FAU/CARP Research Symposium: The Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir

	Friday, May 23, 1997

08:30	Welcome

	James Malek  (Dean, Schmidt College, Florida Atlantic 
	University) 

08:40	Session I		Dorothy Leland (Women's Studies, 
				FAU), Chair

	Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy, George Mason University), 
	"Phenomenological Ambiguities, 	Existential Vulnerabilities, Ethical 
	Risks"

10:00	Session II		Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, 
				Moravian College), Chair

	Kristana Arp (Philosophy, Long Island University), "Beauvoir 
	as Situated Subject: The Ambiguities of Life in World War II France"

11:20	Session III		William McBride (Philosophy, Purdue 
				Univesity), Chair

	Michael Barber (Philosophy, Saint Louis University), 
	"Phenomenology and the Ethical Basis of Pluralism: Arendt and 
	Beauvoir on Race in the United States"

12:30	LUNCH	

02:00	Session IV		Kathleen Haney (Philosophy, University 
				of Houston, Downtown), Chair

	Sue Cataldi (Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 
	Edwardsville), "The Body as Basis for Being: 
	Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty"

03:20	Session V		Michael Schwartz (Psychiatry, University 
				of Cleveland Hospitals), Chair
	
	Elizabeth Fallaize (St. John's College, Oxford) "The Uses of 
	Biology in The Second Sex."

	Saturday, May 24, 1997

08:40	Session VI		Edward Freeman (Nursing, FAU), Chair

	Eva Lungren-Gothlin (History of Ideas and Science, University 
	of Gothenburg), "Simone de Beauvoir's Existential Phenomenology and 
	Philosophy of History in Le deuxième sexe." 

10:00	Session VII		Marina Banchetti (Philosophy, FAU), 
				Chair

	Margaret Simons (Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 
	Edwardsville), "Beauvoir's 1927 Diary"

11:20	Session VIII		Namascar Shaktini (Languages and 
				Linguistics, FAU), Chair

	Ursula Tidd (Salford University, Manchester), "Being in Time: 
	The Representation of Temporality in Beauvoirian Philosophy"

12:30 	LUNCH

02:00	Session IX		Clevis Headley (Philosophy, FAU), Chair

	Akiyo Uozumi (Sociology, Josai International University),
	"Simone de Beauvoir and Japanese Feminism"

03:20	Session X		Ted Toadvine (Philosophy, FAU), Chair

	Gail Weiss (Philosophy, George Washington University), "A Not 
	So Easy Death: Beauvoir's Reinterpretation of Sartrian Bad Faith"




Meeting and Accomodations: The Seagate Hotel and Beach Club, 400 South 
Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, FL. Phone: 561/276-2421; 800/233-3581. FAX 
561/243-4714. West Palm Beach International and Fort Lauderdale 
International airports are recommended. Tri-Rail train service to 
Delray Beach is available. Bring dark glasses.

For Further Information: contact Ted Toadvine, Center for Advanced 
Research in Phenomenology, Inc., Department of Philosophy, Florida 
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Phone 561/367-2837. FAX 
561/367-2752. Toadvine@acc.fau.edu.
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