WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2008

09.20-09.45: Registration
    Venue: Entry Hall Erasmushuis (LW), Leuven

09.45-10.00: Opening: Anneleen Masschelein [KULeuven]
    Venue: LW 08.15

10.00-11.20: Keynote 1
    Venue: LW 08.15 - Chair: Dirk de Geest
Paul Moyaert [Leuven], Paranoia and Sublimation and the Dark Sides of Moral Life. Lacan in the Landscape of Moral Philosophy

11.20-11.40: COFFEE
Venue: Hall LW

11.40-13.00: Keynote 2
   Venue: LW 08.15 - Chair : Dirk de Geest
Jean-Michel Rabaté [Philadelphia], Psychoanalysis Applicable and Inapplicable?

13.00-14.30: LUNCH

14.30-15.30:
· Parallel Session 1a: Cultural Theory
   Venue MSI 02.15 -- Chair: Erik Spinoy
01. Karyn Ball [Alberta], In the Crypt with the Silently-Suffering-and-Dying Animal [Psychoanalysis to Follow]
02. Sigi Jottkandt [Maastricht], Being "Present at the Catastrophe": Causality, Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis
· Parallel Session 1b: Visual Art and Space
   Venue: MSI 02.18 -- Chair: Kris Pint
03. Hedwig Schwall [KULeuven - Kortrijk], Developments in the concept of the phantasm and Liminality in a new "peautry" in Art Criticism
04. Natalija Subotincic [Manitoba], Interpretation of Freud's Rooms. The "Silent" Spatial Counterparts to his Texts

15.30-15.50: COFFEE
Venue: Hall LW

15.50-17.30:
· Parallel Session 2a: Reading Freud
   Venue: MSI 02.15 -- Chair: Tomas Geyskens
05. Céline Surprenant [Sussex], Freud's Causal Story
06. Thomas Albrecht [Tulane], "A Certain Resemblance of Methodology": Freud’s interpretation of Michelangelo's Moses
07. Morten Bartnæs [Kristiansand, Norway], "Freud's The Uncanny and deconstructive criticism: Intellectual uncertainty and delicacy of perception"
· Parallel Session 2b: Theorists
   Venue: MSI 02.18 -- Chair: Hilde Staels
08. Richard Cante [North Carolina], How Leo Bersani Gradually, and Then Suddenly, Upped the Ante for [Quasi-]Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
09. Natalie Loveless [Santa Cruz], Passion and Pedagogy: Jane Gallop's Anecdotal Theorizing

17.30-19.00: RECEPTION
Venue: Hall LW


THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2008

09.30-11.00:
· Parallel Session 3a: Literary Criticism
   Venue: MSI 02.15 -- Chair: Pieter Vermeulen
10. Kris Pint [Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg], Doubling Back: A Perverse Return to Jungian Space
11. Sofie de Smyter [KULeuven-Kortrijk], "And Perhaps this is the Story of Twinship": Thematic Doubles Meet Formal Masks in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero
· Parallel Session 3b: Psychoanalysis and Film
   Venue: MSI 02.18 -- Chair: Maarten de Pourcq
12. Cherie Lacey [Auckland]: "My Symptoms are not Lacanian!", or why there are no more innocent Symptoms
13. Viba Sharma [Aligarh]: Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Study in Indian Films
14. Matt Tierney [Brown], "Oh No, Not Again": Repetition and the Limit of Film Form

11.00-11.20: COFFEE
Venue: Hall MSI

11.20-12.40: Keynote 3
   Venue: MSI 02.28 -- Chair: Ortwin de Graef
Nicholas Royle [Sussex], Fear of Freud [On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Literature]

12.40-14.20: LUNCH

14.20-16.00:
· Parallel Session 4a: Theorists
   Venue: MSI 02.15 -- Chair: Joost de Bloois
15. Hilde Staels [Kuleuven - Kortrijk]: Interpreting Otherness in Neo-Gothic Fiction. The Relevance of Kristeva’s Concept of the Stranger Within
16. Dimitra Douskos [UCL]: "Questioning Trajectories in the Geopolitics of Difference: Any space for Psychoanalysis?"
· Parallel Session 4b: Psychoanalysis and Reading
   Venue : MSI 02.18 -- Chair : Sjef Houppermans
17. Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien [Paris]: Lire, Ecrire, Délire : psychanalyse de la lecture
18. Miroslaw Loba [Poznan]: Le lecteur et son autre
19. Isabelle Letellier [Paris 7], Lacan et l'intentionnalité: la phénoménologie à l'épreuve de la psychanalyse

16.00-16.20: COFFEE
Venue: Hall MSI

16.20-17.40: Keynote 4
   Venue : MSI 02.28 -- Chair : Pierre Piret
Stéphane Lojkine [Toulouse], Théorie lacanienne et critique des dispositifs

19.00: CONFERENCE DINER

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2008

09.30-10.40:
· Session 5: Ethics, Tragedy and Poetry
   Venue: MSI 02.15 - Chair: Dominiek Hoens
20. Patience Moll [Dundee], The Play of Ethics: Lacan and Kofman on Freud
21. Joseph O'Neill [Kentucky], Forcing the political: Evolution and Event

10.40-11.00: COFFEE
Venue: Hall LW

11.00-12.20: Keynote 4
   Venue: LW 08.18 - Chair: Hedwig Schwall
Prof. Charles Shepherdson [Albany], An Impossible Friendship: Derrida and Lacan

12.20-12.40: Closing Remarks: Anneleen Masschelein [KULeuven]

LUNCH


Scientific Committee: Dirk de Geest [Leuven], Tomas Geyskens [Leuven], Sjef Houppermans [Leiden], Solange Leibovici [Amsterdam], Anneleen Masschelein [Leuven], Paul Pelckmans [Antwerpen], Jürgen Pieters [Gent], Jean-Michel Rabaté [Penn], Nicholas Royle [Sussex]
Organizing Committee: Joost de Bloois [Amsterdam], Maarten de Pourcq [Leuven], Anneleen Masschelein [Leuven], Paul Pelckmans [Antwerpen], Jürgen Pieters [Gent], Kris Pint [Hasselt]
Practical Information: registration fee is 100€ [lunch, coffeebreaks and reception], 80€ for students, 30€ for one day / 20€ for one day, + 30€ Conference dinner, 10€/3days for MA-students
Venue: Faculty of Arts, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven - Erasmushuis [LW] and Senci Instituut [MSI]   MAP
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Contact: anneleen.masschelein@arts.kuleuven.be