Since the official location of the Pacific meeting of the APA (the Westin / St. francis) is in a labor dispute the University of San Francisco offers alternative meeting spaces.

Link to the Off Site Meeting

H/t: Gerard Kuperus

A great conference line-up

Thanks to David Vessey

Hosted by the Research Group in Philosophical Hermeneutics, Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas.

Philosophical hermeneutics, in the broadest sense of the term, has grown to signify a current within contemporary thinking loosely united by the insistence on the historical and linguistic nature of human existence and experience. As such, the primary object or concern of any philosophical-hermeneutical thinking seems to be the understanding and interpretative relations between man, language, and history – a concern that provides common ground for dialogue between a wide variety of thinkers, ranging at least from Nietzsche and Dilthey, through Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur to Derrida and Vattimo.

In dealing with understanding and interpretative relations, philosophical hermeneutics runs the risk of assigning unrestricted privilege to the relation itself at the expense of its individual terms. Since the advent of structural semantics, linguistics, and historiography, this risk has become even more apparent. One of the questions emerging in this regard concerns the status and role of the concept of responsibility within philosophical hermeneutics. This problematic contains at least two dimensions.

Firstly, in what sense can hermeneutical subjectivity be disclosed as being-responsible? Whether one turns to Nietzsche’s “second innocence”, Heidegger’s concept of conscience, Lévinasian substitution, or Gadamer’s and Ricoeur’s separate re-interpretations of Aristotelian phronesis, this question seems to be central to any examination of hermeneutical subjectivity – a question becoming just the more pressing by the advent of structuralism, the alleged “death” of the subject, and the unclear status and role of philosophical anthropology within hermeneutics.

Secondly, in what sense can hermeneutics itself be posited as a responsibleway of thinking? This question pertains to the status of hermeneutical thinking within the more general field and tradition of philosophy. Can hermeneutics be construed as the responsible philosophy par excellence? Here, one might focus on Heidegger’s concept of Andenken, an ethically inspired or animated concept of deconstruction, or Vattimo’s articulation of hermeneutics as a response to a certain “nihilistic vocation”. At any rate,the question of responsibility here turns back upon itself, questions itself as a responsible way of thinking the question as such. In this regard, the question also becomes the more general question of the relation between philosophy and its “other”.

Aims and Topics:

The aim of the conference is to explore the status or role responsibility within philosophical hermeneutics. Participants may do this by discussing this concept within a philosophical-hermeneutical framework, focusing on the problem of responsible subjectivity, on the problem of responsible thinking, or on the relation between the two. Questions that can be addressed include,but are not limited to:
• What is the relation between responsiveness and responsibility?
• Are we compelled to defend a strong notion of subjectivity if we want to keep on considering ourselves as responsible persons?
• In what sense is responsibility connected to the concept of freedom, and what does a hermeneutical concept of freedom entail?
• Is there such a thing as a hermeneutical ethics?
• Is responsibility necessarily connected to our behavior towards other persons? In what sense can one be responsible for institutions, traditions or languages?
• What is the contribution of, say, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Vattimo, Levinas or Derrida to our understanding of responsibility?

For further information please contact Jon Utoft Nielsen (filjun@hum.au.dk).

American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division

New York City, NY

Monday, December 28, 2008

11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m., Group Session GIII-8

Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF)

Topic: Recent French Feminism(s)

Chair: Pleshette DeArmitt (University of Memphis)

Brigitte Weltman-Aron (University of Florida): “La ‹‹D. S.››: Sexual Difference in the Work of Hélène Cixous.”

Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis): “Geneviève Fraisse and the Politics of Consent.”

Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University): “Kristeva on Freedom, Choice and Maternity”

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy presents:

WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY FOR?
MSCP SPRING WORKSHOP 2009

www.mscp.org.au

Why were universities created? Has that purpose substantially changed or become outmoded? Is the only form of rationality economic rationality? Is higher education a public good, or just a public cost? Aren’t universities hot beds for elitist anti-Australian attitudes? What is learning for? Do we believe in education as the formation of character any more or is the only purpose of education to make people ‘job ready’?

The MSCP Autumn and Spring Workshops provide an opportunity for philosophical dialogue on contemporary issues. The workshops are free one-day events. Our panel of speakers are asked to provide opening statements in order to open up the question at hand. After this, the panel and audience enter a free discussion aimed at moving the issue forward.

WHEN AND WHERE?
11am-4pm
Friday, 16th October, 2009
The Gryphon Gallery,
1888 Building
University of Melbourne.

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is an independent teaching and research group made up of graduate students and academics who share the goal of providing continental philosophy wherever it is needed. The MSCP teaches philosophy short-courses at its annual summer and winter schools. See the website for details and join our mailing list for updates on MSCP activities. The MSCP is housed in the philosophy department at the University of Melbourne. The MSCP is affiliated with the open access journal Parrhesia.

AESTHETICS AFTER THE POSTMODERN TURN:

PHILOSOPHY, CRITICISM, AND STUDIO CULTURE

October 17, 2009, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

9–9:30

Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:30–10

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Joseph J. Tanke

Mark Breitenberg, Provost

Rachel Schreiber, Director of Humanities and Sciences

10–11

The Identification of Aesthetics and Politics in Rancière

Emiliano Battista, Jan van Eyck Academie

11–12

The Case of the Aesthetic Regime

Joseph J. Tanke, California College of the Arts

12–1

World Modernisms: The Case from Indian Modern Art

Pradeep Dhillon, University of Illinois

1–2

Lunch at the back of the nave

2–3

New Games

Pamela M. Lee, Stanford University

3–4

What Is Art?

Frederick M. Dolan, California College of the Arts

4–5

Aesthetic of the Cool: The Life and Times of an African Artist

Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University

5–5:30

Short Break

5:30–6:30

Keynote Address

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University

A RECEPTION WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY UPON THE CONCLUSION OF THE DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR ADORNO- 40 YEARS ON

The conference will take place 6th of August in the IDS Building on the campus of the University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RE (see map below).

The conference will be free-of-charge. However, places will be limited so please register beforehand to avoid disappointment.

Anyone wishing to attend the conference should register via email to Simon Mussell: s.p.mussell@sussex.ac.uk

Please see http://adorno2009.blogspot.com for further details.

Link

POLITICS, THEOLOGY, LAW
The Actuality of Paul

A One-Day Workshop
9.45am – 5.00pm
Thursday June 11

Organised by the Research Unit in European Philosophy and the Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University.

To be held at – Monash University Caulfield Campus. Building H, level 8
900 Dandenong Rd, East Caulfield.

9.45-10.00am Opening Remarks

10.00-11.20am
Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne)
Love Makes Thought Power: Alain Badiou’s Saint Paul.

11.40-1.00pm
Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
Law’s Undoing : Agamben’s Paul.

2.00-3.20pm
Ingo Farin (University of Tasmania)
Pauline Phenomenology?

3.40-5.00pm
Michael Fagenblat (Monash University)
The Gentile Question: Paul and Levinas

For further information contact : Professor Andrew Benjamin
andrew.benjamin@arts.monash.edu.au

Power to the People?
.. masses, proletariat, workers, soviets, nation, community, subalterns,
multitude, commons…

Saturday 9 May 2009
Radical Philosophy Conference, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London

`Power to the people!’ was once a revolutionary slogan, but reference to government by the people and for the people soon became an empty cliché of the post-revolutionary status quo. The people has become a notoriously ambiguous and contested term, for which numerous alternatives have been proposed: the proletariat, the workers, the masses, the soviets, the nation, the community, the multitude, the commons… And now? How might we assess the different conceptions of political change embodied in these often conflicting ideas? What is the political and philosophical significance of `the people’ today?

Registration and further details: http://matt.charles@blueyonder.co.uk

Cheques payable to `Radical Philosophy Ltd’ should be sent to: Radical Philosophy Conference, Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex University, Trent
Park Campus, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ

PROGRAMME:
Plenary (chair: Peter Osborne, RP)
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University, NY), `They, the People’

1. The General Will (chair: Peter Hallward, RP)
David Andress (Portsmouth), ‘The General Will on the Street: Parisian Activism, Sovereignty and Power, 1789–93′
Sophie Wahnich (CNRS, Paris), ‘How Do the People Make Themselves Heard?’

2. Urban Collectivities (chair: David Cunningham, RP)
AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths), ‘Urban Intersections and the Politics of Anticipation’
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester), `Reflections on the Post-Political City’

3. Population & Biopolitics (chair: Claudia Aradau, RP)
Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent), ‘Biopolitics, Diasporas and (Neo)Liberal Political Economy’
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Manchester), ‘Feminist Strategies Revisited – Sexopolitics, Multitude and Biopolitics’

4. Class, Commons & Multitude (chair: Esther Leslie, RP)

Massimo De Angelis (UEL), ‘Crisis, Tragedies and the Commons’
Daniel Bensaid (University of Paris-VIII), `Can We (Still) Break the Vicious Circle of Domination?’

£25/£10 unwaged
BOOK NOW!
Registration and further details: http://matt.charles@blueyonder.co.uk
Cheques payable to `Radical Philosophy Ltd’ should be sent to: Radical
Philosophy Conference, Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex University, Trent
Park Campus, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ; or on the day.

Keynote Speaker, Friday, April 3rd at 5pm
Courtelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St.
Falguni Sheth, Hampshire College: “The Newest Unruly Threat: Muslim Men and Women”
Respondent: Rohan Sikri, DePaul University

Conference Sessions, Saturday, April 4th from 9am to 5:30pm:
Courtelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St.

9:00am-10:00am
Jessica Sims, University of Oregon: “The Identification of Feminisms: Working Toward a Definition of Woman/Women within the Feminist Tradition”
Respondent: Kristin McCartney, DePaul University

10:10am-11:10am
Trevor Smith, Marquette University: “Furthering Burdened Virtues”
Respondent: Rosalie Siemon, DePaul University

11:20am-12:20am
Fanny Söderbäck, The New School for Social Research: “In Search for Time Lost: On Origins and Beginnings in Plato and Irigaray”
Respondent: Holly Moore, DePaul University

12:20pm-2:00pm
Break for Lunch (Local options are listed on the reverse side of the program)

2:00pm-3:00pm
Shannon Winston, University of Michigan: “Inner Spaces/Other Places: Travel, Subjectivity, and Reproduction in Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva”
Respondent: Perry Zurn, DePaul University

3:10pm-4:10pm
Nathalie Nya, Penn State University: “Mayotte Capécia and the Integrity Race Narratives”
Respondents: O’Donavan Johnson, DePaul University; Azadeh Erfani, DePaul University

4:20pm-5:20pm
Roundtable Discussion
Leading Participants: David Bleeden, Marie Draz, James Manos, Jana Mc-Auliffe, Sonya Ozbey–DePaul University
Moderator: Jeff Pardikes, DePaul University

New French Philosophy and Media Theory

A conversation with Bernard Stiegler

April 2nd, 7:00 pm, La Maison Française, NYU, 16 Washington Mews, NYC

http://cultureandcommunication.org/newfrenchphilosophy/

Bernard Stiegler, Philosopher and Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris. Founder of Ars
Industrialis (a group dedicated to the “industrial politics of spirit”). His writings have been broadly influential on the study of time, labor,
capitalism, media theory, and psychopower. They include: La technique et le temps (3 vols. 1994-2001; trans. Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus [Stanford UP, 1998]); De la misère symbolique (2004); Mécréance et Discrédit (2006); Economie de l’hypermatériel et psychopouvoir (2008); and Prendre soin: De la jeunesse et des générations (2008).

Respondents

Avital Ronell, Professor of German, English and Comparative Literature, NYU. Author of The Test Drive (2005); Stupidity (2003); The Telephone
Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989)

Alexander Galloway, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU. Author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT,
2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006).

Moderator

Emily Apter, Professor of French, English and Comparative Literature, NYU. Author of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006)

Organizers

Emily Apter, Department of French, English and Comparative Literature, Denis Hollier, Department of French, Alexander Galloway, Department of
Media, Culture and Communication, and Ben Kafka, Department of Media, Culture and Communication.

212.998.8750 maison.francaise@nyu.edu

Oxford Forum Public Conference — Ricoeur: On Memory, Politics and Forgiveness

20-21 March 2009, Faculty of Philosophy and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Friday, 20 March, Faculty of Philosophy

14.00-15.15 Dialogue with Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford)
On Confidence, Power and Affirmation

15.15-15.30 Break

15.30-16.45 Dialogue with Luc Bovens (LSE)
On Apologies and Forgiveness

16.45-17.15 Coffee/Tea

17.15-18.30 Dialogue with Morny Joy (Calgary)
On Solicitude and Gift

Saturday, 21 March, Regent’s Park College

11.30-12.45 Dialogue with David Klemm (Iowa-Glasgow)
On Reading Ricoeur (tbc)

13.00-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15-15.30 Dialogue with William Schweiker (Chicago)
On Ricoeur and Theological Humanism (tbc)

15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea

16.00-17.00 Round table
Chair: David Jasper (Glasgow)

The event is open to all and there are no registration fees. For further information and to book a place contact Roxana Baiasu, Roxana.Baiasu@philosophy.ox.acor Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539, J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk
Forum for European Philosophy European Institute, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE www.philosophy-forum.org

The British Society for Phenomenology Conference 2009

St Hildas’ College, Oxford April 3 – 5

The full programme and registration forms are available from the BSP web-site: http://www.britishphenomenology.com.

If you have any queries, please contact David Webb: d.a.webb@staffs.ac.uk

Ullrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan University)

‘History: Heidegger on Nietzsche’s 2nd Untimely Meditation’

David Krell (Depaul University)

‘Nietzsche in Derrida’s Politiques de l’amitié’

Will McNeill (Depaul University)

‘The Descent of Philosophy: On the Nietzschean Legacy in Heidegger’s Phenomenology’

Graham Parkes (University College Cork)

‘Nietzsche on Experiencing the Natural World – As It Really Is?’

Andrea Rehberg (Bilkent University)

‘Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty: Physiology, Body, Flesh’

John Sallis (Boston College)

‘Perspectives on Shining: Nietzsche and Beyond’

Jim Urpeth (Greenwich University)

‘The Phenomenology of Religious Life; Nietzsche and Bergson’

Book Discussion Session

Prof Douglas Burnham (Staffordshire University) & Joanna Hodge will discuss Jill Marsden’s book After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy (Palgrave)

Jill Marsden (University of Bolton) will respond.

10th Annual Boston College Graduate Student Conference: “On Education”

Thursday, March 19
7:00 pm Seminar: A Closer Look at Both the American Educational Context and the German Didaktik Tradition
Professor Dennis Shirley – Lynch School of Education, Boston College

Friday, March 20
3:00 pm Welcome

3:30-5:45
“May Philosophers Legitimately Teach?”
James Pearson, University of Pittsburgh

“Emile’s Moral Education: Becoming a Happy, ‘Natural’ Citizen”
Dasha Polzik, University of Chicago

“Adapting to the Idea of Humanity Kant on the Refinement of Moral Maxims”
Michael Deem, Texas A&M University

6:00 Keynote Address: “Educating through Perplexity in the Enlightenment Era: The Cases of Rousseau and Kant”
Professor Richard Velkley – Tulane University

7:30 Reception Dinner

Saturday, March 21
9:30 am: Light Breakfast

10:15-12:00
“Falling in Love: An Aristotelian Education in Character
Excellence”
Erin Stackle, Boston College

“The Politico-Philosophical Education of Thomas Hobbes”
Jonathan Bruno, Harvard University

12:00 Keynote Seminar
Professor Christopher Bruell – Boston College

1:15 Lunch

2:00-4:15
“Philosophy as a Theory of Education”
Elizabeth Caldwell, University of Oregon

“Education in Encounter: In Dialogue with Martin Buber”
Jeremy Price, Boston College

“The Hope of Speech: Augustine and Education”
Maggie Labinski, Loyola University Chicago

4:30 Keynote Address
Professor Adriaan Peperzak – Loyola University Chicago

Blanchot romantique

Maison française d’Oxford
20-21 April 2009

Keynote speakers: Christophe Bident, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland

THEME:

Marking the first major event on Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) to take place in the UK in the past fifteen years, this conference will bring together some of the most eminent scholars in the field, as well as a number of postgraduates both from the UK and abroad, to address the ways in which Blanchot’s work engages with the Romantic legacy and to explore how this engagement continues to inform contemporary debates on literature, philosophy, and politics. The aim of ‘Blanchot romantique’ is at least twofold: (1) to broaden our understanding of the singular place that Romanticism holds in Blanchot’s writings, and (2) to give a major assessment of his contribution to thinking aesthetics in the wake of Romanticism.

At decisive moments in his work, Blanchot engages with a variety of key Romantic notions, including subjectivity and experience, inspiration and imagination, irony and the sublime, the fragment and the total work, violence and revolution. Romanticism thus provides us with a crucial set of concepts to approach the literary, philosophical and political challenge that Blanchot’s writing represents.

From a literary perspective, Blanchot offers decisive readings of a number of figures associated with Romanticism and post-Romanticism, both in the French and German traditions (among others, Goethe, Jean-Paul, Hölderlin, Rilke, Sade, Lautréamont, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé). These readings inform not only his criticism but also his own practice as a writer.

From a philosophical and/or theoretical perspective, his thought engages with a number of key eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche), as well as with the leading figures behind the Athenaeum (Novalis, the Schlegels), whose legacies are associated, directly or indirectly, with Romantic thought. The twentieth century continued to reflect upon the question of Romanticism, in particular at the intersection between literature, philosophy, and theory. In this light, the conference will examine Blanchot comparatively with other key critical interlocutors of the twentieth century such as Martin Heidegger, Albert Béguin, Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

Finally, from a political viewpoint, Blanchot’s work opens new perspectives on Romantic and post-Romantic questions of revolution, violence, history, commitment, and community. His interpretation of the French Revolution and of the May ’68 events are crucial in this regard.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:

ROMANTIC LEGACIES (I): THEORY

Christophe Bident, Université de Paris-Diderot – Paris VII
‘Le neutre est-il une notion romantique?’

Yves Gilonne, University of Nottingham
‘L’auto-réflexivité du Sublime’

Maebh Long, University of Durham
‘A Step Askew: Ironic Parabasis in Blanchot’

Gisèle Berkman, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
‘Blanchot et le Romantisme allemand: poétique, théorie, pratique’

ROMANTIC LEGACIES (II): PRAXIS

Michael Holland, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
‘Blanchot and Jean-Paul’

Jérémie Majorel, Université de Paris-Diderot – Paris VII
‘Blanchot, narrateur de Mallarmé’

ROMANTIC CONVERSATIONS IN THE 20th CENTURY

Jake Wadham, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
‘Blanchot, Benjamin, and the Absence of the Work’

Hector Kollias, King’s College London
‘Unworking Irony’s Work: Blanchot and de Man as readers of the Athenaeum’

Ian Maclachlan, Merton College, Oxford
‘Blanchot, Derrida, and the Romantic Imagination’

ROMANTIC FRAGMENTATIONS

Leslie Hill, University of Warwick
‘Blanchot and Translation’

Patrick ffrench, King’s College London
‘The Fragment, the Disaster, and Melancholy’

POLITICAL ROMANTICISM

Ian James, Downing College, Cambridge
‘Naming the Nothing: Nancy and Blanchot on Community’

Martin Crowley, Queens’ College, Cambridge
‘Even now, now, very now’

Parham Shahrjerdi, Université de Paris-Diderot – Paris VII
‘Terreur et révolution’

REGISTRATION:

To help us estimate attendance, please register with the organisers if you wish to attend this conference (there is no registration fee):

John McKeane: john.mckeane@st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Hannes Opelz: hdo20@cam.ac.uk

WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF:

The Department of French, University of Cambridge
The sub-Faculty of French, University of Oxford
The Maison française d’Oxford
The Society for French Studies

Phenomenology did not begin as a religious philosophy, but recently several prominent European phenomenologists have asked whether a coherent phenomenology of human experience must find its fulfillment in religion.

Christian phenomenologists such as Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, and Jean-Louis Chrétien have all pressed an incisive and provocative question to modern secular philosophy: do our lived human experiences of self, other and world finally make sense only when we see them as founded on God’s creative act? By answering this question affirmatively, these thinkers have asserted that a rigorous philosophical account of human experience must also involve a philosophy of God. Human experience, precisely in order to be true to itself, must include practices of religious gratitude and praise. As a corollary, philosophy must include theological analysis.

The Silverman Center’s 2009 Symposium on phenomenology and the theological turn will therefore investigate sympathetically and critically this radical turn to religion in phenomenology. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a spirited conversation about a matter that is of far more than just theoretical interest.
Speakers

Jean-Luc Marion, University of Chicago and University of Paris-Sorbonne
“On the Foundation of the Distinction Between Theology and Philosophy”

Richard Kearney, Boston College
“Returning to God After God: Levinas, Derrida, Ricoeur”

Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
“Confessional Memoirs: The Phenomenology of Telling It All”

Jay Lampert, University of Guelph
“Do the Arguments for Saturated Phenomena Prove That They Are Necessary or That They Are Possible? Time to Decide”

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The International Merleau-Ponty Circle Conference, 2008: Time, Memory and the Self: Remembering Merleau-Ponty at 100, 18-20 September 2008, Ryerson University, Toronto [preliminary program]

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TIME, MEMORY, SELF:

REMEMBERING MERLEAU-PONTY AT 100

www.trentu.ca/philosophy/mpc2008

33^rd Annual Conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle;

Centenary Celebration of Merleau-Ponty

Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

September 18-20, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Elizabeth Behnke  (Study Project for Phenomenology of the Body, USA)

Edward Casey  (Stony Brook University, USA)

Bernhard Waldenfels  (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Veronique Foti  (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Leonard Lawlor  (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

John O’Neill   (York University, Canada)

John Russon  (University of Guelph, Canada)

Hugh Silverman  (Stony Brook University, USA)

OTHER SPEAKERS:

Susan Bredlau (Northern Arizona Univ., USA); Annette Hilt (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany); Kirsten Jacobson (Univ. of Maine, USA); Galen Johnson (Univ. of Rhode Island, USA); Emma Jones (Univ. of Oregon, USA); Michael Kelly (Boston College, USA); Don Landes (Stony Brook Univ., USA); Scott Marratto (Univ. of King’s College, Canada); Glen Mazis (Pennsylvania State Univ. Harrisburg, USA); James Mensch (St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada); Ann Murphy (Fordham Univ., USA); Paul Qualtere-Burcher (Univ. of Oregon, USA); Gayle Salamon (Princeton Univ., USA); Fiona Utley (Univ. of New England, Australia); Gail Weiss (George Washington Univ., USA)

The full program is available at: http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/MPC2008%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf
Registration is now open (http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/registration.htm);  please note that the International Merleau-Ponty Circle has no membership fees, and new members are welcome.

To benefit from conference rates for hotels, rooms must be booked before August 17.  See the conference website for more details.  www.trentu.ca/philosophy/mpc2008

A Conference Poster (8.5” x 11”) is available; you are welcome to print and post it:

http://www.trentu.ca/academic/philosophy/mpc2008/MPC2008poster.pdf

Questions? Please contact the conference co-organizers:

Kym Maclaren (Ryerson University) kym.maclaren@ryerson.ca

David Morris (Concordia University) davimorr@alcor.concordia.ca

Link (pdf)

The conference.

Via Lenin’s Tomb