Cardiff University, School of European Studies
Conference 15-16 September 2006
DID SOMEBODY SAY IDEOLOGY? SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK IN A POST-IDEOLOGICAL UNIVERSE
Programme
FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER
9.00-9.45: Registration
9.45-10.00: Introduction
10.00-1.00 Session A: Philosophy with Psychoanalysis
Ian Buchanan: ‘False consciousness versus cynical reason, or, the antinomies of ideology’
Frank Vande Veire: 'Commodity fetishism as paradigm of ideology in Zizek and Derrida'
11.20-11.35: Coffee break
Rex Butler: ‘A parallax view on The Parallax View’
Dany Nobus: ‘Why Zizek is not a Lacanian: on the (de-)construction of psychoanalytic ideologies’
1.00-2.00: Lunch break
2.00-5.00 Session B: Locating the cinematic Real
Fabio Vighi: ‘European cinema and the (im)possibility of the sexual relationship’
Jan Jagodzinski: ‘The Zizekian wager: putting filmic art into the abyss’
3.20-3.35: Coffee break
Susanna Sklepek: ‘Chaining the truth: Zizek and the cinematic subject in (post-)communist cinema’
Sean Homer: ‘Nationalism, ideology and Balkan cinema’
7.00: Dinner
SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
10.00-1.00 Session C: Politics and historical change
Heiko Feldner: ‘Zizek vs. Foucault’
Sis Matthé: ‘The lack of history and what to do with it: from Zizek to Badiou’
11.20-11.35: Coffee break
Adrian Johnston: ‘Parallax politics: Badiou, Zizek and the cadence of change’
Marc De Kesel: ‘Subject at the gates: Zizek on Revolution’
1.00-2.00: Lunch break
2.00-4.00 Session D: Politics and totalitarianism
Jodi Dean: ‘Camp and the show trial: Zizek on Nazism, Stalinism and the Law’
Ceren Özselçuk: ‘Economy, surplus, politics: some questions on Zizek’s political economy critique of capitalism’ (I)
Yahya M. Madra: ‘Economy, surplus, politics: some questions on Zizek’s political economy critique of capitalism’ (II)
7.00 Film Screening: Žižek!
For registration contact Marybeth Smith at SmithM9@cardiff.ac.uk, for further details Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner at TheZizekConference@cardiff.ac.uk, Project for Ideology Analysis, Cardiff University, School of European Studies, 65-68 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AS, United Kingdom.
The conference is supported by the British Academy.
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