Sponsored Panels

The conference departs from the customary choice of one speaker per plenary and opts for panels of two or more distinguished guests, who will have two hours to organize their participation as they wish (papers followed by questions, or discussion and interview-like sessions).


Different/ciating
Sponsored by: L'Institut français de Grèce
Pascale Criton, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Jean-Clet Martin, Collége International, Paris: Libertés et Multiplicités 
Anne Sauvagnargues, Nanterre Université, The Smooth and the Striated: Becomology and Ecology in Deleuze and Guattari's Art Theory.
Arnaud Villani, Lycée Masséna, Nice: Deleuze et les Grecs. Essais de polémologie

Deleuze's Mediators
Sponsored by the Trent University Graduate Program for Theory, Culture and Politics, and by Professor Elaine Stavro, Trent University
Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University: Who are Deleuze and Guattari's Conceptual Personnae?
Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University: Auto-Affection and Becoming: Is this Thinking Materialism?
Yannis Prelorentzos, University of Ioannina: Quelle articulation entre le Bergson et le Spinoza de Gilles Deleuze?
Aris Stilianou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Le Spinozisme de Deleuze: de la philosophie à la politique

Deleuze, Guattari and Marxism
Sponsored by an anonymous Greek donor
Anne Querrien, Co-director of MultitudesLutte des Classes, machine de guerre, révolution moléculaire
Jason Read, University of Μaine: The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Gusttari
Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, Centre Internationale d´Étude de la Philosophie française contemporaine: Strategic perspectives and Strategic Melancholism: Antinomy in the Minoritarian Strategy
Panagiotis Sotiris, University of the Aegean: Lines of Flight, Minorities, War Machines: Rethinking Deleuzian Politics
Savas Michael-Μatsas, Writer: The Utopia of  Immanence: The Revolution in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari 

Deleuze, Guattari and Feminist Theory
Sponsored by Trent  University: Professor Kathryn Norlock, Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics; Professor Elaine Stavro; The Graduate Program for Theory, Culture and Politics; and the Vice-President for Advancement and External Affairs
Athena Athanasiou, Panteion University
Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht: Deleuzian Feminisms: Materialism, Difference, Affirmation
Zeynep Gambetti, Bogazici University: Arendt, Deleuze, and Ethics as "what happened to us"
Chrysanthi Nigianni, Independent Researcher: Writing Difference: Towards Becoming a Minoritarian
Birgit Kaiser, Utrecht University: Writing and Singularizing: Rephrasing Existential Refrains with Cixous and Guattari

Félix Guattari and Schizoanalysis
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department, Trent University
Manola Antonioli, Ecole Normale Supérieure d' ArtWhat is Ecosophy?
Gary Genosko, University of Ontario: Urban Subjectivation: Félix Guattari in/on the City
Jean-Claude Polack, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst: Félix Guattari, Jean Oury et la schizoanalyse
Kreon Vassilias, Université Paris 8: An Essay by Felix Guattari: 'Machine et Structure'

Deleuze and Architecture

Sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Bernard Cache, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Albrecht Durer and few Deleuzian Concepts in his Treatise of Geometry
Dimitra Chatzisavva, Architecture, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, Crete
Hélène Frichot, School of Architecture, Stockholm: From the Exhaustion of the Dogmatic Image of Thought that Circumscribes Architecture toward Feminist Practices of Joy
Dimitris Papalexopoulos, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens: Locality Destabilized
Vana Tentokali, Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 


Noology, Cognitive Science and the Affect
Sponsored by an Anonymous Canadian Friend of the Conference
Gordon C. F. Bearn, Lehigh University: Communication and Resistance in Gilles Deleuze and Gertude Stein
Golfo Maggini, University of Ioannina: Genealogical Insights into Contemporary Technoscience. Deleuze and Heidegger
Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado: The Crystals of Time: Deleuze's Crystalline Brain
Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam: Metallurgic Noology: Bending World-Memory
Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University: From Chaos to the Brain: the Quantum-Field-Theoretical Model of Thought in What is Philosophy?