Conference Program
Agency and Subjectivity: Rethinking Poststructuralism
Faculty of Philosophy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
26th January 2022.
Online Link: meet.google.com/axx-revb-aht
All Times are Madrid, Spain
0930–0935: Introductory Remarks
Gavin Rae and Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
0940–1040: Questioning Subjective Agency
Events, Actions and Agency across the Analytic/Continental Divide
Sean Bowden (Deakin University, Australia)
Agency beyond Metaphysics of Subjectivity
Erik Kuravsky (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
1045–1215: Derrida
Political Stupidity in/via Derrida’s “The Beast and the Sovereign”
Yonathan Listik (University of Amsterdam/University of Leiden, Holland)
Deconstruction and Self-Definition: The Case of Religious Identity
Marie Chabbert (University of Cambridge, England)
“The Experience of Undecidability”: Derrida and the Subject of Hospitality
Thomas Froy (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
1220–1320: The Body
The Sick Subject: Agency and Illness in the Poststructuralist Subject
Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Contingency Begins at Home: Materialism, 4EA Cognition, and the “Biomedical Others”
Maksim Miroshnichenko (Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russia)
1325–1425: Foucault
Foucault’s Agentive Discharge
Luke Collison (University of Cologne, Germany)
Foucault’s Account of the Will: Technological Transformations of Agency
Tuomo Tiisala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
1430–1600: Sex and Gender
Removing “Sex” from Sex?: On Sex and Gender in Judith Butler and Joan Copjec
Veerle van Wijngaarden (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
(Trans)Feminist selves’ Polyvocality as a condition for Subjective Agency
Francesca Scapinello (University of Bergen, Norway)
Kafkaesque Responsibility
Nina Tolksdorf (Freie Univerität Berlin, Germany)
1605–1705: Deleuze
What is an Event to a Subject? What is a Subject to an Event? Musical Folds
Michael Szekely (Temple University, USA)
Resistance sive Desire: A Spinozist Discussion of the Subject between Foucault and Deleuze
Faye Alafouzou (Panteion University, Greece)
1710–1840: Political Agency
The Revolutionary Subjectivity of the Multitude: Re-imagining Political Agency
Diana Bulzon (University of Art and Design Linz, Austria)
A Poststructuralist Approach to Political Emotions and the Question of Agency
Melike Akkaraca Kose (Universidad de Navarra, Spain).
Misunderstanding as a Condition of Collective Agency
Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
1840–1845: Closing Remarks
Pdf. version downloadable here
Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the research projects: (1) “Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26); (2) “Differential Ontology and the Politics of Reason,” funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, as part of line 3 of the multi-year agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: V PRICIT Excellence Program for University Professors (Fifth Regional Plan for Scientific Investigation and Technological Innovation); and (3) “The Politics of Reason” (PID2020-117386GA-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain.