Speakers include:

Elizabeth Grosz (Rutgers University)

Rebecca Hill (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Morny Joy (University of Calgary)

Phyllis Kaminski (Saint Mary’s College)

Margherita Long (University of California, Riverside)

Elaine Miller (Miami University)

Ellen Mortenson (University of Bergen)

Featuring “How Can We Meet the Other” A Videotalk with Luce Irigaray

The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray 4th Annual ConferenceStony Brook University, ManhattanSeptember 11 & 12, 2009

For more information please visit, www.irigaray.org

LUCE IRIGARAY CIRCLE Stony Brook Manhattan September 11-12, 2009

Friday, September 11

9:00-10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00-10:30 Opening Remarks: • Bob Crease, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook

University • Ann Kaplan, Director, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University

10:30-12:30 Videotalk:

• Luce Irigaray, “How Can We Meet the Other” Chair: Danae McLeod, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Stony Brook University

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:45 Lecture: • Elaine P. Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Miami

University of Ohio Respondents:

• Sara MacNamara, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Stony Brook University

• Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University

Chair, Emma Bianchi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College 3:45-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00--5:30 Karen Burke Memorial Lecture: • Toward a Sexuate Phenomenology

Anne van Leeuwen, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, New School University.

Respondent: • Jennifer L. Hansen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, St.

Lawrence University Introduction:

• Fanny Soderback, Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, New School University, 2008 Karen Burke Lecturer

Chair: Serene J. Khader, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College, Boston

5:30 Reception

Saturday, September 12

9:00-10:00 Coffee

10:00-12:30 Panel: Irigaray, Bodies, and Ontologies Organizer: Elizabeth Grosz, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University “Sexual Difference as Sexual Selection: Irigaray and Darwin”

• Margherita Long, Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, University of California Riverside “Aggression and the Subject of Science”

• Kristen Sampson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway “The Openness of an Ontology of Sexual Difference”

• Rebecca Hill, Lecturer, Media and Communication, RMIT, Melbourne “Interval as Relation, Interval as Becoming”

Chair: Kyoo Lee, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, John Jay College, City University of New York

12:30-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:30 Panel: Irigaray: Spirituality East and West Organizer: Morny Joy, University Professor, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary

“Women in Eastern Spirituality” • Phyllis Kaminski, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Mary’s

College “Living Difference(s): Dialogue as Spiritual Practice”

• Danielle Poe, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Dayton “It Could Be… Better”

Chair, Gail Schwab, Associate Dean and Professor of French, Hofstra University

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

3:45-5:15 Lecture: • “Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Sound”

Tara Rodgers, PhD Candidate, Art History and Communication, McGill University

Respondent: Mara Mills, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Chair: Jennifer Purvis, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Alabama

5:15-6:00 Roundtable Discussion: • Morny Joy, University Professor, Professor of Comparative Religion and

Philosophy, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary • Mary Beth Mader, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Memphis State

University • Cheryl Lawler, President, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute • Sabrina Hom, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Westminster College

Chair: Mary C. Rawlinson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University