Keynote Speakers

Catherine Malabou

Catherine Malabou is Professor of philosophy at the Centre for the Study of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London, at the European Graduate School and in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California, Irvine. Her influential research and writing covers a range of figures and issues, including the work of Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism. Malabou’s many groundbreaking works include The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic (2005), Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (2009), Sois mon corps (2010, with Judith Butler), and Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought (2022). Also in 2022, Edinburgh University Press released the first curated collection of her expansive oeuvre: Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion (edited by Tyler M. Williams).

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GEOFFREY BENNINGTON

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University in Georgia, United States, and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, as well as a member of the International College of Philosophy in Paris. His more recent publications include Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction (2021), Kant on the Frontier: Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth (2017), and Scatter I: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida (2016). Bennington is also the translator of works by Derrida, Lyotard and other French thinkers. He is a member of the French editorial team preparing Jacques Derrida's seminars for publication, and General Editor with Peggy Kamuf of the English translation of those seminars (for the University of Chicago Press). Concurrently, he is completing a book of essays in the wake of the Scatter project, entitled Down to Dust, and a monograph on the German philologist Paul Friedländer’s disagreement with Heidegger over the interpretation of the Greek aletheia.

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Carolin Amlinger

Carolin Amlinger is a sociologist of literature and research associate at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the University of Basel. Her work spans 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, with a particular focus on a number of contemporary issues and trends - such as the post-truth crisis, authoritarianism, and speculative realism. In 2022, she was awarded the Dissertationspreis of the University of Darmstadt for her doctoral thesis Writing: A Sociology of Literary Work (2021). Her next book, Offended Freedom: Aspects of Libertarian Authoritarianism, was then nominated for the 2023 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Her other published works include The Inverted Truth. On the Relationship between Ideology and Truth (2014). In 2023 she was awarded the Young Thinker Award by the magazine politik & kommunikation. Amlinger’s current project is titled “Literacy: Aesthetic Classifications and Social Classes.”

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