September 14-16, 2000
Conference Program
All sessions on Thursday and Friday with the exception of the Plenaries will take place on the Mount Vernon Campus of GWU
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH
9:00-9:30 a.m. Conference
Registration
Coffee, Tea, and Pastry
9:15-9:30 a.m. Welcome, Eckles Memorial Library Dean Lester Lefton (Columbian School of Arts & Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
Session 1: Opening Workshop on Carceral Embodiment, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Gail Weiss (Philosophy, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
9:30-10:15 a.m. Drew Leder (Philosophy, Loyola College, MD) "Can a Prison Be a Home?: Lived Space in the Age of Incarceration"
Session 2a: Language, Flesh, and Sexual Difference, Post Hall
Moderator: Maureen Madison (Human Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
10:15-11:00 a.m. Ann Murphy (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN) "Language in the Flesh: The Disturbance of Discourse in Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray, and Levinas " 1
1:00-11:45 a.m. Annemie Halsema (University of Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands) "The Phenomenology of Sexual Difference. Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty"
Session 2b: Intersubjective Paradoxes, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Anne O'Byrne (Philosophy, Hofstra University, NY)
10:15-11:00 a.m. Davide Scarso (Cultural & Social Anthropology, University of Padova, Italy) "Circle and Paradoxes: Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss on Intersubjectivity"
11:00-11:45 a.m. Beata Stawarska (University of Louvain, Belgium) "Reversibility and Intersubjectivity: A Critical Reading of Merleau-Ponty's Ontology"
11:45-1:30 p.m. Lunch
Session 3a: Gender, Race, Voice, and Space, Post Hall
Moderator: Ellen Feder (Philosophy, American University, Washington, D.C.)
1:30-2:15 p.m. Janice McLane (Philosophy, Morgan State University, MD) "Entering the Place We Already Live: A Phenomenology of Female Voice"
2:15-3:00 p.m. Shannon Sullivan (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, PA) "Racing Space with Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception"
Session 3b: Othering the Other: MP, Politics, and Feminism, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: John Rose (Philosophy, Goucher College, MD)
1:30-2:15 p.m. Greg Johnson (Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University, WA) "On the Reversibility of Perspectives: Merleau-Ponty in Dialogue with Feminist Political Philosophy"
2:15-3:00 p.m. Hwa Yol Jung (Political Science, Moravian College, PA) "The Question of the Foreign Other: Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva"
3:00-3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break, Eckles Memorial Library
Session 4a: Violent Visions, Post Hall
Moderator: Susan Poppe (Philosophy, Concordia College, MN)
3:15-4:00 p.m. Jorella Andrews (Historical & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, England) "Vision, Violence, and the Other: A Merleau-Pontian Ethics"
4:00-4:45 p.m. Helen Fielding (Philosophy & Women's Studies, The University of Western Ontario, Canada) "White Logic and the Constancy of Colour"
Session 4b: Merleau-Ponty's Psychology: Interrogations and Applications, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Kirk Besmer (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, IN)
3:15-4:00 p.m. Bart Bryant (Psychology, Duquesne University, PA) "On the Need to Re-Interpret Projective Identification as Flesh"
4:00-4:45 p.m. Talia Welsh (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, NY) "The Logic of the Observed: Merleau-Ponty's Conception of Women as Outlined in his 1951-1952 Sorbonne Lecture, 'The Question of Method in Child Psychology"
Session 5: Conscience and Authenticity (Invited Paper), Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Leonard Lawlor (Philosophy, University of Memphis, TN)
5:00-5:50 p.m. Martin Dillon (Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton, NY)
5:50-8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00-9:30 p.m. Plenary at The Hotel Lombardy, 2019 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Moderator: Sharon Meagher (Office for Social Responsibility, The Union Institute, Washington, D.C.)
Kelly Oliver (Women's Studies & Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, NY) "Beyond Recognition: Merleau-Ponty and a Vision of Ethics"
9:30-11:00 p.m. Opening Night Reception, The Hotel Lombardy
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th
9:00-9:30 a.m. Conference Registration Coffee, Tea, and Pastry
Session 1a: Pre-Personal Intersubjectivity, Post Hall
Moderator: Andrea Tschemplik (Philosophy, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
9:30-10:15 a.m. Esteban Garcia (Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) "Anonymity, Opposition, and Love: The Three Modes of Alterity in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of the Body"
10:15-11:00 a.m. Johanna Oksala (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland) "The Subject of Sex: Female Subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty's Account of Sexuality"
11:00-11:45 a.m. William Hamrick (Philosophy, University of Illinois at Edwardsville, IL) "Growing Up Male"
Session 1b: Incorporating Nature, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Phillips Edward Young (Philosophy, Villanova University, PA)
9:30-10:15 a.m. Denise Brennan Watson (Women's Studies, Minnesota State University, MN) "Recipes and Reciprocity: Cooking as a Narrational Ontology"
10:15-11:00 a.m. Patricia Locke (St. John's College, MD) "Among the Hawthorns: Proust and Merleau-Ponty"
11:00-11:45 a.m. Fred Evans (Philosophy, Duquesne University, PA) "Chaosmos and Merleau-Ponty's View of Nature"
11:45-1:30 p.m. Lunch
Session 2a: Identity, Ethics, and Vision, Post Hall
Moderator: Deborah Mullen (Philosophy, Christopher Newport University, VA)
1:30-2:15 p.m. Rashmi Pandya (McMaster University, Canada) "The Borderlands of Identity and Culture: A Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Conception of Intersubjectivity"
2:15-3:00 p.m. Carolin Woolson (Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton, NY) "Merleau-Ponty: Toward a Feminist Ethics of Vision"
Session 2b: Erotic Intersubjectivity: Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, and Irigaray, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Jeffrey Cohen (English, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
1:30-2:15 p.m. Bruce Young (Humanities, University of Wolverhampton, UK) "The Language of the Lips. Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray: Toward a Culture of Difference"
2:15-3:00 p.m. Marc Van den Bossche (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) "The Erotic Perception. Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity and 'Intercorporeality'"
3:00-3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break, Eckles Memorial Library
Session 3a: Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Care, Post Hall
Moderator: Claire Katz (Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University, PA)
3:15-4:00 p.m. David Brubaker (Philosophy, University of New Haven, CT) "The Perspective of Care: Gilligan, Merleau-Ponty, and the Hinge of Flesh"
4:00-4:45 p.m. Maurice Hamington (Philosophy, University of Oregon at Eugene, OR) "Resources for a Feminist Ethic of Care in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body"
Session 3b: Intersubjective Circulations, Eckles Memorial Library
Moderator: Simon Glynn (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, FL)
3:15-4:00 p.m. Thomas Busch (Philosophy, Villanova University, PA) "Merleau-Ponty and the Circulation of Being"
4:00-4:45 p.m. Sally Fischer (Philosophy, Warren Wilson College, NC) "Ethical Reciprocity at the Interstices of Communion and Disruption"
Session 4: Intertwining and Objectification, Post Hall
Moderator: Lawrence Hass (Philosophy, Muhlenberg College, PA)
5:00-5:50 p.m. Dorothea Olkowski (Philosophy, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO)
5:50-8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00-9:30 p.m. Plenary, Ambassade de France, La Maison Francaise, 4101 Reservoir Rd. NW, Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy & Women's Studies, George Mason University, VA)
Elizabeth Grosz (Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo, NY) "Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the Question of Ontology"
9:30-10:30 p.m. Reception, Ambassade de France, La Maison FranHaise
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH
All Saturday sessions except the Plenary will be held on GW's Main Campus at the Gelman Library
Session 1a: Chiasmic Encounters: Philosophy and Literature, Rm. 202A
Moderator: Sue Cataldi (Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL)
10:00-10:45 a.m. Justine Dymond (English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA) "'Mixing the Inside with the Outside': The Phenomenological Challenge to the Inside/Outside Dichotomy in To the Lighthouse and Tender Buttons"
10:45-11:30 a.m. Laura Doyle (English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MP) "The Chiasm Colonized: Narrating the Interpellated Body"
Session 1b: Interfaces: Merleau-Ponty and Architecture, Rm. 607
Moderator: Nancy Holland (Philosophy, Hamline University, MN)
10:00-10:45 a.m. Rachel McCann (Architecture, Mississippi State University, MS) "Entwining the Body and the World: The Redoubled Nature of Architecture in the Light of 'Eye and Mind'"
10:45-11:30 a.m. Susan Best (Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) "Merleau-Ponty and an Ethics of Vision"
Session 2: Ethics of Postmodern Differences (Invited Paper), Rm. 202A
Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith (English, Slippery Rock University)
11:45-12:35 p.m. Hugh Silverman (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, NY)
12:45-2:30 Business Lunch, The Hotel Lombardy
Session 3: The Texture of the Real: Merleau-Ponty on Imagination (Invited Paper), Rm. 202A
Moderator: Duane Davis (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC)
2:30-3:20 James Morley (Humanities & Social Sciences, Richmond, The American International University, London, England)
Session 4: The Seashell (Invited Paper), Rm. 202A
Moderator: John Carvalho (Philosophy, Villanova University, PA)
3:30-4:20 Patrick Burke (Philosophy, Seattle University, WA)
5:30-7 Plenary, Funger Hall, Rm. 103, GW Main Campus
Moderator: Ines Azar (Romance Languages, The George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.)
Judith Butler (Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, CA) "Merleau-Ponty and the Touch of Malebranche"
7:30-10:00 Conference Banquet: The Flat Top Grill, 4245 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA