John Gardner (Law, Oxford) writes:
"The Derrida conference announcement below is much funnier than any of the parodies. I particularly like 'Aberystwyth Post-International Group was established to provide a forum in which post-positivist approaches to politics could be explored further.' Do you think post-internationalists are also anti-internationalists? In which case this group could be a front for the Welsh Nationalists."
Here is the conference announcement:
Derrida: Negotiating the legacy
6-8 January 2005 at Gregynog Hall
The death of Jacques Derrida represents an interruption in contemporary intellectual life. Knowing how to respond is somewhat difficult. On the one hand there are many dangers in speaking of his death in its immediate aftermath. But on the other hand there is a duty to allow his work to continue to speak. This is precisely a politics of mourning, which, in our view, demands immediate negotiation. The lead is provided by Derrida, himself, in The Work of Mourning (2001): "One should not develop a taste for mourning, and yet mourn we must. We must, but we must not like it –mourning that is, mourning itself, if such a thing exists".
This conference, organised by Aberystwyth Post-International Group, supported by the Department of International Politics, University of Wales (Aberystwyth), and to be held at the University of Wales’ Gregynog Conference Centre, aims to offer an opportunity to reflect critically on Derrida’s legacy in the areas of politics and ‘international studies’ broadly defined.
Our keynote speakers are Prof. Richard Beardsworth (American University Paris) and Prof. Christopher Norris (University of Cardiff). Other participants include: Prof. David Campbell (University of Durham), Prof. Michael Dillon (Lancaster University), Prof. Jenny Edkins (University of Wales Aberystwyth), and Dr. Maja Zehfuss (University of Warwick).
Call for papers
We encourage paper proposals dealing with the implications of Derridean
thought in the deliberately open contexts of: the ‘political’; the ‘ethical’; the ‘historical’; the ‘cultural’; the ‘postcolonial’; ‘identity’; and ‘representation’.
Proposals, including title and an abstract of 300 words, should be sent by Friday 5 November 2004 to Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]). Conference details to follow. For further information please contact Marie Suetsugu ([email protected]
aPIG
Aberystwyth Post-International Group was established to provide a forum in which post-positivist approaches to politics could be explored further. It is an entirely student-led group.
APIG held its first conference in Aberystwyth, entitled Sovereignty and Subjectivity, in September 1995. The outcome was an edited volume published by Lynne Rienner.
Since then we have hosted an extensive series of workshops, public lectures, and social events. Previous guests have included: Chantal Mouffe, James Der Derian, Cynthia Enloe, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Christine Sylvester.
The Tenth Anniversary Conference, in memory of the thought of Jacques Derrida, is to be held at the University of Wales’ Conference Centre at Gregynog between 6-8 January, 2005.
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