“ON ERROR”
(Conference October 29-30 Goldsmiths, University of London)
Confirmed Speakers: Paul Davies (University of Sussex), Christoph Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt), John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)
Is a form of discourse, philosophical or otherwise, conceivable without a relation to error: the errors it considers potentially amendable, the errors it seeks to distinguish itself from, or the errors it inadvertently generates? If this relation is neither uniform nor stable, if the status, value, and identity ascribed to error may vary across disciplines or even within a single philosophical corpus itself, what does this variability express? And what consequences will the transformations in philosophy’s understanding of error have for its procedure in general? This two-day international conference, organized by INC, the Research Group in Continental Philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London, aims to ascertain the meaning and function of error for philosophical thought today.
SCHEDULE
Friday 29 October
9.00 Registration (Richard Hoggart Building 274)
9.45 Welcome (Richard Hoggart Building 274)
10.00 Keynote 1 (Richard Hoggart Building 274):
John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton) 'Error and the Renewal of Truth'
11.30 Tea/Coffee (Richard Hoggart Building 274)
12.00 Panel A (Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre):
Samuel Talcott (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia) 'Georges Canguilhem’s Courses on Error'
Julien Bismuth 'The Error in the Landscape'
13.30 Lunch (Ben Pimlott Building Room 3/4)
14.30 Panel B (New Academic Building, Lower Ground 1):
Tom Grimwood (Lancaster University) 'The Authenticity of Printing Errors: Kierkegaard, Repetition and Mis-Reference'
Tim Huntley (University of Sussex) 'Wandering Knights and Ghost Ships: Errancy, Memory and Analysis in Ettinger & Kristeva'
16.15 Tea/Coffee (Ben Pimlott Building 3/4)
16.45 Keynote 2 (Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre):
Paul Davies (University of Sussex) 'Error and the Return of Scepticism, or, Hume's Other Problem.'
18.30 Drinks Reception (Senior Common Room)
Saturday 30 October
9.45 Tea/Coffee (Ben Pimlott Building 3/4)
10.15 Panel C (Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre):
Deirdre Daly (Goldsmiths) 'Is there a Political Sense to Pascal's Public "Agony of Conversion"?'
Greg Yudin (Higher School of Economics Moscow) 'Community of Errors: The Paradox of Logical Socialism'
12.00 Lunch (Ben Pimlott Building 3/4)
13.00 Keynote 3 (Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre):
Christophe Menke (Goethe University Frankfurt) 'Second Nature. The "Fall" of Spirit'
14.30 Tea/Coffee (Ben Pimlott Building 3/4)
15.00 Panel D (Ben Pimlott Building Lecture Theatre):
Tom Bunyard (Goldsmiths) 'Error and Contingency Within Guy Debord's Hegelian Marxism'
Naomi Van Steenbergen (University of Essex) 'The Resistance of Understanding: Access and Orientation in Heidegger’s Early Freiburg Lectures'
Click here for a link to a map of the College campus (we will be situated at locations, 26, 40 and 9 over the two days)
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ATTENDANCE
This conference is a free event. If you wish to attend please email: onerror@gold.ac.uk
EXHIBITION
Julien Bismuth who is speaking at the conference will also premier a new exhibition for COMMA at Bloomberg SPACE: an evening of music by Giancarlo Vulcano and reading by Julien Bismuth will take place at Bloomberg SPACE on Friday 29 October at 7pm. The event is free, but will require booking by email: gallery@bloomberg.net