Invitation to the Seminar of
LUCE IRIGARAY
14 - 19 June 2010
Since 2003, Luce Irigaray has held an annual seminar for researchers doing
their PhD on her work. The seminar offer the opportunity to receive personal
teaching from Luce Irigaray and to exchange ideas, methods and experiences
with other participants. The seminar was hosted by the University of
Nottingham during the first three years (see *Luce Irigaray: Teaching *edited
by Luce Irigaray with Mary Green, and published by Continuum, London & New
York, 2008), by the University of Liverpool the fourth year, by Queen Mary,
University of London, the fifth year and by the Goodenough College of London
the sixth year. In 2010, it will be hosted by Mary Immaculate College,
University of Limerick, in Ireland.
The framework of the seminar is this: a group of fifteen researchers doing
their PhD on the work of Luce Irigaray stay one week on the university
campus. The schedule includes: a presentation by each researcher of the
aspect of their PhD which most focuses on the work of Irigaray, the
discussion of this presentation by the group, comments from Luce Irigaray
herself and her answers to questions raised by each participant. Also
included are sessions devoted to the explanation of key-words or
key-thoughts chosen by the participants. Personal meetings with Luce
Irigaray are organised on the last day. The participants pay for their
travel, but receive hospitality from the university. The seminar is
conducted in English.
The participants in the seminar come from different regions of the world;
they belong to different cultures, traditions and fields of research �
Philosophy, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, Arts, Critical
and Cultural Studies, etc. The themes of their research include, for
example: the treatment of personal or cultural traumatic experience; the
resources that various arts can offer for dwelling in oneself and with the
other(s); the maternal order and feminine genealogy; the interpretation and
embodiment of the divine today; the contribution of sexuate difference to
personal and social development; new perspectives in philosophy etc. In each
of these fields, diverse domains, approaches and methods are represented. To
date, participants have come from Australia, Vietnam, Korea, India, Sri
Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Ireland and
from different regions and universities of the U.S.A. and of the U.K. Beyond
the multicultural teaching which results from such a gathering, the
participants learn to live together and to share in difference during the
time devoted to the work, and also during meals, walks, personal meetings
etc. The atmosphere of the seminar is intense but friendly and joyful, and
its outcome highly successful for both the research and the life of each
participant.
If you are interested and would like to participate in such a seminar please
send, as soon as possible, a CV, a PhD abstract (1 page) and a presentation
of the issues and arguments of your PhD that most focus on the work of Luce
Irigaray (5-6 pages) to Luce Irigaray (by mail: 15, rue Lakanal, 75015
Paris, France). After receiving this material, Luce Irigaray will tell you
if you can participate in the seminar of 2010. You will be contacted for
further practical information by Marita Ryan at Mary Immaculate College,
University of Limerick after the selection of the candidates.
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.
Helga Varden, Assistant Professor
http://www.phil.uiuc.edu/faculty/list/Varden/index.htm
Department of Philosophy
105 Gregory Hall, MC-468
810 South Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-2644
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