[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Counter-movements, Institutions & Difference (UK) (3/30/06; 7/24/06-7/25/06)

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From: Bran Nicol <bran.nicol@port.ac.uk>

COUNTER-MOVEMENTS
Institutions of difference

A two-day conference to be held at the University of Portsmouth 24-25 
July 2006

Confirmed international speakers:
J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine;
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University; Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern
California;
Tom Keenan, Bard College;
Christopher Fynsk, University of Aberdeen;
Herman Rapaport, University of Southampton;
Nicholas Royle, University of Sussex;
John Schad, University of Loughborough.


The word "contre," counter or against, can equally and at the same time mark
both opposition, contrariety, contradiction and proximity,
near&#65533;contact... it happens that for a long time I have 
"cultivated" or
"allowed to be cultivated" in numerous texts the formidable ambiguity of 
this
"contre"...
                                          Jacques Derrida, 
"Countersignature"


No more than philosophy or science, literature is not an institution among
others; it is at once institution and counter-institution, placed at a 
distance
from the institution, at the angle that the institution makes with itself in
order to take a distance from itself, by itself.
Jacques Derrida, &#65533;A Certain &#65533;Madness&#65533; Must Watch Over
Thinking&#65533;

In abstract and general terms, what remains constant in my 
thinking&#65533; is
indeed a
critique of institutions, but one that sets out not from a wild and 
spontaneous
pre-
or non-institution, but rather from counter-institutions.
Jacques Derrida, &#65533;I Have a Taste for the Secret&#65533;

How might we reckon with the &#65533;counter&#65533; in deconstruction? What
force and currency
might it have for us today or tomorrow? What movement does it entail or 
imply?
How
does it shuttle between other disciplines, discourses, writings and 
traditions:
politics,
philosophy, psychoanalysis, science, literature, the discourse of the
university? How
might Derrida&#65533;s conception of the counter-institution, and the 
history
and futurity of his
institutional activisms, spur practical innovations in the institutional 
field
today?

Conference fee: £125 (postgraduate £100). Day rate £75 (postgraduate £50).
For further details and proposals for conference papers (final deadline 30th
March
2006)

Please contact: simon.morganwortham@btopenworld.com
OR Bran.Nicol@port.ac.uk

_________________________________________________

Simon Morgan Wortham,
School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies
University of Portsmouth
Milldam, Burnaby Road
Portsmouth PO1 3AS
United Kingdom
simon.morgan-wortham@port.ac.uk




_______________________________________

Dr Bran Nicol
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies
University of Portsmouth
Milldam
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3AS

Tel: 023 9284 6171
Bran.Nicol@port.ac.uk

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