A15: Demanding Satisfaction: The Last Men in the New Imperium

Seminar Leader: Peter Paik, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 150

Peter. A Zusi, Harvard University: “History’s Loose Ends”

Robert Cowan, City College of New York: “Last Man, First What?”

Peter Paik, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee: “The Saturnalia of Two Nihilisms”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 150

Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree, Syracuse University: “To the End of the Material and Back: The Vicissitudes of Virtual Men”

Mark Poster, University of California – Irvine: “The Last (Postcolonial) Man and Global Technologies”

John Hamilton, Harvard University: “Ernst Juenger’s Das abenteuerliche Herz”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 150

Rad Borislavov, Syracuse University: “Schmitt, Constituent Power, and the Multitude”

David Pan, Pennsylvania State University: “On Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth”

Vincent DePaigne, European Commission: “A Cultural Struggle for Recognition”