TPP2014 : Judith Butler, When gesture becomes event

Plenary Lecture Friday, June 27th – Amphitheater Richelieu (Sorbonne University) Keynote: Judith Butler (University of California at Berkeley) When gesture becomes event Chair: Julien Alliot, Flore Garcin-Marrou, Liza Kharoubi, Anna Street (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Respondent: Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Theater Performance Philosophy – International Conference / June 26-28, 2014 Crossings and Transfers in Contemporary Anglo-American Thought Organized by Flore Garcin-Marrou, Anna Street, Julien Alliot and Liza Kharoubi as members of the Laboratory of the Arts and Philosophies of the Stage (http://labo-laps.com/), in partnership with the University of Paris-Sorbonne and their research laboratories PRITEPS and VALE, along with CERILAC of the University of Paris-Diderot, ICTT of the University of Avignon, CIEPFC of ENS Ulm and HARp of the University of Paris-Ouest, with the financial support of the City of Paris, the Institut des Amériques and the international network Performance Philosophy.