Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:45:49 -0500
Subject: HAB: conference on castoriadis


this conference might be of interest to those near nyc. registration is required, go to the website listed below.

orville lee


"CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS:
RETHINKING AUTONOMY" on Friday, December 1-Sunday, December 3 beginning at
10 a.m.  The East Gallery of Buell Hall will open at 9:30 a.m. for seating.

Please scroll down to bottom of message for details of program.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of perhaps Cornelius Castoriadis' most
influential work, "The Imaginary Institution of Society", this conference
will assess the impact of Castoriadis' thinking and interrogate the forms
and results of his influence on democratic politics, psychoanalytical
studies, and philosophy. The legacy of Castoriadis has begun to affect our
understanding of the origins, scope, and fallibility of social institutions
and to shape our views on change, power, political autonomy, subjectivity,
and the unconscious. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum around
which diverse modes of inquiry influenced by Castoriadis can engage in a
fruitful dialogue that will not only contribute to the progress of
Castoriadis studies, but also further develop topics, themes, and arguments
that are central to contemporary debates.

For further information, please go to
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison

PROGRAM
Day 1: Friday 1st

Welcome

Opening Remarks (10:15pm)
Zoe Castoriadis

Panel 1 (10:30am-12:30pm): Heterodox Marxism and Castoriadis
Alex Callinicos, Department of Politics, York University, "Castoriadis and
the Triumph of the Will"
Stephen Hastings-King, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania,
"Narrating the Collapse of the Marxist Imaginary"
Dick Howard, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York,
"Philosophy and Politics in Marx and Castoriadis"
Char and Commentator: Nadia Urbinati, Department of Political Science,
Columbia University

Panel 2 (1:30pm-3:30pm): The World in Fragments
Johann Arnason, Department of Sociology, La Trobe University, "Roads beyond
Marx: Castoriadis and the Others"
Agnes Heller, Department of Philosophy, New School University, "Identity
Formation as an Imaginary Institution"
Hans Joas, Department of Sociology, Free University, Berlin, "On
Articulation"
Chair and Commentator: Linda Cardinal, Department of Political Science,
University of Ottawa

Film presentation (4:00pm-4:20pm)

Panel 3 (4:30pm-6:30pm): Rethinking Democracy
Jean Cohen, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, "The
Self-Institution of Society and Representative Government: Can we Square the
Circle?"
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, École Polytechnique, CREA, France, "Individualism and
Self-Transcendence Robert Redeker, Éditor of Les Temps Modernes, "Reading
Castoriadis: Politicizing Existence"
Chair and Commentator: Alastair Davidson, Center for Historical Analysis,
Rutgers University

Reception

Day 2: Saturday 2nd

Panel 4 (10:00pm-12:00pm): The Legacy of the Greeks
John Ely, Writer, "Better than Kant's Novelties: Autonomy and Participation
in Castoriadis, Aristotle and Anaxagoras"
Peter Bratsis, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New
York, "Castoriadis, Kantorowicz, and the Historicity of Political Forms"
Vassilis Lambropoulos, Department of Comparative Literature, University of
Michigan, "Tragedy and Autonomy"
Chair and Commentator: Steven Bourke, Society of Calabrian Fellows

Panel 5 (1:00pm-3:00pm): Instituting the Political
Andrew Arato, Department of Sociology, New School University, "Constitution
and Institution"
Andreas Kalyvas, Department of Political Science, Columbia University,
"Castoriadis' Critique of Liberalism"
Linda Zerilli, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University,
"Castoriadis and the Problem of the New"
Chair and Commentator: David AmesCurtis, Writer and translator, France

Panel 6 (3:30pm-5:30pm): The Elucidation of the Psyche and the Freudian
Legacy
Peter Dews, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, "Symbol and
Imagination: Castoriadis and Lacan"
Joel Whitebook, The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training
and Research, "Autonomy and The History of the Trance,"
Fernando Urribarri, Associación Psicoanalítica Argentina, "Beyond Freud: The
Radical Imagination and its Vicissitudes"
Chair and Commentator: André Green, Société Psychanalytique de Paris, France

Roundtable Discussion (6:00pm-8:00pm)
Paul Berman, Writer, United States
Dick Howard, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York
Edgar Morin, Department of Sociology, CETSHA, France
Chair: Seyla Benhabib, Department of Government, Harvard University

Day 3: Sunday 3rd

Panel 7 (10:00am-12:00pm): The Practice of Philosophy
Fabio Ciaramelli, " Department of Philosophy, Federico II University of
Naples, "Creation and Desires"
Francisco Varela, Director of Research at CNRS and Senior Faculty at CREA,
"Autonomy and Closure: The Resonance of Castoriadis' Thought in the Life of
the Sciences"
Ernesto Laclau, Department of Political Science, University of Essex,
"Castoriadis between Ontology and Politics"
Chair and Commentator: Agnes Heller, Department of Philosophy, New School
University

Panel 8 (1:00pm-3:00pm): Psychoanalysis and the Project of Autonomy
Stathis Gourgouris, Department of Comparative Literature, Rutgers
University, "The Problem of Heteronomous Sublimation"
Laurie Naranch, Department of Political Science, Providence College,
"Psyche, Autonomy and Feminist Criticism"
Yannis Stavrakakis, Department of Politics, Nottingham University,
"Encounters with the Political in Castoriadis and Lacanian Theory: Between
dislocation and Institution"
Chair and Commentator: Donald Moss, Psychoanalyst, NYC

Panel 9 (3:30pm-5:30pm): The Social Imaginary Institution of Society: 25
years after
Warren Breckma, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania,
"Hegemony or Autonomy: Castoriadis, Post-Marxism and the Social Imaginary"
Christian Delacampagne, Department of French, Tufts University, "Philosophy
and Politics: The Right Distance"
Diane Pacom, Department of Sociology, University of Ottawa, "Castoriadis'
Influence on Contemporary Social and Political Theory: Towards a New
Critical Sociology of the Social-Historical"
Simon Tormey, Department of Politics, University of Nottingham, "What's left
of left Radicalism? Castoriadis and the Politics of Heterodox Marxism"
Chair and Commentator: Peter Swan, Law School, Carleton College, Canada

Reception

A conference organized by Steven Bourke, Andreas Kalyvas, and Fernando
Urribarri with the generous support of the Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation, the Columbia University Sterling Currier Fund, the Foundation
for Hellenic Culture, the Program in Hellenic Studies, Department of
Classics, Columbia University, the Center for Comparative Literature and
Society and in association with the Society of Calabrian Fellows.

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Maison Francaise
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison
Tel:  212-854-4482
Fax:  212-854-4803

Location:
Buell Hall, 2nd Floor
Broadway at 116th Street




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