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 :
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:
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
