International Colloquium "Kristeva in Process"
30 Oct - 1 Nov 2009
Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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The International Colloquium "Kristeva in Process" centring on the work of the acclaimed linguist, semiotician, psychoanalyst and author Julia Kristeva offers both an actualisation of her thought, with the aim of putting her original concepts into perspective within the intellectual context of the past and present, and a platform for interdisciplinary thinking and new ideas in the humanities which take her work as a starting point and apply it in different ways. It aims to create an open space in which intellectuals, scholars and students alike have the opportunity to present ideas, challenge their views and draw inspiration from each other. The purpose of the colloquium is both theoretical and practical: Not only does it have thinking as its theme, as its object of discussion, but it is itself an exercise in a kind of thinking that is forward-looking and experimental.

Besides Julia Kristeva, distinguished speakers include:

Maria Margaroni (Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus)
Christian Kupke (independent philosopher and psychoanalyst from Berlin, Germany)
Henning Teschke (Senior Academic Lecturer at Augsburg University, Germany)
Sara Beardsworth (Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)
Manuel Asensi (Professor of Literary History and Theory at the University of Valencia, Spain)
Adrian Rifkin (Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)

The talks will be accompanied by a projection of images by visual artist Cara Judea Alhadeff, whose fertile work
is intimately connected to that of Julia Kristeva and will illuminate the space that lies between experience and thought.

The Colloquium is open to the public. No registration is required.
CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION are available against payment of a fee of € 35.

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Programme

Friday, 30/10/09

VENUE
Main Building (Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin)
Room 2103

08.30 – 09.20 Registration & Welcome
I Moderators: Martin Pasek & Azucena G. Blanco 6 papers	Literature
	1	09.20 – 09.40	Maria Bailey An Interpretation of the Fantastic Short Stories by Maupassant through Abjection
	2	09.20 – 09.40	Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska La notion de liberté, la psychanalyse et le roman : cheminements vers l’identité européenne
	3	09.40 – 10.00	Matthias Schreiner The Psychopathology of Postmodernity in the Narrative Fiction of Susan Sontag and Julia Kristeva
	4	10.00 – 10.20	Inmaculada López Silva Contemporary Theatre in a “Post-”Perspective: Postdrama as the Antisemiotical (R)evolution?
	5	10.20 – 10.40	Kate Montague When Your Life is most Real to me you are Mad': The Disarticulated Bodies of Patrick White's The Aunt's Story and The Twyborn Affair
	6	10.40 – 11.00	Hossein Sabouri The Concept of the Abject in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
		11.00 – 11.30	Discussion
11.30 – 13.00 Lunchbreak
II Moderators: Azucena G. Blanco & Stefan Hollstein 6 papers	Philosophy & Psychoanalysis
	7	13.00 – 13.20	Todd Kesselman The Psychoanalytic Concept of Sublimation in Kristeva’s Work.
	8	13.20 – 13.40	Francey Russell Active Interpretation in Nietzsche & Kristeva
	9	13.40 – 14.00	Charles Snyder Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Metaphysics
	10	14.00 – 14.20	Bettina Wahrig, Heike Klippel & Martina Mittag Applying the Abject: Working with Kristeva's Concept of Chora and Abject in the Cultural History of Poisoning
	11	14.20 – 14.40	Patricia Farrar Semanalysis: Reconceptualising Julia Kristeva’s Work as a Method for Researching the Loss of a Baby to Adoption
	12	14.40 – 15.00	Arantzazu Saratxaga Birth´s Drama in Kristeva: The Uterine Membrane as the Origin of Strangeness
		15.00 – 15.30	Discussion
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
III Moderators: Aymone Rassaerts & Martin Pasek 6 papers	Art
	13	16.00 – 16.20	Sigrid Hackenberg in friendship of the Letter(s) Kristeva/Clément and the feminine sacred
	14	16.20 – 16.40	Estelle Barrett Revolt and Discovery: Towards an Understanding of Practice as Research through Kristevan Aesthetics
	15	16.40 – 17.00	Cameron Ellis Deleuze-in-Process: Kristeva and the Psychoanalysis of the Abject
	16	17.00 – 17.20	William Melaney The Place of Art in Kristevan Semiotics: Mimesis Reconsidered
	Ethics & Politics
	17	17.20 – 17.40	Jennifer Doyle The Green Space of Dream Space and the Eco-Oedipal Condition
	18	17.40 – 18.00	Tomek Kitlinski & Pawel Leszkowicz The Social and Visual Kristeva: The Kristevan Ideas of Intertextuality, Sublimation and Confederation of Strangenesses as Tested in Art and Activism
		18.00 – 18.30	Discussion

Saturday, 31/10/09

VENUE
Seminar Building (Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin)
Room 2.301 "Fritz-Reuter-Saal"

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome Organisers Prof. Dr. phil. Michael Kämper-van den Boogaart, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities II Charles Malinas, Conseiller culturel de l'Ambassade de France en Allemagne
I	09.30 – 12.00	Julia Kristeva   Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 La passion selon Thérèse d'Avila - The Passion According to Teresa de Avila
12.00 – 13.30 Lunchbreak
II	13.30 – 14.45	Maria Margaroni   Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Cyprus The Pathos and Ethos of Thought in Julia Kristeva
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee Break
III	15.15 – 16.30	Manuel Asensi   Universidad de Valencia, Spain Kristeva – Derrida – Sollers: A Strange Ménage à Trois
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break
IV	17.00 – 18.15	Henning Teschke   Universität Augsburg, Germany Spaltung

 

Sunday, 01/11/09

VENUE
Seminar Building (Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin)
Room 2.301 "Fritz-Reuter-Saal"

V	09.00 – 10.15	Sara Beardsworth   University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale, USA Psychoanalysis and Religion: Regarding America
10.15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
VI	10.45 – 12.00	Christian Kupke   Charité, Berlin In Fertile Thinking – the Ineffable. Or What Is Beyond
12.00 – 13.30 Lunchbreak
VII	13.30 – 14.45	Adrian Rifkin   Goldsmiths College, University of London Chéri mon amour: A Mosaic from Kristeva’s Colette
14.45 – 15.00 Break
	15.00 – 16.30	Round Table General Discussion & Outlook