Poster of Nancy event
Conference on Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond
10-1 Friday Sept 13 - 3-6 pm Saturday Sept 14
Dwinelle 3335

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Friday, September 13

Thinking with Nancy

Chair: Miryam Sas

  • 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks by James Porter, Debarati Sanyal, Dan Orrells, and Mario Telō
  • 10:30 –10:45 AM:  Patrick Ffrench, “Desolation Without Recourse?”
  • 10:45 - 11:00 AM:  John McKeane, “Project! Philosophy and Ventriloquy.”
  • 11:00 - 11:15 AM:  Irving Goh, “Toward a Reparative Genius II”
  • Discussion 

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Nancy and the Senses

Chair: Henry Ravenhall

  • 2:30 – 2:45 PM:  Helen Morales,  “What does Baubo Reveal?”
  • 2:45 - 3:00 PM:  Simon Goldhill, “All About Eve”
  • Discussion
  • 3:45 – 4:00 PM: Katie Fleming, “Body Language: Signs and Sense”
  • 4:00 - 4:15 PM:  Catherine Conybeare, “The Ever-Present Sense and the accès de soi.”
  • Discussion

Saturday, September 14

Nancy and Politics

Chair: Ramona Nadaff

  • 10:00 – 10:15 AM:  Miriam Leonard, “Nancy’s Fraternity: Community in Abandonment”
  • 10:15 –10:30 AM:  Ben Radcliffe, “Vestigial Labor in Badiou and Nancy”
  • Discussion
  • 11:00 –11:15 AM:  James Porter, “Ethical and Political Insufficiency: Socrates and the Cynics”
  • 11:15 – 11:30 AM:  Damian Stocking, “Thinking Poli(s)tically: Greek Tragedy and the Poetics of Finitude”
  • Discussion

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Nancy and Art

Chair: Damon Young

  • 2:00 – 2:15 PM:  Sara Guyer, "Buccality II (Nancy, Jones)"
  • 2:15 – 2:30 PM:  Rizvana Bradley, “The Body Improper, or Sovereignty in Ruins”
  • Discussion
  • 3:15 – 3:30 PM:  Tom Phillips, “Nancy’s Abyssal Landscapes”
  • 3:30 – 3:45 PM:  Debarati Sanyal, “Borders, Intrusion, Immunity”
  • Discussion
  • 4:30 – 4:45 PM:  Daniel Orrells, “"Nancy and Cleopatra"
  • 4:45 – 5:00 PM:  Mario Telò, “Nancy Against Lacan: Tacita Dean/Ovid/Sophocles”
  • Discussion

M. Telò, “Nancy Against Lacan: Tacita Dean/Ovid/Sophocles”

DISCUSSION