The Department of Rhetoric and The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry present a two-day conference, "Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond." The program will take place September 13 and 14, 2024.
This conference will feature talks by an array of local, national, and international scholars. Admission is free for students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Location: 3335 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley
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
-BREAK-
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
-BREAK-
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
NOTE: Campus building doors may be locked on Saturday. If you encounter any trouble accessing the conference, please text: 310-913-5483
For more information or for accessibility related inquiries, please write to Eve Letendre at rfa@berkeley.edu.
