The conference is free and open to the public. We ask that those attending inform the organizers in advance. Inquiries may be directed to Jeffrey Bloechl: bloechl@bc.edu
Sunday, October 25
Keynote lecture
5 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Jonathan Lear, University of Chicago, “Allegory and Psychic Transformation: An Interpretation of Plato's Cave."
This lecture is also part of the annual Arthur J. Fitzgibbons series organized by the Department of Philosophy.
Monday, October 26
Session 1
9 - 10:30 a.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Charles Shepherdson, SUNY-Albany, “Antigone: The Work of Literature and the History of Subjectivity."
Response by Emily Zakin, Miami University of Ohio
Session 2
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Patrick Guyomard, Université de Paris VII-Denis Diderot, “Lacan on Sophocles’s Antigone.”
Response by John Muller, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass.
Session 3
1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Ari Hirvonen, University of Helsinki, “After Oedipus and Hamlet.”
Response by Vanessa Rumble, Boston College
Session 4
3:30 - 5 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Paul Moyaert, Catholic University of Leuven, "Dignity Today. Can the Notion of Double Moral Consciousness Throw Some Light Upon Lacan?"
Response by Herman Westerink, Protestant Faculty of Theology, Vienna
Session 5
7 - 8:30 p.m.
Devlin Hall 008
W.J. Richardson, Boston College, “Heidegger’s Godot.”
Response by Philippe Van Haute, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
Tuesday, October 27
Session 1
9 - 10:30 a.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Elizabeth Rottenberg, DePaul University, "Forgetting Sexuality."
Response by Tomas Geyskens, Catholic University of Leuven
Session 2
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Russell Grigg, Deakin University, Melbourne, "The Enigma of Jouissance."
Response by Christian Dunker, Universidade de São Paulo
Session 3
1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Chaoyang Liao, National Taiwan University, “Automaton and Tathagatagarbha: Virtual Agency in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution."
Response by Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College
Session 4
3:30 - 5 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Kazuyuki Hara, University of Tokyo, Komaba, “Le tragique comme l'au-delà de l'Oedipe: autour de l'analyse lacanienne de la Trilogie de Coûfontaine.”
Response by Jelica Sumic, University of Ljubljana
Wednesday, October 28
Session 1
9 - 10:30 a.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Rodrigo de la Fabian, Université Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, “An Ethical and Political Critique of the Tragic Paradigm in Psychoanalysis.”
Response by Richard Theisen Simanke, Universidad de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Session 2
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Vladimir Safatle, Universidade de São Paulo, "The Political Power of the Inhuman: On the Psychoanalytic Critique of Humanism."
Response by Ruth Ronen, Tel-Aviv University
Session 3
1:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Gasson Hall 100
Monique David-Menard, Université de Paris-St. Denis, “How Do the Psychoanalytic Cure and Social Institution Transform the Tragic Fate of the Drives?”
Response by Richard Boothby, Loyola University of Baltimore