Property, Sovereignty, and the Theotropic: Paul de Man’s Political Archive

Apr 24–Apr 25, 2009
UC Irvine


This conference concerned de Man’s unpublished manuscript Textual Allegories, which is held at UCI’s Special Collections and Archives and is currently being brought to online publication as part of a Paul de Man research project funded by the U.K.’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. Speakers included Etienne Balibar, Ellen Burt, Cynthia Chase, J. Hillis Miller, Andrzej Warminski. This conference was organized by Martin McQuillan, University of Leeds, and Erin Obodiac, UC Irvine/University of Leeds and was co-sponsored by UCHRI.