This symposium is funded under the IRCHSS Government of Ireland Projects Grant Scheme and supported by the UCC Faculty of Arts Conference Fund
10.00 Registration
10.30-11.30
Guillaume Bridet (École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), Roger Caillois dans les impasses du Collège de Sociologie'
Serge Zenkine (University of Human Sciences, Moscow), Georges Bataille After the War: An Effort to be Scientific'
11.30 Coffee
12.00-1.00
Andrew Hussey (University of Aberystwyth), Monsters of Love: Mishima, Bataille and "cienca de amor"'
Pierre Laffitte (University College Cork), Économie générale et situation restreinte'
1.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00
Danny Kennedy (University College Cork), Experience and the Limits of Necessity: Shestovian Motifs in Bataille's Atheology'
Paul Hegarty (University College Cork), Useless Life: Bataille and Evolution'
3.15-4.15
Douglas Morrey (University of Newcastle), Conspiracies, Secret Societies and the Origin of Community in the Collège de Sociologie'
James Fairhead (University College Cork), The Management of Fantasy and the Fantasy of Management'
4.15 Coffee
4.30-5.30
Douglas Smith (University College Dublin), Insects at the Intersection, Entomology and the Logic of Science'
Gary Genosko (Lakehead University, Ontario), The Subsidence of Intelligence: The Legacy of Roger Caillois's Cultural Entomology'
Venue: The Granary Theatre (Accessible from the Mardyke, or from Western Road, in the same block as the Ignatius Connolly building).
Conference Fee: 25; UCC students free.,