24th Annual International Conference
July 29 - August 1, 1999
Day 1
Thursday July 29
8:00 Registration, coffee and cakes
8:30 Introductory remarks and announcements
Session: Aesthetic themes I
9:00
The touchable and the untouchable: Merleau-Ponty and Bernard Berenson
A. Pinotti
University of Milan
9:40
The language of love in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
Anna Petronella Fredlund
University of Stockholm/University of Paris XII
10:20
Staying embodied:Merleau-Ponty, intergrated being and the creation of new
structures
Jorella AndrewsM
Goldsmiths College, University of London
11:00-11:15 Break
Session: Aesthetic themes II
11:15
The conception of poetry in the work of Merleau-Ponty
Elke De Rijke
University of Antwerp, Belgium
11:40
The gravity and (in)visibility of flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida
Veronique M Foti
Pennsylvania State University
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
Session: Philosophical Foundations
2:00
Merleau-Ponty and the circulation of being
Thomas W Busch
Villanova University
2:40
Rays of the world: Merleau-Ponty and the problem of universals
Lawrence Hass
Muhlenberg College
3:20 - 3:45 Break
Session: Phenomenology and Social Science
3:45
Human agency and the social sciences: from contextual phenomenology to geneology
Tony O’Connor
President of the British Society for Phenomenology
University College Cork
4:25
Some questions regarding Merleau-Ponty’s ‘phenomenologie du vivant’
Alfons Grieder
City University, London
5:05
Reversibilities of the flesh: towards a new geneology of morals
William Hamrick
S. Indiana University
5:45 - 7:00 Reception
7:00-8:00
Invited speaker: Psychology from a Merleau-Pontian Perspective
Amedeo Giorgi
Saybrook Institute, San Francisco
8:30 Dinner
8:00 Coffee and cakes, Registration, Announcements
Session: Habits
9:00
Emotion, blind recognition and the habit body: a Merleau-Pontian rethinking
of James and Sartre on emotions
Kym Maclaren
Penn State University
9:40
Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks: Habitual Horizons in Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze,
and Bourdieu
Gail Weiss
George Washington University
Washington USA
10:20 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
Special Session: Merleau-Ponty and Gurwitsch on Phenomenological Psychology
a. Gurwitsch's theory of psychology
Lester Embree
Florida Atlantic University
b. The post-phenomenological horizon
Ted Toadvine
Emporia State University, Kansas
11:30 - 11:35 Break
11:45-12:45
Invited speaker: Pathology and Normativity in the Psychology of Sexlove:
A Search for Grounds in the Lived Body
Martin Dillon
Binghamton University, New York
12:45- 2:00 Lunch
Session: Psychopathology 2:00
Merleau-Ponty and French speaking psychopathology during and after the Second
World War
German E. Berrios
Departmanrt of Psychiatry
Cambridge University
2:40
Schneider's wound: Merleau-Ponty's case study of Cartesian man
Alec Marsh
Muhlenberg College
3:20
Delusional mood and delusional perception in light of Merleau-Ponty and Husserl
Thomas Fuchs
Klinikum der Universitat Heidelberg
4:00 - 4:15 Break
Session: Merleau-Ponty and Natural Science Psychology
4:15
Can a machine be a substitute for the body?: Merleau-Ponty on Cybernetics
Dr Tetsuya Kono
Japan National Defense Acadamy
4:50
Life is a winding road: neurobiology and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of
consciousness
Nancy J Holland
Hamline University
5:30-5:45 Break
5:45-6:45
Special session: Gestures in a deafferenated subject
Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College, Buffalo NY
Jonathan Cole, University of Southampton, UK
David McNeil, University of Chicago,
6:45- 11:00pm Dinner boat cruise on the River Dee, Chester
8:00 Coffee and cakes, Registration, Announcements
Session: Affectivity and Embodiment
9:00
An engaged participation in nature: Merleau-Ponty's embodied ontology
Marc Van den Bossche
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
9:40
Understanding meaning in the vital order
Carol Powley
University of Colorado at Boulder
10:20-10:30 Break
Session II
Instincts and meaning
0 J. Keeping
York University, Toronto
11:15
Healing perception: Merleau-Ponty's radical phenomenology and the philosophical
underpinning of Gestalt Psychotherapy
Des Kennedy
Wirral Gestalt Therapy, W. Kirby, UK
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Invited Speaker: Merleau-Ponty, physis, and psychological healing
Petruska Clarkson
Physis Institute, London
3:00- 3:15 Break
Session: Intersubjectivity and Developmental Psychology
3:15
Intersubjectivity: the child's relations with others
Nicola Diamond
Regents College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London
3:55
Ambigious boundaries in our relations with others: mapping together Merleau-Ponty’s
two accounts of intersubjectivity
Clair Elise Katz
Washington College, Maryland
3:55 - 4:15 Break
Session: Phenomenology and Ecological Psychology: Merleau-Ponty and Gibson
4:15
A paradigm convergence of philosophy and psychology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
and James Gibson
Forrest Williams
University of Colorado at Boulder
4:55
From stumuli to affordances: towards an ecological phenomenology
Joseph Ulric Neisser
University of Alabama at Birmingham
5:35 - 7:00 Reception
7:00
Invited Speaker: The Inner and the Outer:The Primacy of Use in Merleau-Ponty
and Wittgenstein
John Heaton
Philadelphia Association, London
8:30 Dinner
8:00 Coffee and cakes, Registration, Announcements
9:00 am
Session: Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis I
Flesh and the body - has Merleau-Ponty misinterpreted the mirror stage?
Beata Strawarska
Brussels
9:40
The inner and outer worlds: situationality in Merleau-Ponty and Freud
Talia Welsh
State University of New York at Stony Brook
10:20-10:30 Break
Session: Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis II
10:30
Communication breakdown: understanding the other and caring for others
Duane Davis
University of North Carolina, Ashville
11:10
The psychoanalysis of nature and the nature of expression
Jenny Slatman
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Amsterdam
11:50-2:00
Lunch and the 1999 Business Meeting of the Merleau-Ponty Circle
Session: Phenomenological themes
2:00
Intentionality and immediate perspectives
Kurt Dauer Keller
Aalborg University, Denmark
2:40
Merleau-Ponty:between psyche/soma, psychoanalysis/biopsychology -- oneiric
materialism
Glen Mazis
Penn State University, Harisburg
3:20-3:30 Break
Session: Merleau-Ponty and Science
3:30
Embodiment and identity: philosophy and science in Merleau-Ponty's later
work
Bruce Young
University of Wolverhampton, UK
4:10
Cognitive Science meets Merleau-Ponty; an ethological framework for a non-Cartesian
cognitive science
Ronald Lemmen
4:50-5:00 Break
Intersubjectivity, and Ethical Sense
5:00
Intercorporiality, gestural communication and alterity: toward a phenomenological
ethology
Scott D Churchill
University of Dallas
5:40
Re-enfleshing through colour: Merleau-Ponty, Irigary and the ethics of sexual
difference
Helen Fielding
Talbot College, University of Western Ontario
6:20 Reception
7:00 Valedictory Banquet
23rd Annual International Conference
September 17-19, 1998
Salisbury State University
1101 Camden Avenue
Salisbury, MD 21801-6860
James Hatley, Conference Director
SESSIONS 1 and 2: The Body of Flesh as an Ethical Body, Part I
Moderator: Stephen Rosen, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Gary Backhaus, Morgan State University
"The Bridge: A Way towards the Ethical Component of Flesh"
Ernie Sherman, Pace University
"Absolute Habitation: The Ethos of the Body Proper"
SESSION 3: Kristeva and Merleau-Ponty
Moderator: Michael Sanders, SUNY Stony Brook
Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Villanova University
"Embodied Language and the Flesh of Being: Ethics of the Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty and Kristeva"
SESSIONS 4 and 5: Phenomenology and Ethics
Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University of PA
Sara Heinamaa, University of Helsinki
"Philosophers: Responsible Bodies?"
Glen Mazis, Penn State University at Harrisburg
"Positive Ethics in Entwined Particular Bodies and Expressive Faces in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy"
SESSION 6: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Merleau-Ponty
Moderator: Martina Reuter, University of Helsinki
Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton
"Sexlove and Ethics"
SESSION 7
Featured Speaker: Patrick Burke, Seattle University
Introduction: Chris Diehm, Villanova University
Moderator: Laurence Hass, Muhlenberg College
"The Yes of Promiscuity"
SESSIONS 1 and 2: Foucault and Merleau-Ponty
Moderator: Kym Maclaren, Penn State University
David Brubaker, Universities of Connecticut and New Haven "The Roots of Agency: Merleau-Ponty, Flesh and Foucault"
Johanna Oksala, University of Helsinki
"Identity and the Lived Body"
SESSIONS 3 and 4: The Body and h as an Ethical Body, Part II
Moderator: David Morris, Trent University
Alia Al-Saji, Emory University
"Vision, Mirror and Expression: The Genesis of the Ethical Body in Merleau-Ponty's Later Works"
William Hamrick, Southern Illinois University
"Kindness, Empathy and Cognitive Science"
SESSION 5: Post-Modern Feminism and Merleau-Ponty
Moderator: Mary Bloodsworth, Washington State University
Dorothea Olkowski, Univ. of CO at Colorado Springs
"Feminism and Phenomenology"
SESSION 6: Postmodern Ethics
Moderator: Ted Toadvine, Emporia State College
Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
"In the Chiasmatic Fields of Post-Modern Ethics"
SESSION 7
Invited Speaker: Mary Rawlinson, SUNY Stony Brook
Introduction: Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario
Moderator: Diane Perpich, Duquesne University
"The Contingency of Goodness"
SESSIONS 1 and 2: Speaking through Difference
Moderator: Grace Clement, Salisbury State University
Susan Poppe, Concordia College
"Ethical Language: Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on Mediated Conflict"
Gail Weiss, George Washington University
"Imag(in)ing the Horizon"
Session 3: Oral Cannibalism
Moderator: John Rose, Goucher College
Antje Kapust, Ruhr Universitat Bochum
David Wood, Vanderbilt University
"Moutheite: the mouth, regulation, and self-gestation"
Sessions 4 and 5: Traumatized Bodies/ Victimized Bodies
Moderator: Michael Smith, Berry College
Carolin Woolson, SUNY Binghamton
"Echoes of the Flesh: On the Ethical Significance of Bodily Rememberance"
Janice McLane, Morgan State University
"The Boundaries of a Victim Life"
Session 6: African Bodies
Moderator: Sue Cataldi, Southern Illinois University
John Murungi, Towson University
"The African Body as an Ethico-Aesthetic Text"
Session 7:
Invited Speaker: Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr Universitat Bochum
Introduction: James Hatley, Salisbury State University
Moderator: Duane Davis, University of NC, Asheville
"Responsitivity of the Body: Traces of the other in Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Body and Flesh"
Merleau-Ponty Circle
22nd Annual International Conference
September 18-20, 1997
Patrick Burke, James Risser, Conference Co-Directors
Moderator: Edwin Weihe, Seattle University
Duane Davis, Bowling Green University
"Transcendence and Care: Resituating the Seinsfrage within l'Etre Sauvage"
Moderator: Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton
James Morley, St. Joseph College
"The Sleeping Subject: Merleau-Ponty on Dreaming"
Moderator: Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon
Rudy Visker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"A Western Problem? Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty"
Moderator: Elke De Rijcke, University of Antwerp
Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton
"Reversibility and Ethics: The Question of Violence"
Moderator: Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
Panel: "Remembering Merleau-Ponty"
Forrest Williams, University of Colorado
Xavier Monasterio, University of Dayton
Moderator: Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College
Panel: "Three Senses/Directions (sens) of Nature: Addiction, Earthbodies, Place"
Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University
Glen Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg
Edward Casey, SUNY Stony Brook
DISTINGUISHED GUEST LECTURE
Moderator: Patrick Burke, Seattle University
Jan Van der Veken, Katholieke Universteit Leuven
"Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty on the Concept of Nature"
Moderator: William Hamrick, SIU-Edwardsville
Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island
"Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Origins: In the Timber Yard, Under the Sea"
Moderator: Leonard Lawlor, Memphis University
Ted Toadvine, Kalamazoo College
"Nature and Negation: Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Bergson"
INVITED LECTURE
Moderator: Edward Casey, SUNY Stonybrook
David Abram, University of Oregon
"The Visible and Invisible Earth"
Moderator: Steve Watson, University of Notre Dame
Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
"Traces of Alterity: Levinas Between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida"
Moderator: Issac Ruden, SUNY Binghamton
Antje Kapust, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
"So called 'Barbarian Basis' of Nature and its Secret Logos"
Moderator: Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, University of Washington
Panel: "Merleau-Ponty/Lacan:
(1) Contemporary American Psychoanalysis
(2) the Imaginary Phallus"
C. Edward Robins, NOMOs, Fordham University
Bruce Reis, Columbia University
Concurrent Session 1
Moderator: Paulette Kidder, Seattle University
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston
"Merleau-Ponty's Nietzschean 'Pregnancy of Possibles'"
Concurrent Session 2
Moderator: Susan Poppe, Concordia College
Jerry Gallegos, Purdue University
"The Role of the Habit and the Phenomenology of Sleep"
Concurrent Panel 1
Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University
David Brubaker, Lyme, CT
"Eye and Mind: Cezanne's Postmodern Color"
Vesela Stetenovic, Syracuse University
"The Dialectic of Nature and Culture in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy and Robert Smithson's Art"
Concurrent Panel 2
Moderator: Sara Heinamaa, University of Helsinki
Anna Petronella Fredlund, Stockholm University
"Merleau-Ponty on Cezanne, Nature and Expression"
Paul Kidder, Seattle University
"Kandinsky's Confidence"
Concurrent Session 3
Moderator: Carol Powley, University of Colorado-Boulder
Romano Khan, Universita degli Studi di Siena
"Knowledge and the Temporal Cliff of the Flesh"
Concurrent Session 4
Moderator: Peter McGuire Wolf, University of Portland
Kathrin Stengel, Universitat Konstanz
"Anthropological Space and Naturraum: Revealing Tensions"
Moderator: Paul Milan, Seattle University
Refael Gely, Universite Catholique de Louvain
"Phenomenology and Science in Merleau-Ponty's Lectures on Nature"
Moderator: Deborah Mullen, Christopher Newport University
Gail Weiss, George Washington University
"Ecart: The Space of Corporeal Difference"
Moderator: Sara Barry, SUNY Binghamton
Elizabeth Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body
"The Concept of Nature and the Practice of Peace: Contributions to a Phenomenology of Fluid Situations, Improvisational Comportment, and Deep Change"
Invited Lecture
Moderator: Tom Davis, Whitman College
Mauro Carbone, Universita degli Studi di Milano
"La Nature: Variations on the Theme"
Merleau-Ponty Circle,
21st Annual International Conference
September 19-21, 1996
Leonard Lawlor, Conference Director
Sessions I-III: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of History
Moderator: John Drabinsky, Christopher Newport University
Tito Palmeiro, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
"Merleau-Ponty's Path of Thought and the History of Philosophy"
Moderator: John Drabinsky, Christopher Newport University
Eleanor Godway, Concordia College
"Expression, Perception, and the History of Philosophy: The Challenge of Histoire Sacree"
Moderator: Susan Poppe, Concordia College
Christopher Nagel, Duquesne University
"Hegelianism in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of History"
Sessions IV-VI:
Moderator: Bettina Bergo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Antje Kapust, Ruhr Universitat
"Tout visible est taille dans le tangible"
Duane Davis, Ball State University
"This, That, and the Other: La Nature, Bodies, and Flesh"
Session VII: Invited Lecture
Moderator: Leonard Lawler, University of Memphis
Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY at Stony Brook
"Is Merleau-Ponty Inside or Outside the History of Philosophy?"
Session I:
Moderator: James Hatley, Salisbury State University
Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University
"Embedded Eye: Merleau-Ponty and the Place of Perception in the History of Philosophy"
Sessions II-III:
Susan Cataldi, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
"Embodying Perceptions of Death Emotional Apprehension and the Reversibilities of Flesh"
Moderator: Ernest Sherman, Pace University
Steven M. Rosen, The College of Staten Island
"How Intimate the Flesh?"
Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College
"Intermodal Perception: Envisioning a New Answer to the Molyneux Problem with Considerations that Touch upon Merleau-Ponty"
Carolin Woolson, Binghamton University
"On the Innocence of the Painter and the Question of Privilege"
Session VI: Cancelled
Session VII: Invited Lecture
Moderator: Dorothea Olkowski, Univ. of CO. at Colorado Springs
Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
"The Invisible Thing: From Chiasm to the Hyper-real"
Session I-VI: Precursors and Confrontations
Moderator: Phillip Maloney, University of Memphis
Lisa Bellantoni, Vanderbilt University
"From Kant to Merleau-Ponty: The World Made Flesh"
Glen Mazis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
"Using Merleau-Ponty to read Bachelard's Implied Sense of Perception"
Moderator: Theodore Toadvine, University of Memphis
Charles Shepherdson, Pembroke Center, Brown University
"A Pound of Flesh: Lacan's Reading of The Visible and the Invisible"
Moderator: Gary Aylesworth, Eastern Illinois University
John Protevi, University of Warwick
"Sensing Death: Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger on Mortality and Embodiment"
Linda Fisher, University of Windsor
"Consciousness Incarnate: Perceptual Consciousness and the Body in Merleau-Ponty and Husserl"
Moderator: William S. Hamrick, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Fred Evans, Duquesne University
"'Solar Love'" Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and the Fortunes of Perception"
Session VII: Special Guest Lecture
Moderator: Michael Smith, Berry College
Renaud Barbaras, Universite de Paris-Sorbonne
"Perception and Movement: The End of the Metaphysical Approach"
Merleau-Ponty Circle
20th Annual International Conference September 21-23, 1995 Duquesne University
Fred Evans, Conference Director
Sessions I-III: Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Irigaray/Deleuze/ Spivak Moderator: Deborah Mullen, Christopher Newport University Diane Enns, Carleton University, "Who Will Listen? Understanding the Silent Life of Dialogue" David Brubaker, University of Connecticut, Stamford "Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray: The Visible and the Tactile" Moderator: Duane H. Davis, Wabash College Helen Fielding, York University "Of Phantasms and Series: A Critique of Deleuze's Surface Body" Sessions IV-VI: Merleau-Ponty and Non-Verbal Languages: Environment/Geometry/ Music Moderator: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island David Abram, New Mexico "In the Landscape of Language" Lawrence and Marjorie Hass, Muhlenberg Collge "Merleau-Ponty and the Origin of Geometry" Moderator: Glen Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg John Murungi, Towson State University "Merleau-Ponty and African Drumming" Session VII: Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Contemporary Feminism Moderator: Iris Marion Young, University of Pittsburgh Invited Speaker: Tina Chanter, University of Memphis "Wild Meaning: Irigaray's Reading of Merleau-Ponty" Sessions I-II: Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Levinas Moderator: Michael B. Smith, Berry Collge James Hatley, Salisbury State University "Recursion, Incarnation and Chiasmic Flash: Two Readings of Paul Celan's 'Chymisch'" Richard S. Findler, Slippery Rock University "Saying in Reversibility and Substitution: Language and Its Relation to Alterity in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas" Sessions III: Merleau-Ponty and the Language of Art I Moderator: Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame Martin C. Dillon, SUNY at Binghamton "Truth and Art: Homage to Merleau-Ponty and John McCarty" John McCarty, University of Maryland "A Sculptor's Response" Sessions IV-V: Merleau-Ponty and Corporeal Communication Moderator: Kathleen Haney, University of Houston Janice McClane, Morgan State University "Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Gestures of Violence" Gail Weiss, George Washington University "Body Image Intercourse: A Corporeal Dialogue Between Merleau-Ponty and Schilder" Session VI: Merleau-Ponty and the Language of Art II Moderator: Carolin Woolson, SUNY Binghamton Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Warhol's Chiasms" Session VII: Merleau-Ponty and the Language of Landscape Perception Moderator: Fred Evans, Duquesne University Invited Speaker, Edward S. Casey, SUNY Stony Brook "The World at a Glance" Sessions I-III: Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Saussure/Husserl/ Heidegger Moderator:Anthony Steinbock, Southern IL Univ. at Carbondale David Koukal, Duquesne University "The Unfulfilled Silence: The Problem of Linguistic Innovation in Merleau-Ponty" Pierre Kerszberg, Pennsylvania State University, "Misunderstanding the Other" Moderator: Dorothea Olkowski, Univ. of CO. at Colorado Springs Wilhelm S. Wurzer, Duquesne University "'We, Now'in Merleau-Ponty's Ecart and Heidegger's Differenz" Sessions IV-VI: Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Derrida Moderator: Eleanor Godway, Central Connecticut State University Geraldine Finn, Carleton University "What is Writing?" George Trey, Saint Mary's College "Getting Spooked by Communism: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on the Ghosts of Marx" Moderator: Eui Geun Ryu, Pusan Women's University/SUNY Buffalo Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis "Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophy of Difference" Session VII: Merleau-Ponty and Hermeneutics Moderator: Bernard Dauenhauer, University of Georgia Special Guest Speaker: Jean Greisch, Institut de Paris "Eloge de la philosophie: A Hermeneutical Rereading" Merleau-Ponty Circle
19th Annual International Conference September 22-24, 1994 5021 Berry College Michael Smith, Conference Coordinator
SESSION I: The Political: Merleau-Ponty Today
Moderator: David McKenzie, Berry College Michael Mitts, Florida State University "Existential Dialectic: Usher to the Post-Machiavellian Generation" Helen Fielding, York University "Grounding Agency in Depth: The Implications of Merleau-Ponty's Thought for the Politics of Feminism" Boris Belay, SUNY Stony Brook "Merleau-Ponty and the Reopening of the Political" SESSION II: Ontology: Conceptual Contours Moderator: Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University Ernest Sherman, Pace University "The Depth of Unknowing" Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island "Inside and Outside: Ontological Considerations" SESSION III: Expression: Linguistic, Narrative and Kinetic Moderator: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University John Robinson-Appels, Rutgers University "Movement Expressivity in Phenomenologie de la Perception" Diane Enns, Carleton University "'We Flesh': The Body Beloved" Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado "Expression and Inscription at the Origins of Language" DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Introduction: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island Frederick A. Olafson, U.C., San Diego "Social Being in Existential Phenomenology" SESSION IV: Political Theory and Historical Analysis Moderator: Elsebet Jegstrup, Augusta college Christopher Nagel, Duquesne University "Merleau-Ponty on Ambiguity and Political Commitment" J. Barry, Indiana University Southeast "Merleau-Ponty and David Rousset: The Crises of Camps and Conscience" Fred J. Evans, Duquesne University "Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard and the Basis of Political Thought" Bernard Dauenhauer, University of Georgia "Merleau-Ponty and the Task of Political Amelioration" SESSION V: Alterity and Community Moderator: Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College Ted Toadvine, Memphis State University "Wonder and the Abyss: Radical Interrogation and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty" Irene Klaver, SUNY Stony Brook "Community and Singularity" Eleanor Godway, Central Connecticut State University "Dehiscence and the Seed: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy as a Way to Articulate Traditions of the Society of Friends" SESSION VI: Intentionality and Ethics Moderator: Duane Davis, Xavier University Tony Steinbock, University of New Hampshire "Merleau-Ponty, Husserl and Saturated Intentionality" Robert Vallier, DePaul University "Chora, the Maternal Flesh: On the Anachrony of the Elemental" Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Sex, Love, and Natural Law Morality" SESSION VII: Telluric and Nietzschean Readings Moderator: Kazashi Nobuo, Hiroshima City University David Martinez, SUNY at Stony Brook "THERE'S ALWAYS THE SUN: Cezanne's Doubt and the Affirmations of Tamayo" Glen A. Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg "The Spirituality of the Flesh or, Rather...Celebratory Carnalism!"
Deborah C. Mullen, Christopher Newport University "Values in the Flesh: The Moment of Responsive Creation" Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Ecartez les differences: Reading Difference in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" Eldon C. Wait, University of Zululand "The Computer Analogy and Merleau-Ponty's Notion of 'Body Intentionality' in the Behavioral Sciences" 18th Annual International Conference September 23-25, 1993 Muhlenberg College Lawrence Hass, Conference Coordinator SESSION I Chair:TBA Anthony J. Steinbock, SUNY Stony Brook "Dancing in Depth: Movement in the Vertical Dimension" Deborah C. Mullen, SUNY Binghamton "Reversibility and Mirror-Play: Truth Merleau-Ponty" SESSION II Chair: TBA Glen Edwards McGee, Vanderbilt University "Merleau-Pontean Ethics? Intimations of a Different Phenomenology of Value" SESSION III Chair: TBA Glen Mazis, Penn State University, Harrisburg "The Moving Earth: Founding Decenteredness, Unending Passage and the Wandering Flesh" Richard A. Cohen, University of Alabama "Merleau-Ponty and (Christian) Religion" SESSION IV Chair: TBA James Morley, St. Joseph's College "Epigenesis and Ontogenesis: Dialogue between Merleau- Ponty's Ontology and Eric Erikson's Developmental Theory" Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Love" SESSION V Chair: Gail Weiss, George Washington University Invited Speaker: Nancy J. Holland, Hamline University "In a Different Ch[i]asm: A Feminist ReReading of Merleau-Ponty on Sexuality" SESSION VI Chair: TBA Philip J. Maloney, Memphis State University "Motility and Truth: the Body in Dewey and Merleau- Ponty" Andrew Bjelland, Boston College "The Outward Clash and the Flesh of the World" John E. Drabinski, Memphis State University "The Purity of Lived Experience in James and Merleau- Ponty" SESSION VII Chair: TBA Michael Smith, Berry College "Was Merleau-Ponty Really Interested in Politics?" Tom Busch, Villanova University "Husserl and Merleau-Ponty: From Heroic Reason to Tragic Liberalism" SESSION VIII Chair: TBA Robert J. Morrison, University of Toronto "Merleau-Ponty and Literary Language" Invited Speaker: Rudi Visker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, "'My Name is no Body': Merleau-Ponty's Last Subject" SESSION IX Chair: John Compton, Vanderbilt University Invited Speaker: Hubert L. Dre "Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Husserl's (and Searle's) Concept of Intentionality" SESSION XI Chair: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island Veronique Foti, Penn State University "The Evidences of Painting: Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Abstraction" Monika Langer, University of Victoria "Revisiting "Cezanne's Doubt" and "The Film and the New Psychology"" SESSION XII Chair: TBA Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "The Restitution of Visibility: Derrida and Merleau- Ponty" John M. Carvalho, Villanova University "Folds in the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty/Foucault" SESSION XIII Chair: TBA Dorothea Olkowski, Univ of CO at Colorado Springs "Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenal Body, Irigaray's Becoming- Woman and te Simulacra" Invited Speaker: Alphonso Lingis, Penn State University "TBA"
Merleau-Ponty Circle
17th Annual International Conference September 24-27, 1992 Saint Joseph College Martin Snyder, Provost
SESSION I Chair: James Etzwillier, Saint Joseph College William Melaney, SUNY StonyBrook "Painting and the Aesthetic Doublet: Contexts for "L'Oeil et L'Espirit"" Earnest Sherman, Pace University "Re-membering Narcissus: Death and the Rebirth of the Flesh" SESSION II Chair: Gary Spear, Wesleyan University Chantel Deschamps, University of Ottowa, Canada "The Experience of Chaos: How Embodiment gives Birth to the Work of Art" Samuel Mallin, York University "Drawing Out Prehistory: Archaic Sculptural Thought" SESSION III Chair: Denis Barone, Saint Joseph College Michael Alfano, PolyTechnic University "Toward and Ethics of Embodiment: Implications for Technology" John T. Sanders, Rochester Institute of Technology, "Merleau-Ponty, Gibson, and the Materiality of Meaning" SESSION IV Chair: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island Eleanor Godway, Central Connecticut State University, "Structuralism and Metaphysics: An Illustration of Merleau-Ponty's Account" Glen Mazis, Penn State University-Harrisburg, "The Oneiric Power of the Flesh, the Primacy of Perception, and the Postmodernist Repressive Obscuring of the Ordinary" SESSION V Chair: Michael B. Smith, Berry College Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Decrypting Desire: Beyond the Postmodern Blues" SESSION VI Chair: John Smurthwaite, University of Hartford James Kidd, University of San Francisco "On Gestural Meaning in Acts of Expression" Anthony Steinbock, SUNY StonyBrook "Reflections on Earth and World: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Geology and History" SESSION VII Chair: Michael Walsh, University of Hartford Irene Klaver, SUNY Stony Brook "Always Already Rhythm" Kazashi Nobuo, Yale University "Vision of Echo-sistence: Art in the Phenomenology of the Social World by Merleau-Ponty and Schutz" Michael Smith, Berry College "Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Painting" SESSION VIII Chair: Drew Hyland, Trinity College Kurt Keller, Institute of Computer and System Sciences, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark "Sociality and Intentionality" Soichi Matsuba, University of Doshisha, Kyoto, Japan "The Possibility of Coexistence with others: A Study of Merleau-Ponty's (1948) Mexican Lectures" SESSION IX Chair: Larry Davidson, Yale University Helen Fielding, York University, Toronto, Canada "Envisioning the Other: Lacan and Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity" Larry Hass, Muhlenberg College "Gestalt and Alterity: A Defense of Merleau-Ponty's Reversibility Thesis" SESSION X Chair: Dorothea Olkowski, Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs Hugh Silverman, SUNY at Stony Brook "Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and the Inscription of the Cinematic Image" SESSION XI Chair: Marcia Moen, University of Hartford Burkhard Liebsch, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (invited speaker) "Merleau-Ponty in Epistemological Perspective" SESSION XII Chair: Forest Williams, University of Colorado James Phillips, Yale University "From the Unseen to the Invisible: Merleau-Ponty's Sorbonne Lectures as Preparation for his Later Thought" SESSION XIII Chair: Louis Sass, Rutgers University Guy Widdershoven, Rijksuniversiteit "The Story of Life: A Hermeneutic Perspective" SESSION XIV Chair: John Foehl, Harvard University David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University "Merleau-Ponty, the Unconscious, and Psychoanalytic Practice" Edward Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook "The Unconscious Mind and the Prereflective Body" SESSION XV Chair: Etzel Cardena, Trinity College Christopher Aanstoos, West Georgia College(invited speaker) "If I cut off these three toes, I'll be a Ninja Turtle: Imaginative Embodiment and Developmental Psychology" SESSION XVI Chair: Thomas Knee, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Bertha Mook, University of Ottawa (invited speaker) "Imaginative Play in Child Psychotherapy: The Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Thought" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 16th Annual International Conference September 19-21, 1991 University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Dorothea Olkowski, Conference Director SESSION I: Moderator: Mary Ann Cutter, Univ of CO at Colorado Springs James Morley, St. Joseph's College "Reversibility in the Daydream Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College "Merleau-Ponty and Cartesian Skepticism: Exorcising the Demon" SESSION II: Moderator: John Riker, Colorado College Eleanor Godway, Central Connecticut State University "Wild Being, the Pre-Predicative and Expression: How Merleau-Ponty Uses Phenomenology to Develop an Ontology" Greg Swartzentruber, Temple University "Two Ontologies: Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer" SESSION III: Moderator: John Compton, Vanderbilt University Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University "Merleau-Ponty's Genesis of Depth and the Aristotelian Powers of the Soul" Michael Smith, Berry College "Transcendence in Merleau-Ponty" SESSION IV: Moderator: Forrest Wiliams, University of Colorado at Boulder Book Session-Merleau-Ponty, Text and Dialogues, Humanities Press Papers: Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY at Stony Brook
Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island Commentator: Jay Barry, Indiana University, South East SESSION V: Moderator: Frederic Bender, Univ. of CO at Colorado Springs Elizabeth Morrison, University of Leuven "The Implicit Philosophy of Psychoanalysis" David Abram, Tesuque, New Mexico "Animism and the Ecology of Perception" SESSION VI: Moderator: Dorothea Olkowski, Univ. of CO at Colorado Springs Invited Speaker: Marc Richir, Free University of Brussels "Community, Society and History in the Last Merleau-Ponty" Commentator: Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame SESSION VII: Moderator: Raphael Sassower, Univ of CO at Colorado Springs Glen Mazis, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg "Chaos Theory, the Primacy of Perception Reiterated, and the Death of the Father" Martin Dillon, SUNY at Binghamton "The Unconscious: Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida" SESSION VIII: Moderator: Cheryl Cole, Univ of CO at Colorado Springs Invited Speaker: Alfonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University "Sedimented Organisms" Commentator: Gayle Ormiston, Kent State University SESSION IX: Moderator: John McCumber, Northwestern University William Melany, SUNY at Stony Brook "Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language: An Interpretation of the Early Standpoint" Tom Busch, Villanova University "Ethics and Reversibility" SESSION X: Moderator: Honi Fern Haber, University of Colorado at Denver Invited Speaker: Elizabeth Grosz, University of Sydney "Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray in the Flesh" Commentator: Catherine Wiley, University of CO at Denver SESSION XI: Moderator: Steven Laycock, University of Toledo Robert Crease, SUNY at Stony Brook "The Primacy of Performance" Eugene Gendlin, University of Chicago "The Primacy of the Body in and After Language" Madeleine Grumet, Brooklyn College "The Body Subject and the Performance of Understanding" Commentator: David Levin, Northwestern University MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 15th Annual International Conference September 13-15, 1990 Penn State - University Park Campus Veronique M. Foti, Program Director SESSION I Moderator: TBA Anthony J. Steinbock, SUNY Stony Brook "Totalitarianism, Homegeneity of Power, Depth: Towards an Ontology of the Political" SESSION II Moderator: TBA Earnest Sherman, Pace University "We Can: Merleau-Ponty's Rethinking of All Thinking" SESSION III Moderator: Willa SIlverman, Penn State Michael B. Smith, Berry College "The Human: Homeland of our Thought" SESSION IV Moderator: Joseph J. Kockelmans, Penn State Martin C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Merleau-Ponty and Postmodernity" SESSION V Moderator: Joseph C. Flay, Penn State Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College "The Hermeneutics of Ambiguity" SESSION VI Moderator: Stephen Waton, University of Notre Dame Hugh Silverman, SUNY StonyBrook "Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard" SESSION VII Moderator: Harold Schweizer, Bucknell University Wayne Froman, George Mason University "At the Limits of Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" SESSION VIII Moderator: TBA Commentator: Edwin Jones, Villanova University Lawrence Hass, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign "The Antinomy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty and Causal Representation Theory" SESSION IX Moderator: TBA Commentator: Joseph P. McGinn, Penn State Henry Pietersma, University of Toronto "Merleau-Ponty and the Unity of Being" SESSION X Moderator: TBA Commentator: Robert Switzer, Queens Univ of Kingston, Ontario Duane H. Davis, Penn State "The Behavior of Structure" SESSION XI Moderator: Jack Wood, Penn State Commentator: Mark Yount, St. Joseph's College John Carvalho, Villanova University "The Visible and the Invisible in Merleau-Ponty and Foucault" SESSION XII: First Session on Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Painting Speakers: Karen Kosasa, Univ of Hawaii, Manoa, The Dante Painters, NYC, Linda Gentile, Peter Pinchbeck, Richard Pugliese, Edwin Ruda, Joseph Waltentini "Artists on Their Work" SESSION XIII Moderator: TBA Commentator: TBA Patrick Bourgeois and Sandra Rosenthal, Loyola Univ of New Orleans "The World of Language: Merleau-Ponty and Mead" SESSION XIV Moderator: Dorothea Olkowski, Univ of CO at Colorado Springs Commentator: Peter McCormick, Univ of Ottawa Glen Mazis, St Lawrence University "Matter, Dream, and the Murmurs Among Things" SESSION XV Moderator: Vera Mark, Penn State Commentator: David Farrell Krell, DePaul University Joel Shapiro, DePaul University "A Phenomenology of Risk" SESSION XVI Moderator: Jean Claude Vuillemin, Penn State Commentator: Cyril Dwiggins, Dickinson College Alphonso Lingis, Penn State "The Seas That Rise With My Tears" SESSION XVII Moderator: TBA Commentator: Phillips E. Young, Penn State Elizabeth Behnke "Study Project in the Phenomenology of the Body" Mary Alice Roche, Sensory Awareness Foundation "The Lucidly Lived Body" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 14th Annual International Conference September 21-23, 1989 Canisius College SESSION I Moderator: Paul Santilli, Siena College Eileen Rizo-Patron, SUNY Binghamton "The Problem of Origins in Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty Michael Ruse, SUNY Stony Brook "Sunchronic and Diachronic Approaches to Language: A Methodological Synthesis" SESSION II Moderator: Brian Miclot, St. Ambrose College Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University "Perceptual Faith and the Two Faces of Skepticism" SESSION III Moderator: John Abbarno, D'Youville College Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University "Chiasms" SESSION IV Moderator: James McDermott, Canisius College Kazashi Nobuo, Yale University "Bodily Fields as the Historical Horizon for Expressive Acts: An Essay toward a Comparative Study of Merleau- Ponty, James, (and Nishida)" Steven W. Laycock, University of Toledo "The Lotus and the Chiasm: A Buddhist Revisioning of Merleau-Pontyan Monism" SESSION V Panel: Between Merleau-Ponty and Post-Modernism Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton Gary Madison, McMaster University Hugh Silverman, SUNY at Stony Brook Chair: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island SESSION VI Moderator: J. Barry, Indiana University-Southeastern Jeffrey Gaines, SUNY at Stony Brook "Body/Habit/History: A Meditation through Merleau- Ponty" Jacqueline Fox, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan "Dance in a Sightless World" SESSION VII Moderator: John Burkey, Siena College S. Malin, York University "The Swirl in Minoan Art and Nazcan Pottery" SESSION VIII Moderator: Kah Kyung Cho, SUNY Buffalo Thomas Busch, Villanova University "Perception, Finitude, and Transgression: A Note on Ricoeur and Merleau-Ponty" Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University "Addressing the Flesh: Teaching Carnal Subjects" Michael Yeo, Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values "Perceiving the Other as Ethical Task" SESSION IX Panel: Merleau-Ponty, Post-Modernism and Politics Geraldine Finn, University of Ottawa Eleanor Godway, Central Connecticut State University Derek Taylor, York University Chair: Jerry Gaines, Xavier University SESSION X: Invited Lecture Introduction: Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame Gianni Vattimo, Universita Degli Studi di Torino "The Ontology of Actuality" SESSION XI Moderator: Mark Yount, St. Joseph's University Terrence Wright, Mount St. Mary's College "Changing the Subject: Merleau-Ponty and Post- Modernism" Yifat Hachamovitch, Colorado College "Heavy Water: Bataille and Merleau-Ponty on the Religious Body" SESSION XII Moderator: Glen Mazis, St. Lawrence University Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University "Phantom Equator" Edwin Jones, Villanova University "Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne's Reading of the Book of Nature" SESSION XIII: Matchette Foundation Lecture Introduction: Dennis Schmidt, SUNY Binghamton Jacques Taminiaux, Louvain-la-Neuve and Boston college "The Thinker and the Painter" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 13th Annual International Conference September 15-17, 1988 Villanova University SESSION I: A: THE PLACE OF REASON Moderator: Anthony Godziebs, Catholic University of America Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University "Re-thinking the Rationlists: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in Merleau-Ponty's Later Thought" Ernest Sherman, Pace University "Merleau-Ponty's Topos-Logos" B: FREUD/LACAN Moderator: Carol W. Anthony, Villanova University P. Christopher Westra, McMaster University "Merleau-Ponty's Freudian Turn" Stephen Michelman, SUNY Stony Brook "Narcissism and the Fate of the Other: The Early Constitution of the Psyche in Lacan and Merleau- Ponty" SESSION II: A: AESTHETICS Moderator: Barbara E. Wall, O.P., Villanova University Phillips Young, Pennsylvania State University "Embodiment and Kinaesthetic Power: Merleau-Ponty and the Aesthetics of Dance" Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island "The Absence of Picasso: Merleau-Ponty and Malraux" B: LANGUAGE/WRITING
Moderator: Kathleen Wright, Haverford College Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "The Text of the Speaking Subject: From Merleau-Ponty to Kristeva" Michael Smith, Barry College "Merleau-Ponty as Writer SESSION III A: SPACE Moderator: TBA Edward Casey, SUNY Stony Brook "On the Sensation of the Voluminous" David Pettigrew, SUNY Stony Brook "Space as Problematic in Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger" B: REVERSIBILITY
Moderator: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University Glen A. Mazis, Wesleyan University "Merleau-Ponty and the 'Backward Flow' of time: The Temporality of Reversibility and the Reversibility of Temporality" Duane Davis, Pennsylvania State University "Reversible Subjectivity: The Problem of Transcendence and Language" SESSION IV: Moderator: Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame Speaker: Jacques Taminiaux, Boston College SESSION V A: MERLEAU-PONTY IN DIALOGUE I Moderator: Joseph Betz, Villanova University Kazashi Nobuo, Yale University "On the Notions of 'Flesh' and 'Pure Experience': Merleau-Ponty and James on Perception and Conception" Catherine W. Kaha, University of Illinois "Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and the Poetic Gastalt" Patrick L. Bourgeois, Loyola University "Merleau-Ponty, Scientific Method, and pragmatism" B: KNOWLEDGE
Moderator: Hugh Lacey, Swarthmore College Tony O'Connor, University College (Cork) "Intentionality, Ontology, and Empirical Thought" John Compton, Vanderbilt University "Merleau-Ponty's Thesis of the Primacy of Percpetion and the Meaning of Scientific Objectivity" Jeffrey Turner, Bucknell "Empirical Skepticism and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception" SESSION VI A: MERLEAU-PONTY IN DIALOGUE II Moderator: Alreen Dallery, LaSalle University Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College "Language and Imperfect Consensus: Merleau-Ponty's Contribution to the Habermas-Gadamer Debate" Frederic Bender, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs "The Phenomenology of Perception as a Text of Hegelian Marxism" B: MERLEAU-PONTY AND DERRIDA
Moderator: Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Temporality: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" Mark Yount, St. Joseph University "Two Reversibilities: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" SESSION VII A: MERLEAU-PONTY IN DIALOGUE III
Moderator: John A. Doody, Villanova University Dorothea Olkowski-Laetz, College of Charleston "Merleau-Ponty and Bergson: The Character of the Phenomenal Field" Patrick Burke, Seattle University "Merleau-Ponty and the new Biology: The Importance of Raymond Ruyer" B: PERCEPTION/TRANSCENDENCE
Moderator: Charles Dyke, Temple University Gary Madson, McMaster University "Does Merleau-Ponty Have a Philosophy of Perception" Wayne Froman, George Mason University "Ciphers of Transcendence" SESSION VIII Moderator: John Caputo, Villanova University Joseph Margolis, Temple University "Overcoming Philosophical Strabism and Philosophical Diplopia" SESSION IX A: BODY/POLITICS Moderator: John Cavalho, Villanova University Panos Alexakos, Pennsylvania State University "Homo Faber" Algis Mickunas, Ohio University "Merleau-Ponty: Discourse of the Anonymous Body" George Free, York University "On the Politics of Expression" B: THEMES FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION Moderator: Terrence Wright, Bryn Mawr College Clifford Hancock, Ohio University "Getting a Grip on Depth" Gail Weiss, Yale University "Context and Perspective" James Buchanan, University of Akron "Merleau-Ponty's Shoemaker" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 12th Annual International Conference September 17-19, 1987 The University of Rhode Island Galen A. Johnson, Conference Coordinator SESSION I: Signs, Language, Logic, Texts
Moderator: Patrick Bourgeois, Loyola University Gary Madison, McMaster University/University of Toronto "Merleau-Ponty's Deconstruction of Logocentrism" Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Merleau-Ponty and Derrida: Writing on Writing" SESSION II: Origins of Truth Moderator: Lynn Pasquerella, URI Henry Pietersma, Victoria College, Univ of Toronto "Carnal Knowledge" Don Ihde, SUNY Stony Brook "Merleau-Ponty and the move to Non-Foundational Phenomenology" SESSION III: Reversibility: Mirrors and Magic Moderator: Betsy Behnke, The California Center for Jean Gebser Studies David Levin, Northwestern University "Visions of Narcissism: Freud, Descartes, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty" Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University "The Opening of Vision: Response of Levin" Ernest Sherman, Pace University "Merleau-Ponty and the Trickster: Philosophy as the Mytho-Logos of Ambiguity" SESSION IV: Merleau-Ponty and the Irrational Moderator: Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Abyss and Logos" Patrick Burke, Seattle University "Listening at the Abyss" SESSION V: Aesthetics: Gesture and Style Moderator: Ira Kuhn, URI Carol Bigwood, York University "Seeing Blake's Illuminated Books" Michael B. Smith, Berry College "The role of Proust's 'notions without equivalent' in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology" Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame "Merleau-Ponty: Transcendental Imagination and Body- Schema" SESSION VI: Persons, Power, Persuasion Moderator: Gail Weiss, Yale University Richard Lanigan, Southern Illinois University "The Algebra of History: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on the Rhetoric of the Person" Merold Westphal, Fordham University "Situation and Suspicion in the Thought of Merleau- Ponty: The Question of Phenomenology and Politics" SESSION VII: Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Moderator: Dennis Schmidt, SUNY Binghamton Joseph Flay, Pennsylvania State University "Merleau-Ponty and hegel: Radical Essentialism" Richard McCleary, Old Dominion University "What's the Sense of Philosophy?" DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Moderator: Fritz Wenisch, URI Introduction: Bernard Flynn, Empire State College SUNY Claude Lefort, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Centre D'Etudes Transdisciplinaires: Sociologie, Anthropologie, Politique. Paris, France "Flesh and Otherness (Chair et alterite)" SESSION VIII: Selfhood and Alterity Moderator: Ken Liberman, University of Oregon Lawrence Hass, University of Illinois "Consideration of Merleau-Ponty and the Value of the Other" Wayne Froman, George Mason University "Alterity and the Paradox of Being" Robert Bernasconi, University of Essex "Levinas and the Trace of Merleau-Ponty" SESSION IX: Earth, Dwelling, Place Moderator: C.B. Peters, URI Monika Langer, University of Victoria "Merleau-Ponty and Deep Ecology" J. Barry, SUNY Stony Brook "The Primacy of Perception and the Proper Place of Things" David Abram, SUNY Stony Brook "Time and Space: Animal Objections and Topological Reflections" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 11th Annual International Conference September 18-21, 1986 University of Notre Dame Stephen Watson, Conference Coordinator MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERATURE: The Prose of the World
Moderator: Wayne Froman, George Mason University Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Discourse and Language in Merleau-Ponty and Foucault" Dorothea Olkowski, College of Charleston "The Prose of the World: A Lover's Discourse?" MERLEAU-PONTY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE SELF SESSION I: Moderator: Lee Hardy, Calvin College Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island "Merleau-Ponty and Piaget: A Street Away, A World Apart" Glen A. Mazis, Wesleyan University "Merleau-Ponty, Inhabitation and the Emotions" SESSION II: Moderator: Michael Smith, Berry college Elizabeth McMillan, Catholic Health Associates, St. Louis "Female Difference in the Texts of Merleau-Ponty" Carole Spitzak, William S. Sinda, Tulane University "Power Discourse and the (For)Closure of Self Knowledge" MERLEAU-PONTY AND FILM STUDIES Moderator: Gerald Bruns, University of Notre Dame Dudley Andrew, University of Iowa "Sensation, Perception, Histoire: Ca C'est Du Cinema:" THE RETRIEVAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE Moderator: Jeffrey Turner, Bucknell University Henry Pietersma, University of Toronto "Merleau-Ponty and Spinoza" Patrick Burke, Seattle University "Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Schnelling" Ann Ashbaugh, Colgate University "Merleau-Ponty and the Concept of Nature" INTERPRETATION AND COMMUNICATION Session I, Moderator: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University Tom Busch, Villanova University "Perception, Perspectivism, and Interpretation: Another Look at Phenomenology of Perception" George Free, York University "The Transformation of Communicative Practice in Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" Session II, Moderator: Fred Crosson, University of Notre Dame John O'Neill, York University "The Textual Cogito" J. Barry, SUNY Stony Brook "Incorporating Writing in the Idea of Flesh" PANEL DISCUSSION: Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy: A Fore-Gone Conclusion? Moderator: Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton Participants: Robert Bernasconi, University of Essex
John Caputo, Villanova University Alphonso Lingis, Penn State University John O'Neill, York University
Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook AISTHETIKOS AND AESTHETICS Moderator: David Levin, Northwestern University Elizabeth Behnke, CA Center for Jean Gebser Studies "Meditation on a Kinetic Melody" Fabio Dasilva, Allan Hunchuk, University of Notre Dame "Everywhere and Nowhere: On John Cage and Maurice Merleau-Ponty" Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University "Eye and Mind: Beyond the Aesthetic" THE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE HORIZONS OF THEORY Session I, Moderator: Paul Jacobson, St. Ambrose College Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College "Institutional Decadence and Existential Analysis" Session II, Moderator: Fred Dallmayr, Univ. of Notre Dame Sonia Kruks, The New School for Social Research "Simone de Beauvoir: Between Sartreand Merleau-Ponty" John F. Burke, Southwest Texas State University "Arendt and Merleau-Ponty: On Human Freedom" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 10th Annual International Conference September 26-28, 1985 Southern Illinois University Richard L. Lanigan, Chair A PHENOMENOLOGY OF PHENOMENOLOGY
Moderator: Garth Gillian, SIU Martin C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Merleau-Ponty and the Transcendence of Immanence: Overcoming the Ontology of Consciousness" Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Hermeneutics and Interrogation" SEMIOTIC PHENOMENOLOGY Moderator: Stephen Watson, University of Texas Gail Weiss, Yale University "Gesture, Expression, and communication: A Study in the Thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and George Herbert Mead" Algis Mickunas, Ohio University "Merleau-Ponty in Greimes' Semiotics" Michael B. Smith, Berry College "Some Pedagogical Implications of Merleau-Ponty's Description of Language" CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Hans Rudnick, SIU
Speaker: Dr. Prof. Elmar Holenstein, Ruhr University, Bochum "Machine Knowledge and Human Perception: Representation and Intuition" ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND PHENOMENOLOGY Moderator: Edward Casey, SUNY Stony Brook Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College "A Critique of Autonomous Technology: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Argument Reconsidered" Michael Presnell, Tulane University "Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Mind-Body Dialectic: A Critique of Computational Theories of Mind" Stephan T. Mayo, Molloy College "Exorcizing the Tacit Homunculus: A comparison of Daniel Dennett and Merleau-Ponty" Catherine W. Kaha, Univ. of IL-Champaign/Urbana "The Prereflective: To the Other Side of Reason" THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TELEVISION Moderator: Jane Tumas-Serna, Ohio University Eric E. Peterson, University of Maine-Orono "The Child's Relations with Television" Jenny Nelson, SIU "Reruns: Merleau-Ponty and Televisual Perception" THE BODY AND EMBODIMENT Moderator: Thomas J. Pace, SIU Ernest Sherman, Pace University "Good Narcissism or How to Philosophize with the Body" Carole Spitzack, Tulane University "Controlling Body Space: A Case of Disguised Powerlessness" Drew Leder, SUNY Stony Brook "Flesh and Blood" David M. Levin, Northwestern University "The Transpersonal: An Existential Development of Prepersonal Life" Stephen Watson, Notre Dame University "We Must Form a New Idea of Reason: Merleau-Ponty and Phenomen-ology" THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL INTERROGATION OF NATURE Moderator: Stephen T. Tyman, SIU David Abram, Yale University "The perceptual Implications of Gala" Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning "The Later Reflection of Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Nature" THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF ART Moderator: James Jasinski, SIU Anthony J. Steinbock, SUNY Stony Brook "Artist, Revolutionary, Hero" Galen A. Johnson, University of Rhode Island "Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics of History" S. Mallin, York University "The Ontology of the Line through Serra's Sculpture" Robert Burch, University of Alberta "A Reflection on Art and Truth: Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 9th Annual International Conference September 27-29, 1984 Concordia University Dennis O'Connor, Conference Director Moderator: Dallas Laskey, Concordia University H. Pietersma, University of Toronto "Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Knowledge in The Visible And the Invisible" E. Joos, Concordia University "The Ambivalence of Intentionality in Merleau-Ponty's Work" Moderator: Lester Embree, Duquesne University William Hurst, Dominican College "Merleau-Ponty's Concept of the Self: From Ambiguity to the Flesh of the World" Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University "The Embodied Cogito: Weaver of History and Net of Truth" Moderator: Roy Howard, San Diego State University David Krell, University of Essex "Engorged Philosophy II" Bernard Flynn, Empire State College, SUNY "Textuality and Flesh: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty" Moderator: Gary Madison, McMaster University Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Merleau-Ponty's Literary Theory" Deborah Cook, Queen's University "Writing Philosophy and Literature" Moderator: Patricia Athay, SUNY Stony Brook Jeff King, University of Colorado "The Co-Primordiality of Individual and the Social" Theo Geraets, Universite d'Ottawa "Hegel Revisited" Clyde Pax, College of the Holy Cross "Interrogation as Access to History" Moderator: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Foundational Thought" Veronique Foti, The New School for Social Research "Commentary on Foundational Thought" Moderator: Drew Leder, SUNY Stony Brook Glen Mazis, Northern Kentucky University "La Chair et l'imaginaire: The Developing Role of Imagination in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy" Elizabeth Behnke, Center for Jean Gebser Studies "Flesh of the World: A Carnal Introduction" Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College "Body-Image and Body Schema: A Conceptual Clarification" Moderator: Steven Watson, University of Notre Dame Richard Lanigan, Southern Illinois University "Freedom and Field: Merleau-Ponty's Sinnegebung as Semiotic Phenomenology" Linda Singer, Miami University "Eye, Mind and Screen" Thomas Rockmore, Fordham "Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of History" MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 8th Annual International Conference September 29 -October 1, 1983 New School for Social Research Veronique M. Foti, and Allen S. Weiss,
Conference Directors Chair:
Linda Singer, Miami University
Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook
"Text, Discourse, Language"
Mark Roberts, SUNY Stony Brook
"Figures of Desire: the Libidinal Response to Merleau Ponty"
Allen Weiss, CUNY Queens College
"The Other as Muse: On the Ontology and Aesthetics of Narcissism"
Wayne Froman, New York City
"Merleau-Ponty's Interrogation of Perception and
Die Grundprobleme der Phanomenologie"
Chair:
Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University
Patrick Heelan, SUNY Stony Brook
"Visual Spaces: A Study in the Hermeneutic of Perception"
Edith Wyschogrod, CUNY Queens College
"Bodies and Selves: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas"
Chair:
Steven Watson, University of Notre Dame
Drew Leder, SUNY Stony Brook
"Merleau-Ponty and the Critique of Kant"
David Abram, Magician
"Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the View from Inside"
Chair:
John O'Neill, York University
Osborne P. Wiggins, New School for Social Research
"Merleau-Ponty's Ethics"
Sonia Kruks, New School for Social Research
"Marcel and Merleau-Ponty: Concepts of Bodily Being,
Situation, and History"
David Michael Levin, Northwestern University
"Political Economy and the Human Body"
Chair: Edward S. Casey, SUNY Stony Brook
Martin C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton
"Sexual Desire: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty"
Marie-Rose Logan, Rice University
"Merleau-Ponty, Lacan and the Question of the Self"
Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University
"Seppuku"
Chair: Kathleen Wright, Haverford College
Don Ihde, SUNY Stony Brook
"Is There Always Perception?"
Richard Cohen, Pennsylvania State University
"Wild Being"
Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University
"Merleau-Ponty and the tacit cogito"
"Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of History"
MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 7th Annual International Conference October 7-9, 1982 Department of Philosophy M.C. Dillon, Conference Coordinator BODY, DEPTH AND MEMORY Moderator: Stephen David Ross, SUNY Binghamton Edward Casey, SUNY Stony Brook "Habitual Body and Memory" Glen Mazis, Northern Kentucky University "Psyche: The Depth of the World" MERLEAU-PONTY AND POLITICS Moderator: Richard Cohen, Penn State University-Scranton Bernard C. Flynn, Empire State College of SUNY "The Question of an Ontology of the Political" Anthony J. Steinbock, De Paul University "Sexuality as Primordially Disclosive of the Political" Allen S. Weiss, CW Post Center of Long Island University "Ideology and the Problem of Style" Veronique M. Foti, New School for Social Research "Merleau-Ponty on Silence and the Work of Philosophy" Moderator: Dennis Schmidt, SUNY Binghamton Hugh J. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Interrogation and Deconstruction" Moderator: Sonia Kruks
John O'Neill, York University "The Specular Body: Merleau-Ponty and Lacan on Self and Other" Moderator: Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY Binghamton Kenneth Steiner, Stockbridge, Massachusetts "Merleau Ponty and the Talking Cure" Moderator: Irene Byrnes, SUNY Binghamton Xavier O. Monasterio, University of Dayton "The Lived World" Moderator: Thomas J. Froehlich, University of Pittsburgh MERLEAU-PONTY AND STRUCTURALISM Moderator: Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University James M. Edie, Northwestern University "Merleau-Ponty: The Triumph of Dialectic over Structuralism" Gary B. Madison, McMaster University "Is Merleau-Ponty a Forerunner of Structuralism?" Moderator: Susan Cabral, Salisbury State College Maxine Sheets, Johnstone, Philadelphia, PA "Existential Fit and Evolutionary Continuities" MERLEAU-PONTY: MUSIC AND MOVEMENT Moderator: C. Elaine McCoy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Elizabeth A. Behnke, Ca. Center for Jean Gebser Studies "At the Service of the Sonata: Music Lessons with Merleau-Ponty" Linda Singer, Miami University "Dance: The Primordial Expressiveness of the Human Body" Moderator: Peter McCormick, University of Ottawa George A. Schrader, Jr., Yale University "Transcendental Method and Phenomenological Description" Moderator: Christopher Fynsk, SUNY Binghamton John McKennirey, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada "The Place of Subjectivity in the Ontology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty" MERLEAU-PONTY AND PAINTING Moderator: Algis Mickunas, Ohio University Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University "The Visible and the Vision" Stephen Watson, Colgate University "New Readings on Leonardo's 'Painting is Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault" Moderator: David Reeves, Bath University "Towards the Gaze and its Hold on the World" THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MERLEAU-PONTY FOR THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION IN CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY Chair: Amedeo Giorgi, Duquesne University
Speakers: Christopher Aanstoos, Pennsylvania State University at McKeesport "Information Processing and the Phenomenology of Thinking: The Relevance of Merleau-Ponty" Richard Rojcewicz, Duquesne University "The Structure of the Consciousness of the Child: Merleau-Ponty" Frederick J. Wertz, Iona College "The Contemporary Relevance of Merleau-Ponty for Perceptual Theory in Psychology" Discussant: Thomas Cloonan, Marymount College MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 6th Annual International Conference October 22-24, 1981 Colgate University Chair: Cyril Dwiggins, Dickinson College Speaker: Theodore Geraets, University of Ottawa "The Lived Body and The Structure of Philosophy" Commentator: Roland Blum, Colgate University Chair: Gary Madison, MacMaster University Speaker: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University "The Tacit-Cogito and L'Etre Sauvage" Commentator: Stephen Watson, Colgate University Chair: Xavier Monasterio, University of Dayton Speaker: David Abram "In-depth Perception as Improvisation" Commentator: Alphonso LIngis, Pennsylvania State University Chair: Glen Mazis, Northern Kentucky University Speaker: Donald Beere, Central Michigan University
Linden Summers, Colgate University "Changing the Life-World: Methods of Interpersonal Phenomenological Psychotherapy" Chair: Wolfe Mays, University of Manchester Speaker: Martin Dillon "Apriority in Kant and Merleau-Ponty" Commentator: Shawn Gallagher, Canisius College Chair: Kathleen Wright, Haverford College Speaker: Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Cezanne's Mirror Stage" Commentator: James Decker, Nazareth College of Rochester Chair: Lester Embree, Duquesne University Speaker: Algis Mickunas, Ohio University "The Primacy of Expression" Commentator: Allen Weiss, SUNY Stony Brook Chair: Bob Crease, Columbia University Speaker: Osborne Wiggins, Southern Methodist University "Merleau-Ponty on Political Responsibility" Commentator: Dennis Schmidt, Boston College Chair: John Sallis, Duquesne University Speaker: Friedrich Hogemann
"Merleau-Ponty and Husserl" Chair: Phyllis Morris, Hamilton College Speaker: Wolfgang Fuchs, Towson State University "Body and History" Commentator: Thomas Busch, Villanova University MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 5th Annual International Conference September 4-6 1980 The Pennsylvania State University Local Committe:
Chair: Kenneth Steiner, Austen Riggs Center Speaker: Glen Mazis, Louisiana State University "Merleau-Ponty: Eye and Murder" Commentator: Cyril Dwiggins, Dickinson College Chair: Martin Dillon, SUNY Binghamton Speaker: Hwa Yol Jung, Moravian College "The Tuning of Heaven, Man, and Earth: A new Way Ecological Thinking" Commentator: Wolfgang Fuchs, Towson State University Chair: JoAnn Fuchs, Towson State University Speaker: Alexander Gelley, University of California, Irvine "Lyotard and Lacan: Theories of Perception and Language in Merleau-Ponty and Parmenides" Commentator: David Allison, SUNY at Stony Brook Chair: Algis Mickunas, Ohio University Speaker: Veronique Foti, University of Kentucky "Painting and the Re-Orientation of Philosophy in the Thought of Merleau-Ponty" Commentator: John Bannan, Loyola University (Chicago) Chair: Charles E. Scott, Vanderbilt University Speaker: Allen Weiss, Rhode Island School of Design "Aesthetics adn the Quest for the Origin of Meaning" Commentator: David Karnos, Eastern Montana College Chair: Joseph Kockelmans, The Pennsylvania State University Speaker: Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University "The Relationship of Thinking and Being in Merleau- Ponty and Parmenides" Commentator: Bruce Foltz, The Pennsylvaia State University Chair: Geraldine Finn, Cegep de l'Outaouais Heritage Campus Speaker: Richard Lanigan, Southern IL University, Carbondale "Semiotic Phenomenology in Plato's Sophist" Commentator: Hugh Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook Chair: John Sallis, Duquesne Univerisity Speaker: Ernest Sherman, Pace University (Pleasantville) "Merleau-Ponty's Latent Revolution: Genesis and Rebirth of the World-Body" Commentator: Gary Madison, MacMaster University Chair: Osborne Wiggins, New School for Social Research Speaker: Xavier Monasterio, University of Dayton "The Dramatic Character of Experience" Commentator: Richard Cohen, Penn State Univ-Worthington Scranton Campus Chair: Keith Hoeller, The Pennsylvania State University Speaker: James Marsh, St. Louis University "Perception and Reflection" Commentator: James Buchanan, University of Akron Speaker: Richard McCleary, Old Dominion University "Phenomenology and the Education of Imagination" Commentator: Edward Casey, SUNY at Stony Brook MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 4th Annual International Conference October 11-13, 1979 State University of New York at Stony Brook Hugh J. Silverman, Conference Coordinator Chair: James M. Edie, Northwestern University Speaker: Tony O'Connor, University College, Cork, Ireland "Merleau-Ponty and the Problem of the Unconscious" Commentator: Dorothy Olkowski, Duquesne University Chair: Robert Romanyshyn, University of Dallas Speaker: Amedeo Giorgi, Duquesne University "Towards Psychological Phenomenological Research: The Example of Attention" Commentator: Bernd Jager, Sonoma State College Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University Chair: Theordore F. Geraets, University of Ottawa Evening: Alphonso Lingis, Philosophy, Penn State University Lecture: "Sensations" Discussants: Anne Ashbaugh, Colgate University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University Chair: Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University Speaker: Linda Singer, SUNY Binghamton "Merleau-Ponty and the Concept of Style" Commentator: Sherry L. Floyd, Dickinson College Chair: John O'Neill, York University Speaker: Richard C. McCleary, Old Dominion University "Translating and Teaching" Commentator: Stephen Watson, Louvain and Duquesne University Chair: Lester Enbree, Duquesne University Speaker: David Michael Levin, Northwestern University "Sanity and Myth: Merleau-Ponty's Understanding of Human Space" Commentator: Leonard Duroche, University of Minnesota Richard L. Lanigan, Southern IL Univ., Carbondale Special Lecture: Edouard Morot-Stir, University of NC, Chapel Hill "Dialectic in Merleau-Ponty and Sartre: A Confrontation of Adventures of Dialectic and Critique of Dialectical Reason" Chair: Thomas J. Busch, Villanova University Speaker: Fred R. Dallmayr, Notre Dame University "Intersubjectivity adn French Phenomenology: A Comparison of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Derrida" Commentator: Garth Gillan, Southern IL University, Carbondale WORK SHOP ON MERLEAU-PONTY'S TEXT: "EYE AND MIND" Speakers: Mikel Dufrenne, University of Paris-Nanterre Joseph Margolis, Temple University Martin C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton General Discussant: Dorothy Leland, California State Univ, Northridge MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE 3rd Annual International Conference September 22-23, 1978 Duquesne University Lester Embree, Conference Coordinator Speaker: Theodore F. Geraets, Ottawa University "Merleau-Ponty's Concept of Nature" Commentator: Gary Madison, McMaster University Moderator: Amedeo Giorgi, Duquesne University Speaker: Martin C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "A Critique of Merleau-Ponty on the Erotic" Commentator: Joseph Bien, Missouri University Moderator: Joseph Pilotta, Ohio State University Speaker: Anne Freire Ashbaugh, Colgate University "The Role of the Body in the Constitutive Phase of the Phenomenological Method" Commentator: John F. Bannon, Loyola College Moderator: Alphonso Lingis, Penn State University Speaker: Garth Gillan, Southern Illinois University "Rationality and History in the Thought of Merleau- Ponty" Commentator: Clyde Pax, Holy Cross University Moderator: James Buchanan. Akron University Speaker: Dennis O'Connor, Concordia University "The Philosophy-Science Nexus in Merleau-Ponty's Early Writings" Commentator: R. D. Romanyshyn Moderator: Paul Jacobson, Amrose University Speaker: Rita W. McCleary, Chicago University "Thought, Reflection, and Operational Consciousness" Commentator: John Caputo, Villanova University Moderator: Wolfgang Fuchs, Towson State University Speaker: Iris M. Young "Throwing Like a Girl, A Phenomenology of Feminine Bodily Comportment, Motility, & Spatiality" Commentator: C. Dwiggins, Carlisle University Moderator: Richard Murphy, Boston University Speaker: Hugh J. Silverman "Merleau-Ponty on Language and Communication (1947-48)" Commentator: Dale Smith, DePaul University Moderator: Jeffner Allen, Florida State University MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE Second Annual International Conference October 21-23, 1977 Ohio University
Chairperson: D. Olkowski, Duquesne University "Merleau-Ponty's Reinterpretation of Psychoanalysis as Ontology" Commentator: J. Buchanan, University of Akron Chairperson: A. F. Ashbaugh, Central Michigan University M. C. Dillon, SUNY Binghamton "Merleau-Ponty and the Genesis of the Self" Commentator: C.W. Diggins, Dickinson College Chairperson: O. Wiggins, Southern Methodist University "Merleau-Ponty and Piaget: Contribution Toward a Genetic Phenomenology of Body and World" Commentator: J. Pilotta, Ohio State University Chairperson: S. Watson, Duquesne University "Merleau-Ponty's Encounter with Saussure" Commentator: P. Jacobson, Ambrose College Chairperson: K. Mally, Wisconsin "The Return that Reflection Makes" Commentator: P. Jacobson, Ambrose College Chairperson: R. Romanyshyn, University of Dallas "Unconsciousness: Reflection on the Primary of Perception" Commentator:J. Bien, University of Missouri Chairperson: J. Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University H. Silverman, SUNY Stony Brook "Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty Interpreting Hegel" Commentator: A. Lingis, Pennsylvania State University Chairperson: A. Weiss, SUNY Stony Brook "Equivalence and Difference: A Note on the Role of the Horizon in Merleau-Ponty" Commentator: A. Mickunas, Ohio University Chairperson: D. Karnos, Albion College "On the Diaphanous Structure of Perception" Commentator: J. Pilotta, Ohio State University Chairperson: C. Pax, College of Holy Cross "Merleau-Ponty and Metaphysics" Commentator: A. von Schoenborn, University of Missouri Chairperson:
J. Mcquade, McMasters University "Epoche and Interrogation" Commentator: C.W. Dwiggins, Dickinson College Chairperson: D. Smith, De Paul University "Language and the Genesis of Meaning in Merleau-Ponty" Commentator: T. Widman, Ohio University MERLEAU-PONTY CIRCLE First Annual International Conference September 3 - 4, 1976 University of Akron
September 3, 1976 9:30 Opening addresses 10:00 A. Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, "The Sexed Body" 12:00 Lunch 1:00 L. Embree, Duquesne University, "The Life and Work of Merleau-Ponty" 3:00 E. Behnke, Ohio University , "Creativity in Merleau-Ponty" 4:00 J. Murungi, Towson State College, "Merleau-Ponty's Perspective on Politics" 6:00-7:30 Dinner, Board of Trustees Room, Gardner Student 7:30 H. J. Silverman, SUNY at Stony Brook , "Re-reading the Tradition with Merleau-Ponty" September 4, 1976 9:00 W. J. Hurst, New York, "The Self in the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty" 11:00 Business Meeting - Lafleur Library, Olin Hall 302A 12:00 Lunch 1:30 A.C. Lowry, Saint Charles Seminary, "The Invisible World of Merleau-Ponty" 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 A. Mickunas, Ohio University, "German Thought and Merleau-Ponty" 6:00 Dinner 8:00 Silent-Invisible hour pervaded by musical flashes and vapours of "something or other" to drink
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