El próximo congreso anual de The International Merleau-Ponty Circle tendrá lugar en Wells Conference Center, University of Maine, Orono, EE.UU, y tendrá como tema «Health and Healing: Personal, Social, Environmental. A continuación, compartimos con las personas interesadas el programa:
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th
8:00-9:00 AM Registration & Refreshments
9:00-9:20 AM Opening remarks by Emily Haddad (Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Maine) and Derek Michaud (Department Chair, Philosophy, University of Maine) Session 1Moderator: TBD
9:20-10:05 AMAnn Murphy, Philosophy, University of New Mexico: “Phenomenology as Undergoing”
10:05-10:50 AMPeter Antich, Philosophy, Dominican University New York: “A Phenomenological Description of Confusion in the Case of Dementia”
10:50-11:05 AMCoffee break (refreshments provided) Session 2: Keynote AddressIntroduction: Don Beith, Philosophy, University of Maine
11:05-12:35 PMHavi Carel, Philosophy, University of Bristol: “Radical Bodily Doubt” (remote presentation)
12:35-2:15 PM Lunch Break (on your own) Session 3Moderator: TBD
2:15-3:00 PM Cooper Sarafin, Independent Scholar: “Hesitation and the Epistemic Structure of Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Coherence and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty, Ngo, and Al-Saji” (remote presentation)
3:00-3:45 PMFiona Utley, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England–Australia: “Reverie in the experience of grief and thinking about loss” (remote presentation) Session 4Moderator: Liam Maher, Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
3:55-4:40 PMBryan Bannon, Philosophy, Merrimack College: “Ecological Health: A Phenomenological Perspective” (invited presentation)
4:40-5:25 PMBenjamin Decarie-Daigneault, Philosophy, Penn State University, “The Slippery Slope of History: Reading Merleau-Ponty’s Post-War Writings Amidst the Environmental Crisis”
5:25-5:40 PMRefreshment break (refreshments provided) Session 5: Ron Morstyn Prize Winner Introduction: Kym Maclaren, Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University
5:40-6:25 PM Adam Blair, Independent Scholar: “Attuned Otherwise: Aesthetic Experience and the Communication of Perceptual Difference”
6:25-7:25 PMReception (light dinner provided)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th
8:30-9:00 AM Registration & Refreshments Session 1Moderator: Gail Weiss, Philosophy, George Washington University
9:00-9:45 AMTalia Welsh, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Alberta: “Authority and Teleology—A Phenomenological Sketch of Vaccine Resistance”
9:45-10:30 AM Molly Kelly, History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, Rhode Island School of Design: “The Child’s Relations with (Harmful) Others: Rethinking Childhood Maltreatment and Attachment Through the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty”
10:30-10:45 AM Coffee Break (refreshments provided) Session 2Moderator: Gabe Schendler, Philosophy, Villanova University
10:45-11:30 PMShannon Hoff, Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador: “Merleau-Ponty and the (Gendered) World”
11:30-12:15 PMKhameer Kidia, Harvard Medical School: “Empire of Madness: Uprooting Psychiatry from its Colonial Origins” (invited presentation)
12:15-2:00 PM Lunch Break (on your own unless attending mentoring lunch)
**A mentoring lunch will be arranged for attending grad students at The Maples (home of the University of Maine Philosophy Department) Session 3: M.C. Dillon Memorial Lecture Award Winner
Introduction: David Morris, Philosophy, Concordia University
2:00-2:45 PM Gael Caignard, Independent Scholar, “Institution et ouverture de l’histoire : Merleau-Ponty lecteur de Lucien Febvre” Session 4Moderator: Frédéric Rondeau, Canadian-American Center and Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine
2:55-3:40 PM3:40-4:25 PMCécilia Lombard, Philosophy, St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, “De la dialectique de l’instant au bonheur” Stefan Kristensen, Facultédes Arts, Université de Strasbourg: “The GoodAmbiguity of the Ritual – On the Ontology of Healing Practices”
4:25-5:10Reception (light dinner provided) Session 5: Keynote Address Introduction: Susan Bredlau, Philosophy, University of Maine 5:10-6:40 PMDrew Leder, Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland: “The Chessboard of Healing: Structures of Embodiment and their Clinical Significance”
7:00-7:45 PMArtistic presentation by Rori Smith (Intermedia, University of Maine) at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center 3
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th
8:30–9:00 AM Registration & Refreshments Session 1 Moderator: Amanda Dunbar, Visual and Performing Arts/Art History, University of Texas at Dallas
9:00-9:45 AM Caleb Faul, History and Philosophy, Westfield State University: “The Re-Creational Musician: On Playing a Piece of Music”
9:45-10:30 AM Sage Cugino, Philosophy, York University: “The Sense of Colour”
10:30-10:45 AM Coffee Break (refreshments provided) Session 2Moderator: TBD
10:45-11:30 PM Jeffrey Bell, History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana University: “Healthy Aestheticism”
11:30-12:15 PM Lucy Schultz, Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: “Personal, Social, and Environmental Healing through Ecological Restoration” (invited presentation)
12:15-2:15 PM Business Lunch (lunch provided for those registered)
**Registration Required. Note: All graduate students on the program are invited to the Business Lunch free of charge. Graduate students’ attendance is especially encouraged!
Session 3Moderator: TBD
2:15-3:00 PM William Hamrick, Philosophy (Emeritus), Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: “Searching for a Proper Physician”
3:00-3:45 PM Martina Ferrari, Philosophy, Villanova University: “Living in Ruptures: Healing Bodies through History” (invited presentation) Session 4Moderator: Rori Smith, Intermedia, University of Maine
3:55-4:40 PM Kym Maclaren, Philosophy, Toronto Metropolitan University: “The Unsynced Time of Healthy and Unhealthy Becoming” (invited presentation)
4:40-4:55 PM Refreshment break (refreshments provided) Session 5Moderator: TBD
4:55-5:40 PM John Russon, Philosophy, University of Guelph: “Drawing out Sexuality”
5:40-6:25 PM Laura McMahon, History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University: “Queer (Trans)formations”
6:30-8:30 PM Conference Banquet (dinner provided for those registered) with Acadian fiddle by Gus LaCasse 4
