GERTRUDE POSTL
(updated: 17-Jan-2006)
Papers and Invited Lectures:
"Contemporary French Feminism: Radical Concepts of Liberation or Intellectual Game?" Women's Week 90, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1990.
"New Borderlines in a Germany without Borders: The Case of Christa Wolf," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Sixteenth Annual Conference, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 1991.
"The Fall of the Wall: Women's Life and Writing in a Changing Germany," Women's Week 92, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1992.
"Philosophical Models for a Feminist Utopia," New York Women's Studies Association Conference, SUNY/Stony Brook, New York, March 1993.
"Woman as Invisible: Remarks on Bachmann, Language, and Fascism," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Seventeenth Annual Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1993.
Respondent to "Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities After Unification" by Andreas Huyssen, faculty seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 1994.
Respondent to a panel on "When Truth Became a Woman - Seductive Images," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Eighteenth Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 1994.
Two-day lecture and workshop series on "Gewalt durch Sprache," Katholisch-Theologische Hochschule, Linz, Austria, May 1994.
"The Postmodern Discourse on Technology and the Female Body. A Feminist Approach to Lyotard and Baudrillard," Second European Feminist Research Conference - Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Work, and Ecology, University of Technology, Graz, Austria, July 1994.
"Women, Language, and Power," lecture organized by the Women's Council, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
"On Nature, Passion, and Women: Some Contradictions in Rousseau," Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21st Annual Conference, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
"Feminist Approaches to Language," lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1995.
"The Cyborg as Seductive Image: Donna Haraway's Feminist Politics," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Nineteenth Annual Conference, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 1995.
"Women as International Strangers," Fifth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: "Reading Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva," Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1995.
"Nature versus Culture: An Obsolete Distinction," Faculty Lecture Series, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, December 1995.
"Women and Nature: A Problematic Alliance," lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1996.
"Kristeva's Strangers and Irigaray's Others: Two Conceptions of Alterity," Annual Eastern Division Meeting of the Society for Women in Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, New York, March 1996.
"Does Nationalism have Anything to do with Gender?" Women's Week 96, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, April 1996.
"Feminismus, Nationalismus und die Frage nach der ethnischen Identität," Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 1996.
Respondent to "Maternal Bodies and Nationalisms" by Robin May Schott, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 1996.
"Feminism, Nationalism, and the Question of Ethnic Identity," lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1997.
"Marginality and National Narratives: The Case of Austria," Twenty-First Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of South Alabama, Mobil, Alabama, May 1997.
"The Body of the Ghost," Seventh Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: "Reading Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida," Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1997.
“The Undifferentiated Manifold: Philosophy at the Two Year College,” APA Committee on Teaching Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges, Ninety-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1997.
“Prostitution in Marriage: Property and Sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust,” Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, California, May 1998.
Respondent to “Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ontology” by Kristana Arp, Long Island Philosophical Society, Spring ‘98 Meeting, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, May 1998.
“Volatile Bodies, Volatile Truths: Female Embodiment between Matter and Discourse,” invited for a Plenary Session, Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 1998.
“Kristeva’s Strangers and Irigaray’s Others: Two Conceptions of Alterity,” General Philosophy Seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August 1998.
Respondent to “Some Considerations on the Kinship of Thought and History in Hegel’s Philosophy” by Allegra De Laurentiis, Long Island Philosophical Society, Spring ‘99 Meeting, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, April 1999.
Respondent to “Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Paradox of Love” by Kelly Oliver, Spring 1999 Philosophy Conference, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, May 1999.
“(Über) den Körper sprechen: Materialität und Diskurs in der gegenwärtigen Gender-Debatte,” Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 1999.
“A Language of Sexual Difference: Representation and Matter in Irigaray,” Ninth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: "Reading the Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1999.
“Of Ghosts, Commodities, and Women: Irigaray and Derrida,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting, University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon, October 1999.
“From the Flesh to the Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language in Contemporary Feminist Perspective,” Special Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Napels, Italy, January 2001.
“Male Systems of Exchange and the Female Voice: Reflections on Jane Campions ‘The Piano,’” Chicks and Flicks. Image, Expression and Theory in Movies By and About Women, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2000.
“Mimesis and Parody: Linguistic Subversion in Irigaray, Butler, and Jelinek,” Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, May 2000.
“Die feministische Essentialismusdebatte: Zum Problem der Kategorie ‘Frau,’” Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria, June 2000.
“Die Frage eines feministischen Subversionsbegriffs: Zum Zusammenhang vonWissen, Macht und Sprache,” IX. Symposium of the International Association of Female Philosophers, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2000.
Respondent to “Body between Organic and Technological: The Disappearance of Borders and New Forms of Knowledge in the Media Arts” by Bojana Kunst, Internationales Symposium: Kunst. Zeichen.Technik. Institute for Science and Art/Department of Philosophie, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January 2001.
“Der Körper als Zeichen und die Frage nach dem Geschlecht,” Workshop on “Körper, Sprache und Erkenntnis,” Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, June 2001.
“Equality and Subversion: Contemporary Feminist Political Theories,” Women: The Power of Politics and the Politics of Power, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2002.
“Towards a Politics of Mediating Language and Body: Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory,” Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2002.
“Signs on and of the Body: The Function of Language in Feminist Art,” Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Leeds, Leeds, Great Britain, May 2003.
“From the Flesh to the Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language,” Teresa Brennan Memorial Symposium, Stony Brook Manhatten, New York, October 2003.
"Your Body is a Battleground: Toward a Feminist Body Politics," XI Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.
"Feminist Aesthetics," Research Seminar Series, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, July 2004.
"Kelly Oliver: The Intertwining of Politics and Affects," Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, May 2005.
"Fantasy or Illusion: The Revolt of the Feminine," Annual International Philosophical Seminar; Topic: "Reading Kristeva's Intimate Revolt, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 2005.
"Simulation of Nature:Elfriede Jelinek's Deconstruction of Alpine Authenticity," accepted for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005.