Society for Ricoeur Studies: First Annual Conference

Oct 14, 2007 by Farhang Erfani

SOCIETY FOR RICOEUR STUDIES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2007

DePaul University

1 E. Jackson Blvd.  8^th Floor

Chicago, IL

 

 Wednesday, November 7, 2007

8:30-9:00 AM

Registration

9:00-10:10

Session I         Room 8002                                          

Moderator:  John Starkey, Oklahoma City University 

“Memory and the Cosmic Imagination: Reading Plato’s Timaeus with Paul Ricoeur” — David   Zoller, Fordham University

“Ricoeur's Four-Letter Words:  H-O-P-E in spite of E-V-I-L” — Jim Sisson, Mercer University 

Session II        Room 8010

Moderator:  Adam Graves, Metropolitan State College of Denver

 “How to Understand Intolerance, Discrimination and Injustice:  A Ricoeurian Approach” — Jonathan Roberge, University of Ottawa

“Ricoeur's Civic Translation of the Kantian Moral Norm:  Giving an Account of the Ethical Aim — Molly H. Mann, York University

10:20-12:05

Session III      Room 8002                                          

Moderator:  Dan R. Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University

“Ideology Over Faith:  A Ricoeurian Look at Southern Culture” — Timothy Maddox, Hardin-Simmons University

“Narrative Anaesthesia:  Covering the Truth in New Orleans”– Boyd Blundell, Loyola University New Orleans

“'Remember and Don’t Forget'”:  Is There Room for Forgiveness? Re-Reading Deuteronomy 25:17-19 with Paul Ricoeur”–Joseph A. Edelheit, St. Cloud State University, and James F. Moore, Valparaiso University

Session IV      Room 8010

Moderator:  Scott O'Leary, Fordham University 

“Retrieving Narrative:  Judith Butler and Paul Ricoeur on Moral Responsibility”–Melissa Mosko, Marquette University

“Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Narrativity: An Alternative for Platonic Interpretation”–Carlos Bohorquez, Boston College

“Narrative Identity as Gebilde:  Ricoeur’s Advance in the Hermeneutic Theory of the Work”–John Arthos, Denison University           

12:05-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:25

Session V        Room 8002                                         

Moderator:  Boyd Blundell, Loyola University New Orleans

“Paul Ricoeur and Christian Humanism: Mediation of the Finite-Infinite”–Christi Hemati, Baylor University

“Sartre and Ricoeur on Narrative Identity”–Farhang Erfani, American University

Session VI      Room 8010 

Moderator:  John Arthos, Denison University    

“On Why Philosophy Is Impossible without Literature: Remarks on Ricoeur’s From Text To Action”–Cristina Bucur, Marquette University

“The Concept of Attestation in the Context of the Phenomenology of Capable Being of Paul Ricoeur”–Sebastián Kaufman, Marquette University

2:35-3:45

Session VII     Room 8002                                         

Moderator:   Farhang Erfani, American University

“Religious Language, Ethics, and the Self” –Zora Hesova, German Research Foundation Project

“Ricoeur as Political Philosopher: On the Need for a Critical Hermeneutics of Political Narratives of Identity and Memory”–Gregory Hoskins, Villanova University

Session VIII   Room 8010

Moderator:  Tim Maddox, Hardin-Simmons University

“The Faith of Atheists?  Some Possible Responses to 21^st Century Atheists, with Assistance from Paul Ricoeur”–Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

“The Possibility of Dialogue in Today’s Diverse World:  Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons”–George Taylor, University of Pittsburgh

“The Face of the Author and the Text:  Authorial Intent Revisited in Light of Ricoeur and Peperzak”–Dan R. Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University

 4:00-5:15       

Keynote Address         Room 8010

Moderator:  George Taylor, University of Pittsburgh

“Ricoeur: Reader — Respondent — Writer," –Adriaan Peperzak, Loyola University Chicago

 

Thursday, November 8, 2007

8:30-9:40 AM

Session IX      Room 8002                                                     

Moderator:  Roger Savage, UCLA

“Ricoeur on Translation:  Philosophy, Poetics and the Production of Equivalents” — Adam J. Graves, Metropolitan State College of Denver

“Authorial Intent in Midrashic Hermeneutics and Paul Ricoeur’s Interpretation Theory”–Jessica Gomes, Fuller Theological Seminary

 

Session X        Room 8010

Moderator:  George Taylor, University of Pittsburgh

Panel:  “On Teaching Paul Ricoeur”

            Scott Davidson, Oklahoma City University

            Morny Joy, University of Calgary

            Scott O'Leary, Fordham University

            Henry Venema, Brandon University

9:50-11:35

Session XI      Room 8002                                         

Moderator:  Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

“Paul Ricoeur’s Dialogue with Hannah Arendt”–Morny Joy, University of Calgary

“Ricoeur Towards an Immanent Hermeneutics:  Confronting the Challenge of Post-Continental Philosophy”–L. Sebastian Purcell, Boston College

“Whither Hermeneutics? Paul Ricoeur and Gianni Vattimo”–Greg Johnson, Pacific Lutheran University

                                                                       

Session XII     Room 8010

Moderator:  David Johnson, Villanova University

“Critical Hermeneutics:  Rhetoric or Philosophy?”–Francis J. Mootz, III, Penn State University

“The Hermeneutics of Suspicion”–Alison Scott-Baumann, University of Gloucestershire

“Mimesis, Ideology and the Cultural Imaginary”–Roger W. H. Savage, UCLA

11:45-12:30

 

Business meeting       Room 8010

Moderator:  George Taylor, University of Pittsburgh