Conference Program for 26th Annual Meeting of International Merleau-Ponty Circle

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the

International Merleau-Ponty Circle

Program Schedule

All sessions will be held at Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 18104

Wednesday, September 29
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.	Registration at the Allentown Comfort Suites,

Thursday, September 30 Sessions at The Hoffman House on the Muhlenberg Campus, 325 N. 23 rd Street.

8:30 – 9:00 a.m	coffee and registration
Session One: Merleau-Ponty, Expression, and Language Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University
9:00 – 9:45	Eran Dorfman, University of Paris, XII “ Expressive Language, Art and Phenomenology: From a Spoken to a Speaking Speech ”
9:45 – 10:30	Janice McLane, Morgan State University “ Lies and Possibilities: Saying the World Differently to Suit You ”
10:30 – 10:45	refreshment break
Session Two: Desire and the Limits of Expression Moderator: Dennis Skocz, Independent Scholar
10:45	Welcoming Remarks, Marjorie Hass, Provost of Muhlenberg College
10:45 – 11:30	Ulla Thorgersen, Aalborg University, Denmark “ Desire and Expression ”
11:30 – 12:30	Invited Speaker, Hugh Silverman, SUNY – Stony Brook “ Code Enforcement and the Limits of Expression: Derrida x Merleau-Ponty ”
12:30 – 2:00	lunch
Session Three: Merleau-Ponty, Mind, and Nature Moderator: Bryan Bannon, University of Memphis
2:00 – 2:45	Susan M. O'Shaughnessy, Concordia College “ Speciation as Expression: Merleau-Ponty on Nature as Creative ”
2:45 – 3:30	Nancy J. Holland, Hamline University “ `It's Not a Question, But a Lesson Learned in Time`: Merleau-Ponty and Edelman on the Acquisition of Language ”
3:30 – 4:15	Robin Zebrowski, University of Oregon “ Robotics-In-The-World: Embodied AI and the Work of Merleau-Ponty ”
4:15 – 4:30	refreshment break
Session Four Moderator: TBA
4:30 – 5:30	Invited Speaker, Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario “ The Gesture of Painting: Art, Techne and the Feminine
5:30 – 7:00	reception at the home of Larry and Marjorie Hass, 233 N. Ott Street (a block off campus)

Friday, October 1 All sessions at the Hoffman House, on the Muhlenberg Campus, 325 N. 23rd Street.

8:30 – 9:00 a.m	coffee and registration
Session Five: Merleau-Ponty and the Arts (Part I) Moderator: Neal DeRoo, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto
9:00 – 9:45	Daniel Schmicking, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany “ Ineffabilities of Embodied Musical Experience ”
9:45 – 10:30	Glen Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg “ Merleau-Ponty and Poetry: Expression, Philosophy and Art ”
10:30 – 10:45	refreshment break
Session Six Moderator: Stuart J. Murray, University of California, Berkeley
10:45 – 11:30	Duane Davis, University of North Carolina, Asheville “ Merleau-Ponty's Sketches of Cézanne and Klee: From a Phenomenology of Perception to a situated Ontology ”
11:30-12:30	Keynote Address Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley “Total Visibility” Introduction by Provost Marjorie Hass
12:30 – 2:00	lunch
Session Seven: Phenomenology and Expression Moderator: Christopher Adamo, Montclair State University
2:00 – 2:45	David R. Koukal, University of Detroit Mercy “ Phenomenology is Not Just Intuition but also Expression ”
2:45 – 3:30	Stephen A. Noble, Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne “` Between the Silence of the World and the Language of Philosophy`: Merleau-Ponty, Fink and the Paradoxes of Language ”
3:30 – 3:45	refreshment break
Session Eight: The Ethics of Expression Moderator: James Morley, Ramapo College
3:45 – 4:30	Isaac Ruedin, St. Charles Community College “ Merleau-Ponty's Ethics of Expression ”
4:30 – 5:30	Invited Speaker, Martin C. Dillon, Binghamton University “ Expression and the Ethics of Particularity ”

Saturday, October 2 Sessions in The Recital Hall in the Baker Center for the Arts

8:30 – 9:00 a.m	coffee and registration
Session Nine: Merleau-Ponty and the Arts (Part II) Moderator: Patricia Locke, St. John's College, Annapolis
9:00 – 9:45	Rachel McCann, Mississippi State University “ Architectural Design and the Expression of Embodied Experience ”
9:45 – 10:30	Vesela Sretenovic, Brown University “ Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Vision and Installation Art of Yael Bartana, Sue-Mei Tse, and Sandra Cinto ”
10:30 – 10:45	refreshment break
Session Ten Moderator: Kevin Gray, Laval University
10:45 – 11:30	Scott D. Churchill, University of Dallas “ Through a Looking Glass – the Bonobo and I: A ‘Second Person' Perspective on Interspecies Expression ”
1:30-12:30	Keynote Address Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island “The Retrieval of the Beautiful” Introduction by Gail Weiss, George Washington University
12:30 – 2:30	Lunch and Business Meeting – all are welcome!
Session Eleven: Merleau-Ponty and his Successors Moderator: Jonathan Kim-Reuter, The New School
2:30 – 3:15	Todd May, Clemson University “ Life Celebrating and World-Changing: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on the Body ”
3:15 – 4:00	Henry Somers-Hall, University of Warwick “ Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics of Difference ”
4:00 – to 4:15	refreshment break
Session Twelve Moderator: TBA
4:15 – 5:15	Invited Speaker, Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado “ Darkness and Light ”
5:15	Vans return to the Comfort Suites
7:00	Conference Banquet at The King George Inn