Programme

Birkbeck, University of London

School of Arts

43 Gordon Square

London WC1H 0PD

THURSDAY, MAY 21

Keynes Library (first floor)

8:30-9.00 Registration

9.00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-11:15 Panel 1

Karolina Enquist Källgren. Göteborgs U. “Rethinking the Subject in the Works of María Zambrano”

Davidoff, Jonathan. University College London. “Reflections on Some Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Exile”

Palomar Galdón, Patricia. U. de Barcelona. “Confessions’ reader in María Zambrano”

11:15-11:45 Coffee and tea break

11:45-13:00PM Plenary 1

Ricardo Tejada. “Totalitarianism and Absolutism in Hannah Arendt and María Zambrano”

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:00-16:30 Panel 2

Caballero Rodríguez, Beatriz. U. of Strathclyde. “Zambrano’s Poetic Reason in the Light of Frankfurtian Critical Theory”

16:00-16:30 Coffee and tea break

16:30-17:15 Book Launch: María Zambrano’s Obras Completas

FRIDAY, MAY 22

GOR B04 (basement)

9.00-11.00 Panel 3

Benavente, Karen. U. of Glasgow. “Revelatory Beauty. From Kant to Kierkegaard in María Zambrano’s Aesthetic Critique”

Castañón Moreschi, María Belén. U. of Texas A & M. “Rethinking the Metaphor of Light. María Zambrano in Dialogue with Hans Blumenberg and Jacques Derrida"

Gajic, Tatjana. U. of Illinois, Chicago. “The Nature of Crime and Crimes of History: Upheavals of Historical Movement in María Zambrano’s Thought”

11:00-11:15 Coffee and tea break

11:15-12.30 Panel 4

Díez Vicedo, Noèlia. Queen Mary, U. of London. “Re-Writing the “soul”: A feminist approach to Zambrano’s concept of razón poética”

Nadal Sánchez, Helena. U. de Burgos. “Why María Zambrano Does Not Have Her Own Entry in the Standford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy”

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15:30 Panel 5

Ferrari, Enrique. U. de Fribourg “Zambrano's critique of the metaphysics of Ortega y Gasset”

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-17:15 Plenary 2

Roberta Johnson. “Maria Zambrano's political 'I’”

End of Conference