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IAPL 2010 CONFERENCE 

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PROGRAM SUMMARY 

MONDAY 24 may 2010 

09:00-15:00 - ck185, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, saskatchewan, canada 

IAPL REGISTRATION - Book Exhibit | Information | Image Show | Café 

GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN, REGINA, CANADA 

15:00-16:00 - REFRESHMENTS 

GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

16:00-16:15 - Official Welcomes 

Gary Boire (Vice-President [Academic], University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Hugh J. Silverman (IAPL Executive Director and Program Coordinator) 

Lynn Wells (Associate Vice-President [Academic], University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA and IAPL 2010 Host Coordinator) 

[rt-1] GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

16:15-18:30 - Opening Round Table: The Politics of Cultural 

Dissidence/Dissonance 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Lynn Wells (English, University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

19:00-21:00 - River - A film by Mark Wihak 

Introduced by Christine Ramsay (Media and Production Studies, University of 

Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Library and blue room, hOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

21:00-midnight 

IAPL 2010 WELCOMING buffet reception

Tuesday 25 May 2010 

09:00-17:00 - ck185, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, sK, canada 


TU 9:00-12:00 

GENERAL SEssions-I 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers 

required & available at IAPL Registration Desk. - 

Photography Exhibit - CK 187 

tu 14:00-17:00 

Organized Sessions-1 

TU 17:30-19:30 - Auditorium, Luther College 

KeyNote Speaker: Maria Campbell 

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CANADA 

Cree / Michif Narrative and Story Telling 

tu 19:30-23:00 - Luther College Room 100 

Reception sponsored by Luther College

Wednesday 26 may 2010 



WE 9:00-12:00 

proposed SEssion-I 

WE 9:00-12:00 

General SEssions - Ii 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers required & available at 

IAPL Registration Desk. - Photography Exhibit - CK 187 

WE 14:00-17:00 

Invited symposia-i 

We [Pl-02] 17:30-20:00 - Research and Innovation centre auditorium 

6th annual Petee Jung memorial IAPL lecture 

Chaired and Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director 

Keynote SPEAKER: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ 

McGill University, Montreal, QC, CANADA 

Context: Architecture BEYOND GLOBALIZATION 

AND CULTURAL FRAGMENTATION 

We 20:00-23:00 - Research and Innovation centre atrium 

REception

Thursday 27 may 2010 



TH 9:00-12:00 

proposed SEssion-II 

TH 9:00-12:00 

General SEssions-III 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers required & available 

at IAPL Registration Desk. - Photography Exhibit - CK 187 

TH 14:00-17:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS 

th [PL-03] 17:30-20:00 - Education Auditorium 106 

First Annual WILHELM S. WURZER MEMORIAL IAPL LECTURE 

Chaired and Introduced Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive 

Director 

Keynote SPEAKER: BERNARD STIEGLER 

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE 

THE PHARMACOLOGICAL TASK OF PHILOSOPHY 

th 20:00-21:00 - EDUCATION AUDITORIUM FOYER 

Reception 

th 20:00-23:00 - RIDDELL PATIO 

Reception & BBQ

Friday 28 may 2010 



FR 9:00-12:00 

SPECIAL PANELS 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - 

pre-purchased vouchers required & available at IAPL Registration Desk. 


13:00-17:00 EXCURSION TO CATHEDRAL VILLAGE ARTS 

FESTIVAL 

19:00-23:00 CANADIAN ART EXHIBIT TOUR AND LECTURE: 

MACKENZIE ART GALLERY 

CANADIAN ART: CULTURES OF DIFFERENCES 

Carmen Robertson (Art History and Visual Arts, University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

ARTS OF THE FLATLANDS: SASKATCHEWAN’S RED RENAISSANCE

Saturday 29 may 2010 



SA 9:00-12:00 

close encounters 

SA [CE-01] Education Building 191 

CLOSE ENCOUNTER: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ 


CLOSE ENCOUNTER: PETER KEMP 


CLOSE ENCOUNTER: BERNARD STIEGLER 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers required & available at IAPL 

Registration Desk.- Photography Exhibit - CK 187 

16:30 -18:30 - CLOSING ROUND TABLE: HOW REASONABLE 

IS REASONABLE ACCOMODATION? 

19:00-19:30 

Reception 

19:30-00:30 rotunda, research xxxx 

IAPL 2010 cultural differences gala dinner 

BAND: jeffrey straker band 

Dinner, Music, Dancing 

Tickets available at IAPL Registration Desk (until Thurs noon)

SUNday 30 may 2010 

Post-Conference excursion to Saskatoon 

Regina -> Wanuskewin Heritage Park -> 

Saskatoon Riverboat Tour / Mendel Art Gallery 

Dinner @ Bessborough Hotel -> Regina 

Excursion Schedule: 

8:30 - Leave Regina - Hotel Saskatchewan 

12:00 - 14:00 - Wanuskewin Heritage Park 

Medicine Trail Walk, Gallery & Exhibit, Tipi Raising, Traditional Dance (box lunch 

provided - indicate dietary preferences at time of purchase) 

14:00 - Leave for Mendel Art Gallery - Saskatoon 

Two Options available upon arrival at the Mendel Art Gallery: 

Option 1 - RIVERBOAT + ART GALLERY 

15:00 - 16:00 - River Tour (bring a jacket, could be cool on the river.) Shearwater’s 

Saskatoon Riverboats 

Adults $17.00; Seniors $16.00; Students (six or over with valid student card) 

$16.00; Child $10.00; Infants free. (add about 10% PST + GST) 

16:00 - 17:00 - Mendel Art Gallery 

Option 2 - VISIT DOWNTOWN SASKATOON 

For those who do not want to go on the Riverboat or to the Gallery. 

15:00 - 17:00 - Bus goes to downtown Saskatoon for walking around or shopping - 

[Free, unless you are a shopper!] 

17:00 - 19:00 - Dinner at the Bessborough Hotel 

We will reserve tables for everyone but everyone will choose their own menu and 

pay their own bill. 

19:15 - Bus leaves for Regina

IAPL 2010 

CONFERENCE 

PROGRAM

Monday | 26 May 2010 



mo GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN, REGINA, CANADA 

15:00-16:00 

REFRESHMENTS 

mo GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

16:00-16:15 

Official Welcomes 

Gary Boire (Vice-President [Academic], University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Hugh J. Silverman (IAPL Executive Director and Program Coordinator) 

Lynn Wells (Associate Vice-President [Academic], University of Regina, SK, CANADA 

and IAPL 2010 Host Coordinator) 

mo [rt-1] GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

16:15-18:30 

Opening Round Table: The Politics of Cultural Dissidence/ 

Dissonance 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Lynn Wells (English, University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

Power relations between cultures such as tokenism in the academic context, the 

cultural function of literary utopias in relation to minority cultures, and the 

proposition that cultures are open to the events of truth (contra Badiou) will be 

discussed. 

Joyce Green (Political Science, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Inclusion or Transformation? Indigenizing the Academy 

Nicole Côté (French, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

The Utopic Edge of Minority Literature 

Garry Sherbert (English, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Evental Culture: Badiou, Derrida, and Cultural Autoimmunity 

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24 May 2010 | MONDAY 

IAPL 2010 - REGINA 

Mo GRAND BALLROOM, HOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

19:00-21:00 

River - A film by Mark Wihak 

River is a lyrical evocation of those life-changing friendships of youth- passionate, 

all consuming, and sometimes as brief as summer. 

Introduced by Christine Ramsay (Media and Production Studies, University of 


Discussion following the film. 

MO Library and blue room, hOTEL SASKATCHEWAN 

21:00-midnight 

24 may 2010 | monday 

IAPL 2010 WELCOMING buffet reception 

For registered IAPL conference participants only 

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Tuesday | 26 May 2010 



TUESDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 

TU 9:00-12:00 

GENERAL SEssions-I 

TU [GS-01] EDucation building 191 

THEATRES OF CULTURE: LINGIS AND ARTAUD 

Chaired and Introduced by Sheila Petty (Fine Arts, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Alphonso Lingis (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA) 

Sacrilege 

Rajiv Kaushik (Philosophy, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, CANADA) 

Lingis on the Voice 

Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) 

Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche and Artaud 

*Wayne Leo (English, University of Calgary, AB, CANADA) 

Artaud’s Upheaval: Theatre of Cruelty and V for Vendetta 

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tu [GS-02] EDucation building 514 

FEMINIST ONTO/LOGICS 

Chaired and Introduced by Kathleen Hulley (Music History, Stony Brook University, 

Stony Brook, NY, USA) 

Anna Mudde (Philosophy, York University, Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

Distinguished Theorists: The Art of Self-Knowledge and the ‘Cultures’ of Theory 

Taine Duncan (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) 

Ethical Demands of the Other: Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as 

an Exploration of Drucilla Cornell and Judith Butler 

Rebecca Bamford (Center for Learning Innovation, University of Minnesota 

Rochester, USA) 

Performative Autobiography: Writing Selves Across Cultures of Differences

25 May 2010 | Tuesday Morning 


tu [GS-03] Education Building 619 

TRAVELLING NATIONS 

Chaired and Introduced by Kuisma Korhonen (Literature, University of Oulu, FINLAND) 

Katie Brennan (English, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA) 

Traveling Spaces: Imagination’s Passport, Memory’s Suitcase 

Catriona Hanley (Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA) 

Cultural Clashes: Deconstructing Myths that Govern the American Dream 

R. Lane Kauffmann (Hispanic Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA) 

Blurred Differences: Eduardo Nicol’s El problema de la Filosofía Hispánica 

tu [GS-04] Education building 621 

FEMINIST REWRITINGS AND THE QUESTION OF PLACE 

Chaired and Introduced by Maria Margaroni (English Studies, University of Cyprus, 

Nicosia, CYPRUS) 

25 may 2010 | Tuesday Morning 

Jessica Brichta (English, University of Ottawa, ON, CANADA) 

Breaking Familial and Feudal Bonds: The Social and Cultural Effects of Agnatic 

Consanguinity in The Song of Roland and The Song of Girart of Vienne 

Tegan Zimmerman (Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 

CANADA) 

Woman and La Patria: In The Name of Salomé: A Feminist Reading of the 

Historical Novel 

Funda Basak Baskan (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, 

Edmonton, AB, CANADA) 

“By the Bog of Cats I finally learned false from true”: Xenophobia and Exile in 

the Modern Rewriting of Medea 

Meg Mundell (Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, 

NSW, AUSTRALIA) 

On Being at Sea: Towards an Experiential Methodology for Writing Sense of 

Place 

tu [GS-05] Education building 623 

FREEDOM AND STRUCTURE 

Chaired and Introduced by Robert Piercey (Philosophy, University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

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

Hegel on Free Actualities and the Concept of the Retro 

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Martta Heikkilä (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) 

Doing Justice to the Particular and Distinctive: The Laws of Art 

William Marderness (Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, 

NY, USA) 

The Difference Between Connotation and Myth 

Antje von Graevenitz (Arthistorical Institute, University of Cologne, GERMANY) 

The Definition of Freedom: F.W.J. Schelling’s Philosophy and the Artistic and 

Theoretical Work of Joseph Beuys 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 


Registration Desk. 


tu 14:00-17:00 

Organized Sessions-1 

tu [OS-01] Education building 191 

FIRST NATIONS, MÉTIS, AND INUIT VOICES: CANADIAN INDIGENOUS 

EPISTEMOLOGIES 

Indigenous epistemologies, ways of knowing, knowledge systems, lived experience, 

and Indigenous approaches to knowledge and learning require rigorous 

examination. This includes the relationship between myth, stories, philosophy 

and world-view, and the healing medicine of language. Teaching and learning 

must be consistent with beliefs, customs, values, and language. 

Chaired and Introduced by Dr. James McNinch (Dean of Education, University of 


Organized by David Evans (Education, Gabriel Dumont Institute/University of 


William Asikinack (Indigenous Studies, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, 

SK, CANADA) 

Pimadiziwin: Anishinabe Philosophy through Oral Story 

Rita Bouvier (Education, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, Saskatoon, SK, 

CANADA) 

If the Land Could Speak 

Peesee Pitsiulak-Stephens (Education, Nunavut Arctic College, Iqaluit, NU, CANADA) 

Inuit Worldview Then and Now 

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25 May 2010 | Tuesday afternoon 


tu [OS-02] Education building 193 

HEIDEGGER, NIETZSCHE, AND CULTURE 

How can we think of the complex relationships between hermeneutics, poetics, 

and philosophy? To what extent does interpretation repeat an already spoken 

word? To what extent is it an originary “saying”? These questions are raised 

by Heidegger and Gadamer, particularly in their interpretations of Hölderlin, 

Nietzsche, and the Sophists. 

Chaired and Introduced by Gertrude Postl (Philosophy/Women’s Studies, Suffolk 

Community College, Selden, NY, USA) 

Organized by Gary E. Aylesworth (Philosophy, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, 

USA) 

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

Heidegger, Nietzsche and the Struggle for Europe 

Peter Carravetta (European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Stony Brook 

University, Stony Brook, NY, USA) 

The multiple Uses of Nietzsche and Heidegger in Post-World War Two Italian 

Critical Thought 

25 may 2010 | Tuesday Afternoon 

Peter Fristedt (Philosophy and Religion, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA) 

Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Very Idea of a Different World 

TU 17:30-19:30 - Auditorium, Luther College 

KeyNote Speaker: Maria Campbell 

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CANADA 

Cree / Michif Narrative and Story Telling 

Luther College Welcome: Mary Vetter, Academic Dean and Professor of Biology, Luther 

College, University of Regina. 

Introduced by Lynn Wells, Associate Vice President (Academic), University of Regina 

tu 19:30-23:00 - Luther College Room 100 

Reception sponsored by Luther College 

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Wednesday | 26 May 2010 



WEDNESDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 

WE 9:00-12:00 

proposed SEssion-I 

WE [PS-01] Education Building 191 

CULTURAL POLITICS AND IDENTITY: THE PUBLIC SPACE OF RECOGNI- 

TION 

By examining the works of Charles Taylor and Axel Honneth, we will focus on the 

question of how individual and cultural identities are tied to the dialogical 

function of public space. All these issues, along with the dangers, perspectives, 

and consequences of seeing public space as a function of identity-making and 

mutual recognition, will be discussed from interdisciplinary perspectives. 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Barbara Weber (Political Philosophy, University 

of Regensburg, GERMANY) and Petra Schweitzer (Foreign Languages, Shenandoah 

University, Winchester, VA, USA) 

Susan T. Gardner (Philosophy, Capilano University, Vancouver, BC, CANADA) 

Taking Selves Seriously 

James R. Mensch (Philosophy, Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, 

CANADA) 

A Theory of Human Rights 

Eva Marsal (Philosophy and Theology, University of Education, Karlsruhe, 

GERMANY) and Takara Dobashi (Philosophy and Pedagogy, Hiroshima University, 

JAPAN) 

A Discussion of Diachronic Identity: The Example of the Painter Masuji Ono’s 

Political Transformation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel An Artist of the Floating 

World 

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WE 9:00-12:00 

General SEssions - Ii 

WE [GS-06] Education Building 193 

ETHICS: FACES AND APPARITIONS 

26 May 2010 | Wednesday Morning 


Chaired and Introduced by John Panteleimon Manoussakis (College of the Holy Cross, 

Worcester, MA, USA) 

Liza Esther Kharoubi (English Theatre Studies, Université d’Avignon et des Pays du 

Vaucluse, Avignon, FRANCE) 

The Cry of the Root: Beyond Identity as a Political Concept 

Claudia Eppert (Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 

CANADA) 

Hungry Ghosts: Toward a Compassionate Healing Ethics in East-West Engagements 

with Contemporary “Tragedies” 

Amir Jaima (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA) 

The Narrative Instance as a Trans-Cultural Space: On Reading The Bluest Eye 

Josh Toth (English, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, CANADA) 

The Melancholic and the Ghostly in James Wheldon Johnson’s The Autobiography 

of an Ex-Colored Man 

26 may 2010 | Wednesday Morning 

we [GS-07] Education Building 514 

BORDERING CULTURES 

Chaired and Introduced by Catherine Tite (Art History, University of Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

Katharina Rist (Literature, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, 

GERMANY / Rist Consulting, London, UK) 

Diaspora Identities on the Edge in Contemporary German Theatre: Routes for 

Roots in the Boat People in Lampedusa (Goettingen 2009) 

Yan Lu (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

When East Meets West: Representing Alterity in Contemporary Franco-Chinese 

Literature and Film Adaptation 

Ting-I Hsu (Literature, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN) 

Confucian Thought and the Impact of Westernization 

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We [GS-08] Education Building 621 

DELEUZIAN SURFACES 

Chaired and Introduced by Scott Kravet (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony 

Brook, NY, USA) 

Hugh Miller (Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA) 

Color and the Logic of Sensation: Deleuze on Haptic Vision 

* Eleanor Kaufman (Comparative Literature, University of California at Los Angeles, 

CA, USA) 

Stasis and Equivocity in Deleuze and Badiou 

Janne Vanhanen (Aesthetics, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) 

The Simulacrum - A Concept (Best) Forgotten? 

Fetson Anderson Kalua (English Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, SOUTH 

AFRICA) 

Becoming-Minotarian: The Quest for a Rhizomic Ethics in the Fiction of Unity 

Dow and Alexander McCall Smith (On Botswana) 

Frank W. Stevenson (English, Chinese Culture University, National Taiwan Normal 

University, Taipei, TAIWAN) 

Mapping Earth-Sky Surfaces in Pima, Navaho, and Deleuzian Cosmogonies 

WE [GS-09] Education Building 623 

FLESH AND BLOOD 

Chaired and Introduced by Lynn Wells (English, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Basia Ellis (Psychology, University of Calgary, AB, CANADA) 

Culture in the Flesh: Engendering Meaningful Existence with Ricoeur and 

Merleau-Ponty 

Aaron Krempa (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA) 

Animal, All Too Animal: Re-opening the Human/Animal Divide Between Derrida 

and Heidegger 

Rebecca Saunders (Comparative Literature, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 

USA) 

Just Animals 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 




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26 May 2010 | Wednesday afternoon 


WE 14:00-17:00 

Invited symposia-i 

WE [IS-01] Education Building 191 

CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS LITERATURES AS APPLIED TRADITION 

Many contemporary Indigenous literatures are congruent with traditional practices 

in a wide range of areas, including healing ceremonies, drama, traditional 

gaming, and education. 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Jesse Archibald-Barber (English, First Nations 

University of Canada, Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Janice Acoose (English, First Nations University of Canada, Saskatoon, SK, CANADA) 

Reading and Righting All Our Relations in Written English 

Jo-Ann Episkenew (English, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

Residential School Literature, Trauma, and Healing 

Keavy Martin (Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 

CANADA) 

Inuit Song Texts and Contexts 

26 may 2010 | Wednesday afternoon 

William Asikinack (Indigenous Studies, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, 

SK, CANADA) 

Indigenous Philosophies in Literary Review 

Ken Goodwill (Elder, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Indigenous Stories and Beliefs 


CULTURES OF DEATH 

Cultures of Death will explore the human response to mortality from a variety of 

different perspectives: philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic. 

It will range from the Holocaust and the end of the world, through dust and 

fireflies, secrets and trauma, to bareback sex and the death drive. 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Christina Howells (French, University of Oxford, 

UK) 

Colin Davis (Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway, 

University of London, UK) 

How to Tell the Story of Your Death 

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Oliver Davis (French Studies, Warwick University, Coventry, UK) 

Bareback Sex and the Afterlife of the Death Drive 

Gerald Moore (French, University of Oxford, UK) 

Laughter at the End of the World 

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA 

Death, Fear, and Authenticity: Reflections on Heidegger, Rilke, Blanchot 


TRAUMATIC ENCOUNTERS: DIFFERENCES WITHIN AND ACROSS 

CULTURES 

Traumatic aspects of encounter within and across cultures will be examined while 

investigating the complexities of relating to transformative historical moments. 

Questions of ethics, representation, and writing serve to focus a discussion that 

ranges from Levinas, Derrida, Celan, and Coetzee, through contemporary fiction, 

to current literary-philosophical debates. 

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

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA) 

Devorah Baum (English and Jewish Studies, University of Southampton, UK 

Levinas, Derrida, Foer: The Interplay of Greek and Hebrew Ethics in Everything Is 

Illuminated 

Noa Reich (Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, 

CANADA) 

Derrida and the Jewish Question: “Circumcision, that’s all I’ve ever talked about” 

We [Pl-02] 17:30-20:00 - Research and Innovation centre auditorium 

6th annual PeTee Jung memorial IAPL lecture 

Chaired and Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director 

Keynote SPEAKER: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ 

McGill University, Montreal, QC, CANADA 

Context: Architecture BEYOND 

GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL 

FRAGMENTATION 

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We 20:00-23:00 - Research and Innovation centre atrium 

REception

27 May 2010 | Thursday Morning 


Thursday | 27 May 2010 



THURSDAY CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 

TH 9:00-12:00 

proposed SEssion-II 

th [PS-02] Education Building 191 

ALTERNATE AMERICAS: HISTORY, IDENTITY, EMPIRE 

The very idea of America carries within it a series of other, alternate Americas: the 

life of Anatole Broyard to the novels of Pynchon, the literature of Vietnam to the 

counterculture of Woodstock Nation. We will explore what we might describe 

as the remainders of American identity and experience—the traces of American 

difference. 

27 may 2010 | Thursday Morning 

Organized, Chaired and Introduced by Martin Woessner (Interdisciplinary Arts & 

Sciences, The City College of New York, NY, USA) 

Ron Haas (Expository Writing, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA) 

A Laugh Will Bury You: The Humor of Guy Hocquenghem 

Roy William Scranton (Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, New York, 

NY, USA) 

Movie Night on the Fire-base: America in the Hegemonic Looking Glass 

Marlene Clark (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, The City College of New York, 

NY, USA) 

Passing Strange: Anatole Broyard’s Americas 

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TH 9:00-12:00 

General SEssions-III 

TH [GS-10] Education Building 193 

VISIONS OF HISTORY AND POLITICS 

Chaired and Introduced by Donald A. Landes (Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony 

Brook, NY, USA) 

Emanuele Soldinger (Philosophy, University of Freiburg, GERMANY) 

The Czech People and Its Place in Europe in the Context of Jan Patočka’s 

Philosophy of History. A Eurocentric Position? 

Arsalan Memon (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN, USA) 

“Husserl’s Transcendental is not that of Kant’s”: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on 

the Notion of the Historical A-priori 

Bryan Szabo (English, University of Calgary, AB, CANADA) 

Can You Hear Me Now? Contesting Foucault’s Marginalized Madman and the 

Tyranny of Reason 

Antti Sadinmaa (Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) 

Foucauldian Ethics and the Politics of Difference 

Rolando Perez (Romance Languages, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA) 

Tungsten and César Vallejo’s Fidelity to the Event Of Marxism for Latin America 

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TRAUMATIC NARRATIVES / BELATED FUTURES 

Chaired and Introduced by Thomas D. McCreight (Classics, Loyola University Maryland, 

Baltimore, MD, USA) 

Michelle Katchuck (English, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Holocaust Literature: Writing the Disaster as Quest for Remembrance 

Shellie McCullough (Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, 

TX, USA) 

Transparent Wake of the Past: The Belated Future Anterior in the Poetry of Paul 

Celan 

Sergiy Yakovenko (Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 

CANADA) 

“Sublime” vs. “Real”: The Question of Joseph Conrad’s Indebtedness to Polish 

Romanticism

27 May 2010 | Thursday Morning 



POETICS OF TEMPORALITY 

Chaired and Introduced by Pekka Kuusisto (Literature, University of Oulu, FINLAND) 

Michael Stone (Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA) 

Peering Into the Wardrobe: The Lost German Spirit in Thomas Mann’s Early 

Stories 

Jared McGeough (English, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

William Godwin’s Mandeville as Resistance to the Historical Culture of 

Modernity 

Inkeri Koskinen (Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, 

FINLAND) 

Seemingly Similar Beliefs: A Case Study On Epistemic Relativism 

Phil Bouska (Philosophy, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY, USA) 

Radical Empiricism and Regeneration: Vine Deloria and Pure Experience 

27 may 2010 | Thursday Morning 


APORIAS OF COMMUNICATION 

Chaired and Introduced by Jeanette McVicker (English, State University of New York 

Fredonia, NY, USA) 

Mélanie Walton (Philosophy, Hiram College, OH, USA) 

When Difference Becomes Differend: Lyotard’s Compendium of Impossible 

Communications 

Clancy Smith (Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) 

Multidimensionality and the Multivoiced Body: Marcuse, Evans, and Merleau- 

Ponty on Communication in the Age of Diversity 

Ryan Krahn (Philosophy, University of Guelph, ON, CANADA) 

Hybrid Hermeneutics, Postcolonial Possibilities 

Monina Wittfoth (English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA) 

Linguistic Returns: Philosophy of Language Communities 

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GLOBALIZATION AND THE QUESTION OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 

Chaired and Introduced by Shadia B. Drury (Philosophy and Classics, University of 


Chung-Hsiung (Raymond) Lai (Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng 

Kung University, Tainan, TAIWAN) 

Between Fear and Hope: The Cultural Aporia in the Age of Globalization 

Matthew Livingstone (Philosophy, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Cultural Accommodation and Cultural Debate: Understanding Difference 

Asad Naqvi (Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA) 

Heidegger and Place: Cultures of Technology and the Wild 

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Communication, Business and Information Technologies, 

Roskilde University, Roskilde, DENMARK) 

One World and the Future of Cultural Difference 

Anna Sheridan-Jonah (Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CANADA) 

Cultural Appropriation and the Politics of Interference 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 




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TH 14:00-17:00 

ORGANIZED SESSIONS 

TH [OS-03] Education Building 191 

DIFFERENCE: THE POSSIBILITY OF RADICAL SHIFTS IN PERCEPTION, 

OF RADICAL FRIENDSHIP, OF REFLECTION UPON SELF AND OTHERS, 

OF OUTRAGE 

Cultures of difference encompass spaces in a cosmopolitan age. Various media of 

different eras can create grotesqueness, but the coming together of languages 

within violent circumstances can create mystery. In addition, there is a 

profound reflection upon self and otherness until the difference itself becomes 

other. 

Chaired by Kathryn Elder (Media Librarian at Sound and Moving Image, Scott Library, 

York University, Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

Organized by Roberta Ann Imboden (English, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, 

CANADA) 

Bagpipes, War, and Peace

27 May 2010 | Thursday Afternoon 


R. Bruce Elder (Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson 

University, Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

Culture of the Grotesque in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 

Photography and Cinematography 

Angela Joosse (Joint Program in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University 

and York University, Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

Artworks and the Defence of Cultures of Difference 

*Monique Tschofen (English, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, CANADA) 

Othering Cultural Differences in Canadian Experimental Film and Installation 

TH [OS-04] Education Building 193 

HEREMENUETICS AS / AND / OF CULTURE 

This session asks whether philosophical hermeneutics can still make a distinctive 

contribution to the attempt to understand culture. It also explores the ways in 

which hermeneutical philosophy is itself a distinctive cultural phenomenon that 

needs to be understood. 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Robert Piercey (Philosophy, Campion College, 

University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Michael Bowler (Philosophy, Michigan Technological University, Hancock, MI, USA) 

World and Culture 

27 may 2010 | Thursday afternoon 

Patrick Gamez (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA) 

Recovering Authenticity: Reading Augustine’s Confessions after Heidegger 

th [PL-03] 17:30-20:00 - Education Auditorium 106 

First Annual WILHELM S. WURZER MEMORIAL IAPL LECTURE 

Chaired and Introduced Introduced by Hugh J. Silverman, IAPL Executive Director 

Keynote SPEAKER: BERNARD STIEGLER 

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE 

THE PHARMACOLOGICAL TASK 

OF PHILOSOPHY 

Sponsored by the Institut Français of the University of Regina 

th 20:00-21:00 - EDUCATION AUDITORIUM FOYER 

Reception 

TH 21:00-23:30 - RIDDELL centre PATIO 

IAPL 2010 BBQ 

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Friday | 28 May 2010 



FR 9:00-12:00 

SPECIAL PANELS 

FR [SP-01] Education Building 191 

VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED: GIRARD, BATAILLE, AGAMBEN, KRISTEVA 

The return of sacred (i.e. religion-inspired or ritualized) violence seems to be one of 

the consequences of what has been termed “the clash of civilizations.” We must 

examine the political as well as the ethical challenges we are currently facing 

by focusing on some of the seminal thinkers of the nexus between violence and 

the sacred; namely, René Girard, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, and Julia 

Kristeva. 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Maria Margaroni (English Studies, University of 

Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS) 

Frederiek Depoortere (Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM ) 

Violence and the Sacred: René Girard Revisited 

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

The Sacred: Of Violence, Intimacy, and Love 

Sarah Hansen (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville , TN, USA) 

Agamben, Kristeva and the Violence of Sacrifice 

*Christina Kkona (Applied Linguistics and General Education, Hellenic American 

University, Athens, Greece) 

Pharmakon: The Ambivalence of the Sacred in Kristeva 

*Cara Judea Alhadeff (Photographer) 

Sacrificial Lambs: Self-Portraiture and the Eroticized Other. 


EMBODYING DIFFERENCE 

How are cultures of difference(s) embodied? This panel explores the lived, 

corporeal effects of cultural norms, and focuses especially on those individuals 

whose very bodies seem to defy them. 

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Chaired and Introduced by Gertrude Postl (Philosophy / Women’s Studies, Suffolk 

County Community College, Selden, NY, USA)

28 May 2010 | Friday Morning 


Organized by Gail Weiss (Philosophy and Human Sciences, The George Washington 

University, Washington, D.C., USA) 

Pride and Prejudice: Ambiguous Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Identities of Jewish 

Bodies 

Alexis Shotwell (Philosophy, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, CANADA) 

Embodiment and Ethical Implication 

Ami Harbin (Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CANADA) 

Body Disorientation and Moral Change 

Kim Hall (Philosophy, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA) 

Our Hormones, Our Selves 

Jill Ehnenn (English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA) 

Christians, Perverts, and Dwarfs: Victorian Progress Narratives, Queerness, and 

Disability 


ETHICS OF MEMORY 

28 may 2010 | Friday Morning 

What if the present event of our remembering was the reason for our forgetting 

of what actually happened in the past? And what if our freedom to recollect 

past memories was actually an act of untruthfulness on things occurring now? 

Approaches to these questions will address ethics of memory from various 

angles: from de Man’s interpretation of Hegel to the recent Polish Holocaust art, 

from acts of narration to pointillistic ethics and disseminal poetics 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Kuisma Korhonen (Literature, University of Oulu, 

FINLAND) 

Jarkko Toikkanen (School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University 

of Tampere, FINLAND) 

Broken Presents to Future Choices: De Man and Memory in Hegel 

Jarkko Lauri (Literature, University of Oulu, FINLAND) 

Memory at the Point of Light: The Ethics of Pointillism in the Poems of Eeva- 

Liisa Manner 

Dorota Glowacka (Contemporary Studies Programme, University of King’s College, 

Halifax, NS, CANADA) 

In the Space of Breath: Art, Community, and Mourning-With 

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9:00-12:00 LIFE AND WORKS 

FR [LW-01] Education Building 623 

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ROY MARTINEZ 

(HOST OF IAPL 2001 AT SPELMAN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA, USA) 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Soraya Mekerta (French and Francophone 

Studies, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA) 

Romie Tribble (Economics, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA) 

Bruce Wade (Sociology, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA) 

Gertrude de Allen Gonzales (Philosophy and Religion, Atlanta, GA, USA) 

Toby Martin (Fine Arts, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA) 

Danny Adams (Interdisciplinary Studies, Norfolk State University, VA, USA) 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers required & available at 

IAPL Registration Desk. 


13:00-17:00 EXCURSION TO CATHEDRAL VILLAGE ARTS FESTIVAL 

Van transportation to Cathedral Village Arts Festival 

13:00 / 13:30 / 14:00 / 14:30 

Van transportation to MacKenzie Art Gallery (from Hotel Saskatchewan and the 

University Residences) 

17:00 / 17:30 / 18:00 / 18:30 

19:00-23:00 ART EXHIBIT TOUR AND LECTURE: 

MACKENZIE ART GALLERY 

19:00 and 20:00 TOUR OF THE MACKENZIE ART GALLERY 

19:00-21:00 IAPL RECEPTION 

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21:00-23:00 T.C. Douglas Foyer 

INDIGENOUS CANADIAN ART: CULTURES OF DIFFERENCES 

Carmen Robertson (Art History and Visual Arts, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

ARTS OF THE FLATLANDS: SASKATCHEWAN’S RED RENAISSANCE 

Introduction by Lynn Wells, Associate Vice President (Academic), University of Regina 

and IAPL 2010 Host-Coordinator

29 May 2010 | Saturday Morning 


Saturday | 29 May 2010 



SA 9:00-12:00 

close encounters 


CLOSE ENCOUNTER: ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Robert Mugerauer (Architecture, University 

of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) 

Roger Bell (Philosophy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA) 

Re-Thinking Techne’s Relation to Design 

29 may 2010 | Saturday Morning 

Lisa Landrum (Architecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, CANADA) 

Situational Transformation in the Dramatic Chora: from the Liminal Land of the 

Cyclops to the Heavenly 

Tracey Eve Winton (Architecture, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CANADA) 

The Embodiment of Imagination in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili 

Nada Subotincic (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, CANADA) 

Freud or the Dark Room Revisited 

Robert Mugerauer (Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) 

Parallel Trajectories from Visibility and Love: Jean-Luc Marion and Alberto 

Perez-Gomez 


CLOSE ENCOUNTER: PETER KEMP 

Chaired and Introduced by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (Communication, Business and 

Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, DENMARK) 

David Rasmussen (Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA) 

Encountering the World Citizen 

Peter Kemp (Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, DENMARK) 

Cultural Differences in Cosmopolitan Perspective 

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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: BERNARD STIEGLER 

Chaired and Introduced by Stephen Barker (Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA, 

USA) 

Stephen Barker (Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA) 

Thinking Around Stiegler 

Gerald Moore (French, University of Oxford, UK) 

Sacrifice of Generations 

Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE) 

Responses 

12:00-14:00 - LUNCH 

Riddell Centre Food Court - pre-purchased vouchers required & 

available at IAPL Registration Desk. 


Walk to First Nations University by 13:45 - (space is limited) 

SA [PD-01] ATRIUM, FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY 

14:00-16:00 

PODIUM DISCUSSION: 

THE FIRST NATIONS UNIVERSITY OF CANADA CRISIS: POWER MEETS 

CULTURE 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Blair Stonechild (Indigenous Studies, First 

Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, CANADA 

Herman Michell (Health Studies, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

Censure of First Nations University of Canada: A Violation of Indigenous 

Philosophy of Interconnectedness and Right Relations 

Margaret Cote (Education, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Traditional Knowledge and First Nations Language Loss 

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Arzu Sardarli (Mathematics, First Nations University of Canada, Regina, SK, 

CANADA) 

Mathematical Modeling of Core Culture – Subculture Interaction Dynamics

29 May 2010 | Saturday afternoon 


16:00-16:30 

(walk to Institut français, University of Regina for 16:20) 

SA [RT-02] INSTITUT FRANÇAIS 

16:30 -18:30 

CLOSING ROUND TABLE: HOW REASONABLE IS REASONABLE 

ACCOMODATION? 

The Taylor-Bouchard Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices 

Related to Cultural Differences was commissioned by Jean Charest, the Premier 

of Quebec, in February, 2007 in response to inter-cultural friction. Is it possible 

to accommodate ethnocultural differences while respecting individual rights? 

Does cultural accommodation threaten the liberal state? 

Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Shadia Drury (Philosophy, University of Regina, 

SK, CANADA) 

Avigail Eisenberg (Political Science, University of Victoria, BC, CANADA) 

The Prospects for Reasonable Accommodation 

Shadia Drury (Philosophy, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Liberal Suicide 

29 may 2010 | Saturday afternoon 

Eldon Soifer (Philosophy & Classics, University of Regina, SK, CANADA) 

Does Multiculturalism Threaten Autonomy? 

Peter Kemp (Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, DENMARK) 

Cultural Differences in a Cosmopolitan Perspective 

Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE) 

Respondent 

19:00-19:30 the terrace - rotunda 

Reception 

19:30-00:30 the terrace - rotunda 

IAPL 2010 cultural differences gala 

CELEbration dinner! 

BAND: jeffrey straker band 

Dinner, Music, Dancing 

Tickets available at IAPL Registration Desk (until Thurs noon) 

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29 May 2010 | Sunday excursion 


IApl 2010 

Post-Conference excursion to Saskatoon 

Regina -> Wanuskewin Heritage Park -> 

Saskatoon Riverboat Tour / Mendel Art Gallery 

Dinner @ Bessborough Hotel -> Regina 

[Coach Travel] 

Excursion Schedule: 

8:30 - Leave Regina - Hotel Saskatchewan 

12:00 - 14:00 - Wanuskewin Heritage Park 

Medicine Trail Walk, Gallery & Exhibit, Tipi Raising, Traditional Dance (box lunch 

provided - indicate dietary preferences at time of purchase) 

29 may 2010 | sunday excursion 

14:00 - Leave for Mendel Art Gallery - Saskatoon 

Two Options available upon arrival at the Mendel Art Gallery: 

Option 1 - RIVERBOAT + ART GALLERY 

15:00 - 16:00 - River Tour (bring a jacket, could be cool on the river.) Shearwater’s 

Saskatoon Riverboats 

Adults $17.00; Seniors $16.00; Students (six or over with valid student card) 

$16.00; Child $10.00; Infants free. (add about 10% PST + GST) 

16:00 - 17:00 - Mendel Art Gallery 

Option 2 - VISIT DOWNTOWN SASKATOON 

For those who do not want to go on the Riverboat or to the Gallery. 

15:00 - 17:00 - Bus goes to downtown Saskatoon for walking around or shopping - 

[Free, unless you are a shopper!] 

17:00 - 19:00 - Dinner at the Bessborough Hotel 

We will reserve tables for everyone but everyone will choose their own menu 

and pay their own bill. 

19:15 - Bus leaves for Regina We will reserve tables for everyone but everyone will 

choose their own menu and pay their own bill. 

19:15 - Bus leaves for Regina 

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