Friday, May 6
1:00 - 2:10 pm Panel 1: Marx, Hegel, and Modern Philosophy
Chair: Spencer Leonard, Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago richard westerman, “Lukács and the Contradictions of Capitalist Epistemology”
patrick murray, “The Contradictory Character of Capitalist Wealth”
chris cutrone, “Adorno and Korsch on Marxism and Philosophy”
2:20 - 3:30 pm Panel 2: Contradiction in the Practice of Normative Philosophy
Chair: Ben Laurence, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and in the College, University of Chicagonathan bauer, “Departed Souls: Contradiction in Plato’s Account of the Just Soul”
benjamin mckean, “Practically Necessary Presuppositions and Rational Faith in Kant and Rawls”
joshua broady preiss, “Contradictions in the Theory and Practice of Egalitarianism”
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 - 5:45 pm Keynote Address by John R. Searle
Slusser Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Robert B. Pippin
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College, University of Chicago
6:00 - 6:45 pm Wine and Cheese Reception
Saturday, May 7
9:00 - 10:20 am Panel 3: Victimhood and Agency in Collective Memory
Chair: Berthold Molden, Mellon Fellow and Visiting Scholar in the Social Sciences, University of Chicagoshawn gorman, “Victimhood and the Inversion of Morals in Twentieth-Century French Thought: Notes Toward a Chiasmus”
sheena kang, “Old Victims, New Victims: Historic Injustice and Justice as Recognition”
max whyte, “After Evil? The History and Legacy of the Historikerstreit”
10:30 - 11:50 am Panel 4: Candid Contradictions: Hegel, Whitehead, and Quantum Physics
Organizer: Nathan Bauer, Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of ChicagoChair: James Conant, Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and in the College, University of Chicago nicholas gaskill, “Bifurcated Color”
alexis papazoglou, “Hegelian Dialectic”
brandon fogel, “The Road Not Taken: Bell’s Theorem and the Reality of Counterfactuals”
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:10 - 2:30 pm Panel 5: Figures of Speech: Rhetoric and Self-Contradiction
Chair: Alison James, Assistant Professor of French Literature, University of Chicagotimothy grinsell, “Convergence and Disagreement”
hugolin bergier, “Contradiction in Collective Deliberation”
roma sendyka, “Suture: Thinking Against Contradiction”
audrey wasser, “Hyperbole in Proust”
2:40 - 4:00 pm Panel 6: Poetry and Contradiction
Organizer: Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor of English and in the College, University of ChicagoChair: Elizabeth Ginzburg, Instructor, Russian Language and Literature, De Paul Universityjohn wilkinson, “Fault Lines in Lyric”
justin evans, “Contradicting the World: Pound’s Early Cantos”
ted cohen, “How to Contradict a Metaphor”
4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:40 pm Panel 7: Social Conflict and Revolution
Organizer: Stefan Klusemann, Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of ChicagoChair: Tara Zahra, Assistant Professor of East European History, University of Chicago stefan klusemann, “Assassinations in Revolutionary Conflict: Towards A Micro-Sociological Theory”
dorit geva, “Cassius Clay and the Color of Conscience”
timothy michael, “The Egyptian Uprising: The Roots of Resistance”
5:50 - 7:20 pm Panel 8: Theories of Mass Culture: A Panel in Honor of Miriam Hansen
Organizer: Megan Luke, Harper Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago Chair: Tom Gunning, Professor and Chair of Cinema & Media Studies, Professor of Art History and in the College, University of Chicago neil verma, “Constitutive Ambivalence: The Jaggedness of Sensation in Hangmen Also Die!”
lisa zaher, “A Gamble with Language: Medium Specificity in Hollis Frampton’s Poetic Justice”
matthew furlong, “Figurations of the Cipher; or, On the Proximity of Culture and Theory in Mass-Culture Theory”
7:45 - 9:45 pm Dinner
This conference was made possible by the generous support of the Bernard Weissbourd Memorial Fund. The organizers would like to express our gratitude to the Weissbourd family and to our co-sponsors, the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, with special thanks to Robert Pippin and James Conant, as well as to Bradin Cormack, Kristin Lueke, and Valerie Wallace. Many thanks also to Dean of the College John Boyer and to our colleagues in the Society of Fellows, especially Faculty Chair Chris Faraone, Vice Faculty Chair Bertram Cohler, and David Bevington, and Junior Faculty Co-Chairs Katie Chenoweth and Andrew Dilts. Special thanks to Julia Klein, Program Coordinator for the Society of Fellows, for all her support and assistance throughout the year.
- Dina Gusejnova & Emily Steinlight
Weissbourd 2010-2011 Events Series Co-Chairs
