23 April 2011
University of Stirling (Scotland), United Kingdom
This is a day of discussion and debate around themes and ideas associated with the writings of Didier Eribon, most notably questions of class and sociology; gay, lesbian and queer studies; and his role in the circulation of concepts and theory between the Anglophone and Francophone worlds.
11.00: Bill Marshall (University of Stirling): Welcome and Introduction.
11.30: Lucille Cairns (University of Durham): “Calibrating Queer in the Work of Didier Eribon”.
12.15: Cristina Johnston (University of Stirling): “Queering Citizenship in Republican France?”
14.00: Oliver Davis (University of Warwick): “On Didier Eribon’s Strategic Sociologism”.
14.45: Jeremy Lane (University of Nottingham): ” ‘Fantasmes du peuple’? Between populism and misérabilisme, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière”.
16.00 : Didier Eribon (Université d’Amiens): “A quoi reconnait-on la pensée critique?”.
16.45: General panel discussion
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