TERMINALS CONFERENCE



FRIDAY, APRIL 12

01:30-01:45 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

MOURNING AND TRAGEDY

01:45-02:00 Julie Carlson, Department of English, UCSB: Staging Death
02:00-02:45 Carol Jacobs, Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY, Buffalo: Dusting Antigone
02:45-03:30 Richard Corum, Department of English, UCSB: Selftermination
03:30-03:45 COFFEE BREAK
03:45-04:30 Eduardo Cadava, Department of English, Princeton University: The Whisper of Gazes: Walter Benjamin in the Image of Franz Kafka
04:30-05:15 Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto: Enjoy your Symecope: Mourning Technology in Proust
05:30-07:00 RECEPTION AT ART MUSEUM

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

THE ENDS OF DEATH

10:00-10:15 Elisabeth Weber, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB: A World Without Metaphor
10:15-11:00 Robert Jan van Pelt, Department of Architecture, University of Waterloo: From the Secret Reich of Two Million to the Reich Secret
11:00-11:45 Laurence A. Rickels, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB: Leave a Message. But Don't Forget to Breathe
11:45-12:30 William Haver, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton: Fucking with AIDS: Sovereign Destitution and the Practical Constitution of Being
12:30-02:00 Lunch

MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

02:15-02:30 Victoria Vesna, Art Studio, UCSB: Terminal Identity: The Artist
02:30-03:15 Samuel Weber, Department of English, UCLA: Reading--To the End of the World
03:15-04:00 Fred Moten, Visiting Professor, New York University (Department of English, UCSB): "Death in Cut Time"
04:00-04:15 Coffee Break
04:15-05:00 François Ewald, Fédération francaise des sociétés d'assurances: Life Insurance
05:00-05:45 Wolf Kittler, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB: The Tragedy of Maxwell's Demon

Terminals is funded by InterCampus Arts
the Humanities Research Institute of the UC system (UCHRI)
and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) of UCSB.



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