Cliff Program

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

-       Darach MacDonald, School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland: “'Otherness' Remains the X-factor in Post-conflict Northern Ireland”

-       Kateřina Lišková, Gender & Sociology, Masaryk University, Czeck Republic: “SeX Is Political: Politicizing Discourses of Sex Education”

-       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