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Colloque international Stanley Cavell at 100 (4, 5 et 6 juin 2026)

Le colloque est organisé par Sandra Laugier, Mathias Girel et Yiyang Bai.

Adresses :
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon
12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris

École normale supérieure
29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

Pour des raisons de sécurité, les personnes extérieures à Paris 1 souhaitant assister au colloque sont invitées à s’inscrire à l’avance au lien suivant :

 https://ypl.me/RyG/t

L’inscription est nécessaire pour accéder aux bâtiments de l’Université Paris 1.

Vous pouvez également retrouver le programme et les informations pratiques sur le site de l’événement :
www.stanleycavellat100.com

Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenu·es !

Bien cordialement,

Sandra Laugier, Mathias Girel et Yiyang Bai


English version

Dear colleagues,

Please find the programme of the international conference “Stanley Cavell at 100 — Paris: Ordinary Language Philosophy, Film, Popular Culture”, which will take place from 4 to 6 June 2026 at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École normale supérieure.

The conference is organized by Sandra Laugier, Mathias Girel and Yiyang Bai.

Addresses:
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon
12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris

École normale supérieure
29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

For security reasons, participants from outside Université Paris 1 who wish to attend the conference are kindly asked to register in advance using the following link:

 https://ypl.me/RyG/t

Registration is required in order to access the University buildings.

The programme and practical information are also available on the event website:
www.stanleycavellat100.com

You are all very welcome!

Best regards,

Sandra Laugier, Mathias Girel and Yiyang Bai


 

Stanley Cavell at 100

An International Centennial Conference

Paris, Rome, Boston

Paris 4–6 June 2026

Organizers (Paris): Sandra Laugier, Mathias Girel, Yiyang Bai

 

4 JUNE

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e

Amphithéâtre II

09:00–09:15: Welcome and Introduction

09:15–10:15: Opening lecture:

Stephen Mulhall (Oxford University) Suffering Expression: Ordinary Language (and) Psychoanalysis in Stanley Cavell and Adam Phillips

Chair: Alice Crary (The New School)

10:15–10:30: Coffee Break

 

Panel 1

Centre Panthéon, Amphithéâtre II

Chair: Juliet Floyd (Boston University)

10:30–11:00 Jean-Philippe Narboux (Université de Strasbourg) Other Minds Skepticism as an Allegory of Material Object Skepticism

11:00–11:30 Layla Raid (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) Linguistic Injustice

11:30–12:00 Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University) Stanley Cavell on the Asymmetries between External World and OtherMinds Skepticism

12:00–12:30 Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago / Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1) Proving we are not alone in the world: Cavell and the Ordinary Language of Companionship

12:30–12:50 Discussion

12:50–14:00: Lunch break

 

14:00–15:30 Parallel Sessions 1

Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon – salles 6, 212, 214, 307

 

Salle A: salle 6

Chair: Miranda Boldrini (U. Nantes)

Nat Hansen (University of Reading) & Zed Adams (The New School) – The Very Idea of Seriousness

Vincent Michel Vincke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Exploring a Cavellian Theme: The Anthropological Boundedness of Ethics and Mathematics in Wittgenstein

Patrice Philie (Université d’Ottawa) Meaningfulness, Seriousness, and Definite Descriptions

 

Salle B: salle 212

Chair: Elise Marrou (Sorbonne-Université)

Sören Fiedler (Technical University Darmstadt) Expressing the Precarious Self. Cavell’s Philosophy of the Voice

Rémi Nabet (Université de Strasbourg) The Triangular Debate Between Wisdom, Austin, and Cavell About the Problemof Other Minds

Dominic Lash (Anglia Ruskin University) Babe Ruth meets Fellini: Cavell and Anscombe on intention

 

Salle C: salle 214

Chair: Yiyang Bai (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Brad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne) OLP in the Age of Spiritual Machines

Ingeborg Löfgren (Uppsala Universitet) & Joel Samuelsson (Uppsala Universitet) – Revisiting Austin’s Plea for Excuses: A Cavellian Reflection on Expert vs. Ordinary Authority in Interpreting the Law

So Kimoto (Kyoto University) When listening to a “fantasy”. A Method of doing philosophy in Stanley Cavell

 

Salle D: salle 307

Chair: Elise Domenach (ENS Louis Lumière)

Gianluca Michelli (Lumsa Università) The truth in linguistic skepticism: Cavell, Ortigues, and the freedom to risk

Sarah Lorgan-Khanyile (Harvard University) Neither in This Piece Nor in This Flesh: Stanley Cavell and the Political Body

Yuichiro Ikawa (Kyoto University) Rethinking Bridging from I to We: In Light of Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy asAutobiography

 

15:30–15:45: Break

 

Panel 2

Centre Panthéon Amphithéâtre IV

Chair: Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma)

15:45–16:15 Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University) Improvisation and Logic: Reading Frege with Cavell

16:15–16:45 Niklas Forsberg (University of Pardubice) A photograph, and a sentence: on the idea of representation and “our obsession with realism”

16:45–17:15 Valérie Aucouturier (Université Catholique de Louvain) Unlearning and the education of grownups

17:15–17:45 Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania) Love, Acknowledgement, and Skepticism in “The Last of Us”

17:45–18:00 Discussion

Break 18:00 – 18:10

 

18:10-19:00 Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University) Iconoscepticism: Cavell on image scepticism in the age of AI

Chair: Jeroen Gerrits

19:30 Film: Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937, with Barbara Stanwyck)

Presentation by Jean-Loup Bourget (ENS) followed by discussion

Cinéma La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, 9 rue Champollion, Paris 5e

 

5 JUNE

Morning – Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon

09:15–10:45: Parallel Sessions 2

 

Salle A – salle 6

Chair: Léa Boman (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Lisa Mckeown (The New School) Finding Fleabag: the Acknowledgement of the Unknown Woman

Kate Rennebohm (Lawrence University) Race, Private Property, and Enforced Skepticism: Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995)

Freya Katharina Gerz (University of Potsdam) Acknowledgement as Feminist Praxis: Reframing Skepticism through Wittgenstein, Cavell and Aesthetic Media

 

Salle C – salle 212

Chair: Hugo Clémot (Université Gustave Eiffel)

Rose Gotlieb (UChicago) Genre’s Philosophical Work in Cavell and Frye

Mynt Marsellus (University of Toronto) Ordinary Language, Analytic Listening: Cavell with Couples Therapy

Audrey Mitchell (University of Sydney) Must Nora Mean What She Says? Cavell and Gesture in Conversation with Sentimental Value

 

Salle D – salle 307

Chair: Jeroen Gerrits (Binghamton)

Sulgi Lie (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) World Disclosure as World Withdrawal in Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy of Film

Pioter Shmugliakov (University of Haifa) The Concept of ‘World’ in Cavell’s Aesthetic Legacy

Sam Lee (UChicago) Towards a Poetics of Passivity: A Cavellian Reading of Two Panning Shots in Hong Sang-Soo

 

10:30–10:45: Break

10:45–12:30: Parallel Sessions 3

 

Salle A – salle 6

Chair: Catherine Wheatley (King’s College)

Benjamin Y. Goff (King’s College London) What’s the use of remarrying? The movie after belief

Conall Cash (St Francis Xavier University) From Replacement to Bestowal: Philippe Garrel’s Les Baisers de secours as Comedy of Remarriage

Julen A. Carreño Aguado (Universidad Católica de Valencia) Cavell on Ford and Ford under Cavell: the “remarriage comedy”, revisited in The World Moves On (1934) and The Quiet Man (1952)

 

Salle B – salle 212

Chair: Paola Marrati (University of Queensland)

Marcello Di Massa (Università Degli Studi di Parma) Cavell on Humor and the Ordinary

Rachel Malkin (Oxford University) Stanley Cavell, James Baldwin, and Hollywood

David Schwartz (Michigan State University) Enchanting Hesitation: Stanley Cavell On The Miraculous, Fantastic, and Friendly

 

Salle C – salle 214

Chair: David LaRocca

Ana María García Casto & David García-Ramos Gallego (Universidad Católica de Valencia) Working class, unknownwomen, and remarriage comedy in the films of Aki Kaurismäki

Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick) Suspicious Minds and Dead Bodies: Queer Romance, Scepticism, and Shared Fantasy in Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding

Kyle Barrowman (DePaul University) Cavell contre Barthes: Auteurism, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and the Life of the Author

 

Salle D –salle 307

Chair: Victor Krebs (Pontifical University, Lima, Peru)

Deb Kamal Ganguly (Auroville Film Institute) From Automatism to Acknowledgment: Cavell through Kore-eda and the Skeptical Ground of Filmmaking

Biancalisa Sgorbati (Milano San Raffaele / Oxford) Critical Method in the Work of Stanley Cavell: A Close Analysis of Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager

José Alfredo Peris-Cancio & Marco Perles (Universidad Católica de Valencia) The cinephile conversation between Cavell’s philosophy and philosophical personalism

12:30–13:30: Lunch Break

 

Afternoon – École normale supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm, amphithéâtre Jean-Jaurès

13:45 Opening: Claude Imbert, ENS Ulm. An Unapprochable America

 

Panel 3

Chair: Mathias Girel (ENS Ulm)

14:00–14:30 Naoko Saito (Kyoto University) “I simply experiment with no Past on my back”: Narratives of pain

14:30–15:00 David LaRocca Inspired Methods. Garrett Stewart’s Cross-Sectional Readings of Stanley Cavell

15:00–15:30 Hugo Clémot (Université Gustave Eiffel) Thinking of gaslighting with Stanley Cavell, reading Stanley Cavell in light of gaslighting

15:30–15:45: Discussion

15:45–16:00: Break

 

Panel 4

Chair: Sandra Laugier

16:00–16:15 Jean-Michel Frodon ( Sciences-Po Paris) Introductory Words

16:15–16:45 Susana Viegas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Cavell on Film and Death

16:45–17:15 Jeroen Gerrits (Binghamton University) Cavell’s Serial Thought

17:15–17:45 Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland) Film, Skepticism, and Generative AI

17:45–18:00: Discussion

18:00–18:10: Break

18:10–19:00 Catherine Wheatley (King’s College, London) Vision and Acknowledgement in the TV series Adolescence

Chair: David LaRocca

19:00 Reception

Espace Curie, École normale supérieure, 29 rue d’Ulm

 

6 JUNE

Centre Panthéon, 12 place du Panthéon, Amphithéâtre III

09:15–10:15 James Conant and Matthias Haase (University of Chicago) Cavell on Acknowledging Each Other

10:15–11:05 Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig) Cavell on Our Responsiveness to Each Other

Chair: Martin Hägglund (Johns Hopkins University)

11:05–11:20: Break

11:20–12:10 Hent de Vries (New York University / Visiting Professor, Université Paris 1) Out of the Ordinary: The Case for Deep Pragmatism

Chair: Philippe Büttgen (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

12:10: Conclusions : Sandra Laugier, Juliet Floyd, Piergiorgio Donatelli

 

VENUE

Centre Panthéon – 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5e

École normale supérieure – 29 rue d’Ulm, Paris 5e

 


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Pierre Fasula (27 mai 2026). Colloque international Stanley Cavell at 100 (4, 5 et 6 juin 2026). EXeCO. Consulté le 6 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/16a4y


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