Between Heidegger, Levines & Derrida

The projects of each of these thinkers can be said to be both the same and yet fundamentally different. Together they share a radical re-reading of the history of metaphysics in order to lay bare its unthought; displacing a thinking of the logos in favour of a philosophy of difference, understood in a myriad of ways. While they share a common language and common themes such as logos, other, trace, event; the manner in which these themes are imagined is radically different in the work of each thinker.

These three philosophers were engaged in an ongoing conversation, which took the form not only of critique, but more importantly, of transformation. A conversation which, at its heart, asks: what are the limits and responsibilities of philosophy itself?   Between Heidegger, Levinas & Derrida seeks to open a space between their work in order to explore their complex relations, common themes and continued relevance.  

Supported by the Irish Research Council ~
PROGRAMME:
FRIDAY 8th FEBRUARY:   09:45 – 10:00    Welcoming address
10:00 – 12:00    Panel I Chair: Fergal McHugh (University College Dublin) lleana Bortun (University of Bucharest): S ubstitution and Mit(da)sein: A Question of Priority Kyle Hubbard (St. Anselm College): Jacques Derrida on the Gift of Love: A Genealogy and Critique Timothy Jussaume (Villanova University): Production: Locating the "Beyond Being" in Heidegger and Levinas Oisin Keohane (University of Edinburgh): T he Impossible Force of ‘Mightlessness’: The Sway Between Derrida’s impouvoir and Heidegger’s Machtlose   12:00 – 12:15    Coffee 12:15 – 13:45    Panel II Chair: Dylan Trigg (University College Dublin)                             Rozemund Uljée (University College Dublin): Thinking Nearness: Heidegger and Derrida on the Other of Metaphysics Tziovanis Georgakis (University of Cyprus): Of a Farcical deus ex machina in Heidegger and Derrida Hugh Cummins (University College Dublin): Place and Space: Levinas on Heidegger’s “Paganism”   13:45 – 15:00    Lunch   15:00 – 16:30    Panel III Chair: Bart Zantvoort (University College Dublin)
Lisa Foran (University College Dublin): The Question of Justice: On Derrida’s Khora and Levinas’s Preoriginal Simon Skempton (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): Between the Singular and the Proper: On Deconstructive Personhood Carlos Gutiérrez (Universidad de los Andes):The Paradoxical Listening to the Other   16:30 – 16:45    Coffee   16:45 – 18:00    KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ADRIAAN PEPERZAK (LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO)                         Chair: Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin)     SATURDAY 9th FEBRUARY   10:00 – 10:30    Coffee   10:30 – 12:00    Panel IV Chair: Thomas Szanto (University College Dublin) Mauro Senatore (Universidad Diego Portales): "... AND WAR THERE IS” Identity and Ipseity in “Violence and Metaphysics” Alexander Thomson (University of Edinburgh): Philosophy, Politics and War in Totality and Infinity Sineád Hogan (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology): echo(s) / before the other / das Unheimlichkeit de l’évasion   12:00 – 13:15    Lunch   13:15 – 14:30    KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FRANCOIS  RAFFOUL (Louisiana State University)                         Chair: Dermot Moran   14:30 – 14:45    Coffee   14:45 – 16:15    Panel V Chair: Paul Ennis (University College Dublin) Rajesh Sampath (Brandeis University): The Concept of Time as the Step Beyond Being and Time Crisitna Morar (University of Ottawa): Levinas, Derrida and the Ambiguity of the Feminine Seferin James (University College Dublin ): The Closure of the Opening   16:15 – 16:30      Coffee   16:30 – 17:45     KEYNOTE ADDRESS: RAPHAEL ZAGURY–ORLY (Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design)                          Chair: Mahon O’Brien   17:45 – 18.00      Closing Remarks       All welcome!  For further information please contact [email protected]

Conference Organizers: Lisa Foran, Rozemund Uljée, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin.