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RESPONSIBILITIES OF IAPL 2013 CONFERENCE 

SPEAKERS AND SESSION CHAIRS 

Chairs Should Contact Session Speakers in Advance: 

• Session chairs should contact each speaker in their session so as to obtain 

biographical information as the basis for their introduction of the speaker. 

• Session chairs should also obtain an advance copy of each speaker’s paper. 

Papers can be sent as e-mail attachments. At the very least, chairs should 

obtain an abstract of each paper to be presented. 

• Closely related papers may be grouped by Session Chairs so as to allow for 

discussion of two or more papers together. 

Speakers Should Respect Time Limits: 

• Session chairs and speakers are requested to respect the allocated time for 

each session. Sessions should begin promptly and end on time. Sessions 

should also not be cut short; chairs are responsible for leading discussion if 

none is forthcoming from the audience. 

• With a few exceptions, papers are allotted 20 minutes presentation time. 

Speakers must keep their presentations within these parameters. Each 

speaker is also entitled to 10 minutes of discussion time. Chairs should 

ensure that both of these guidelines are respected. 

• All speakers should make ample use of discussion time since this is a special 

feature and pleasure of IAPL conferences. Speakers are specifically requested 

to keep to their allocated presentation time and not use up the available 

question and discussion time with presentational material. Chairs must 

assure that there be time for questions and discussion of each paper. 

Proposed Sessions, Organized Sessions, Invited Symposia, Special Panels, and Plenary 

Sessions may follow a somewhat different format, in some cases holding a more 

substantial discussion period at the end of all the presentations. Close Encounters and 

Life and Works sessions have unique presentational criteria that the session organizer 

should announce at the beginning of the session. 

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RESPONSIBILITIES OF SPEAKERS & CHAIRS 

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3 JUNE | MONDAY 

08:00-15:00 — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, MULTIPURPOSE HALL 

IAPL REGISTRATION 

BOOK EXHIBIT | INFORMATION | CAFÉ 

12:00-14:00 

MONDAY LUNCH — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 

TEMBUSU COLLEGE, MULTIPURPOSE HALL 

14:30 - 15:15 

REFRESHMENTS 

TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, THE NGEE ANN KONGSI 

AUDITORIUM 

15:30-18:00 

OFFICIAL WELCOME 

OPENING ROUND TABLE 

ON EXTENDING A WELCOME: SINGAPORE HOSPITALITIES 


AUDITORIUM 

18:30-20:30 

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF INVISIBLE CITY 


AUDITORIUM (FOYER AND COURTYARD) 

20:45-23:30 

WELCOMING RECEPTION 

4 JUNE | TUESDAY 




TEMBUSU COLLEGE 

09:00-12:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-I (x2) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-I (x1) 

12:00-14:00 

TUESDAY LUNCH — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 


14:00-17:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-II (x3) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-II (x1) 

COLLEGE OF PETER AND ALICE TAN, UNIVERSITY TOWN AUDITORIUM 

17:30-19:00 

PLENARY SPEAKER: STEVE DIXON 

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19:00-21:30 

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE RECEPTION 

5 JUNE | WEDNESDAY 





09:00-12:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-III (x2) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-III (X1) 

12:00-14:00 

WEDNESDAY LUNCH — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 


14:00-17:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS-I (xI) 

GENERAL SESSIONS-IV (xI) 

PROGRAM SUMMARY 


AUDITORIUM 

17:30-19:30 

PLENARY SPEAKER: PHENG CHEAH 


AUDITORIUM (PATIO) 

19:30-21:30 


6 JUNE | THURSDAY 





09:00-12:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS-II (x3) 

12:00-14:00 

THURSDAY LUNCH — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 

14:00-19:00 

THURSDAY EXCURSION 

HAW PAR VILLA 

14:00-17:30 

GUIDED TOUR 

??LOCATION?? 

17:30-19:00 

DINNER 

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7 JUNE | FRIDAY 





09:00-12:00 

INVITED SYMPOSIA-I (x1) 

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-I (x1) 

12:00-14:00 

FRIDAY LUNCH — TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 


AUDITORIUM 

14:00-16:00 

PLENARY SPEAKER: MARIO PERNIOLA 


AUDITORIUM (FOYER & COURTYARD) 

17:00-20:00 

PLENARY RECEPTION & DINNER 

8 JUNE | SATURDAY 





AUDITORIUM 

09:00-12:00 

PODIUM DISCUSSION: THE AESTHETICS OF HOSPITALITY 

12:00-14:00 

SATURDAY LUNCH - TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 


AUDITORIUM 

14:00-15:30 

REMEMBERING HUGH J. SILVERMAN 


AUDITORIUM 

16:00-18:30 

CLOSING ROUNDTABLE: THE ENDS OF HOSPITALITY 

RIVERWALK TANDOOR RESTAURANT 

19:30-24:00 

IAPL CELEBRATION DINNER 

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9 JUNE | SUNDAY 

POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION 

TO SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS 

PROGRAM SUMMARY 

See the “Special Events” section of the Conference Book for detailed descriptions 

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MONDAY | 3 JUNE 2013 


08:00-15:00 



TEMBUSU COLLEGE, DINING HALL 

12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

MO 

MO 


14:30-15:15 

REFRESHMENTS 

[RT-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, THE NGEE ANN 

KONGSI AUDITORIUM 

15:30-18:00 

OFFICIAL WELCOME 

John W P Phillips (IAPL 2013 Host Coordinator) 

OPENING ROUND TABLE 

ON EXTENDING A WELCOME: SINGAPORE HOSPITALITIES 

Organized, Introduced, and Chaired by Paul Rae (Theatre Studies, National University of 

Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

How far does hospitality extend, and how intensively should it be performed? In this opening 

round table, three prominent public figures from Singapore welcome conference participants to 

the history, practice and present-day challenges of playing host in a city-state long characterized 

by a mixture of openness and constraint. 

Kelvin Ang (Conservation Department, Urban Redevelopment Association, SINGAPORE) 

T. Sasitharan (Director, Intercultural Theatre Institute, SINGAPORE) 

Constance Singam (Author and Social Activist, SINGAPORE) 

See the “Plenaries” section of the Conference Book for photos and biographical information 

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3 JUNE 2013 | MONDAY AFTERNOON 

MO 


AUDITORIUM 

18:30-20:30 

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF INVISIBLE CITY 

See the “Special Events” section of the Conference Book for an extended synopsis 

MO 


AUDITORIUM (FOYER AND COURTYARD) 

20:45-23:30 

IAPL 2013 WELCOMING RECEPTION & DINNER 

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TUESDAY | 4 JUNE 2013 

Room Code: SR=Seminar Room 


08:00-17:15 



TU 

TU 


09:00-12:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-I (x2) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-I (x1) 

[GS-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-2 

(IM)POSSIBLE HOSPITALITIES 

Chaired and Introduced by Matt De La Torre (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

Meyda Yegenoglu (Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, TURKEY) 

Sovereignty, Colonial Heritage and Unconditional Hospitality: Autoimmunizing Europe 

Istar Gözaydin Savasir (Law, Dogus University, Istanbul, TURKEY) 

Really a Sign of Hospitality, Or?: Reconstruction of Alevi Identity in Turkey and State of Things in 

Syria 

Herve Tchumkam (Foreign Languages & Literatures, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 

USA) 

Rules of Inhospitality: France and its Postcolonial Others 

Thomas C. Was (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

Jean-Luc Nancy’s Hospitable Community 

TU 


ANIMALS, GHOSTS, MONSTERS 

Chaired and Introduced by Antonia Perikou (English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 

CYPRUS) 

Kai-wen Chiu (English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN) 

Enter Quickly: The Uncanny Monster in the Posthumanist Landscape 

Fan-Chen Huang (English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN) 

The Foreignness to Come in the Performance of Magic 

Irina Aristarkhova (School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, USA) 

Hosting the Animal: Welcoming Practices in Bio-Art 

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4 JUNE 2013 | TUESDAY MORNING 

Gabriella Calchi-Novati (Drama, Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND) 

Biopolitics of Semioindistinction: Signatures of State Power and the Ethical Power of 

Ghostification 

TU 

[PS-01 TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-11 

DERRIDA’S HÓTE 

Organized by Elizabeth Wijaya (Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

Chaired and Introduced by David Coughlan (English, University of Limerick, IRELAND) 

Host/hostage, guest/ghost, stranger/foreigner, and/or friend? What/how do I call you? Who are 

you? The one who gives, who receives, (who sneaks in), the one who is turned away? This session 

discusses Derrida’s work on the aporias and thresholds of hospitality, of houses and nations, 

through fiction, film, language, and philosophy. 

David Coughlan (English, University of Limerick, IRELAND) 

On Ghostpitality in Derrida and Some Contemporary American Fiction 

Elizabeth Wijaya (Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

To a Bright(er) Summer Day: Edward Yang’s Taiwan and Hospitality 

David Huddart (Engligh, Chinese University of Hong Kong, CHINA) 

World Englishes, Cultural Translation, and Hospitality 

Christoforos Diakoulakis (English, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) 

Derrida’s Intolerance 

Lorenzo Fabbri (Romance Studies, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

With Great Responsibility, Comes Great Power: Derrida/Levinas/Schmitt 


12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

TU 

TU 


14:00-17:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-II (x3) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-II (x1) 


READING (IN) TIME 

Chaired and Introduced by ?? 

Arsalan Memon (Philosophy, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, USA) 

Institution and Constitution: Merleau-Ponty on A Priori Justification 

Anne-Kathrin Wielgosz (Languages & Letters, Walsh University, Canton, OH, USA) 

Wear-and-Tear at the Linen Works Museum 

Ismail Talib (English Language, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Time, Cognition, and Anachronous Narratives 

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Shalini Rupesh Jain (English Language, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Reciprocating Hospitality with Hostility: Romesh Gunesekera’s Ecocritical Interventions 

TU 


CULTURAL EVOLUTIONISM, TRUTH AND THE 

ARCHITECTONICS OF THE SELF 

Chaired and Introduced by Doug La Rocca (Philosophy & Mathematics, Stony Brook University, 

NY, USA) 

Nabia Majeed (Architecture and Philosophy, University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA) 

Architectonics, Utopia, and Biopower: Evading Self-Evasion 

Taek-Gwang Lee (Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, Suwon, SOUTH KOREA) 

Philosophy and Selection Theory: Marxism versus Darwinism 

Astrid Vicas (Philosophy, Saint Leo University, FL, USA) 

Hospitality and Veridiction: Interdisciplinary and Interspecies Insights 

Amy Villarejo (Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

Talking Heads: Hosting Philosophy on Television 

TU 


THINKING DWELLING, UNTHINKING ETHICS IN 

HEIDEGGER 

Chaired and Introduced by Steven Lavoie (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

Walter Reid (Philosophy, University of Calvary, Alberta, CANADA) 

Originary Dwelling: A Heideggerian Theory of Hospitality 

Timothy Read (Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK) 

Technology and Value in Heidegger 

Katrin Froese (Religious Studies & Philosophy, University of Calvary, Alberta, CANADA) 

Unthinking Ethics in Heidegger and Taoism 

TU 

[PS-02] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-2 

ART IS THE ONLY ANSWER: ON LITERATURE, PAINTING, 

AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THOUGHT 

Organized by Jeremy Fernando (Philosophy and Literature, National University of Singapore, 

SINGAPORE) 

Chaired and Introduced by Ingrid Hoofd (Communications and New Media, National University 

of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

This session attempts to examine the role of art (works) in relation to the possibility of thought. 

More precisely, it responds to works of art in order to open the possibility of art as such; that 

potentially remains unknowable even as it opens registers of thought in us. 

Pan Huiting (English Literature, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE) 

Art and the Obliteration of Consciousness 

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4 JUNE 2013 | TUESDAY AFTERNOON 

W Michelle Wang (English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA) 

Finding Seuratís La Grande Jatte in Downtown Columbus, Ohio 

Cornelius Murphy (English, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE) 

Art, Fiction, and Disinterested Forms of Meaning 

Adam Staley Groves (The Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) 

Wallace Stevens, Technics, and Hospitality: Ethics and the Hierophantic Phase 

Jeremy Fernando (Philosophy and Literature, National University of Singapore, 

SINGAPORE) 

Yes, I would prefer not to or, For the love of? 

TU 


17:30-19:00 

PLENARY SPEAKER: STEVE DIXON 

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE OF THE WASTE LAND 


TU 

COLLEGE OF PETER AND ALICE TAN, UNIVERSITY TOWN AUDITORIUM (PATIO) 

19:00-21:30 


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WEDNESDAY | 5 JUNE 2013 



08:00-17:15 



WE 

WE 


09:00-12:00 

GENERAL SESSIONS-III (x2) 

PROPOSED SESSIONS-III (x1) 


DELEUZE, NOVELTY AND DIFFERENCE 

Chaired and Introduced by ??? 

Martijn Boven (Humanities, University of Groningen, NETHERLANDS) 

Questioning the Model of Hospitality: Ricoeur and Deleuze on Novelty and Difference 

Scott Kravet (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

In Search of Hospitable Ground: Deleuze and Empiricism 

Nahum Brown (Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario, CANADA) 

How to Actualize the Reality with the Most Possibility: Deleuzian and Hegelian Solutions to the 

Incompossibility Problem 

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde 

University, Trekroner, DENMARK) 

From Biopolitics to Control Society: Foucault and Deleuze 

WE 


THE UNTRANSLATABILITY OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE 

Chaired and Introduced by Doug La Rocca (Philosophy & Mathematics, Stony Brook University, 

NY, USA) 

Brady Fullerton (Philosophy, University of Calgary, Alberta, CANADA) 

An Encounter With the Problems of Aesthetic Experience 

Wing Sze Leung (University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

The Ethical Value of Beauty in Kant’s Critique of Judgment 

Rafael Reyes-Ruiz (Humanities & Social Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE) 

Translation and Hospitality 

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Matthew Coate (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

Belief, and Non-being 

5 JUNE 2013 | WEDNESDAY MORNING 

Aaron Krempa (Philosophy, Penn State, University Park, PA, USA) 

Image-making and Poetic Visibility: Gadamerian Reflections on Plato’s Conception of Paideia 

WE 

[PS-03] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR11 

HOSPITALITY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION 

Organized by Ingrid Hoofd (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, 

SINGAPORE) 

Introduced and Chaired by Jeremy Fernando (Philosophy and Literature, National University of 

Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

This session attempts to think the problem of hospitality—its tensions between structure, 

authority, and openness—in relation to contemporary visual and cybernetic technologies. It will 

focus especially on the ambiguities around the potential for the other’s emancipation through 

representing or engaging with the other via such technologies. 

Ingrid Hoofd (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Feminist Media Representation, Or the Mechanization of Oppressive Hospitality 

Sorelle Henricus (English, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

The Gift of Science: Truth as Fact Laid Bare 

Margaret Tan (Information Studies, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

The Smart Apron and Feminist Politics: Performing the Hospitable 

Joel Gn (Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

The Code of Eros: Writing, Affect and the Dating Game 


12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

WE 

WE 


14:00-17:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS-I (x1) 

GENERAL SESSIONS-IV (x1) 

[OS-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-2 

EASING OFF THE EASEL: PICTORIALITY AND PARADIGMS 

OF PICTURING 

Organized, Introduced, and Chaired by John Holbo (Philosophy, National University of Singapore, 

SINGAPORE) 

In contemporary philosophy, the study of pictures—pictoriality, depiction—is typically treated, 

presumptively, as a branch of aesthetics. This is like making philosophy of language a branch of 

aesthetics because Hamlet is written in English. The error is so obvious no one can be making it, in 

a considered way. Nevertheless, to see what we can see, it seems worthwhile wrenching ourselves 

out of this rut, even if it is only due to path dependence in modes and manners of framing the 

topic. Pictures are tools—technology. What implications of this truistic thought are obscured by 

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favoritism for artistic examples and insights? By consistent choice of artifacts that are paradigm 

museum pieces, as if this made them paradigms of pictoriality? 

Michael Newall (History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK) 

Pictorial Kitsch 

Raphael De Clerq (Visual Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, CHINA) 

Is ‘Depicts’ Semantically Ambiguous? 

Ben Blumson (Philosophy, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Interpreting Images 

John Holbo (Philosophy, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Frame Fosters Function 

WE 


BIOPOLITICS, UNPRESENTABILITY, AND RESISTING 

NARRATIVES 

Chaired and Introduced by ??? 

Calvin Robinson (Philosophy, LeMoyne College, NY, USA) 

From Tendons to Body Scans: US Ostracism and Narrative Discourse 

Alejandro Zamora (Hispanic Studies, York University-Gledon, Ontario, CANADA) 

The Biopolitics of Childhood: Formation and De-formation Novel in the European and Latin 

American Tradition 

Wern Mei Yong (English, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE) 

In Abidance: Si(gh)thing the Other 

Mahmut Mutman (Cultural Studies, Istanbul Sehir University, TURKEY) 

Islamic Biopolitics 

*William Marderness (Writing & Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, NY, USA) 

The Unpresentable Law of Matthew 5:18-20 

WE 


AUDITORIUM 

17:30-19:30 

PLENARY SPEAKER: PHENG CHEAH 

THE BIOPOLITICS OF RECOGNITION: MAKING 

FEMALE SUBJECTS OF GLOBALIZATION 


WE 



19:30-21:30 

RECEPTION & DINNER 

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6 JUNE 2013 | THURSDAY MORNING 

THURSDAY | 6 JUNE 2013 



08:00-13:30 



TH 

TH 


09:00-12:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS-II (x3) 


PERFORMING AND ACTUALIZING HOSPITALITIES: 

PERFORMATIVITY AND PHILOSOPHY IN SCIENCE FICTION, 

MUSIC…AND A GRAND HOTEL 

Organized by Steve Dixon (President, LASALLE College of the Arts, SINGAPORE) 

Introduced and Chaired by Gunalan Nadarajan (Dean of the School of Art & Design, University of 

Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) 

Steve Dixon proposes that recent work in performance art (from Eduardo Kac and Orlan to Stelarc) 

has not merely dramatised, but has ‘actualised’ the futuristic theories and philosophies of literary 

science fiction. Paul Rae argues that Singapore’s grand, neo-classical Fullerton Hotel (1928) 

can be said to ‘perform’ Singapore: that its fate has been entwined with Singapore’s changing 

historical status as entrepôt, city state, island republic and global city; and that to encounter 

the Fullerton itself is to be confronted with the uneven and sometimes unwilled ways in which 

the past impinges upon the present in contemporary Singapore. Tim O’Dwyer investigates a new 

methodological process of analysing freely improvised music by using Deleuze and Guattari’s 

neologism the assemblage - an immanent model of ethics through the idea of assemblage 

as a machine. He argues that through this prism, ideas concerning form, structure, style and 

authorship can be newly perceived and articulated. 

Steve Dixon (President, LASALLE College of the Arts, SINGAPORE) 

Performance Art: Actualizing Science Fiction 

Paul Rae (Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

Presently the Fullerton Hotel: A Singapore Assemblage 

Timothy O’Dwyer (Head of the School of Contemporary Music, LASALLE College of the Arts, 

SINGAPORE) 

Analysing Improvised Music: A Deleuzian Approach 

TH 


CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE AGE OF BIOPOLITICS 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Kisoo Kim (Aesthetics, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 

SOUTH KOREA) 

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Kisoo Kim (Aesthetics, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, SOUTH KOREA) 

Art and Biopolitics: Badiou and Ranciere 

Ichiro Taki (Aesthetics, Osaka Kyoiku University, Kashiwara, JAPAN) 

From Difference to Analogy: Bergson (d’) après Deleuze” 

Yves Millet (Philosophy, Art, and Environment, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, 

SOUTH KOREA) 

Contemporary Aesthetics & Hospitality: The Need for New Narratives at the Age of Anthropocene 

Tammy Ko Robinson (Art Education, Hanyang University, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA) 

Soon Enough: Public Art Transmissions and Aesthetic Sustainance 

Roberto Terrosi (Philosophical Researches, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ITALY) 

Horizontal Thinking: A New Model for Living and Maybe Editing the Crisis? 

TH 


HOSPITALITY AND THE ENGENDERMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Matthew Coate (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, NY, 

USA) 

It is in being given welcome by the others, in all the multifarious ways in which this will have 

taken place, that subjectivation unfolds itself and subjects are concretely produced. This panel 

explores the way in which education, friendship, and intimate relations can determine the factical 

forms subjectivity will exhibit. 

Taine Duncan (Philosophy and Religion, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AK, USA) 

Deterritorialization of the Feminist Subject: Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup as an Exploration of 

Transnationalism and Subjectivation 

Forbes Morlock (English, Syracuse University in London, UK) 

Sodomizing in Scottish Style 

Diane Rubenstein (Government and American Studies, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

Hospitality and the University’s Papilles: Teaching Derrida at Cornell’s Hotel School 


12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

TH 

TH 

HAW PAR VILLA 

14:00-17:30 

GUIDED TOUR 

??LOCATIONS?? 

17:30-???? 

DINNER 

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7 JUNE 2013 | FRIDAY MORNING 

FRIDAY | 7 JUNE 2013 



08:00-13:30 



FR 

FR 


09:00-12:00 

INVITED SYMPOSIA-I (x1) 

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-I (x1) 

[IS-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-2 

HOSPITALITY TO THE (UN)EXPECTED ARRIVAL: 

TEMPORALITIES, TRANSGRESSIONS, TEXTUALITIES 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Merle A. Williams (English, University of the 

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA) 

What does it mean to trace the effects of the mysterious arrivant that disrupts established 

constructs of temporality, identity, ethics and textuality? Drawing on appropriate fictional 

resources, this session ranges from Hélène Cixous ‘life-writing;’ through Derridian notions of the 

aporia, hospitality, and spectrality; to the biopolitics of the (post)colonial frontier. 

Merle A. Williams (English, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA) 

Hospitality to the (Un)expected Arrival: Hélène Cixous Mourning of Loss and the Loss of Mourning 

Dale Townshend (Literature and Languages, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK) 

Guests, Hosts, Ghosts: Towards an Ethics of Gothic Writing 

Sheila Teahan (English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA) 

Hospitality and Aporia in Eva Figesís Nellyís Version 

Russell West-Pavlov (English, University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA) 

Kim Scott’s Friendly Frontier & Interconnections between Biopolitics and Hospitality in Benang 

and That Deadman Dance 

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[CE-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, SR-11 

HAUNTING LEGACIES AND IMAGINARY ETHNOGRAPHIES: 

CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH GABRIELE SCHWAB 

Chaired and Introduced by Jesse Archibald-Barber (English, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, 

CANADA) 

Speakers will reflect upon the work of renowned theorist, Gabriele Schwab, who’s compelling and 

groundbreaking research draws on a diverse range of subjects, including literature, ethnography, 

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philosophy, history, and psychoanalysis, expanding the boundaries of conventional literary theory. 

On this panel, with Gabriele Schwab as respondent, four humanities scholars explore many facets 

of Schwab’s work and the ways in which it reveals significant aspects of human nature, from local 

histories to the wider contexts of globalization. 

Hertha D. Sweet Wong (English, University of California, Berkeley, USA) 

Trauma, Self-Reflexivity, and Memory in Gabriele Schwab’s Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories 

and Transgenerational Trauma 

Jesse Archibald-Barber (English, First Nations University, Saskatchewan, CANADA) 

Holocaust Imagery and Canadian Colonialism: Gabriele Schwab’s Haunting Legacies: Violent 

Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers 

Gregg Lambert (Humanities, Syracuse University, NY, USA) 

Strangers, Primitives, and Literary Readers: On the Marriage of Psychoanalysis and Ethnography in 

the work of Gabriele Schwab. 

MeeRa Lee (Asian/Asian American Studies, Syracuse University, NY, USA) 

An Imaginary Encounter between Haunting Legacies and the Korean Emotion of Han 


12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

FR 


AUDITORIUM 

14:00-16:00 

PLENARY SPEAKER: MARIO PERNIOLA 

COMPLIMENTARY 


FR 



17:00-20:00 

PLENARY RECEPTION AND DINNER 

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8 JUNE 2013 | SATURDAY MORNING 

SATURDAY | 8 JUNE 2013 


08:00-13:30 



SA 

[PD-01] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, THE NGEE ANN 


09:00-12:00 

PODIUM DISCUSSION 

AESTHETICS TODAY: BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND ART 

Chaired and Introduced by Forbes Morlock (English, Syracuse University in London, UK) 

There’s a telling moment in Mario Perniola’s extensive study of the philosophical aesthetics of 

the 20th century where philosophy, in the particular form of cognitive aesthetics, discovers by 

its celebration of art not art as such but merely more philosophy: “The theoretical celebration of 

art responds to exigencies that are more philosophical than artistic. To assert the cognitive value 

of art means not only to grant to art something that after all it is not interested in, but also to 

deploy expectations and issues that are extraneous to it. Philosophy ends up finding in art nothing 

but itself” (Mario Perniola, 20th Century Aesthetics, 58). This particular form of a more general 

issue concerning philosophical aesthetics manifests a tendency in philosophy to project its own 

exigencies onto its objects or topics. Much of the adventure of 20th century aesthetics has to do 

with the need or at least the desire to refuse philosophy, and aesthetics in particular, this circular 

privilege. In some cases philosophy simply becomes an art amongst others. Meanwhile art itself, 

in some of its 20th century forms, seems to encroach into philosophy too, to the extent that, as 

Perniola elsewhere argues, “it becomes quite problematic to determine what is art today” (Art and 

its Shadow, 55). This session raises the question of the movement between art and philosophy—is 

it a space of lability or confusion, of transformation or ruin? 

Mario Perniola (Aesthetics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ITALY) 

??Paper Title?? 

Gary Aylesworth (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA) 

Aesthetics and Difference 

John W P Phillips (English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, 

SINGAPORE) 

??Paper Title?? 


12:00-14:00 

LUNCH 

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AUDITORIUM 

14:00-15:30 

IN MEMORIAM 

REMEMBERING HUGH J. SILVERMAN 

See the “In Memoriam” section of the Conference Book for extended reflections 

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[RT-02] TEMBUSU COLLEGE, EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER, THE NGEE ANN 


16:00-18:30 

CLOSING ROUNDTABLE 

THE ENDS OF HOSPITALITY 

Organized, Introduced, and Chaired by John W P Phillips (English Language and Literature, 

National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE) 

DESCRIPTION??? 

Ryan Bishop (Global Arts and Politics, Winchester School of Art, Southampton, UK) 

In the Garden of Hospitality and Hostility 

Mike Fischer (Anthropology, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA) 

Between Philosophy and Anthropology 

Diane Rubenstein (Government and American Studies, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, USA) 

Hospitality, Politics, Pedagogy 

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RIVERWALK TANDOOR 

19:30-24:00 

IAPL CELEBRATION DINNER 

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9 JUNE 2013 | SUNDAY EXCURSION 

SUNDAY | 9 JUNE 2013 

POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION 

TO SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS 

See the “Special Events” section of the Conference Book for detailed descriptions 

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