September
17 - 20, 2003.
The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario,
Canada
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
All sessions to be held at Windermere Manor unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, Sept. 17
Registration at Windermere Manor from 6:00-8:00pm
Thursday, Sept. 18
8:30 - 9:00am registration and coffee
(Registration continues throughout the day except during lunch)
9:00 - 9:15 welcome remarks
Dean Kathleen Okruhlik, Faculty of Arts, UWO
Helen Fielding, Conference Director, UWO
Session One
Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock State College
9:15 - 10:00 Kym Maclaren, Northern Arizona University
'Life is Inherently Expressive'
10:00 - 10:45 Ted Toadvine, University of Oregon
'Life’s Refrain: Expression without Organisms'
10:45 - 11:00 break
Session Two
Moderator: Duane Davis, University of North Carolina at Asheville
11:00 - 11:45 David Morris, Trent University
'What is Living and What is Non-Living in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
of Movement and Expression'
11:45 - 12:45 invited speaker
The Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist
Research have also provided administrative support Martin C. Dillon, Binghamton
University
'Life—Death'
12:45 - 2:00 lunch
Session Three
Moderator: Chris Nagel, California State University, Stanislaus
2:00 - 2:45 Robert Vallier, The George Washington University
'Institutions of Life'
3:00 - 3:30 Brett Buchanan, DePaul University
'’Some huge animal whose organs our bodies would be’: Merleau-Ponty
and Heidegger on animal life'
3:30 - 4:15 David Farrell Krell, DePaul University
'Daimonic Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and a Possible Ontology of
Nature'
4:15 - 4:30 break
Keynote Address
Moderator: Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College
4:30 - 6:00 keynote speaker:
Françoise Dastur, Université de Nice
'Merleau-Ponty and the Husserlian life-world problematic'
6:15 transportation to Museum London
6:30 - 8:00 reception
Friday, Sept. 19
8:30 - 9:00am coffee and registration
Session Four
Moderator: Brigitte Sassen, McMaster University
9:00 - 9:45 Alia Al-Saji, McGill University
'Merleau-Ponty and Bergson: Life, Rhythm and Flesh'
9:45 - 10:30 Davide Scarso, Universidade Classica de Lisboa
'Merleau-Ponty and the secret illness of Saussure'
10:30 - 10:45 break
Session Five
Moderator: Francine Wynn, The University of Toronto
10:45 - 11:30 Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink, Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität
'Political World of ‘Life’ or Lifeworld? — A Criticism
of the ‘Biopolitics’ — Diagnosis by Means of Maurice
Merleau-Ponty’s Social Ontology'
11:30 - 12:15 Leonard Lawlor, The University of Memphis
'Un Écart infime: Foucault’s critique of the phenomenological
concept of lived experience (vécu)'
12:15 - 1:30 lunch
Session Six
Moderator: Susan O’Shaughnessy, Concordia College
1:30 - 2:15 Jenny Slatman, Universiteit van Amsterdam/Universiteit
Maastricht
'Erlebnis — Empfindnis: The Locus of Lived Experience'
2:15 - 3:00 Felix O’Murchadha, National University of Ireland,
Galway
'Being Alive: The Place of Life in Merleau-Ponty and Descartes'
3:00 - 4:00 invited speaker
Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
'The Impersonal, The One'
4:00 - 4:15 break and transportation to Conron Hall, University College
4:15 transportation to Conron Hall, University College
Keynote Address - Conron Hall, UWO
Moderator: Gail Weiss, The George Washington University
4:30 - 6:00 keynote speaker
Renaud Barbaras, Sorbonne
'The Phenomenology of life as a path to Ontology'
(Sponsored by The Consulate General of France)
6:00 - 7:00 reception: 224a & 225 University College
Saturday, Sept. 20
8:30 - 9:00am coffee and registration
Session Seven
Moderator: Stephen Lofts, Kings College, UWO
9:00 - 9:45 Matthew Dowd, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
'A Constitutive Duet in the Key of the Flesh'
9:45 - 10:30 Antonio Calcagno, University of Guelph
'Michel Henry and the Possiblity of an Husserlian-Inspired Transcendental
Life'
10:30 - 10:45 break
Session Eight
Moderator: Helen Fielding, The University of Western Ontario
10:45 - 11:30 Rachel McCann, Mississippi State University
'Experiencing Architecture: Transformative Exchange in Merleau-Ponty
and Irigaray'
11:30 - 12:30 invited speaker
Samuel Mallin, York University
'Body Hermeneutics Demonstrated Through the Earliest Art'
12:30 - 2:00 business lunch
Session Nine
Moderator: Carol Bigwood, York University
2:00 - 2:45 Suzanne Cataldi, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
'Breathing (New) Life into Flesh. Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray and the Regeneration
of Sexual Difference'
2:45 - 3:30 Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island
'The Posthuman Body: A Phenomenological Response to the Biotechnology
Debates'
3:30 - 3:45 break
Session Ten
Moderator: David Koukal, University of Detroit Mercy
3:45 - 4:30 Stefanie Wenner, Freie Universität Berlin
'Natality and Pregnance. Hannah Arendt and Merleau-Ponty'
4:30 - 5:30 invited speaker
Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
'Merleau-Ponty/ Derrida: Living on (Borderlines)'
6:00pm banquet at Windermere Manor
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The following have contributed financially to the 28th International
Merleau-Ponty Circle:
Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada |
The French Consulate
of Canada |
| UWO Provost's Office |
The Department of Philosophy |
| The Faculty of Social Science |
The Faculty of Arts |
| The Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research |
The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism |
| The Department of English |
The Department of French |
| The Department of Modern Languages and Literature |
The Department of Visual Arts |
The Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist
Research have also provided administrative support
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