Gilles Deleuze Conference at Trent: May 12-15
The Department of Philosophy at Trent University is holding an international conference between May 12 and 15, 2004 at Peter Gzowski College, on "Gilles Deleuze: Experimenting with Intensities: Science, Philosophy, Politics, the Arts."
- May 12: Intensive Science: philosophy of science faced with dynamic processes, morphogeneses, and multiple attractors.
- May 13: Virtual Philosophy: virtuality, as a modal operator, and "flat ontologies".
- May 14: Politics of Becoming: publics, counter-publics and the politics of becoming.
- May 15: Arts and Affect: aesthetics of the affect.
Speakers are from all over the world, and include Manola Antonioli, Veronique Bergen, Rosi Braidotti, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, William Connolly, Manuel DeLanda, Stefan Leclercq, Brian Massumi, Philippe Mengue, Dorothea Olkowski, Paul Patton, and Arnaud Villani.
"This international conference centres around the work of Gilles Deleuze—one of the most important French philosophers, after the generation of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. His work has been a sustained effort to create concepts capable of making the many and the disparate cohere and co-resonate with one another, without, in the process having to lose their identity," says Prof. Constantin Boundas, conference organizer. "Now that globalization has become the order of the day, Deleuze seems more pertinent than ever before, and able to offer a via media between leveling homogenizations and seemingly innocent fragmentations. To rethink this via media, scientists, philosophers, political theorists and artists from ten different countries are joining their efforts in this conference."
Deleuze was not fond of conferences or of the ideology of communication that often feeds them, says Prof. Boundas. Trent University though is the site of three international meetings on Deleuze's work; from the first international conference in North America at Trent in 1991, to our second conference in 1999, few years after his death, to the present one.
This bilingual international conference is sponsored by the Trent Centre for Theory, Culture, and Politics, the Trent Philosophy Department, and the Canadian Association of Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought. The conference is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the French Consulate Toronto, the President's Discretionary Fund, the Vice-President's Academic Discretionary Fund, the Political Studies Department, and the Women's Studies Program.
For further information, please visit http://www.trentu.ca/philosophy/intensity/intensity.htm or contact Prof. Constantin V. Boundas (cboundas@trentu.ca or cboundas@cogeco.ca)
Posted April 23, 2004
