<strong>Peggy Kamuf lives in Los Angeles and teaches French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her latest book is <em>To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida</em>.</strong>

Peggy Kamuf

<h4>Gil Anidjar is a professor in the Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. His most recent book is <em>Blood: A Critique of Christianity</em> (2014).</h4>

Gil Anidjar

<h4>Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous texts on contemporary French thought and the co-editor, with Julie A. Carlson, of Speaking about Torture.</h4>

Elisabeth Weber

<h4 class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.  He works in the fields of  phenomenology, political philosophy, and environmental thought. An author of ten books, including <i>Plant-Thinking </i>(2013), <i>Pyropolitics </i>(2015), <i>Dust </i>(2016), and, with Luce Irigaray, <i>Through Vegetal Being </i>(2016), he is currently elaborating a philosophical approach to the question of energy, inspired by vegetal thought. His website is </b><a href="http://www.michaelmarder.org/"><span class="s2"><b>www.michaelmarder.org</b></span></a><b>.</b></span></h4>
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Michael Marder

<h4>Luce Irigaray is a French philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist. She is the Director of Research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. One of the most influential feminist thinkers in the world, she is best known for <em>The Speculum of the Other Woman</em> (1974) and <em>This Sex Which Is Not One</em> (1977). An author of over 30 books, her most recent works in English include are <em>Sharing the World</em> (2008), <em>Conversations</em> (2008), and <em>In the Beginning She Was</em> (2012).</h4>

Luce Irigaray

Remembering Derrida: A Forum

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Elisabeth Weber is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of numerous texts on contemporary French thought and the co-editor, with Julie A. Carlson, of Speaking about Torture.