breath / Daljna tišina ki je dih

17.00 – 18.00 coffee break / odmor za kavo Grand Hotel Portorož, lobby / Grand Hotel Portorož, veža

18.00 – 19.30 Discussion / Diskusija Conference Room / konferenna soba

*** Sunday / nedelja 9th May / 9. maj

10.00 Guided tour of Piran (guidance provided by the Department of European and Mediterranean heritage, Faculty of Humanities Koper, University of Primorska) / Vodeni ogled Pirana (vodstvo organizira Oddelek za dedišino Fakultete za humanistine študije Koper, Univerza na primorskem / Departure from Grand Hotel Portorož / odhod izpred Grand Hotela Portoroz

Reminder: Irigaray Summer School 2010

Luce Irigaray rang yesterday.  Really. 

We got to know one another last year when I attended her summer school in London. Now, many of you might be a bit tired of me harping on about this, but I want to - at least one more time - put up a notice about her summer seminar for post-grads in 2010. The seminar was, without question, the most intense and rewarding experience of the time I've spent working on my PhD. Not only did Irigaray offer one-on-one interpretations of my work, she is also a window into an intellectual climate in France that is long gone - but for which many of us long. Irigaray was there during the May 68 revolt. She studied under Lacan and even got herself kicked out of his course. She is strong, hard-headed with a mind like a trap for philosophy. She expects discipline in a way that no-one does anymore. If you want answers, you will find them. If you have questions to discuss, she will discuss them.


Perhaps more importantly, however, is that if feel like you're in isolation - typing out your feminist thoughts in a vacuum that seems unconcerned or even antagonistic - you will get a break from that. The seminar introduced me to intelligent, creative people who were in the same boat that I was. My isolation was remedied! We still keep in touch.

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Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, June 14-19, 2010.

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 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 and by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year. In 2010, it will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in Ireland.



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 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 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 2010. You will be contacted for further practical information by Marita Ryan at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick after the selection of the candidates.

Graduate Summer Schools

I love Graduate Summer School programs!  I think the prospect of spending a week thinking and talking about a philosopher whilst in a city in which you don't live is fantastic.  I did the Irigaray summer seminar last year and it was intense, intellectually challenging and seriously good fun (fun in the way that thinking is fun, not so much in the way that drinking is fun).  Advertisements for summer schools are starting to appear.  Some of interest (beside the Irigaray summer school notice posted earlier this week):

Deleuze summer school with added kafka! : http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/

EGS offers summer residencies: http://www.egs.edu/media-communication/summer-residences/ (The program at EGS can be pretty confusing, but last I checked, you could attend specific residences without undertaking the entire degree)

The European Summer School: http://www.europeum.org/ess2010/index.php

Simon Critchley is taking centre stage at the Tilburg summer school this year: http://www.discoursenotebook.com/Tilburg/

Also see, summer school on ethics and economics in the Netherlands: http://www.ozse.nl/

There are also some great conferences scheduled for this summer and next fall

The North American Levinas Society is hosting a July conference in Paris: http://www.levinas-society.org/home.html

The National Women's Association currently has a CFP out: http://www.nwsa.org/conference//

Also, SWIP-UK runs a a session during the Aristotelian Society annual conference: http://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/pdf/CFP%20JS%202010.pdf

CFP: Irigaray Summer Seminar Invitation

Invitation to the Seminar of Luce Irigaray, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, June 14-19, 2010.

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 and by the Goodenough College of London the sixth year. In 2010, it will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, in Ireland.

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 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 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 2010. You will be contacted for further practical information by Marita Ryan at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick after the selection of the candidates.

Irigaray Conference presented by Irigaray Circle: December 2010 London

There's a CFP out for this conference, but for some reason, it seems not to be online anywhere.  Here is my translated, transcripted and generally messed up version of it:

Call for Papers Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010 UCL, London This international interdisciplinary event will examine how political, poetic and ethical practice and thought engage with questions of sexuality and sexual difference on a global stage. At a time when women�s and minority group rights are still frequently under-represented and marginalised in mainstream global discussions of citizenship and democracy, culture, health and community life, Sexuate Subjects responds to French thinker, Luce Irigaray�s theory of �sexuate difference� for enabling critically-aware global formations of self-identity and community, art, architectural and spatial practices, ecology, environmental care and sustainability, health and bio-medically assisted life. In particular, Sexuate Subjects will focus on these different relationships as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice and thought in disciplines including: architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, this event will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build sexuate futures. Such approaches will 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 respond. Key questions being discussed include: Where are �global� women in contemporary approaches to health matters? How are political, poetic and ethical issues addressed in feminist/feminine architectural and spatial practice? How can sexuate ecologies and environmental practices inform global sustainability? How can art inform conflict resolution? Why poetry matters in thought, ethical and political life. How can sexuate difference inform the ethics of global education? How can feminist bio-ethics inform approaches to women�s and body-rights, fertility and population health? The Conference is being developed in conjunction with UCL�s Grand Research Challenge Intercultural Interactions, the US-based Luce Irigaray Circle, and Fatale (Feminist Architectural Theory Analysis, Laboratory and Education) at KTH, Stockholm. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Elizabeth Grosz (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Dr Doina Petrescu (Atelier d�Architecture Autog�r�e and the University of Sheffield)    FATALE Prof Katja Grillner, Dr Meike Schalk, Dr Katerina Bonnevier (KTH Stockholm) The Karen Burke Memorial Lecture (sponsored by the Luce Irigaray Circle) Call for Paper requirements: Please find specific details of submissions and convenor contact details in each panel description listed below. For general enquiries about the event please email Peg Rawes on m.rawes@ucl.ac.uk. Full registration details will be confirmed by July 2010. We are making every effort to keep registration fees to an absolute minimum for all, however, if necessary we may need to ask attendees (excluding students) whose conference attendance is financially supported by their institution for a registration fee (under �100). +++ Panel:  Whirlwinds Convenors: Professor Jane Rendell (UCL), Dr Penelope Haralambidou (UCL) and Dr Ana Araujo (UCL/ University of the Arts, London). It is already getting around � at what rate? in what contexts? in spite of what resistances? � that women diffuse themselves according to modalities scarcely compatible with the framework of the ruling symbolics. Which doesn�t happen without causing some turbulence, we might even say whirlwinds, that ought to be reconfined within solid walls of principle, to keep them from spreading to infinity. Otherwise they might even go so far as to disturb that third agency designated as the real � a transgression and confusion of boundaries that it is important to restore to their proper order. Luce Irigaray, �The �Mechanics� of Fluids�, This Sex Which Is Not One (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, [1977], 1985), 106. It is over 30 years since the publication of This Sex Which Is Not One by the influential French thinker and writer Luce Irigaray. Her political writing on sexual subjectivities and spatialities has had a remarkable influence on feminist theory and practice in architecture and the spatial arts. The chaotic nature of the contemporary context positions the term �whirlwinds� in an already turbulent scene. We are surrounded by disasters � environmental, economic and political � some actual, others immanent � the so-called �war on terror�, climate change, peak oil and the �credit crisis�. What kind of response is feminism capable of making today? This is a call to those whose work has responded, however tangentially, to the themes and issues of sexual ethics and difference raised by Irigaray and her understanding of the experiential, material and conceptual construction of space. We are looking for works (300 words plus up to 3 images), which articulate the production of a particularly feminine or feminist space-time as a way of responding to current conditions. The proposal needs to be defined in terms of intention, location, duration, interaction and materiality: it could be an intervention, a paper, a reading, a performance, an exhibit, a workshop, a walk. There are two parameters: * a time: the proposal must outline how the work will take place within a specific time-frame: 10am to 5pm on 3 December 2009. * a space: the proposal must outline how the work will take place within the institutional space of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL which includes an educational site (a lecture theatre with a flat floor, no fixed seating and one-way basic projection, potentially two screen), and a foyer exhibition space which also operates as a passage from the front door of the Bartlett School of Architecture past lifts and doors to various lecture theatres, studios, with some window space and glass fa�ade to the street. There are two conditions: * Those proposing works are responsible for obtaining the funding for making, exhibiting and transporting themselves and their work to the venue. * The exact presentation of the work will be decided in negotiation with the conference team, who will make the final decision in the last instance. Submission requirements: By 5th March 2010 please send a 300 word proposal and up to 3 images to a.araujo@ucl.ac.uk for blind review, in 2 documents: a proposal + image document (word/PDF), plus a name/affiliation/30 word bio document (word/PDF). +++ Panel: Understanding Difference: why poetry matters Convenors: Professor Timothy Mathews (UCL), Dr Sharon Morris (UCL). Luce Irigaray�s feminism urges us to believe in the power we have as individuals as well as communities to reorganize our lives on the basis of mutual understanding rather than conflict. As sexuate subjects, for Irigaray we have the uniquely human opportunity to understand each other in terms of what divides and separates us. Sexual difference is insurmountable, our bodies speak this truth to anyone who will hear. But sexual difference, specifically, fundamentally, allows human interaction of respect, rather than domination, appropriation or assimilation. Her work distinguishes itself from the other major theorists of her generation, especially in French, in refuting notions of an inevitable pull, both ideological and psychoanalytical, to one-ness, to cultural and institutional narcissism in all its forms. Nor does Irigaray accept a purely metaphysical account of difference which deprives it of the living, bodily reality of sexed, human relations. Her understanding of sexual difference and sexuate being has the power to reorientate social interaction towards freedom and understanding, in domains including education, the environment, architecture, cultural and inter-cultural relation as well as the loving relation itself. But it is an understanding which depends on nurturing a poetic way of thinking, hearing, seeing, feeling; depends on it, calls on it, requires it, reminding people all the time of their capacity for it. If sexual difference is a given, existentially, biologically, then the freedom it affords us is also beyond our understanding, beyond our capacity to see beyond our own body. And still we know the difference separating men and women. Poetry allows that difference we know but cannot grasp to be understood; not only understood, but shared. This strand will delve into the power of poetry to create understanding of what lies beyond the understanding of any one person, thinker, practitioner. It will engage with the poetic qualities of Irigaray�s own writing: the unique rhetoric of her theory and its ways of engaging with readers; and the voice of her own poetry. It will also engage with the experiences of translation: inter-lingual translation, as well as the light translation can shed on the passages from bodily to verbal experience. It will also explore the necessary part of poetry in the work of other theorists and thinkers of the human. Papers, poetry performance and fine art proposals (including moving image, installation) are invited from scholars and practitioners that address: the poetic qualities of thought itself; the movement of thought; the mobility of the ways in which difference is represented and understood. Work on poetry in thought about difference will be showcased alongside the work of creative artists addressing sexuate being in their practice: in their materials, in their ways of engaging with viewers or readers. Submission requirements: By 5th March 2010 please email t.mathews@ucl.ac.uk and sharon.morris@ucl.ac.uk a 300-500 word abstract in a proposal document (word/PDF), and a second name/affiliation/30 word bio document (word/PDF) for blind review.  For performance and fine art responses please note: respondents are responsible for obtaining the funding for making, exhibiting and transporting themselves and their work to the venue, and the exact presentation of the work will be decided in negotiation with the convenors, who will make the final decision in the last instance. +++ Panel:  Lot�s Wife: The imperatives of disobedience and the spectacle of violence. Convenor: Tamar Garb (UCL) When Lot�s wife disobeyed the patriarchal injunction against looking back at the destruction of Sodom, she was punished by being turned into a pillar of salt. In a way, one might argue, she became the phallic substitute for the law she flouted. Whether conceived as an ossified tear � the weeping of women has often been used to symbolise grief, loss and mourning � or a memorial to an obliterated past, the question of women�s position in relation to violence is posed by this episode from Genesis. It begs many questions: Why did Lot�s wife (who is never named for herself but only in relation to her husband) look back, why was she punished, what did she see, why was the punishment ossification and what informed her view of the destruction of her home? Central to this biblical narrative is the question of women�s relationship to violence and loss. The turning to look of Lot�s wife is an act of disobedience which resulted in death. There are many myths and narratives which end in such punishment. Helene Cixous, for example, narrates in �Castration or Decapitation� a Chinese story about the beheading of a woman who laughs in the face of military discipline. The price of non-conformity to languages, behavioural codes and dominant injunctions can and has been annihilation. And yet, women as agents � artists, critics, writers � have and continue to address the question of violence and conflict from their positions as women, despite the cost.  What is the responsibility of women to �look back� as well as  �sideways�, to narrate stories which counter dominant narratives and to imagine languages which transgress conventional borders and boundaries, the sites of conflict and oppression? How can or have women�s critical and creative energies been harnessed to confront anger, guilt, shame and aggression? How can art and newly imagined poetic/formal languages provide a way out of the impasse of political conflict? These are the questions this panel will address � looking in particular at the recent past in Africa (South Africa and Rwanda offer particular instances of retrospection, reconciliation and reflection) and the Middle East, in particular the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine. Papers that address these localities from a feminist perspective will be welcomed. Women�s relationship to conflict and the role of art and poetics in making sense of and shifting our understanding of present and past acts of aggression and violation will be the subject of this panel. Submission requirements: 300-500 word abstracts that address these themes are invited by 5th March 2010. Please email t.garb@ucl.ac.uk one proposal document (word/PDF), and a second bio/affiliation/30 word bio document (word/PDF) for blind review. +++ Panel: Sexuate sustainable practices and ecologies Convenors: Dr Peg Rawes (UCL), Professor Gail Schwab (Hofstra University, NY) To construct only in order to construct nevertheless does not suffice for dwelling. A cultivation of the living must accompany a building of that which does not grow by itself...For a human, the two do not seem separable. To cultivate human life in its engendering and its growth requires the elaboration of material and spiritual frameworks and constructions. These should not be opposed to the becoming of life, as they have too often been, but provide it with the help indispensable for its blossoming. Luce Irigaray, The Way of Love (New York: Continuum, 2002), 144. Ecological thinking is not simply thinking about ecology or about the environment: it generates revisioned modes of engagement with knowledge, subjectivity, politics, ethics, science, citizenship, and agency, which pervade and reconfigure theory and practice alike. First and foremost a thoughtful practice, thinking ecologically carries with it a large measure of responsibility. . . . [As to] how it could translate into wider issues of citizenship and politics, . . . the answer, at once simple and profound, is that ecological thinking is about imagining, crafting, articulating, endeavoring to enact principles of ideal cohabitation.  Lorraine Code, Ecological Thinking (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 24. Luce Irigaray�s �sustainable� thinking and Lorraine Code�s ecological thought highlight the importance of developing sexuate futures through sustainable modes of social, poetic and political practice and theory. Taking the terms �sustainability� and �ecology� to encompass the complex social, political and cultural formation of our environments, societies and futures, as well as the physical consequences of human interaction with biological, animal and environmental realms, this panel will explore how sexual difference can aid our responsibility for nurturing the sustainable ecologies of our local and global communities, environments and interactions; our health and well-being; the impact and expressions of social justice and citizenship; and our public and private poetic lives. It will examine the �eco-subjects� (Conley, 1997) which sexed ecological and sustainable thinking and practice bring to these debates, for example: What new eco-subjects and political imaginations does sexuate thinking enable? What new sexed models of ecology can enable sustainable modes of living that nurture and generate our poetic, political and ethical lives? How do sexed approaches to sustainability transform it from its association with the damaging globalisation of technological and economic monocultures into new productive ethical models of ecological thinking? How can positive and cautionary sexuate eco-imaginations, narratives and poetics enable processes of social justice and political change for environmental and human sustainability? Responses to these questions are invited from across the humanities, visual arts and design disciplines, the social sciences and the biomedical and physical sciences, as well as from individuals, collectives and organisations that research and practice in these issues. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and practices that demonstrate how poetic and political sexed thinking can inform new modes of sustainable ecologies are particularly welcomed. Approaches may include:  - ecocriticsm and ecofeminism - social justice and ecological activism - sustainable psycho-physical ecologies and approaches to mental health well-being - sexuate approaches to biomedical research and practice, including, synthetic biology, epigenetics, family planning, women�s and child health - micro-economics - sexuate technologies Submission requirements: By 5th March 2010 please email m.rawes@ucl.ac.uk with a 300-500 word abstract in a proposal document (word/PDF), and a second name/affiliation/30 word biographical document (word/PDF) for blind review. +++ Panels:  Open call for panels/papers Convenors: The Luce Irigaray Circle The Irigaray Circle announces its Fifth Annual Conference  hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. The Circle invites submissions that are inspired by or engaged with any aspect of Irigaray�s work. We welcome submissions from all disciplines. Possible themes include � The history of philosophy � Epistemology � Ethics � Ecology, environmental ethics, and sustainability � Architecture and the built environment � Political theory � Multiculturalism � Psychoanalysis � Bioethics � Medicine, health, and the body � Language, literature, and the arts The deadline for the submission of full papers is April 1, 2010. (Abstracts will not be considered for review.) Notifications will be sent no later than May 15, 2010. Papers should not exceed 3000 words (reading time 20 minutes), should include an abstract of less than 200 words, and should be prepared for blind review. Please remove all identifying remarks from the paper itself and submit it electronically in .rtf or .doc format to irigaray06@gmail.com, along with a file containing your name, professional affiliation, contact information, and your paper title. The Program Committee welcomes proposals for panels, however, these must be accompanied by complete papers and each paper will be reviewed individually. Please note that, as usual, the Irigaray Circle plans a volume based on the conference proceedings and reserves the right of first refusal on all papers presented at the conference. For further information on the conference or to join the Irigaray Circle please consult the website at www.irigaray.org or contact the Circle at irigaray06@gmail.com. Submission Requirements: By 1st April 2010. Papers should not exceed 3000 words (reading time 15-20 minutes maximum), should include an abstract of less than 200 words, and should be prepared for blind review. Please remove all identifying remarks from the paper itself and submit it electronically in .rtf or .doc format to irigaray06@gmail.com, along with a file containing your name, professional affiliation, contact information, and your paper title. +++ Lecture: The Karen Burke Memorial Prize The Irigaray Circle invites submissions for The Karen Burke Memorial Prize. The award honors our late colleague Karen Burke, who was a gentle philosopher and founding member of the Luce Irigaray Circle. The award recognizes excellent work by a graduate student on or inspired by Luce Irigaray. In addition to receiving a prize of $500, the winner will present the third annual Karen Burke Memorial Lecture at the 2010 meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle at UCL, December 3-5, 2010. We invite papers from all disciplines that engage with any aspect of Irigaray's work, such as: � The history of philosophy � Epistemology � Ethics � Ecology, environmental ethics, and sustainability � Architecture and the built environment � Bioethics � Medicine, health, and the body � Political theory � Multiculturalism � Psychoanalysis � Language, literature, and the arts Submission requirements: All applicants must be enrolled as graduate students as of June 2010. � Papers should be no more than 4,000 words and prepared for anonymous review. � Applicants should submit papers as an email attachment to irigaray06@gmail.com in .doc or .rtf format, with the subject line �Burke Prize� � Papers should be accompanied by an email listing the paper title and the applicant�s name, affiliation, and email address. � Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2010 Dr. Peg Rawes Senior Lecturer Departmental Tutor Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 22 Gordon Street, London. WC1H 0QB Tel +44 (0)20 7679 1025  http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture/profiles/Rawes.htm Do you want a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free

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