Thursday, July 1
15.00 Short Introduction
Fabio Camilletti, Catharine Diehl, Martin Doll
15.15-18.45 (Non-)knowledge
Chair: Fabio Camilletti
Géraldine Hertz
God Un-titled: Platonic and Gnostic Uses of Negation
Michael J. Young
Knowledge and Negation: Maimonides
Romain Jobez
The ›je-ne-sais-quoi‹ as an Experience of Reading
Jeffrey Champlin
Kleist's Double Negation: The Terrorized Subject in ›Michael Kohlhaas‹
Friday, July 2
10.00-13.30 (Meta)logics
Chair: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
John Bova
Negation and Incommensurability: On the Metalogical Kernel of Platonic Dialectic
Samo Tomšič
A Matter of Language: Lacan vs. Aristotle
Tania Espinoza
Negating Woman in Psychoanalysis: A Question of Infinite Judgment
Beau Madison Mount
Negation and Generality: Intuitionistic Themes in Contemporary French Philosophy
15.00-16.30 Double Negations
Chair: Catharine Diehl
Matthew Moss
Nothing to Speak of: Ontological Commitment and Negative Existentials
Renate Schindler
Hermann Cohen's Concept of Negation of Privation
17.00-18.30 Qualities of Difference
Chair: Catharine Diehl
Taylor Carman
Heidegger on Being and Nothing
Deborah Goldgaber
»The Pure Negativity of Language«: On Opposition and Difference in Saussure’s Account of Value
19.00 Evening Event
Welcome Christoph Holzhey
Keynote:
Werner Hamacher: Das Nicht im Satz.
Reception
Saturday, July 3
10.00-13.30 (Not) Within
Chair: Martin Doll
Alexander Kuba
Precarious Negations: Transgression and Profanation in Modern Anthropological Thought
Vesna Madzoski
Inclusion as Exclusion: Obscured Crimes in the Manifesta Archive
Jan Rohgalf
Negation, Symbolic Integration and Utopia
Jakob Norberg
The Poverty of Critique
15.00-16.30 (In)consistencies
Chair: Michael Caesar - Respondent: Beau Madison Mount
Jack Woods
Attitudinal Inconsistency and Non-Negatable Contents
David Gibbons
Conceding the Point: Leopardi’s Use of Concession in the ›Zibaldone‹