Panel 1: Objection! Law and Politics
Friday March 5, 2010
11:30am-1:30pm: Draper Seminar Room (22-24 8th street)
Moderator: Anne Mulhall (NYU)
Respondent: Mark Sanders (NYU)
1.Amr Osman
Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Disagreement on Legal Disagreement: A Medieval Muslim Legal Scholar on Disagreement
2. Marianne LeNabat
The New School for Social Research
What Schmitt and Zizek have in common: misunderstanding the role of disagreement in politics
3. Christopher Brown
Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Incommensurable Logics: Race and Law in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative
4. Liang-Hua Yu
Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
How to Disagree with the Sovereign: The epistemic and political limits of Constitutional Democracy
Panel 2: Dismembering Histories: Disagreement and the Past
Friday March 5, 2010
1:30-3:30pm: Draper Seminar Room (22-24 8th street)
Moderator: Nienke Boer (NYU)
Respondent: Kristin Ross (NYU)
1. James Rutherford
Department of English, Princeton University
Debating Perfection in the English Civil War
2. Omar Figueredo
Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
“Somewhere Between Hope and Nostalgia”: Memory, Translation and the Difference(s) of Meaning in Loosing My Espanish
3. Reilly Yeo
Department of English Literature, University of British Columbia
Disagreeing with the Total Story: Counter-memory and Official Histories of First Nations Culture in Canada
4. Patrick William Gallagher
Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
Civic Disagreement and the Right to the City: The Urban Future in Henri Lefebvre and Lewis Mumford
Panel 3: Fleshing It Out: The Pleasures of Disagreeing
Friday March 5, 2010
4:30-6:30pm: The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South)
Moderator: Jane Bolin (NYU)
Respondent: Jacques Lezra (NYU)
1. Catherine Duric
Faculty of English, Cambridge University
Literary animals: disagreement, difference, and the democracy to come.
2. Larry S. McGrath
The Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University
Disagreeing Sincerely: A Serious Reading of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze
3. Alex Linhardt
Department of English, Harvard University
The Sexual Lives of Misanthropes: The Pleasures of Being Disagreeable in Sade and Céline
4. Michiel Bot
Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
Disagreeability: the rhetoric of political incorrectness in contemporary Dutch populism.
Panel 4: How to: Disagree
Saturday March 6, 2010
11:30am-1pm: 19 University Place, Room 222
Moderator: Mert Behadir Reisoglu (NYU)
Respondent: Alex Galloway (NYU)
1. Carmen Bartl
German Department, New York University
From Disagreement to Murder: The Work of Negativity in Hegel and Poe
2. Meredith Ramirez Talusan
Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Advantageous Geometry: Hyperbolic Interventions on the Debate Between Objectivity and Relativism
3. David J. Frost
Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
On Moral Disagreement and Relativity: A Case Study in Analytic and Continental Philosophical Approaches
Panel 5: Warring Words: Translation
Saturday March 6, 2010
1:30-3pm: 19 University Place, Room 222
Moderator: Márton Farkas (NYU)
Respondent: Haun Saussy (Yale U.)
1. George B. Henson
Literary and Translation Studies, University of Texas Dallas
Disagreement or Difference: Discovering Textual Equivocity through Translation
2. Kathryn Stergiopoulos
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
“Dred Road Thou Goest”: Language(s) at War in Pound’s Elektra
3. Roger Maioli dos Santos
Department of English, Johns Hopkins University
Disagreement in translation, and whether there is such a thing
Panel 6: Agreeing to Disagree: Consensus and Community
Saturday March 6, 2010
4-6pm: The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South)
Moderator: J. Carlos Aguirre (NYU)
Respondent: Cristina Vatulescu (NYU)
1. Ben Sherman
Philosophy Department, Boston University
Epistemic Peers and Stalemates
2. Eric Anderson
Department of English, University at Albany, SUNY
Sensus Communis: the Unverifiable Ground of Kant’s Socially Responsible Community of Dissent
3. Jeroen Gerrits
Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University
Disagreement as Duty: Wittgenstein, Cavell, and the Exhaustion of Morals
4. Cornelius Wambi Gulere
Department of Literature, Makerere University
Riddlers and Unriddlers in a Battle of Contradictions
