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PROGRAM
September 22-23
School of Humanities
Australian National University
Sponsor
Institute for Humanities, ANU
Sunday September 21
Informal drinks: PJ O’Reilly’s,
Civic, from 6pm: All welcome
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Monday September 22
| 8.45-9.15 | Registration |
| 9.15-9.30 | Opening Remarks and Welcome |
| 9.30-10.30 | Plenary Session: |
| Robyn Ferrell (U.Tas): Conceiving of the Future | |
| 10.30- 11.00 | Tea |
| 11-12.45 | First Session: |
| (1) Theorizing Unassumable Responsibility | |
| Stan Van Hooft (Deakin): Ricoeur on Responsibility | |
| Catherine Mills (ANU): Speaking Other-wise: Linguistic Survival, Violence and Subjection | |
| John Dalton: Who Speaks for Human Rights? | |
| 12.45-2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00-3.45 | Parallel Sessions |
| (1) Interrogating Derridean Ethics | |
| Miriam Bankovsky (UNSW): The In/commensurability of Derrida and Rawls: The inevitability of a Rawlsian politics and the imperative of deconstruction | |
| Jack Reynolds (U.Tas): Time and Responsibility in Derrida and Deleuze | |
| Alexander Cooke (Monash): The Limits of Justice, or, How Not to Take Responsibility | |
| (2) Historic and Collective Guilt | |
| Andrew Schaap (CAPPE): Assuming Responsibility in the Hope of Political Reconciliation | |
| Adam Czarnota (UNSW): Structural evil and collective memories: Justice and obligation of “dealing with the past” in post-communist Europe | |
| Anne Murphy (UNSW): Shame: The Suffering of Others | |
| 3.45-4.15 | Tea |
| 4.15-5.15 | Plenary Session: |
| Rosalyn Diprose (UNSW): Responsibility in a Place and Time of Terror | |
| 5.15-6.00 | Refreshments |
| 6.00-7.15 | Film screening: Thick Skin by Peter Rush |
| Intro by Peter Rush and response by Dirk Meure | |
| 7.45pm | Conference Dinner: Mezzalira in Civic |
| (Please advise organizers by September 15 if you wish to attend the conference dinner) |
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Tuesday September 23
| 9.00-10.30 | Plenary Session: |
| Stephen Muecke (UTS): Sex, Tourism, Contingency and Responsibility | |
| 10.30-11.00 | Tea |
| 11.00-12.45 | Parallel Sessions |
| (1) Politics of the Event | |
| Fiona Jenkins (ANU): Dialogue in the Aftermath: On Good, Evil and Responsibility after September 11 | |
| William McClure: The triumph of the Spectacle | |
| Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie): Against Ethics: Universality and Singularity in an Age of Post-Politics | |
| (2) Reconciliation, Memory and Narrative | |
| Kay Schaffer and Emily Potter (U. Adel): Responding to Rabbit-Proof Fence and the Commodification of Indigenous Experience | |
| Trish Luker (La Trobe): Ineffaceable Memory: Law and Responsibility in Cubillo | |
| Morgan Brigg (UQ): Ethical Writing from the Site of the Subject | |
| 12.45-2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00-3.45 | Parallel Sessions |
| (1) Agamben: Interrogating Human Rights | |
| Dirk Meure (U.Tas): "The Camp as the Nomos of the Modern" | |
| Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie): Agamben’s negativistic history and philosophy of rights: a critical evaluation | |
| Frances Daly (ANU): The non-citizen and the concept of ‘human rights’ | |
| (2) Of Hospitality | |
| Paul Miller (ANU): Truth Overboard- What does it mean for politicians and statesmen to assume responsibility for their Words of Mass Destruction? | |
| Rowena Braddock (U.Syd): Literature and Hospitality: Assumptions of Irresponsibility? | |
| Paula Keating (UNSW): The Conditioning of the Unconditioned: Derrida and Kant | |
| 3.45 – 4.15 | Tea |
| 4.15-5.15 | Plenary Session: |
| Peter Rush (U.Melb): Lost Bodies of Law: Crime, Death and the Subject of Jurisdiction | |
| 5.15-5.30 | Closing Remarks |