Schedule
Stanley Cavell: A Retrospective
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
Palazzo Arese-Borromeo, Cesano Maderno
September 23rd- 24th 2021
Organizing Institution: Centro ICONE / Facoltà di Filosofia
Organizers: Raffaele Ariano (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan),
Paolo Babbiotti (University of Turin).
The conference will take place physically at Palazzo Arese-Borromeo in Cesano Maderno (25 minutes from the city center of Milan), but will also be streamed on Microsoft Teams.
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THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER - 9.00-9.30
Registration
ROOM 6 - 9.30-10.00
Opening Remarks
10.00 -11.00 Keynote address
Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford):
Scepticism and Modernism, Philosophy and Literature
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break
ROOM 6 11.15 – 12.30
Improvisation and Performance
Davide Sparti (Università di Siena): Projective Imagination. Cavell and the Improvisatory Dimension of Language
David Sebastiani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Release Formulae: Poetry and the Dream of Spontaneity
David Rudrum (University of Huddersfield): Stanley Cavell and Performance Philosophy
ROOM 7 11.15 – 12.30
Literature and Scepticism
Lyra Koli (University of Pardubice): Stanley Cavell’s Untouchable Othello: Scepticism and Suspension of Disbelief
Paul Jenner (University of Loughborough): Scepticism and the Ordinary in Stanley Cavell and Marilynne Robinson
Ingeborg Löfgren (Uppsala University): Truth in Skepticism and the Truth in Formalism: Stanley Cavell, Cleanth Brooks, and the Acknowledgment of Interpretative Vulnerability
12.30-14.00
Lunch break
ROOM 6 - 14.00-15:45
Cinema
Catherine Wheatley (King’s College): Coming to Wonder: Stanley Cavell and Film’s Renewal of Vision
Emiliano Morreale (La Sapienza di Roma)/ Simona Busni (Università della Calabria): Stanley Cavell, Philosopher of Melodrama
Andrea Vailati (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan): The ethopoietic of acknowledgment: Cavell’s Hollywood comedy of remarriage meets Foucault’s Hermeneutics of the subject
Room 7 - 14.00-15:45
Ethics and Politics
Luigi Corrias (VU University Amsterdam): Acknowledgement after Dehumanization: Cavell and an Ethos of Reconciliation
Timur Uçan (Bordeaux Montaigne University): Climate Justice, Skepticism and Perfectionism
Baptiste Cornardeau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): The Limits of Practice. Stanley Cavell, Pragmatism, and the Value of Action
15.45-16-00
Coffee Break
ROOM 6 - 16.00-18.00
Forms of Life
Franco La Cecla (NABA/ IULM): The influence of Cavell on Anthropology, with Special Reference to Veena Das
Viktor Johansson (Södertörn University Stockholm): An Exercise in Sámi Philosophising: Indigeneity, the Young Child, and an Ethics of Cultural Translation
Niklas Forsberg (University of Pardubice): Two Historical Periods Within One Human Breast
Andrea di Gesù (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/ Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Cavell, Wittgenstein and the Possibility of an Ecological Biopolitics
ROOM 7 - 16.00-18.00
Finitude
Francesco Gandellini (University of Southampton): Between Transcendental and Grammatical. Cavell Reader of Kant
Rico Gutschmidt (University of Konstanz): Cavell and Theology. Skepticism and the Fallen State of Mankind
Pioter Shmugliakov (Freie Universität Berlin): Cavell and Evental Thought
Filippo Casati (Lehigh University): A Cavellian Solution to a Heideggerian Problem
19.30
Ristorante "Il Fauno"
Conference dinner
(Hotel Parco Borromeo, Piazza Ercole Procaccini, Cesano Maderno MB)
FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
ROOM 6 -9.30-10.30 Keynote address
Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
Reinventing Ordinary Language Philosophy
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
ROOM 6 - 10.45 – 12.30
Criticism, Literary Theory, and the Novel
Rachel Malkin (University of Oxford): Stanley Cavell’s Critical Afterlives
Athanassia “Nassia” Williamson (New York University): Skepticism and the Novel: A Dialogue
Christopher Fenwick (Freie Universität Berlin): Stanley Cavell and Ethical Criticism
ROOM 7 - 10.45 – 12.30
Language and the Ordinary
Yo-ran Yang (Georgetown University): The Sense of Therapy: Reflections on Glück and Cavell
Philip Mills (University of Lausanne): Poetic Perlocutions: Poetry after Cavell after Austin
Francesco Pesci (University of Illinois at Chicago): Cavell on the Distinctiveness of Moral Language
12:30-14.00
Lunch break
ROOM 6 - 14.00 – 15.45
Morality and Perfectionism
Piergiorgio Donatelli (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma): Filming democracy: reciprocity and irony
Matteo Falomi (University of Essex): The Paradox of Reading
Léa Boman (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Université): Emerson’s Claim for Inconsistency: Moral Perfectionism and Rationality in Cavell’s Philosophy”
Sasha Blickhan (Munich School of Philosophy): Taking Ethics Personally: Perspectival Virtue Ethics
ROOM 7 - 14.00 – 15.45
Cinema: Reprise
Domenico Spinosa (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila): Not only Wittgenstein and Thoreau. About some philosophical and literary refractions in The World Viewed
Michael Raeber (UCLA/ University of Zurich): Democratic Visibility: The import of Cavell’s aesthetics of film to a political philosophy of democratic visibility
Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick), Orders from an Unborn Baby: Maternal Scepticism, Vengeance and Voicelessness in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge
Peter Hajnal (Warsaw University), Tact, Touch, and Playfulness: Anti-Cartesian Concepts for a Materialist
Aesthetics of Digital Media
15.45-16.00
Coffee break
ROOM 6 - 16.00-18.00
Aesthetic Judgment and Criticism
Zed Adams (New School for Social Research)/ Nat Hansen (University of Reading): The Hope of Agreement: Cavell on Aesthetic Judgment
Andrea Maistrello (University of Padua / Free researcher): Ordinary vs Commonplace: Cavell and Danto on Everydayness and Art
Lisa McKeown (New School for Social Research): Acknowledging Passionate Utterances
ROOM 7 - 16.00-18.00
Becoming Who One Is
Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College): Cavell and the Achievement of Selfhood
David LaRocca: Reflexiveness and Self-Reflection in Cavell’s Memoir
Garry L. Hagberg (Bard College): Stanley Cavell, the Language of Selfhood, and his Writings on Henry James