| Wednesday,
September 28 |
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. |
Registration
at the Phoenix
Inn Suites, 850 Franklin Blvd.
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Thursday,
September 29
All sessions at the Fir Room, Erb Memorial
Union. |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m |
Coffee and
registration |
9:00 – 9:15
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Welcoming Remarks:
Joe Stone, Dean of
Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
Scott Pratt, Head,
Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon
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Session One:
Animality and Humanity
Moderator:
Wiiliam S. Hamrick, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
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| 9:15 – 10:00 |
Inter-Animality and the Question of Animal
Attunement
Bryan Bannon, University
of Memphis |
| 10:00 – 10:45 |
Re-Enchanting
Nature:
The Dark Proximity of Animal and Human Life in Later
Merleau-Ponty
Tristan
Moyle, University of Essex
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10:45 – 11:00
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Refreshment break
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Session Two: The Multifarious
Flesh
Moderator: Brook Muller,
University of Oregon
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| 11:00 – 12:00 |
Invited Lecture: The Multiplicity
of
Flesh
in Merleau‑Ponty
Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College
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| 12:00 – 2:00 |
Lunch and first
business meeting, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
(Please see the Note from the Acting General
Secretary)
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Session Three: The Spell of the
Wild
Moderator: Louise Westling,
University of Oregon
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| 2:00 – 2:45 |
The Child, The Painter, The Rock
David Abram, Director, Alliance
for Wild Ethics, Sante Fe, New Mexico
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| 2:45 – 3:30 |
Animal Appeal: Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and The Call
of the Wild
Randall Johnson, Psychiatry, Private
Practice, Chapel Hill, NC
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| 3:30 – 3:45 |
Refreshment break
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Session Four: The Child's
Consciousness and Unconscious
Moderator: Sara Hodges,
University of Oregon
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3:45 – 4:30
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Merleau-Ponty’s
Child Psychology and Winnicottian Psychoanalysis
Thamy Ayouch,
Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot |
| 4:30 – 5:30 |
Invited
Lecture: The World’s Skin
Ever Expanding:
Spatiality
and the Structures of Child Consciousness
Eva Simms, Duquesne University
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5:30 – 7:30
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Reception at the home of Mark Johnson
84651 Murdock Road, Phone
(541) 334-6902
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Friday, September
30
All sessions at the Fir Room, Erb Memorial
Union.
|
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| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m |
Coffee and
registration |
Session Five: Literary and
Evolutionary
Perspectives
Moderator: Maria Talero, Rhodes
College
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| 9:00 – 9:45 |
Testifying,
Showing, and Reasoning:
Merleau-Ponty and J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of
Animals
Christian Grüny,
Private
Universität Witten
|
| 9:45 – 10:30 |
Chiasmatic
Biology?
Epigenesis and Evolution in light of the Sorbonne and College
de France
Lectures
James Morley, Ramapo College
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| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Refreshment break
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Session Six: Faces and Bodies
Moderator: Tim
Adamson, Iowa Wesleyan College
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| 10:45 – 11:30 |
Facing the Invisible: Toward an Animal Ontology
David Morris, Trent University
|
11:30 – 12:30
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Invited Lecture:
The
Meaning of the Body
Mark Johnson, University of Oregon |
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| 12:30 – 2:00 |
Lunch on your own
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Session Seven: Intercorporealities
Moderator: Dera Sipe,
Villanova University
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| 2:00 – 2:45 |
Perceiving Through Another: Incorporation and the Child
Perceiver
Susan Bredlau,
Stony Brook University
|
| 2:45 – 3:30 |
Intertwined Identities: Intercorporeal Challenges to
Bodily Autonomy
Gail Weiss, George Washington University
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| 3:30 – 3:45 |
Refreshment break
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Session Eight: How Empathy Shapes
the Mind
Moderator: Beata
Stawarska, University of Oregon
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| 3:45 – 4:30 |
Encountering
the Animal Other: Reflections on Moments of Empathic Seeing
Scott
Churchill, University of Dallas
|
4:30 – 6:00
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Keynote
Address:
Forms of
Empathy: From Animal Intercorporality to Human Narrative
Shaun
Gallagher, University of
Central Florida
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Saturday, October 1
All sessions at
the Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union.
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| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m |
Coffee and
registration |
Session Nine: Phenomenology and
Anthropology
Moderator: Wayne
Froman, George Mason University
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| 9:00 – 9:45 |
The
Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Merleau-Ponty’s Child Psychology
Talia Welsh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
|
| 9:45 – 10:30 |
Man
is not a Reasonable Animal:
Merleau-Ponty and the Issue of Anthropological
Difference
Etienne
Bimbenet,
Université Jean Moulin ‑ Lyon III
|
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Refreshment break
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Session Ten : Inscriptions of
Responsibility
Moderator: Bonnie
Mann, University of Oregon
|
| 10:45 – 11:45 |
Invited Lecture: Responsibilities. Derrida
for Merleau-Ponty
Hugh J.
Silverman,
Stony Brook University
|
|
| 11:45 – 1:45 |
Lunch and second
business meeting, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
(Please see the Note from the Acting General
Secretary)
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Session Eleven: Thinking through
Mortality
Moderator: Ted
Toadvine, University of Oregon
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| 1:45 – 3:15 |
Keynote
Address:
'This Is What We Must
Not Do': The Question of Death in
Merleau‑Ponty
Leonard
Lawlor, University of Memphis
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| 3:15 – 3:30 |
Refreshment break
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Session Twelve: Martin C. Dillon
Vivant!
Moderator:
Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University
|
3:30 – 4:15
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Ideas
Without Idealism: The Philosophical Voyage of Martin C. Dillon
Duane
Davis, University
of North Carolina-Asheville
|
4:15 – 5:00
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Circles. The Figured Philosophy of M.C.
Dillon
Galen Johnson, University
of Rhode
Island |
5:00 – 7:00
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Break
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7:00 – 9:00
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Conference Banquet,
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger
Hall
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Sunday,
October 2
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10:00 – 12:00
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Hike to Spencer's Butte, leaving from The
Phoenix Inn
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Sponsored
by The Oregon
Humanities
Center,
College
of Arts
and Sciences, Department of Philosophy,
Department of English, Department of Psychology, Environmental Studies
Program,
and Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
For
disability accommodations, please call (541) 346-5547
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