Programme:

 

Monday 10th June 2002
Social Ontology (chair: Awee Prins)

09.15 – 09.30    Awee Prins: introduction on ESSSO
09.30 – 10.00    Theo van Willigenburg (Dean Faculty of Philosophy) Social Ontology: Affect or Effect?
10.00 – 11.00    opening lecture: Slavoj Zizek Democracy and Beyond
11.00 – 11.15    coffee/tea break
11.15 – 11.45    comments: Henk Oosterling, André Nusselder, Marc de Kesel
11.45 - 12.45     debate
12.45 – 14.00    lunch
14.00 – 14.30    Marc de Kesel Is Antigone a protofascist? A socio-ontological position of resistance
14.30 – 15.00    Heleen Pott Was Hitler an Ironist? Zizek and the Social Ontology of Laughter
15.00 – 15.30    Jack Vromen  Zizek, Evolutionary Economics, Social Ontology
15.30 – 16.00    break
16.00 – 16.30    plenary comments
16.30 - 17.30     plenary debate The Ontology of the Social Reception

Tuesday 11th June 2002
The Inter: Dasein as Design? (chair: Henk Oosterling)

09.30 – 10.15    Robert Pfaller Interpassivity as social ontology?
10.15 – 10.45    coffee/tea break
10.45 – 11.15    comments: Slavoj Zizek, Rosi Braidotti, Jos de Mul
11.15 – 12.30    debate
12.30 – 14.00    lunch
14.00 – 14.30    Hugh Silverman Zizek’s Postmodern Subjects
14.30 – 15.00    Jos de Mul The Interpassivity of Politics, Politics of Interpassivity
15.00 – 15.30    Paul Patton Deleuze and the Political
15.30 – 16.00    break
16.00 – 17.30    plenary debate with Slavoj Zizek Ontology, Media, the Political
 Dinner

Wednesday 12th June 2002
Politics and the Political (chair: Jack Vromen)

09.30 – 10.15    Rosi Braidotti Politics of Becoming and Sustainable Ethics: a Feminist Perspective
10.15 – 10.30    coffee/tea break
10.30 – 11.00    comments: Hugh Silverman, Gijs van Oenen, Paul Patton
11.00 – 12.00    debate
12.00 – 13.30    lunch
13.30 – 14.00    Erik Vogt the Political: Schmitt, Derrida, Zizek
14.00 – 14.30    Gijs van Oenen ’Looking Awry’, the Obscene Complement of the Law
14.30 – 15.00    Theo de Wit Sovereignty and Beyond: Schmitt, Balibar, Nancy
15.00 – 15.15    coffee/tea break
15.15 – 15.45    Henk Oosterling Political Inter-esse: Politics of the In Between
15.45 – 17.00    final debate Globalization... and Beyond: from Ontology to the Political