Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics
UCL, London
Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010
This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity – ‘sexuate subjects’ – through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, and with reference to Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’. It explores how these positive ethical subjectivities for women and men are constructed through spatial, material and textual feminist poetics and politics. Over three days, it will examine especially how sexuate subjects (people/disciplines) aid interdisciplinary responses to contemporary global crises of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing.
Sexuate Subjects will focus on these issues as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice in disciplines including: architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. Nine panels and invited keynote speakers examine the following themes:
- environmental and social crises
- sustainable ecologies
- poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies
- the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being
By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, the event will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build sexuate futures for all. Such approaches aim to contribute towards developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures and their academic and public intersections. International experts from higher education, professional and public realms, as well as young researchers and practitioners, are invited to attend.
Sexuate Subjects is also host to the 5th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Principal Keynote:
Luce Irigaray, Doctor in Philosophy and Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris
Keynotes include:
Dr Karen Burns, Department of Architecture, Monash University, Australia
Professor Lorraine Code, Department of Philosophy, Toronto University
Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey
(video-conference presentation)
Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand
Dr Doina Petrescu, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée and the Department of Architecture, University of Sheffield
Videos and Performances include:
Helen Carmel Benigson
Princess Belsize Dollar $$$
Irigaray Conference
Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics
UCL, London
Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th December 2010
This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity – ‘sexuate subjects’ – through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, and with reference to Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’. It explores how these positive ethical subjectivities for women and men are constructed through spatial, material and textual feminist poetics and politics. Over three days, it will examine especially how sexuate subjects (people/disciplines) aid interdisciplinary responses to contemporary global crises of community conflict, social and environmental wellbeing.
Sexuate Subjects will focus on these issues as they are expressed in political, poetic and ethical practice in disciplines including: architecture, art, literature, modern languages, philosophy, the political and social sciences. Nine panels and invited keynote speakers examine the following themes:
- environmental and social crises
- sustainable ecologies
- poetic communities, pedagogies, voices and bodies
- the politics of bio-medicine, body-rights, family and well-being
By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, the event will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build sexuate futures for all. Such approaches aim to contribute towards developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures and their academic and public intersections. International experts from higher education, professional and public realms, as well as young researchers and practitioners, are invited to attend.
Sexuate Subjects is also host to the 5th Luce Irigaray Circle Conference.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Principal Keynote:
Luce Irigaray, Doctor in Philosophy and Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris
Keynotes include:
Dr Karen Burns, Department of Architecture, Monash University, Australia
Professor Lorraine Code, Department of Philosophy, Toronto University
Professor Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey
(video-conference presentation)
Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand
Dr Doina Petrescu, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée and the Department of Architecture, University of Sheffield
Videos and Performances include:
Helen Carmel Benigson
Princess Belsize Dollar $$$
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Sharon Morris