Wednesday, September 18

7-9 p.m.: Registration and drinks (cash bar) available in the hotel bar and restaurant area

Thursday, September 19

All day sessions will be held at the Missouri Botannical Garden, Spink Pavillion. Vans will leave the hotel for the Garden at 8.00 a.m.

8.30-9.00 a.m.: Registration & Coffee, etc.
Registration continues throughout the day except during lunch.

9.00-9.15 a.m.: Welcome Remarks
David J. Werner, Chancellor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

9.00-9.30 a.m.: Dr. Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
"Sustainability and Diversity"

I. The Vulnerability of Flesh

9.30-10.15 a.m.: Jocelyn Dunphy-Blomfield, Monash University, Australia: "Harmony in a Dislocated World"
Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University

10.15-11.00 a.m.: Virginia Moreira, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil: "Ecology in the Multiple Contours of Psychopathology"
Moderator: Susan Poppe, Concordia College

Break
11.15-12.00 p.m.: Robert Kirkman, Georgia Institute of Technology
"A Little Knowledge of Dangerous Things: Human Vulnerability in a Changing Climate"
Moderator: Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College

Lunch

II. Ethics, Ecology, and Embodiment

1.30-2.15 p.m.: John White, Fransciscan University of Steubenville
"Lived Body and Ecological Value Cognition"
Moderator: David Hilditch, Webster University

2.15-3.00 p.m.: Sally Fischer, Warren Wilson College
"Social Ecology and the Flesh"

Break

3.00-3.45 p.m.: Steven Rosen, City University of New York
"Reinhabiting the Lifeworld: Ecology, Reversibility and Self-Reversal"

8.00-9.30 p.m.: Invited Speaker--David Abram, Glorieta, NM
"Tumbling Between Worlds"
The Carriage Room, Best Western Inn at the Park
Moderator: William S. Hamrick, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Reception follows shortly afterwards in the Carriage Room.

Friday, September 20

All sessions will be held at St. Louis University, The Knights' Room of Pius XII Library. One van will leave the hotel at 8.15 a.m. and return to make a second trip at 8.35. Those who want to walk can make it in about 30 minutes.

8.30-9.15 a.m.: Registration & Coffee, etc.
Registration continues throughout the day except during lunch.

III. Nature, Culture, and 'Wild' Being

9.15-10.00 a.m.: Maurita Harney, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia: "Merleau-Ponty, Ecology, and Biosemiotics"
Moderator: John Sanbonmatsu, University of Illinois at Chicago

10.00-10.45 a.m.: Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon
"An Inquiry into the Intercorporeal Relations of the Earth and Humans"
Moderator: Susan Bredlau, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook

Break

11.00-11.45 a.m.: Gail Weiss, The George Washington University
"Urban Flesh"
Moderator: David Koukal, University of Detroit Mercy

Lunch

IV. Aesthetics and Ontology

1.15-2.00 p.m.: Patricia Locke, St. John's College, Annapolis
"The Liminal World of the Northwest Coast"
2.00-2.45p.m.: Marc Van den Bossche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium: "An Aesthetics of Environment: Consequences of Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Ontology"
Moderator: Greg Fields, Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville

Break

3.00-4.30 p.m.: Invited Speaker--Ed Casey, State University of New York at Stony Brook: "Borders and Boundaries: Edging Toward the Environment
Moderator: Michael Barber, Saint Louis University

Break

4.45-5.30 p.m.: Martin C. Dillon, Binghamton University
"The Ontology of Ecology"
Moderator: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island

Saturday, September 21

Van service and meeting locations as on Friday

8.30-9.00: Registration & Coffee, etc.

V. Transversality/Ecosophy

9.45-10.30 a.m.: Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College
"Merleau-Ponty's Transversal Geophilosophy"
Moderator: Tim Adamson, Iowa Wesleyan University

Break

10.45a.m.-12.15 p.m.: Invited Speaker--Carol Bigwood, York University, Canada: "Logos of the Eco (Home) in the Feminine: an approach through Heidegger, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty"
Moderator: Suzanne Cataldi, Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville

Business Lunch: Bannister House, Saint Louis University

2.15-3.45 p.m.: Panel Discussion of Glen Mazis' Earthbodies
Speakers: Patrick Burke, Seattle University; Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario
Invited Respondent: Glen Mazis, Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg

3.45-4.30 p.m.: Randall Johnson, Private practice in psychiatry, Chapel Hill, NC: "A Cartography for Ecology: Flesh/Truths/Ecosophy"
4.30-5.45 p.m.: Duane Davis, University of North Carolina Asheville
"Umwelt and Nature in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology"
Moderator: Frank Macke, Mercer University

7.30 p.m.: Conference Banquet
We will depart in vans from the hotel at 6.30 p.m., board the riverboat Tom Sawyer