Becoming-major/Becoming-minor

International Conference
Organized by Vanessa Brito

Jan van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, NL
3 December - 5 December 2009

Schedule

Thursday 3 December
10:00 – 18:30

10:00
welcome by Vanessa Brito

10:15
From becoming-major to becoming-minor?
— session chaired by Kerstin Stakemeier

10:30
Jörg Volbers
Conditions of (Kantian) majority

11:30
break

11:45
Diogo Sardinha
Dandyism and its aftermath. Sartre, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze on emancipation

12:45
lunch

13:45
Emiliano Battista

14:45
break

15:00
Becoming–minor: an act of resistance or of emancipation?
— session chaired by Sara Farris

15:15
Eduardo Pellejero
The strategy of involution. Becoming-minor on political philosophy

16:15
Vanessa Brito
Becoming Minor: On Deleuze and Resistance

17:15
break

17:30
Oliver Marchart
On minimal politics

18:30
discussion


Friday 4 December
10:00 – 17:30

10:00
intervention by Jack Henrie Fisher

10:30
A minor figure: Bartleby’s case
— session chaired by Tzuchien Tho
10:45
Dominiek Hoens
The silence of Bartleby

11:45
break

12:00
Katja Diefenbach
De/activating life
On the politics of potentiality in Agamben, Deleuze, and Negri

13:00
lunch

14:00
Minors: childhood and emancipation
— session chaired by Vanessa Brito

14:15
René Schérer
La majorité du mineur

15:15
Roundtable with René Schérer
Giuseppe Bianco, Vanessa Brito, Nathalie Périn

20:00
Screening of Personne and debate with Hervé Nisic
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