Stanley Cavell at 100 (Paris): Ordinary Language Philosophy, Film, Popular Culture

4 JUNE

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e, Amphithéâtre II

09:00–09:15: Welcome and Introduction

Opening lecture | Chair: Alice Crary

09:15–10:15: Stephen Mulhall (Oxford University): Suffering Expression: Ordinary Language (and) Psychoanalysis in Stanley Cavell and Adam Phillips

10:15–10:30: Coffee Break

Centre Panthéon, Amphithéâtre II

Panel 1 | Chair: Juliet Floyd

10:30–11:00 Jean-Philippe Narboux (Université de Strasbourg): Other Minds Skepticism as an Allegory of Material Object Skepticism

11:00–11:30 Layla Raid (Université de Picardie Jules Verne): Linguistic Injustice

11:30–12:00 Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University): Stanley Cavell on the Asymmetries between External World and Other Minds Skepticism

12:00–12:30 Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago / Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1): Proving we are not alone in the world: Cavell and the Ordinary Language of Companionship

12:30–12:50 Discussion

12:50–14:00: Lunch break

Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon – salles 6, 212, 214, 307

Parallel Sessions 1

14:00–15:30

Salle A: salle 6 | Chair: Miranda Boldrini

Nat Hansen (University of Reading)& Zed Adams(The New School): The Very Idea of Seriousness

Vincent Michel Vincke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Exploring a Cavellian Theme: The Anthropological Boundedness of Ethics and Mathematics in Wittgenstein

Patrice Philie (Université d’Ottawa): Meaningfulness, Seriousness, and Definite Descriptions

Salle B: salle 212 | Chair: Elise Marrou

Sören Fiedler (Technical University Darmstadt): Expressing the Precarious Self. Cavell's Philosophy of the Voice

Rémi Nabet (Université de Strasbourg): The Triangular Debate Between Wisdom, Austin, and Cavell About the Problem of Other Minds

Dominic Lash (Anglia Ruskin University): Babe Ruth meets Fellini: Cavell and Anscombe on intention

Salle C: salle 214 | Chair: Yiyang Bai

Brad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne): OLP in the Age of Spiritual Machines

Ingeborg Löfgren (Uppsala Universitet) & Joel Samuelsson (Uppsala Universitet): Revisiting Austin's Plea for Excuses: A Cavellian Reflection on Expert vs. Ordinary Authority in Interpreting the Law

So Kimoto (Kyoto University): When listening to a "fantasy". A Method of doing philosophy in Stanley Cavell

Salle D: salle 307 | Chair: Elise Domenach

Gianluca Michelli (Lumsa Università): The truth in linguistic skepticism: Cavell, Ortigues, and the freedom to risk

Sarah Lorgan-Khanyile (Harvard University): Neither in This Piece Nor in This Flesh: Stanley Cavell and the Political Body

Yuichiro Ikawa Kyoto University): Rethinking Bridging from I to We: In Light of Stanley Cavell's Philosophy as Autobiography

15:30–15:45: Break

Centre Panthéon, Amphithéâtre IV

Panel 2 | Chair: Piergiorgio Donatelli

15:45–16:15 Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University): Improvisation and Logic: Reading Frege with Cavell

16:15–16:45 Niklas Forsberg (University of Pardubice): A photograph, and a sentence: on the idea of representation and "our obsession with realism"

16:45–17:15 Valérie Aucouturier (Université Catholique de Louvain): Unlearning and the education of grownups

17:15–17:45 Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania): Love, Acknowledgement, and Skepticism in "The Last of Us"

17:45–18:00 Discussion

18:00-18:10: Break

Keynote Lecture 1 | Chair: Jeroen Gerrits

18:10-19:00 Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University): Iconoscepticism: Cavell on image scepticism in the age of AI

Cinéma La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, 9 rue Champollion, Paris 5e

19:30 Film: Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937, with Barbara Stanwyck)

Presentation by Jean-Loup Bourget followed by discussion

5 JUNE

Morning: Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon

Parallel Sessions 2

09:15–10:45

Salle A – salle 6 | Chair: Léa Boman

Lisa Mckeown (The New School): Finding Fleabag: the Acknowledgement of the Unknown Woman

Kate Rennebohm (Lawrence University): Race, Private Property, and Enforced Skepticism: Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995)

Freya Katharina Gerz (University of Potsdam): Acknowledgement as Feminist Praxis: Reframing Skepticism through Wittgenstein, Cavell and Aesthetic Media

Salle C – salle 214 | Chair: Hugo Clémot

Rose Gotlieb (UChicago): Genre's Philosophical Work in Cavell and Frye

Mynt Marsellus (University of Toronto): Ordinary Language, Analytic Listening: Cavell with Couples Therapy

Audrey Mitchell (University of Sydney): Must Nora Mean What She Says? Cavell and Gesture in Conversation with Sentimental Value

Salle D – salle 307 | Chair: Jeroen Gerrits

Sulgi Lie (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf): World Disclosure as World Withdrawal in Stanley Cavell's Philosophy of Film

Pioter Shmugliakov (University of Haifa): The Concept of 'World' in Cavell's Aesthetic Legacy

Sam Lee (UChicago): Towards a Poetics of Passivity: A Cavellian Reading of Two Panning Shots in Hong Sang-Soo

10:30–10:45: Break

Parallel Sessions 3

10:45–12:30

Salle A – salle 6 | Chair: Catherine Wheatley

Benjamin Y. Goff (King's College London): What's the use of remarrying? The movie after belief

Conall Cash (St Francis Xavier University): From Replacement to Bestowal: Philippe Garrel's Les Baisers de secours as Comedy of Remarriage

Julen A. Carreño Aguado (Universidad Católica de Valencia): Cavell on Ford and Ford under Cavell: the "remarriage comedy", revisited in The World Moves On (1934) and The Quiet Man (1952)

Salle B – salle 212 | Chair: Paola Marrati

Marcello Di Massa (Università Degli Studi di Parma): Cavell on Humor and the Ordinary

Rachel Malkin (Oxford University): Stanley Cavell, James Baldwin, and Hollywood

David Schwartz(Michigan State University): Enchanting Hesitation: Stanley Cavell On The Miraculous, Fantastic, and Friendly

Salle C – salle 214 | Chair: David LaRocca

Ana María García Casto & David García-Ramos Gallego (Universidad Católica de Valencia): Working class, unknown women, and remarriage comedy in the films of Aki Kaurismäki

Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick): Suspicious Minds and Dead Bodies: Queer Romance, Scepticism, and Shared Fantasy in Rose Glass's Love Lies Bleeding

Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University): Cavell contre Barthes: Auteurism, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and the Life of the Author

Salle D – salle 307 | Chair: Victor KrebsDeb Kamal Ganguly (Auroville Film Institute): From Automatism to Acknowledgment: Cavell through Kore-eda and the Skeptical Ground of Filmmaking

Biancalisa Sgorbati (Milano San Raffaele / Oxford): Critical Method in the Work of Stanley Cavell: A Close Analysis of Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager

José Alfredo Peris-Cancio & Marco Perles (Universidad Católica de Valencia): The cinephile conversation between Cavell's philosophy and philosophical personalism

12:30–13:30: Lunch Break

Afternoon: École normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm

Amphithéâtre Jean-Jaurès

13:45 Opening: Claude Imbert (ENS Ulm): An Unapprochable America

Panel 3 | Chair: Mathias Girel

14:00–14:30 Naoko Saito (Kyoto University): "I simply experiment with no Past on my back": Narratives of pain

14:30–15:00 David LaRocca: Inspired Methods. Garrett Stewart's Cross-Sectional Readings of Stanley Cavell

15:00–15:30 Hugo Clémot (Université Gustave Eiffel): Thinking of gaslighting with Stanley Cavell, reading Stanley Cavell in light of gaslighting

15:30–15:45: Discussion

15:45–16:00: Break

Panel 4 | Chair: Sandra Laugier

16:00–16:15 Jean-Michel Frodon (Sciences-Po Paris): Introductory Words

16:15–16:45 Susana Viegas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Cavell on Film and Death

16:45–17:15 Jeroen Gerrits (Binghamton University): Cavell's Serial Thought

17:15–17:45 Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland): Film, Skepticism, and Generative AI

17:45–18:00: Discussion

18:00–18:10: Break

Keynote Lecture 2 Chair: David LaRocca

18:10–19:00 Catherine Wheatley (King's College, London): Vision and Acknowledgement in the TV series Adolescence

Espace Curie, École normale supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm

19:00 Reception

6 JUNE

Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéonm Amphithéâtre III

Keynote Lecture 3 | Chair: Martin Hägglund

09:15–10:15 James Conant and Matthias Haase (University of Chicago): Cavell on Acknowledging Each Other

Keynote Lecture 4 | Chair: Martin Hägglund

10:15–11:05 Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig): Cavell on Our Responsiveness to Each Other

11:05–11:20: Break

Keynote Lecture 5 | Chair: Philippe Büttgen

11:20–12:10 Hent de Vries (New York University / Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1): Out of the Ordinary: The Case for Deep Pragmatism

Conclusions

12:10: Sandra Laugier, Juliet Floyd, Piergiorgio Donatelli

VENUES

Centre Panthéon – 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e

École normale supérieure – 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris 5e

La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin - 9 Rue Champollion, Paris 5e