^7th Derrida Today Conference

CONFERENCE POSTPONED

February 27, 2020

Out of concern for the health and safety of our delegates, the 7th Derrida Today Conference has been postponed until 2021 due to the rapid spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Abstracts and panels submitted for this conference will stand as accepted for the 2021 event, for those who wish to attend. Details will be disseminated in the next few months. If you have any questions or queries at this time, please email us at derridatodayconference@gmail.com.

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MESSAGE FROM NICOLE ANDERSON

March 6, 2020

Dear delegates/colleagues and friends,

You may have received an invitation from Stephane Lojkine and Francesca Manzari in Aix-Marseilles about a Derrida gathering that will be held in Aix in June.

For clarity this is NOT the 7th Derrida Today Conference.

As is underscored in the message from the Director General of the World Health Organisation of 2 days ago (link), the situation with the virus is unpredictable and unstable.

I therefore felt it to be the most responsible and ethical decision to postpone the Derrida Today conference (NOT cancelled) until 2021 for fear of disruption and given the increasing gravity and volatility of the COVID-19 virus.

That is, the decision was made in order to a) keep delegates safe b) limit the spread of the virus c) and postpone early enough while delegates could still change their plans, and avoid being stranded or quarantined if it came to that.

I wish my Aix colleagues every success, but I repeat this is NOT the 7th Derrida Today Conference. This new gathering in Aix will NOT be supplying the Derrida Today journals.

For those of you who had an abstract accepted for Derrida Today, it will stand for next year if you wish to attend. And you are most welcome to put in a new abstract if you want to present new research/ideas.

If anyone needs a letter from Derrida Today on official letterhead to say the conference has been postponed in order to receive refunds on accommodations or otherwise, please let me know asap, and I will help facilitate a refund if possible. All paid registrations have now been reimbursed.

I hope this removes any confusion.

Meanwhile, stay safe and healthy. I hope to see many of you at the rescheduled Derrida Today conference next year. I will update you all about the new venue in due course.

Warm wishes, Nicole

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Executive Director: Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University)

Derrida Today Conferences Organizing Committee: Nicole Anderson, Matthias Fritsch, Stella Gaon, Lynn Turner

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th Derrida Today conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We will consider papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and contemporary issues.

While the conference welcomes papers on diverse topics and from any discipline in relation to Derrida’s work and deconstruction, it is also interested in discussions around ‘borders’ in light of the current challenges we face in regards to migration and refugees (particularly between Europe and Africa-Middle East), climate change, eco-genocide, and Derrida’s thinking on democracy, community, mondialization and globalization in the face of current ‘border’ closures, heightened sovereign rule, and the European Union-Brexit crisis.

CFP now closed