The Kristeva Circle

Time

Activity

4PM-4:30PM

Registration

4:30PM-5:45PM

Keynote #1 

Fanny Söderbäck

“Narrating Singularity in the Wake of Antisemitic and

Anti-Black Violence: Thinking with Julia Kristeva

in Dark Times”

5:45PM-6PM

Break

6PM-7:45PM

Session 1A: Queering Kristeva

Euryale Cliche-Laroche, “Un nom est une ombreet

un futur: Temporality, Abjection and Desire in the Transgendered Experience of Formulating a Name”

Maggie Hynes, “Abjection, Queer Subjectivities,

and Homophobia and Transphobia Today”

Sarah Lee, “The Politics of Loving One’s Mother:

Toward a Resistant Decolonial Feminist Re-Reading

of Kristevan Abjection with Gloria Anzaldúa”

6PM-7:45PM

Session 1B: Kristeva and Cinema

Kathleen Ballantyne, “Spectators in Process: Reviving

the Signifying Process Through Rhythmic Alterity in Film”

Lauren Mitchell, Skeletons in the Closet, Headless Mothers

in the Attic: Horror and the Familial Unknown in Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Lars Von Trier’s AntiChrist”

William Magrino, “‘Can the Beautiful Be Sad?’ Julia

Kristeva’s Melancholic Language in Lars von Trier’s

Melancholia” 

Time

Activity

8:30AM-8:45AM

Registration

8:45AM-9AM

Opening Remarks

9AM-9:45AM

Session 2

Ewa Ziarek, “Sovereignty and the Subject-in-Process in

Digital Modernity”

9:45AM-10:30AM

Session 3

Nöelle McAfee, “Revisiting Intimate Revolt in Revolt,

She Said”

10:30AM-10:40AM

Break

10:40AM-11:55AM

Keynote #2

Alia Al-Saji                                 

“What Could Have Been: Making Colonial Duration Hesitate” 

11:55PM-1:25PM

Lunch

1:30PM-3PM

Julia Kristeva Interview on Dostoyevsky (zoom)

3PM-3:45PM

Session 4

Kelly Oliver, “From Fundamentalism to Forgiveness: 

 Sex/Gender Beyond Determinism or Voluntarism”

3:45PM-4PM

Break

4PM-5:10PM

Session 5A: Aesthetics

Tjaša Škorjanc, “Revolution in Visual Language?

The Visible-Invisible Online and in Art”

Paria Rahimi, “The Mother is Obscene, on the

Scene, and Behind-the-Scenes”

4PM-5:10PM

Session 5B: Death and Crossings

Everet Smith, “We’re Thinking of Ending Things:

Pain, Melancholia, and Intellectual Labour”

Lenka Vojtíšková, “Traversing the Dead Body:

Love of the Corpse as Love of (Semiotic) Motility”

5:10PM-5:20PM

Break

5:20PM-6:30PM

Session 6A: Revolution and Poetic Language

Gertrude Postl, “Kristeva’s Notion of Negativity:

Language, Writing, Text”

Shawn Huberdeau, “Capitalist Prehistory and

Bourgeois Subject-Formation: Metonymy and the

Displaced Body in Kristeva’s Theory of Abjection”

5:20PM-5:55PM

Session 6B

Eleanor Kaufman, “Kristeva and the Name of the

Husband”

5:55PM-6:30PM

Session 6C

Nora Fulton, “Liaison-Acts: Hennix, Kristeva, and

the Love of Demonstrability”

6:30PM

Banquet

Time

Activity

8:30AM-9AM

Refreshments

9AM-9:45AM

Session 7

Athena Colman, “TBD”

9:45AM-10:30AM

Session 8

Sid Hansen, “Transforming the Sound of Revolt:

Moten, Kristeva and Phonic Materiality”

10:30AM-10:40AM

Break

10:40AM-11:55AM

Keynote #3

Perry Zurn 

“Revolution in (Trans)Poetic Punctuation”

11:55AM-1:25PM

Lunch

1:25PM-2:10PM

Session 9

Elaine P. Miller, “Kristeva and Mbembe: The Image and

Revolt”

2:10PM-2:55PM

Session 10

Beata Stawarska, “Linguistic Revolutions in Early Kristeva”

2:55PM-3:05PM

Break

3:05PM-4:50PM

Session 11A: Kristeva and Politics

Steven Dincau, “Fear and Revolution”

Sujaya Dhanvantari, “Fanon and Kristeva on the

Poetics of Revolution”

Daniel Allen, "The Specter of Fascism and the Political

Economy of Abjection: Kristevan Psychoanalysis and

the History of Horror from the Inter-War Period to the

Present" 

3:05PM-4:15PM

Session 11B: On the Roles of Excess

Lilian Phillips, “Literature, politics, experience: Kristeva, Marx, Bataille”

Jennifer Purvis, “At the Crossroads of Affect and Abjection: Anger, Excess, and the Political Trajectory of Kristevan Revolt”