21st-Century Theories of Literature: Ethics, Tropes, Attunement

University of Warwick, 6-8/4/2017

Thursday 6/8, Humanities Building

17.00-19.30(H076, Humanities Studio) Reception, poetry reading, refreshments.

Friday 7/4, Humanities Building

9.00Registration

9.30Parallel sessions 1

1a (H076, Humanities Studio, chair Andrea Selleri)

  • Aleksejs Taube (University of Latvia): Defamiliarization of the Disengaged Self in Andrew Miller’s Ingenious Pain
  • Patrick Fessenbecker (Bilkent University): Integrities, Ethical and Otherwise
  • Ryan Trimm (University of Rhode Island): The Affective Economies of Atonement: Literary history as ethical and political practice

1b (Room H103, chair Giulia Zanfabro)

  • EmmanouilAretoulakis (National Kapodistrian University of Athens): The Ethics of Representing Asymmetric Violence through the Novel: A post-aesthetic approach
  • Tammy Amiel Houser (Open University of Israel): Narratives of Care as Philosophical Enquiries: Reading Zadie Smith’s Embassy of Cambodia (2013)
  • Randy Ramal(University of Zurich): Tragic Limitrophies: Philosophy and literature on letting animals speak for themselves

11.00Refreshments

11.30Keynote session 1(H076, Humanities Studio, chair t.b.c.)

Derek Attridge (University of York): Ethics, Reason, and the Conversion Experience: J.M. Coetzee and the Philosophers

Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire):Neglect by Action: Dialectical Monism in Ian McEwan's The Children Act

13.00Lunch

14.00 Parallel sessions 2

2a (H076, Humanities Studio, chair Eileen John)

  • Adia Mendelson-Maoz (Open University of Israel): On Analogy, Empathy, and the Risk of False Pretention. Case study: Israeli literary representations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Samuel O’Donoghue (Spanish National Research Council): Immoral Empathy? The ethics of reading Holocaust fiction
  • Layla Raïd (University of Picardy): Literature, Attention to Particulars and Moral Resistance: The case of Jean Rhys’ exile novels

2b (H103, chair t.b.c.)

  • Chiara Alfano (Kingston University): Reading for Attunement: Cavell and Shakespeare
  • Alex Underwood (University of Warwick): title t.b.c.
  • Filip Niklas (University of Warwick): Collingwood and Attunement: Philosophy in the school of the poets

15.30Refreshments

16.00Keynote session 2 (H076, Humanities Studio, chair Andrea Selleri)

Anthony Ossa-Richardson (University of Southampton): Is Ambiguity a Trope?

Catherine Wearing (Wellesley College): Finding Meaning in Metaphors

17.30Drinks reception

19.00Conference dinner (Scarman Dining Hall)

Saturday 8/4, Humanities Building

9.30Parallel sessions 3

3a (H076, Humanities Studio, chair Marianna Ginocchietti)

  • Ellen Dengel-Janic (University of Tübingen): Poetic Justice and Narrative Ethics in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005)
  • KonradBanicki (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Literature and the Cultivation of Loving Attention
  • Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (University of Genoa): ‘A huge hall of reflection’: Iris Murdoch on Literature as a Guide to Morals

3b (H103, chair Alex Underwood)

  • Leo Bazzurro (University of Warwick): The Philosophical Poetry of Juan Luís Martínez
  • Peter Ely (Kingston University): The Ethics of the ‘Secret’ in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet
  • Tania Ganitsky (University of Warwick): ‘Let’s get lost’: Dickinson’s Structure of Address

11.00Refreshments

11.30Keynote session 3 (H076, Humanities Studio, chair t.b.c.)

AntonioIannarone, on behalf of Claudia Brodsky (Princeton):title tbc

Maximilian de Gaynesford (Reading):title tbc

13.00Lunch

14.00 Parallel sessions 4

4a (H076, Humanities Studio, chair Marianna Ginocchietti)

  • Michela Bariselli (University of Reading): Beckett’s Humour: De-valuing and re-assessing processes
  • Birgit Breidenbach (University of Warwick): ‘Into Murphy’s heart it would not enter’: Ontological and Aesthetic Attunement in Heidegger and Beckett
  • Sinkwan Cheng (University College London): Negation, Alterity, and What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Modernism

4b (H103, chair EmmanouilAretoulakis)

  • Francesco Campana (University of Padua): Hegel as a Philosopher of Literature
  • Jennifer Crone (University of Sydney): Attuning Kant’s Reflective Judgement and Whitehead’s Propositions to Louise Glück’s Poem ‘The Drowned Children’
  • Philip Mills (Royal Holloway, University of London): Style in Philosophy: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein

15.30Tea/coffee break

16.00Roundtable (chair t.b.c.)

17.00Conference ends