Stanley Cavell: A Retrospective
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2021
Organization: Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
Contact email: cavellretrospective@gmail.com
Milan, September 23th – 24th 2021 (new dates)
Organizing institution:
Department of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
Organizers: Raffaele Ariano (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan), Paolo Babbiotti (University of Turin).
Confirmed speakers:
Sandra Laugier – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (keynote)
Stephen Mulhall – University of Oxford (keynote)
Piergiorgio Donatelli – Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma
Viktor Johansson – Södertörn University Stockholm
Franco La Cecla – NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano
Davide Sparti – Università di Siena
Domenico Spinosa – Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Catherine Wheatley – King’s College London
The conference will be structured around thematic sessions.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
• America and transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau and beyond.
• Inheriting a method? Cavell’s Austin.
• Inheriting a method? A therapeutic reading of Wittgenstein.
• Wittgenstein, criteria and skepticism.
• Parallels and contrasts: Cavell’s reading of Heidegger, Lévinas, Rawls, Derrida…
• Voices and styles: Cavell vs romanticism, pragmatism, ordinary language philosophy, deconstruction, post-modernism, etc.
• Cavell and psychoanalysis
• Cavell’s theory of modernism in music, theater, and the visual arts.
• Cavell’s Shakespeare between skepticism, tragedy and comedy.
• Cavell and film studies (ontology and realism, genre, ethics, television, close-analysis of individual films, etc.)
• Cavell and gender studies
• Philosophy and education.
• Ethics and politics (perfectionism, agreement, giving reasons, rules and foundations, etc.)
• “Analytic” and “continental”: past, present, and future of a (supposed) divide.
Please send your proposals (max. 300 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) to cavellretrospective@gmail.com by May 1, 2021.