Difference and Alterity: Critical Models in Modern Thought
Friday, October 25th, 2019 – Saturday, October 26th, 2019
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 25, 2019 | 2:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
| Saturday, October 26, 2019 | 10:00AM - 5:30PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Description
Friday October 25
2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks
2:15-3:00
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli
3:00-3:45
Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne
3:45-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15-5:00
Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie
5:00-5:45
Warren Montag, “To Quit the Principles of Human Nature:” Locke’s Notion of the Inhuman
Saturday October 26
10:15-11:00
Tracie Matysik, Substance as Contingency in the Young Karl Marx
11:00-11:45
Michael Rosenthal, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Aesthetics to Make Sense of Immorality in Politics: Exempla, Thought-Images, and the Eichmann Trial
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:15 James McNaughton, Beckett’s Political Aesthetic
2:15-3:00 David Suchoff, De-Colonizing Dialect: Beckett’s Palestinian and Irish Canines
3:00-3:15
Coffee Break
3:15-4:00
Omar Rivera, Resistance as Alterity in Decolonial Aesthetics
4:00-4:45
Amogh Sahu, Skepticism and the Philosophy of Difference
5:00-5:30
Open Discussion
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