Thursday, March 27:
5 to 7pm:
Keynote address by Professor Chantal
Mouffe:
“Agonistic Politics:
Ethical or Political.”
7pm-9pm:
Opening Reception
Friday, March 28:
9am-10.45am:
Workshop discussion with
Professor Chantal Mouffe on Carl Schmitt’s “The Concept of the Political.”
In order to be added to the CTools and have access to the readings,
please email cliffconference2013@gmail.com
11am-12.45pm: The Institution Is
Political: Constitution of Us and Them
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Darach
MacDonald, School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland:
“'Otherness' Remains the X-factor in Post-conflict Northern Ireland”
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Kateřina
Lišková, Gender & Sociology, Masaryk University, Czeck Republic: “SeX Is
Political: Politicizing Discourses of Sex Education”
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Eda
Dogancay, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University:
"The
Ambivalent Articulation of the Nation: The Case of the Justice and
Development Party (AKP) in Turkey"
12.45pm-2pm: Lunch Break
2pm-3:45pm: Panel 2: The System Is Politics: The
Management of the Everyday
Joshua Shipper,
Political Science, University of Michigan: "Political
Conception Versus Literary Description: The Case of Action in 19th Century
Narrative & Non-Narrative Literature"
Suphak Chawla, Comparative
Literature, University of Michigan: “Thinking the Good Without the True with
Pedro Páramo”
Allison Lakomski, Cultural Studies,
George Mason University: “‘Tis the
Season for Consumer-Citizenship”
4pm-5.30pm: Panel 3: The “What” Is Political? Genealogy
and Taxonomy of the Political
Timothy Syme, Philosophy, Brown
University: “Three Senses of the Political”
Brian Whitener,
Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan: “Genealogies of the
Political”
5.30pm-6pm: Concluding Remarks by Christopher
Meade
8pm-2am: The Party Is Political
8pm-10pm:
Cocktail Party at Common Language Bookstore
10pm-2am:
Bar Night at the Aut Bar
