Under Analysis: On the History of Truth and the Subject of Science
Presented by Joan Copjec and Kristina Mendicino
December 12th 8:30am - 5:30pm Faculty Club, 1 Bannister St
December 13th 8:30am - 5:30pm Faculty Club, 1 Bannister st
December 14th 8:30am - 3:30pm Andrews House, 13 Brown Street, Room 110
“Under Analysis: On the History of Truth and the Subject of Science” is an international conference concerning the thinking that will have been made possible through Martin Heidegger’s and Jacques Lacan’s radical interrogations of truth and critical expositions of the modern subject of science. Both thinkers, each in a different way, fundamentally challenge the supposition underlying much discourse in and beyond the sciences that ‘truth’ signifies the correspondence between a propositional judgment and a state of affairs, as judged by a cognizing consciousness. Upon this rare occasion for scholars of Heidegger and experts in Lacanian psychoanalysis to enter into dialogue, participants in the conference will pursue the ways in which engaging with these pathbreaking writers might open new inroads into their respective oeuvres, while preparing us better to question the shape that the world has taken in our current epoch of “post-truth” politics and unprecedented technological developments.
Featuring Presentations by:
Elizabeth Berman (Brown University)
Kian Braulik (Brown University)
Henrique Carvalho-Pereira (Brown University)
Lorenzo Chiesa (Newcastle University)
Ioannis Dimopulos (Brown University)
Ana Furtado (Brown University)
Kirsten Hyldgaard (Aarhus University)
David Farrell Krell (Brown University/
DePaul University, emer.)
Serena Lückhoff (Brown University)
Kristina Mendicino (Brown University)
Michele Moghrabi (Brown University)
Ian Alexander Moore (Loyola Marymount University)
Oleksii Shebanov (Brown University)
Melanie Unger (Brown University)
Dominik Zechner (Rutgers University)
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