Below is the program for an amazing conference on the work of Stanley Cavell that will be held October 5-6 at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. To visit the conference website, please click here.
Stanley Cavell
PHILOSOPHY THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary
October 5-6, 2012
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Friday 5 October
17:30 Session 1 Aesthetics of the Ordinary
- William Rothman (University of Miami): “Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off, and Start All Over Again: Cavell, Astaire, Emerson”
- Richard Shusterman (Florida Atlantic University): “Vie philosophique et esthétique de l’ordinaire : Cavell après Emerson et Thoreau”
Saturday 6 October
10:00 Session 2 Film and the Ordinary
- Marc Cerisuelo (Université Aix-Marseille): “Cavell, James et Mickey : ou pourquoi le cinéma n’est pas un art”
- Hugo Clémot (Université Paris 1/ PhiCo): “L’expérience manquée, la critique cinématographique et Cadillac Man”
11:15 break
- Naoko Saito (Kyoto University): “The Senses of the Ordinary in Walden”
13:00 lunch break
14:30 Session 3 Passionate Utterances
- Layla Raid (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, CURAPP): “Unhappy Performatives and Moral Education”
- Daniele Lorenzini (Université Paris 12): “Performative, Passionate and Courageous Utterances. On Cavell, Foucault, and Discourse as a Force”
16:00 break
16:30 Session 4 Skepticism
- Elise Domenach (ENS Lyon): “L’appel au jour nouveau et le désir d’une fin du monde: figures du scepticisme”
- Paul Standish (Institute of Education, University of London): “Succès de Scandale: Running Risks with Cavell and Levinas”
