Given Time in Three Times: 1978-79, 1991, 2021 (A Two-Day Symposium)

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In 1978, the French philosopher Jacques Derrida began a year-long seminar at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris entitled “Donner—le temps.” He would go on to publish the first five sessions of that seminar, largely unchanged, in 1991, following an invitation to give the Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago. This text became Given Time, Volume 1: Counterfeit Money. As his title indicated, however, this was to be only the first such intervention: a second text, under the same name, was planned soon to follow. Despite this indication, no other volumes ever materialized during his lifetime. Now some thirty years after its initial announcement, the much-anticipated second volume to Given Time is finally set to be published in the Fall of 2021. The symposium, “Given Time in Three Times: 1978-79, 1991, 2021”, will be one of the first events worldwide to address this new material. Over a two-day period, it will afford scholars from multiple disciplines, across the humanities, the opportunity to reappraise Derrida’s Given Time as well as to reflect on the theoretical significance of “the gift,” within the fields of Continental Philosophy, Literature, History, Anthropology, Art, Religion, and Economics.

This event is sponsored by:
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
The Collaboratory for Research Impact of Social Sciences
The Department of Philosophy
The Department of International Studies
The Department of Hispanic Studies
The France/TAMU Institute

Speakers include: Tyler M. Williams (Midwestern State University), Thomas Clément Mercier (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez), Michael Peterson (DePaul University), Deborah Goldgaber (Louisiana State University), Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount University & St. John’s College), David Liakos (Houston Community College), Michael Portal (Texas A&M University), Rodrigo Therezo (Princeton University), James Martell (Lyon College), Brandon Wadlington (Texas A&M University), Sergio Villalobos Ruminott (University of Michigan), Armando Mastrogiovanni (Baruch College, CUNY), Adam R. Rosenthal (Texas A&M University), Harris Bechtol (Sam Houston State University), Justin Rogers (Texas A&M University), Maddalena Cerrato (Texas A&M University), Alberto Moreiras (Texas A&M University), and Ronald Mendoza de Jesus (University of Southern California).

The conference schedule is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_-2oMlvwBgRnYj66Wmd8XeHHG302UvVrW6KN43fcqUI/edit?usp=sharing

You can register for the event here: https://tamu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kc-mopz0pHtUJZhgCnK1AQ7XaPKSnsAGA