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Program for 2007 Conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Memphis, Tennessee Hosted by the University of Memphis September 27-29, 2007
Conference Director: Professor Leonard Lawlor Conference Assistant Director: Bryan Bannon Conference Assistant: Carolyn OÕMara Thursday, September 27 Registration opens at 8:00am 9:00-9:50 Moderator: David Dillard-Wright, University of South Carolina-Aiken Speaker: Gregory Hoskins, Villanova University Title: "Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Marion on the Epoche, Subjectivity, and the Value of the Lifeworld" 9:55-10:45 Moderator: Jorge Umberto Diaz, New University of Lisbon Speaker: Luca Vanzago, Universitˆ di Pavia Title: "The Temporality of Passivity and the Passivity of Temporality" 10:50-11:00 Refreshment break 11:05-11:50 Moderator: William Tulius, York University Speaker: Bryan Smyth, Mount Allison University Title: "'We Were Never Phenomenological" --Toward a Progressive Phenomenology of Life" 11:55-12:45 Moderator: Kirk Besmer, Gonzaga University Speaker: Jessica Wiskus, Duquesne University Title: "At The End of Language and the 'Beginning' of Philosophical Thought: Depth, Rhythm and Expression after the later Merleau-Ponty" 12:50-2:30pm Lunch 2:30-3:20 Moderator: Bryan Bannon, University of Memphis Speaker: Heath Massey, Beloit College Title: "Perchance to Dream: The Phenomenology of Sleep in Merleau-Ponty's Passivity Lectures" 3:25-4:15 Moderator: Gayle Salamon, Princeton University Speaker: Patricia Locke, Saint John's College, Annapolis Title: "Sleeping with Proust and Merleau-Ponty" 4:20-5:10 Moderator: Susan O'Shaughnessy, Concordia College Speaker: Maria Talero, University of Colorado at Denver Title: "The Image and the Workspace: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on Passivity" 5:15-5:30pm Refreshment Break 5:35-6:45 Moderator: Steven Watson, University of Notre Dame Speaker: Hugh J. Silverman, Stony Brook University Title: "Tracing Responsibility: Between Merleau-Ponty and Levinas" This session is sponsored by the Bornblum Judaic Center at the University of Memphis Friday, September 28 9:40-10:30am Moderator: Rachel McCann, Mississippi State University Speaker: Kirsten Jacobson, University of Maine Title: "The Developed Nature of the Passivity of Home" 10:35-10:45 Refreshment Break 10:50-11:35 Moderator: William Hamrick, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville Speaker: Randy Johnson, Psychiatry (Private Practice), Chapel Hill, North Carolina Title: "The Allure of Passivity" 11:40-12:30pm Moderator: Gail Weiss, George Washington University Speaker: Kym McClaren, Ryerson University Title: "On Being Moved and Becoming Oneself: Intercorporeality as a Condition of Selfhood" 12:35-2:30pm Lunch 2:35-3:20pm Moderator: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University Speaker: Ann V. Murphy, Fordham University Title: "Anonymity, Passivity, Vulnerability" 3:25-4:15 Moderator: Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario Speaker: Saara Hacklin, University of Helsinki Title "Almost There: On Merleau-Ponty's Seeing with an Artwork" 4:20-5:20 Moderator: Lawrence Hass, Muhlenberg College Speaker: Todd May, Clemson University Title: "Metaphors" 5:20-5:35 Refreshment break 5:35-6:50 Keynote Session Moderator: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island Speaker: John Russon, The University of Guelph Title: "Freedom and Passivity" 7:15-8:15 Reception Saturday, September 29 9:40-10:30am Moderator: Talia Welsh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Speaker: Emily Lee, California State University at Fullerton Title: "Homi Bhabha's Postcolonial Metropolitan Subject: A Comparison between Dialectic and Phenomenological Frameworks." 10:35-10:45 Refreshment Break 10:50-11:35 M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture Moderator: Duane Davis, University of North Carolina-Asheville Speaker: Matthew Goodwin, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Title: "Art and the Deflagration of Being: Setting Passivity Afire" 11:40-12:30pm Moderator: Leigh Johnson, Rhodes College Speaker: Robert Vallier, DePaul University Title: "Institutions: Of History" 12:35-2:30pm Business Luncheon 2:35-3:20 Moderator: David Morris, Trent University Speaker: Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University Title: "Giving Birth to the Other: Filiation in 'Dialogue and Perception of the Other'" 3:25-4:15 Moderator: James Morley, Ramapo College of New Jersey Speaker: Caterina Rea, Institut Superieur de Philosophie – Universite Catholique Louvain Title: "The Passive Background of Creativity" 4:20-5:20 Moderator: Pleshette DeArmitt, University of Memphis Speaker: Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University Title: "The Duplicitous Stickleback in Merleau-Ponty and Lacan" 5:20-5:35 Refreshment Break 5:40-6:50 Keynote Session Moderator: Mary Beth Mader, University of Memphis Speaker: Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales Title: "Passivity and Feminism" (tentative title) 7:30pm Conference Banquet at the Majestic Grill, 145 South Main, Memphis, (901) 522-8555. The Majestic Grill is approximately 3 blocks from the Holiday Inn Select.
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