For each of the three days of the conference, there will be a plenary session with two keynote speakers, followed by a discussion. Our keynote speakers all have different (disciplinary) backgrounds and therefore will provide different starting points from where they address the concepts and trans-disciplinary connections central to the conference theme, ‘Connect, Continue, Create’.

Abstracts Plenary Lectures

Monday June 12th 2010
10.00 – 12.00

Constantin Boundas
Encounters, Creativity and Spiritual Automata

Felicity Colman
The Labour of the Refrain: What is Media Philosophy?

Tuesday 13th June 2010
14.00 – 16.00

Arkady Plotnitsky
The Spacetimes of Nympheas: Matter and Multiplicity in Einstein, Monet, Lautman, and Deleuze and Guattari

Simon O'Sulivan
Performance Fiction: Towards a Mythopoetic Contemporary Art Practice

Wednesday 14th July 2010
15.30 – 17.30

Simon Duffy
The question of Deleuze's Neo-Leibnizianism

Laura U. Marks
Vegetable Locomotion: a Deleuzian Ethics/Aesthetics of Traveling Plants