Conference Program
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A complete list of the abstracts can be downloaded here.
The program can be downloaded here.
Friday (Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street)
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee / Breakfast
9:30 - 9:45 Opening Remarks
9:45 - 11:15 Panel 1: Sovereignty and Aesthetics
Walter Johnston, Williams College
"Achilles' Marble Heel: Anaesthetic Autonomy in Kleist's Penthesilea"
Craig Carson, Adelphi University
"Sovereign Spectacles: From Monarchy to Liberal Democracy"
Anjuli Raza Kolb, Williams College
"A So-Called Viral Sovereignty: Global Health, International Law, and Figures of Speech"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 1:00 Panel 2: Human Rights
Jon Mandle, University at Albany
"State Sovereignty and Human Rights"
Kristen Hessler, University at Albany
"Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue"
Kamiar Alaei, University at Albany
"A Human-Rights Based Approach to Health"
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Panel 3: Derrida and the Death Penalty
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
"Everybody Must Get Stoned: Calculating the Death Penalty with Derrida"
Kir Kuiken, University at Albany
"'Bidding Up' on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin"
David Wills, Brown University
"The Future Anterior of Blood"
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 5:30 Keynote Address: Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University
"On the Principles of Vitalpolitik: Between 'Raw' and 'Cooked' Capitalism"
Saturday (Downtown Campus, 135 Western Avenue, 200 Milne)
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
9:45 - 11:15 Panel 4: Unsettling the Body Politic
Asma Abbas, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
"Provincializing Sovereignty; Or, Why I Must Always Look Up the Meaning of Sovereignty"
Barbara Sutton, University at Albany
"Clandestinity, Abortion, and Women as 'Bare Life'"
Fanny Söderbäck, Siena College
"Rethinking Sovereignty through Transnational Surrogacy"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 1:00 Panel 5: Rethinking Agamben
Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
"Messianic Archives: Agamben among the Medieval Rabbis"
Richard Barney, University at Albany
"Bio-Economic-Politics, or, the Logic of Revolutionary Sovereignty"
Kevin Attell, Cornell University
“Sovereignty on Trial”
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Keynote Address: Kalpana Seshadri, Boston College
"Resituating Sovereignty: Toward a Posthuman Economics"
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 5:30 Concluding Roundtable
Click on the paper title to view the abstract.
A complete list of the abstracts can be downloaded here.
The program can be downloaded here.
Friday (Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street)
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee / Breakfast
9:30 - 9:45 Opening Remarks
9:45 - 11:15 Panel 1: Sovereignty and Aesthetics
Walter Johnston, Williams College
"Achilles' Marble Heel: Anaesthetic Autonomy in Kleist's Penthesilea"
Craig Carson, Adelphi University
"Sovereign Spectacles: From Monarchy to Liberal Democracy"
Anjuli Raza Kolb, Williams College
"A So-Called Viral Sovereignty: Global Health, International Law, and Figures of Speech"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 1:00 Panel 2: Human Rights
Jon Mandle, University at Albany
"State Sovereignty and Human Rights"
Kristen Hessler, University at Albany
"Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue"
Kamiar Alaei, University at Albany
"A Human-Rights Based Approach to Health"
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Panel 3: Derrida and the Death Penalty
Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
"Everybody Must Get Stoned: Calculating the Death Penalty with Derrida"
Kir Kuiken, University at Albany
"'Bidding Up' on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin"
David Wills, Brown University
"The Future Anterior of Blood"
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 5:30 Keynote Address: Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University
"On the Principles of Vitalpolitik: Between 'Raw' and 'Cooked' Capitalism"
Saturday (Downtown Campus, 135 Western Avenue, 200 Milne)
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
9:45 - 11:15 Panel 4: Unsettling the Body Politic
Asma Abbas, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
"Provincializing Sovereignty; Or, Why I Must Always Look Up the Meaning of Sovereignty"
Barbara Sutton, University at Albany
"Clandestinity, Abortion, and Women as 'Bare Life'"
Fanny Söderbäck, Siena College
"Rethinking Sovereignty through Transnational Surrogacy"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 1:00 Panel 5: Rethinking Agamben
Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
"Messianic Archives: Agamben among the Medieval Rabbis"
Richard Barney, University at Albany
"Bio-Economic-Politics, or, the Logic of Revolutionary Sovereignty"
Kevin Attell, Cornell University
“Sovereignty on Trial”
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Keynote Address: Kalpana Seshadri, Boston College
"Resituating Sovereignty: Toward a Posthuman Economics"
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee
4:00 - 5:30 Concluding Roundtable