INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR

ON
SUBJECTIVITY/BEYOND SUBJECTIVITY: POSTSTRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS
JANUARY 12,13 AND 14, 2022
PLATFORM : GOOGLE MEET
MEET CODE : https://meet.google.com/sah-wxfi-edk

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

DAY 1 12.01.2022
INAUGURAL SESSION

09.55 a.m : Welcome Address

Dr.Binu G. Bheemnath, HOD, Department of Philosophy, University of
Kerala

10.00 a.m : Inaugural Address

Dr.P.P. Ajayakumar
Honourable Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Kerala
10.10 a.m : Felicitations
Dr.S.Nazeeb, Member Syndicate, University of Kerala
Dr.Meena T. Pillai, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Kerala
10.25 a.m : Vote of Thanks
Dr. R. Lekshmi, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Kerala
Technical Session 1
10.30 a.m : Professor John Russon, Professor of Philosophy
University of Guelph, Canada
Topic: Deathly Silence: Meaning and the Limits of Phenomenology
Technical Session 2
11.30 a.m : Dr. Siby K.George
Professor of Philosophy, IIT Mumbai
Topic: Communities of Communion: A Critique of Caste as Community
Contributory Session 1
Chair :Dr. G. Padmakumar, Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala
02.00 p.m : Prof. Chad A Haag, Writer and Philosopher, USA
Topic :The Riddle of Subjectivity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of
Spirit and Kierkegaard’s Johannes Climacus
02.20 p.m Amit Kumar Chourasia
Research Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad
 Topic: Is not the Foucauldian Way of Escaping One’s Own Subjectivity
Extendable to the Escaping of a Woman’s Subjectivity
02.35 p.m : Avaneesh M.
Research Scholar in Philosophy, University of Kerala
Topic: If the Look could Kill: Murder of the Sartrean Subject and Birth of
the Intersubject
02.50 p.m : Saraswathy Nair.G.S
Research Scholar in Philosophy, SSUS, Kalady
Topic: On the Problem of Subjectivity, A Foucault Perspective
03.05 p.m : Anusree.S.L, Research Scholar in Philosophy,SSUS,Kalady.
Topic: The Role of Subjectivity in language Acquisition Device Based on
Chomskian Perspective
03.20 p.m : Discussions

Contributory Session 2
Chair: Dr. C.V.Sandhya, HoD, Department of Philosophy,
University College, Thiruvananthapuram
03.30 p.m : Anjali A. Prakash
Research Scholar in Philosophy, Pondicherry University
Topic: Subject in the Consumer Society
3.45 p.m : Feleena.C.L
Research Scholar in Philosophy, SSUS, Kalady
Topic: Ecofeminist Critique of the Rationalist Tradition in Philosophy
4.00 p.m : Sreenish S.
Research Scholar in Philosophy, University of Hyderabad
Topic: Money and Gender
4.15 p.m : Athira Surendran
Research Scholar in Philosophy, Govt. College for Women, Tvpm
Topic: Susan Sontag’s Notion of Gendering
4.30 p.m : Anju A.S, Ressearch Scholar in Philosophy,SSUS,Kalady
Topic: Butler’s Views on Subjectivity and Identity Politics in Feminism
4.45 p.m: Discussions

Day 2 13.01.2022

Technical Session 3
10.00 a.m : Dr.T.V. Madhu
Professor and Head, Dept. of Philosophy, Calicut University
Topic: Touchy Subject
Technical Session 4
11.30 a.m : Dr. Kanchana Mahadevan
Professor of Philosophy, University of Mumbai
Topic:The Maternal Sojourn as a Critical Resource: Merleau Ponty and
Luce Irigaray
Contributory Session 3
Chair : Dr.Tara Jane Paul,Assistant Professor,Department of Philosophy,
University College,Thiruvananthapuram
02.00 p.m : Dr.L. Vijai,
Associate Professor,Department of Philosophy
Govt. College of Women, Thiruvananthapuram
Topic:Thomas Nagel’s Delineation of Subjectivity in What is it Like to be a
Bat’
2.20 p.m : Muhammad Shafi.S,Research Scholar in Philosophy,SSUS,Kalady
Topic: Artistic Subjectivity in the Light of Judith Butler’s Notion of
Performativity
02.35 p.m : Pournami S.R.
Research Scholar in Philosophy, Govt. College for Women, Tvpm
Topic: The Notion of Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Julia Kristeva
02.50 p.m : Aswiny.D, Research Scholar in Philosophy, SSUS, Kalady
Topic: The Disordered Subject
03.05 p.m : Reduvalsan A
Research Scholar in Philosophy, Maharaja’s College, Eranakulam
Topic: A Critical Analysis of Adorno’s Moral Philosophy of Life
03.20 p.m : Discussions
Contributory Session 4
Chair : Dr.L.Vijai,,Associate Professor,Department of Philosophy,
Govt. College for Women,Thiruvananthapuram
3.30 p.m : Aneesh.S,Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of
Newfoundland And Labrador,Canada
Topic : Transcultural Subjectivity: Personal and Cultural Perspectives
4.00 p.m. : Anand A.S, Research Scholar in Philosophy, Govt. College for
Women, Thiruvananthapuram.
Topic: The Problem of Subjectivity in Marxist Philosophy
4.15 p.m. : Anumol.T, Research Scholar in Philosophy, Maharaja’s College,Ernakulam
 Topic: Levinasian Notion of Infinite Responsibility
4. 30 p.m. : Jency Jose, Research Scholar in Philosophy, University of Kerala.
Topic: Re-reading of Kierkegaard’s Subjectivity through ‘Basic Beliefs’ of
Alvin Plantinga
4.45 p.m. Discussions

Day 3 14.01.2022
Technical Session 5
10.00 a.m. : Dr.Gasper K.J,Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy,
Govt.College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram
Topic : Structure of Philosophising: Engaging John Russon’s “
Introduction”
to His Work on Plato’s Republic
Technical Session 6
11.30 a.m. : Dr.Abey Koshy, Professor of Philosophy, SSUS, Kalady
Topic: Genealogy of Subject: A Poststructural Reappraisal of History

Contributory Session 5
Chair: Dr. Nazneen.A, HoD, Department of Philosophy, Govt. College
for Women, Thiruvananthapuram
2.00 p.m : Dr.Asha K.B,
Assistant Professor,Department of Philosophy,University College,TVPM
Topic: “Disponsibilite”:An Intersubjective Ideal
2.20 p.m. : Vishnu Pradeep, Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Power/Knowledge and Subjectivity within the Discourse of Indian
Cultural Nationalism: A Foucauldian Reading
2.35 p.m : Bhoomi.J.N, Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Gender as a Norm – A Butlerian Analysis on the Limits of the
Agency of the Subject
2.50 p.m. : Joseph Manuval.V, Research Scholar in Philosophy, University of Kerala
Topic: Levinasian Ethics: A Critique of Intersubjectivity
3.05 p.m : Discussions

Contributory Session 6
Chair : Dr.Binu G Bheemnath, HoD,Department of Philosophy,
University of Kerala
3.15 p.m. : Dr. Sabeena P.S, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy,
University of Kerala
 Topic : An Understanding of the Concept of Binary Opposition through
the Vista of Logical Pluralism
3.30 p.m. : Sikha K.V, Research Scholar in Philosophy,SSUS ,Kalady
Topic: The Concept of Mind in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
3.45 p.m. : Discussions

Valedictory Session
4.00 p.m. : Chair: Dr.Beena Isaac, Director, Centre for Philosophical Counseling
And Research, Department of Philosophy,University of Kerala.
Valedictory Address Dr.K.S. Chandrasekhar
Campus Director, University of Kerala
4.20 p.m. : Feedback and Comments
4.45 p.m. : Vote of Thanks
Dr.R.Lekshmi, Organizing Secretary

Parallel Sessions 12.01.2022

Venue: Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala

Session 1
2.00 p.m. : Chair: Dr. Priya.O,Assistant Professor,Department of Philosophy,
University College,Thiruvananthapuram

Dr.Balamurali P.B, Assistant Professor,Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala

Topic: Deconstruction of Derrida
Krishna Kumari.J.T, Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala
Topic: “ Centre is not a Centre”: Discussing Subjectivity through Derrida
Febin Mariam Jose, Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: The Discourse of Medicalised Subjectivity in Michel Foucault
Ghosh K.S, , Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony and Subaltern Subjectivity
Aswathy.S, , Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Female Subjectivity and the Notion of the Other
Aijulal, I.J, Research Scholar in Philosophy,Govt.College for Women,TVPM
Topic: Tragic as the Source of Subject: A Nietzschean Approach
Sajna S, Research Scholar in Philosophy,Govt.College for Women,TVPM
Topic: Ecofeminism: A Gendered Subjectivity
Sukanya J.K, Research Scholar in Philosophy,Govt.College for Women,TVPM
Topic: The Status of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Sartre’s Philosophy
 Session 2

3.30 p.m. : Chair: Dr.Balamurali P.B,

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Kerala

Dr. Binu G.Bheemnath and Aneesh.B, Research Assistant,

Department of Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic:Budhahood and Beyond Subjectivity
Ragendu.S..G., Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Subjectivity in Levinas and the Taoist Notion of Non-Being Self - A Comparison
Rafiya H.H, Research Scholar in Philosophy,Govt.College for Women,TVPM
Topic : The Place of Subjectivity in Derrida’s Deconstruction
RaveendrakumarM.M., Research Scholar in Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic:Caste,Class, Subjectivity: A Poststructural Reading
Kalyani. A.K , Research Scholar in Philosophy,Govt.College for Women,TVPM
Topic: A Subjective Analysis of Richard Rorty’s Edification
Shincy S.L, M.Phil Schoalr,University College,Thiruvananthapuram
Topic: People’s Identity on the Role of Society from the Viewpoint of Butler
Renjith.K.K, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: “ The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Reader”; A Reading on Roland Barthes
Nader Ashraf Ali ,II MA Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Multidimensional Oppression on Women and the Issues of Identity
Athira.V A, II MA Philosophy,University of Kerala
Topic: Performativity Theory of Judith Butler