Glissant and Levinas - Thinking the Relation

Glissant and Levinas: Thinking the Relation

The conference Glissant and Levinas: Thinking the Relation, invites scholars in philosophy, English, francophone, and Caribbean literature, environmental studies, decolonial studies, and Jewish studies, to think about the major point of contact between Édouard Glissant and Emmanuel Levinas: our relation to the other, and its ethical and political significance.

The conference proceedings will be published in the journal Levinas Studies.

This event will be hybrid. Please register on zoom prior to the event.

Program

Friday, May 19^th Room MB.9A

10:00-10:15: Welcome by Mérédith Laferté-Coutu

10:15-11:15: Robert Bernasconi (Penn State University), “The Unique and the Exotic: Segalen, Levinas, Glissant”

11:15-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:30: Justin Wooley (University of Memphis), “Approaching the Condition of Election through Relation: Levinas and Glissant on the Imaginary of the West”

LUNCH BREAK 12:30-13:30 (MB.9B)

13:30 - 14:30: Mérédith Laferté-Coutu (Concordia University), “Between Glissant and Levinas’s Critiques of Rootedness”

14:30 - 15:30: Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez (Penn State University), “Indigenous Philosophies and the Right to Opacity: A Challenge to the Discipline”

15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15: First Keynote Kris Sealey (Fairfield University), “Fleshing out Relation: Alterity, Opacity and Landed Reciprocity”

Saturday, May 20^th Room MB.9A

9:00 - 9:15: Welcome by Andrew Domzal

9:15 - 10:15: Nathan Bell (University of Melbourne), “Glissant, Levinas, Drabinski: Universality and Humanism from the Other Shore” [ONLINE]

10:15-11:15: Vera Napolitano (University of Paris I: Panthéon Sorbonne), “Ethics, Poetics, Apophantics”

11:15 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:30: Andrew Domzal (Penn State University), “Heidegger, Levinas, and Glissant: The Problem of Dwelling”

LUNCH BREAK 12:30-13:30 (MB.9B)

13:30 - 14:30: Nicolas de Warren (Penn State University), “Anarchy, the Shock from Elsewhere”

14:30 - 15:30: Ruthanne Soohee Crapo Kim (Minneapolis College), “Chaos, Myth, and Trembling: Glissant and Levinas”

15:30 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15: Second Keynote John Drabinski (University of Maryland), “The Time and Memory of Relation; or, Between Diaspora and Archipelago”

17:15 - 18:30: Closing cocktail reception

Contact: Mérédith Laferté-Coutu (m_lafert@live.concordia.ca) and Andrew Domzal (asd5500@psu.edu)