LUCE IRIGARAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Since 2003, philosopher Luce Irigaray has held a seminar with an 
international group of PhD students writing on aspects of her work. The 
University of the West of England and the University of Bristol are 
delighted to co-host the Luce Irigaray International Seminar this year at 
the University of Bristol from 13-18 June 2011.

All are invited to the following events organised in conjunction with the 
visit of Professor Irigaray and her students to the University of Bristol:


DISCUSSION GROUP

Reading Irigaray
A series of informal discussions of selected works by Luce Irigaray and her 
readers

Session 3: Engaging Irigaray's readers
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 15:30 - 17:00, Verdon-Smith room, IAS, First Floor, 
Royal Fort House

We will be discussing:

Pheng Cheah, Elizabeth Grosz, Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell, 1998, 
"The future of sexual difference: An interview with Judith Butler and 
Drucilla Cornell" Diacritics 28(1): 19-42.

Penelope Deutscher, 2002, "Interrogating the unasked question: Is there 
sexual difference?" in The Politics of Impossible Difference: The later 
work of Luce Irigaray. Cornell UP, pg. 107-122.

To receive the readings for discussion, please contact Gemma Simpson at 
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ROUNDTABLE EVENT

Reverberating Irigaray
Friday, 3 June, 2-5pm, Bristol Institute of Public Affairs, 2 Priory Road

A multi-disciplinary roundtable in which participants critically reflect on 
Luce Irigaray's philosophical contribution to themes of law, justice and 
ecology in their own research.

The roundtable will offer a space for reflection on how Irigaray's work on 
difference, nature, and the symbolic and social orders has travelled along 
multiple intellectual and institutional networks. It will demonstrate how 
the translation and reception of Irigaray's work in these and other areas 
has influenced, and been influenced by, diverse intellectual, aesthetic, 
and political currents and communities.

With:
Ann Rippin, School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of 
Bristol

Sue Tate, School of Creative Arts, UWE

Ika Willis, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of 
Bristol


LUCE IRIGARAY INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR SYMPOSIUM
Friday, 17 June, 5pm, Verdon-Smith Room, Institute for Advanced Studies, 
Royal Fort House, University of Bristol

An opportunity for visiting students participating in the Luce Irigaray 
International Seminar to share their work with a public audience. 
Discussion will include commentary by Luce Irigaray.

Places at the Symposium are limited. To attend, contact Gemma Simpson at 
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For more information about this and other events organised in conjunction 
with the Luce Irigaray International Seminar, please contact Dr Maria 
Fannin ([log in to unmask]; 0117 92 88928)

Generous funding for the Luce Irigaray International Seminar and related 
events has been provided by the University of the West of England, the 
French Embassy, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Social 
Sciences and Law, the School of Geographical Science, the Bristol Institute 
for Research in the Humanities and Arts, the Graduate School of Arts and 
Humanities and the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at 
the University of Bristol.