International Conference
20th and 21st of March 2013
Jean-François Lyotard
The Misery of Philosophy: How to Resist
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Faculty of Humanities
Department of Romance and Latin-American Studies
European Forum at the Hebrew University
Paul Desmarais Center for French culture
Les amis français de l'Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem
The International Center of Jewish Civilization
Academic committee: Prof. Cyril Azlanov, Dr. Ronit Peleg, Dr. Rony Klein, Dr. Raphael Zagury-Orly
Programme
Room 3001, Rabin building, Mt. Scopus Campus, Jerusalem
Wednesday the 20th of March 2013
9.00: Gathering
9.30: Greetings
9.45
Chair: Prof. Cyril Azlanov
Dr. Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University)
The function of the appeal to morality in The Differend (Le Différend) (Hebrew)
Dr. Aïm Deüelle Lüski (Tel Aviv University and Bezalel)
The Differend as Jehova's discourse (Hebrew)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30
Chair: Dr. Lyat Fridman
Dr. Michal Ben Naftali (Tel Aviv University and Bezalel)
Lyotard and "the infants" (Hebrew)
Dr. Ilai Rowner (Tel Aviv University)
Our Death Is Approaching. Derrida laments the death of Lyotard (Hebrew)
12.45 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30
Chair: Dr. Michal Ben Naftali
Dr. Orietta Ombrosi (University of Rome)
J.F. Lyotard, A Philosopher of Testimony (English)
Dr. Walder Plinio, Jr. (Université de Paris-VIII)
Lyotard and "the jews" (Kant, Freud, Lévinas) (English)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30
Chair: Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli
Dr. Ronit Peleg (Tel-Aviv University)
Non-people of "Survivors", Jews and Non-Jews (English)
17.10 – 17.30 Break
17.30
Chair: Dr. Raphael Zagury-Orly
Keynote Address
Prof. Dolorès Lyotard (Université du Littoral Dunkerque)
L’écriture migrante de Jean-François Lyotard / Jean- François Lyotard`s Migrant Writing
(French with translation to Hebrew)
Thursday the 21st of March
9.30
Chair: Dr. Ronit Peleg
Dr. Rony Klein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Lyotard's Thought: From Passivity to Resistance (English)
Dr. Lyat Fridman (Bar-Ilan University)
Lyotard's Freud (English)
Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli (Haifa University)
Lyotard and the Algerian War (English)
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00
Chair: Dr. Rony Klein
Dr. Anat Rimon Or (The Centre for Academic Studies, Or Yehuda)
Fading Resistance: The Moment of Resistance as a Quasi Phrase (English)
Prof. Amal Jamal (Tel-Aviv University)
Resistance in Our Times: Countering-Mimicry and the Opening of Heterogeneous Horizons (English)
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30
Chair: Dr. Itzhak Benyamini
Prof. Bracha L. Ettinger (European Graduate School, Switzerland)
Imprints of Urverdrangung (Primary Repression) on the Fragility and Resistance Weaving
(Hebrew)
15.10 – 15.20 Break
15.20
Chair: Dr. Joseph Cohen
Dr. Hadrien Laroche (writer)
Lyotard / Duchamp: The Signature Machine (English)
Adam Aboulafia (Tel–Aviv University)
The Sublime as Philosophy's Differend (English)
Dr. Itzhak Benyamini (Haifa University and Bezalel)
The Jew of Reading (English)
17.00 –17.30 Coffee Break
17.30
Chair: Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli
Dr. Raphael Zagury-Orly (Bezalel)
The Irreversible Law of the Hyphen (English)
18.00 – 18.10 Break
18.10
Chair: Dr. Raphael Zagury-Orly
Keynote Address
Dr. Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin)
Lyotard and Heidegger: On the Singularity of Auschwitz (English)