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(All sessions on Thursday and Friday will take place in time Shafer Auditorium)
Thursday, September 18
8:30 Coffee and Pastry - Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:00 Moderator: Marylou Sena, Seattle University
Speaker: Duane Davis, Bowling Green Univ.
"Transcendence and Care: Resituating the Seinsfrage
Within I'Etre Sauvage"
10:00-10:45 Moderator: Deborah Mullen, Christopher Newport University
Speaker: Gail Weiss, George Washington University
"Ecart: The Space of Corporeal Difference"
BREAK
11:00-11:45 Moderator: Kenneth Liberman, Univ. of Oregon
Speaker: Rudy Visker, Katholieke Univ. Leuven
"A Western Problem? Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty"
LUNCH
1:30-2:15 Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton
"Reversibility and Ethics: The Question of Violence"
2:15-3:30 Moderator: Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
Panel: "Remembering Merleau-Ponty"
Forrest Williams, University of Colorado
Xavier Montesario, University of Dayton
BREAK
3:45-5:15 Moderator: TBA
Panel: "Three Sense/Directions (sens) of Nature:
Addiction, Earthbodies, Place"
Bruce Wilsliire, Rutgers University
Glen Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg
Edward Casey, SUNY Stony Brook
8:00-10:00 Distinguished Guest Lecture
Moderator: Patrick Burke, Seattle University
Speaker: Jan Van der Veken, Katholieke Univ. Leuven
"Whitehead and Merleau-Poiity on the Concept of Nature"
10:00 Reception: Casey Atrium
Friday, September 19
8:30 Coffee and Pastry - Registration
9:00-9:45 Moderator: WillWilliam Hamrick, SIU - Edwardsville
Speaker: Galen Johnson, Univ. of Rhode Island
"Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Origins: In the Timber Yard,
Under the Sea"
9:45-10:30 Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Ted Toadvine, Center For Advanced Research in Phenomenology
"Nature and Negation: Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Bergson"
BREAK
10:45- 11:45 Invited Lecture
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: David Abram, Vashon Island
"Earth and Invisibility"
LUNCH
1:45-2:30 Moderator: Steve Watson, Univ. of Notre Dame
Speaker: Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
"Traces of Alterity: Levinas Between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida"
2:30-3:15 Moderator: Burt Hopkins, Seattle University
Speaker: Antje Kapust, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
"The So-called 'Barbarian Basis' of Nature and its Secret Logos"
BREAK
3:30-4:30 Moderator: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Univ. of Washington
Panel: "Merleau-Ponty/Lacan On Nature and Painting"
C. Edward Robins, NOMOS, Fordham University
Bruce Reis, NOMOS, Fordham University
4:30-5:30 Invited Lecture
Moderator: Jim Mish'alani, Univ. of Washington
Speaker: Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado
"A Psychoanalysis of Nature?"
5:30 Reception
Saturday, September 20
8:30 Coffee and Pastry - Registration
9:00-9:45 Concurrent Session 1 (Pigott, Room TBA)
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: James Morley, Saint Joseph College
"The Sleeping Subject: Merleau-Ponty on Dreaming"
Concurrent Session 2 (Pigott, Room TBA):
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Jeremy Gallegos, Purdue University
"The Role of the Habit and the Phenomenology of Sleep"
9:45-10:45 Concurrent Panel 1 (Pigott, Room TBA)
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: David Brubaker, Lyme, CT
"Eye and Mind: Cézanne's Postmodern Color"
Speaker: Vesela Stetenovic, Syracuse University
"The Dialectic of Nature and Culture in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
and Robert Smithson's Art"
Concurrent Panel 2 (Pigott, Room TBA)
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Anna Petronella Fredlund, Stockholm Univ.
"Merleau-Ponty on Cézanne, Nature, and Expression"
Speaker: Paul Kidder, Seattle University
"Kandinsky's Confidence"
BREAK
11:00-11:45 Concurrent Session 3 (Pigott, Room TBA)
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Romano Khan, Universita degli Studi di Siena
"Knowledge and the Temporal Cliff of the Flesh"
Concurrent Session 4 (Pigott, Room TBA)
Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Kathrin Stengel, Universität Konstanz
"Anthropological Space and Naturraum: Revealing Tensions"
12:00-2:00 Lunch/Business Meeting
2:00-2:45 Moderator: Paul Milan, Seattle University
Speaker: Rafaël Gély, Université Catholique de Louvain
"Phenomenology and Science in Merleau-Ponty's Lectures on Nature"
2:45-3:30 Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Steven Holl, Architect, New York City
"Merleau-Ponty and the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University"
BREAK
3:45-4:30 Moderator: TBA
Speaker: Elizabeth Behnke, Study Project in Phemonenology of the Body
"The Concept of Nature and the Practice of Peace: Contributions to a
Phenomenology of Fluid Situations, Improvisational Comportment, and
Deep Change"
4:30-5:30 Invited Lecture
Moderator: Edwin Weihe, Seattle University
Speaker: Mauro Carbone, Università degli Studi di Milano
"La Nature: Variations on the Theme"
5:30 Reception
The conference registration fee is $25. To register in advance, please make your check out to Seattle University and send it to the following address by September 1.
Philosophy Department
Seattle University
Seattle, WA 98122
Registration is also available at the conference and will begin at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, September 18, outside the Shafer Auditorium in the Library.
Hotel Accommodations
The Pacific Plaza Hotel will provide accommodations. It is located at 400 Spring Street in downtown Seattle and is close to a number of restaurants and entertainment spots. The conference rate will be $81.00 plus tax for double rooms. Reservations can be made directly by calling 800-426-1165 or 206-623-3900 and should be made before August 25. Please mention that you are attending the Merleau-Ponty Conference sponsored by Seattle University's Philosophy Department.
Travel Directions to the Hotel
The Pacific Plaza is located off I-5, approximately 20 minutes north of Sea-Tac International Airport. Gray Line of Seattle provides shuttle service between the airport and downtown hotels. It stops at the Four Seasons Hotel which is one block North of the Pacific Plaza Hotel. Coaches leave the airport every thirty minutes, seven days a week, between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Adult fare is $12 round-trip and $7 one-way; child fare is $9 round trip and $5.50 one-way. Taxi service is available for approximately $25 one-way. By car, drive north from the airport on 1-5 and exit at Madison Street. Turn left on Madison and right on 4th Avenue. Turn right on Spring. The hotel is located at 400 Spring Street. Parking is available at the hotel for $12 per night.
Thanks!
The members of the Merleau-Ponty Circle thank Seattle University for sponsoring the Twenty-Second Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle. The program is supported in part by the Bannan Endowment Fund, Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Gaffney Endowed Chair, and the Toulouse Lectureship.
A special thanks to Dean Stephen Rowan, Rosaleen Trainor, Chair of Philosophy, Martin Dillon, Secretary for the Merleau-Ponty Circle, Burt Hopkins, Book Exhibit Coordinator, and the Seattle University Philosophy Club.
For further information, please contact:
Patrick Burke or James Risser, Conference Co-Directors
Department of Philosophy,
Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122
Phone: (206) 296-5470; Fax: (206) 296-5997
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