GERTRUDE POSTL
(updated: 30-September-2011)
INVITED LECTURES AND PAPERS
1.
"Contemporary
French Feminism: Radical Concepts of Liberation or Intellectual Game?"
Women's Week 90, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1990.
2.
"New
Borderlines in a Germany without Borders: The Case of Christa Wolf,"
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Sixteenth Annual
Conference, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada,
May 1991.
3.
"The
Fall of the Wall: Women's Life and Writing in a Changing Germany," Women's
Week 92, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1992.
4.
"Philosophical
Models for a Feminist Utopia," New York Women's Studies Association
Conference, SUNY/Stony Brook, New York, March 1993.
5.
"Woman
as Invisible: Remarks on Bachmann, Language, and Fascism," International
Association for Philosophy and Literature, Seventeenth Annual Conference,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1993.
6.
Respondent
to "Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities After Unification" by Andreas Huyssen, faculty
seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 1994.
7.
Respondent
to a panel on "When Truth Became a Woman - Seductive Images,"
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Eighteenth Annual
Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 1994.
8.
Two-day
lecture and workshop series on "Gewalt durch Sprache," Katholisch-Theologische Hochschule,
Linz, Austria, May 1994.
9.
"The
Postmodern Discourse on Technology and the Female Body. A Feminist Approach to Lyotard and Baudrillard,"
Second European Feminist Research Conference - Feminist Perspectives on
Technology, Work, and Ecology, University of Technology, Graz, Austria, July
1994.
10.
"Women, Language, and
Power," lecture organized by the Women's Council, University of South Alabama,
Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
11.
"On Nature, Passion, and
Women: Some Contradictions in Rousseau," Southeastern American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21st Annual Conference, University of South
Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
12.
"Feminist Approaches to
Language," lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association,
Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1995.
13.
"The Cyborg as Seductive
Image: Donna Haraway's Feminist Politics,"
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Nineteenth Annual
Conference, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 1995.
14.
"Women as International
Strangers," Fifth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic:
"Reading Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva," Tianes Hof, Castelrotto,
Alto Adige, Italy, July 1995.
15.
"Nature versus Culture:
An Obsolete Distinction," Faculty Lecture Series, Suffolk Community
College, Selden, New York, December 1995.
16.
"Women and Nature: A
Problematic Alliance," lecture organized by the Student Philosophy
Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1996.
17.
"Kristeva's Strangers and Irigaray's Others: Two Conceptions of Alterity," Annual Eastern Division Meeting of the
Society for Women in Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, New York, March 1996.
18.
"Does Nationalism have Anything to do with Gender?" Women's Week 96, Suffolk
Community College, Selden, New York, April 1996.
19.
"Feminismus,
Nationalismus und die Frage nach der ethnischen Identität," Institut für
Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 1996.
20.
Respondent to "Maternal
Bodies and Nationalisms" by Robin May Schott, Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., October 1996.
21.
"Feminism, Nationalism,
and the Question of Ethnic Identity," lecture organized by the Student
Philosophy Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1997.
22.
"Marginality and National
Narratives: The Case of Austria," Twenty-First Annual Conference of the
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of South
Alabama, Mobil, Alabama, May 1997.
23.
"The Body of the
Ghost," Seventh Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic:
"Reading Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida," Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1997.
24.
“The Undifferentiated
Manifold: Philosophy at the Two Year College,” APA Committee on Teaching
Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges, Ninety-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1997.
25.
“Prostitution in Marriage:
Property and Sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust,” Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of
California, Irvine, California, May 1998.
26.
Respondent to “Simone de
Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ontology” by Kristana Arp,
Long Island Philosophical Society, Spring ‘98 Meeting, Suffolk Community
College, Selden, New York, May 1998.
27.
“Volatile Bodies, Volatile
Truths: Female Embodiment between Matter and Discourse,” invited for a Plenary
Session, Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the Australasian Society for
Continental Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 1998.
28.
“Kristeva’s Strangers and Irigaray’s Others:
Two Conceptions of Alterity,” General Philosophy
Seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August 1998.
29.
Respondent to “Some
Considerations on the Kinship of Thought and History in Hegel’s Philosophy” by
Allegra De Laurentiis, Long Island Philosophical
Society, Spring ‘99 Meeting, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, April 1999.
30.
Respondent to “Freud,
Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Paradox of Love” by Kelly Oliver, Spring 1999
Philosophy Conference, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, May 1999.
31.
“(Über)
den Körper sprechen: Materialität und Diskurs in der gegenwärtigen
Gender-Debatte,” Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June
1999.
32.
“A Language of Sexual
Difference: Representation and Matter in Irigaray,”
Ninth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: "Reading the
Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto
Adige, Italy, July 1999.
33.
“Of Ghosts, Commodities, and
Women: Irigaray and Derrida,” Society for
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting,
University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon, October 1999.
34.
“From the Flesh to the
Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language in Contemporary Feminist
Perspective,” Special Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy
and Literature, Naples, Italy, January 2001.
35.
“Male Systems of Exchange and
the Female Voice: Reflections on Jane Campions ‘The
Piano,’” Chicks and Flicks. Image, Expression and Theory in Movies By and About
Women, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2000.
36.
“Mimesis and Parody:
Linguistic Subversion in Irigaray, Butler, and Jelinek,” Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, State University of
New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, May 2000.
37.
“Die
feministische Essentialismusdebatte: Zum Problem der Kategorie ‘Frau,’”
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Johannes-Kepler-Universität,
Linz, Austria, June 2000.
38.
“Die
Frage eines feministischen Subversionsbegriffs: Zum Zusammenhang vonWissen,
Macht und Sprache,” IX. Symposium
of the International Association of Female Philosophers, University of Zurich,
Zurich, Switzerland, October 2000.
39.
Respondent to “Body between
Organic and Technological: The Disappearance of Borders and New Forms of
Knowledge in the Media Arts” by Bojana Kunst, Internationales Symposium: Kunst. Zeichen.Technik.
Institute for Science and Art/Department of Philosophie,
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January 2001.
40.
“Der
Körper als Zeichen und die Frage nach dem Geschlecht,” Workshop on “Körper,
Sprache und Erkenntnis,” Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria, June 2001.
41.
“Equality and Subversion:
Contemporary Feminist Political Theories,” Women: The Power of Politics and the
Politics of Power, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March
2002.
42.
“Towards a Politics of
Mediating Language and Body: Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory,” Twenty-Sixth
Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and
Literature, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June
2002.
44.
“Signs on and of the Body: The
Function of Language in Feminist Art,” Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Leeds,
Leeds, Great Britain, May 2003.
45.
“From the Flesh to the
Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language,” Teresa Brennan Memorial
Symposium, Stony Brook Manhatten, New York, October
2003.
47.
"Your Body is a
Battleground: Toward a Feminist Body Politics," XI Symposium of the
International Association of Women Philosophers, Göteborg,
Sweden, June 2004.
48.
"Feminist
Aesthetics," Research Seminar Series, School of Philosophy, University of
Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, July 2004.
49.
"Kelly Oliver: The
Intertwining of Politics and Affects," Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of
the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki,
Helsinki, Finland, May 2005.
51.
"Fantasy or Illusion: The
Revolt of the Feminine," Annual International Philosophical Seminar;
Topic: "Reading Kristeva's Intimate Revolt, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto
Adige, Italy, July 2005.
52.
"Simulation of Nature:Elfriede Jelinek's Deconstruction of Alpine Authenticity," accepted for the Ninth Annual
Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt
Lake City, Utah, October 2005.
53.
"Performativität,
Parodie, Resignifikation: Judith Butlers Vervielfältigung der Geschlechter,"
Interdisziplinäres Form.UND, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January
2006.
54.
Respondent to “The Embodied
Imaginary and the Patriarchal Real: Women’s Bodies, Men’s Desires” by Debra Bergoffen, Annual Spring Philosophy Conference, Suffolk
County Community College, April 2006.
55.
“The Imaginary Third: Reading
Julia Kristeva Through Kelly
Oliver,” Thirtieth Anniversary Conference of the International Association for
Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, June
2006.
56.
“From Playful Repetition to
Linguistic Subversion: Luce Irigaray’s Concept of
Mimesis,” First Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle: The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray, Stony Brook
Manhattan, New York, September 2006.
57.
“Speaking/Writing the Body:
Feminist Theories on Language,” Women’s Week 2007: Fighting Words:
Deconstructing Patriarchal Language, Suffolk County Community College, Selden,
New York, March 2007.
58.
“Kristeva’s Revolt and the Illusion of the Feminine,” Thirty-First Anniversary Conference
of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of
Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2007.
59.
“Neither One Nor Two – Civil Identity and Sexual Difference,” Second
Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Stony
Brook Manhattan, New York, September 2007.
60.
Respondent to “Coming of Age:
The Politics of Finitude” by Debra Bergoffen, Alter/Altern – Internationale Konferenz über Simone de Beauvoirs Studie Das Alter,
Vienna, February 2008.
61.
“Civil Identity and Sexual
Difference: Irigaray’s Politics of the Performative,” Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, March
2008.
62.
“Kristeva’s Revolt: Illusion and the Feminine,” National Cheng Kung University, Tainan,
Taiwan, March 2008.
63.
“Speaking, Performing, Living
the Body: Irigaray and Butler,” Gender Studies
Seminar, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, June 5, 2008.
64.
“Simulations of Nature: Elfriede Jelinek’s Deconstruction
of Alpine Authenticity,” Michael J. Osborne Centre – Institute for Advanced
Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, June 12, 2008.
65.
“Feminist Standpoint Theories:
Analytic and Continental Perspectives,” Conference on Analytic vs. Continental
Philosophy, Australasian Association of Philosophy, La Trobe University,
Melbourne, Australia, July 6-11, 2008.
66.
“Woman as Translator: From
Sexual Difference to Cultural Difference,“ Multiculturalism
and Feminism: Thirteenth Symposium of the International Association of Women
Philosopher (IAPh), Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, July 27-29, 2008.
67.
“Feminists Reading the Canon:
Luce Irigaray’s Concept of Mimesis as Reading
Strategy,” The XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Section on “Philosophy and
Gender,” Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July 30-August 5, 2008.
68.
Respondent to a Panel on
“Sensibility and the Spirit,” Third Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York,
September 12-13, 2008.
69.
“From Gender as Performative to Feminist Performance Art: Judith Butler and Valie Export.” Eighth Biennial Conference, Radical
Philosophy Association, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, November
6-9, 2008.
70.
"Liebe
zwischen Spirituatlität und Politik: Zum Wandel von Irigaray’s Liebesbegriff
," Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna Austria, June 2009.
71.
„The Violent Imposition of
Patriarchal Language (Irigaray and Daly), Ninth
Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon, November 11-14, 2010.
72.
“Speech and Breath: The Thin
Air of Sexual Difference” (Panel on Luce Irigaray’s Between
East and West), 35th Anniversary Conference, The International
Association for Philosophy and Literature, National Cheng Kung University,
Tainan, Taiwan, May 23-29, 2011.
73. “Feminist Performance Art and the Notion of Performativity,” Cēsis Art Festival 2011, Cēsis, Latvia, August 2011.
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