Due date for abstracts: 15 November 2007
(For length of abstracts and papers see below)

Send abstracts to Nicole Anderson & Nick Mansfield at: DTconference@scmp.mq.edu.au

Recently Derrida studies have been dominated by the commemorative and retrospective. However, Derrida Today, will focus on the ongoing value or Derrida’s work to the political-ethical, cultural, artistic and philosophical futures that confront us.

 

Keynote speakers include:

• Catherine Malabou • Andrew Benjamin • Martin McQuillan.

 

The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic and cultural contexts.

We will accept papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work or deconstruction in relation to various topics and contemporary issues, such as: philosophy and other theoretical/philosophical thinkers, literature, psychoanalysis, architecture and design, law, film and visual studies, photography, art, embodiment, feminism, race and whiteness studies, politics, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, queer theory, sexuality, education, science (physics, biology, medicine, chemistry), IT and multimedia, etc.

Individual Papers: Participants should submit 200 word abstracts for a 20 minute paper (with 10 minute discussion time) to Nicole Anderson and Nick Mansfield at DTconference@scmp.mq.edu.au by 15 th November 2007.

Panel Proposals: Panels will consist of 3 papers of 20 minutes each (with 10 minute discussion time). Panel organizers should submit an overall panel proposal of 300 words, plus individual abstracts of 200 words for each paper, by the 15 th November 2007.

Derrida Today journal: This conference is based on the new journal ‘Derrida Today’, published by Edinburgh University Press (ISSN: 1754-8500). The first issue will be launched at the conference.

Click here for the journal website.

Participants will be invited to submit article length versions of their papers for consideration for publication in the journal.