37th Annual Meeting: International Merleau-Ponty Circle

Fordham University New York, New York   Sept. 20-22, 2012

Self & Others, Silence & Solitude

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH

*All sessions are in the Lowenstein Building at W. 60th St. and Columbus Ave. To get to the

12th Floor Lounge, enter at main entrance, go down hall and right up the escalators to the

elevator bank. Elevators 5 and 6 will take you to the 12th floor. You can also take the other

elevators to the 11th floor and then the open staircase up to the 12th. The lounge is to the left

as you exit the elevators. Registration can be found here: http://faculty.fordham.edu/anmurphy/Conference/conference.html

8:30 -9:15 Registration: 12th Floor Lounge

9:15-9:30 Opening remarks

Session 1A  12th Floor Lounge                                                     Moderator: Ian Rhoad, New School

•    9:30-10:15 Duane Davis, University of North Carolina Asheville: “Le Corps Propre:

Our Pact with the World and its Impact in the Orientation of Authentic Relations”

•    10:15-11:00 Véronique Fóti, Penn State University: “The Irreducibility of

Expression: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology and its Wider Implications”

Session 1B: Room 816                        Moderator: Eva Alerby, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

•    9:30-10:15 Jennifer McWeeny, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: “Merleau-Ponty’s

‘Flesh’ Is Actually Beauvoir’s Concept: The Solitude of Immanence and the Flesh of the Woman-Other”

•    10:15-11:00 Erinn Gilson, University of North Florida: “Openness Upon the

World: Merleau-Pontian Resources for Thinking Vulnerability, Passivity and Silence”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break  12th Floor Lounge

Session 2A   12th Floor Lounge        Moderator: Annabelle Dufourq, Charles University, Czech Republic

•    11:30-12:15 Fiona Utley, University of New England, Australia: “The Silent

Operation of Phenomenological Trust”

•    12:15-1:00 Sue Cataldi, Southern Illinois University: "Sheltering Spaces and

Dynamics of Retreat: Safekeeping in Merleau-Ponty"

Session 2B   Room 816                           Moderator: Jakub Čapek, Charles University, Czech Republic

•    11:30-12:15 Joseph Keeping, York University: “Living with Strangers: The

Othering of the Self in Mental Illness"

•    12:15-1:00  Stefan Kristensen, Université de Genève, Switzerland: “The Noisy World of the Flesh: Autism, the Feldenkrais Method, and Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology”

1:00-2:30 LUNCH BREAK

Session 3  12th Floor Lounge                          Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University

•    2:30 – 3:20 Susan O’ Shaughnessy, Concordia College:  “Unsettled Selves,

Origins of Truth and Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending”

Session 4: 12th Floor Lounge                         Moderator: Andrew Jampol-Petzinger, Fordham University

•    3:20-4:10  Alia Al-Saji, McGill University: “Merleau-Ponty, Bergson and the Power

of Hesitation: Undoing racializing habits of perception”

4:10-4:30 Coffee 12th Floor Lounge

Session 5: 12th Floor Lounge                                       Moderator: David Morris, Concordia University

•    4:30-6:00: KEYNOTE LECTURE: Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University:

“Merleau-Ponty and the Space of the Supermax”

6:00-7:00  Reception 12th Floor Lounge

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST

*All sessions are in the Lowenstein Building at W. 60th St. and Columbus Ave.

Session 1A  12th Floor Lounge   Moderator: Damian Kingsley Creaser, University of Adelaide, Australia

•    9:30-10:15 Dylan Trigg, Les Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure:

“’Regions of Silence’: Merleau-Ponty and the Prehistory of the Self”

•    10:15-11:00 Keith Whitmoyer, New School for Social Research: “The Weakness of

Philosophy and the Silence of the Past."

Session 1B: South Lounge                                          Moderator: Olga Louchakova, Sophia University

•    9:30-10:15 April Flakne, New College of Florida: “A Deathly Silence? Merleau-

Ponty, Intercorporeity, and the Death of the Other”

•    10:15-11:00 Brandon Shaw, Brown University: “Phantom Pains and Pain from

Phantoms: Existential Depth and the Dance of Grief”

11:00-11:30 Coffee break  12th Floor Lounge

Session 2A  12th Floor Lounge  Moderator Ida Mara Freire Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

•    11:30-12:15 Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario: "Give voice to this

split i-mage of voice silence: Norms of resistance in M. Nourbese Philip and

Merleau-Ponty"

•   12:15-1:00 Patricia Locke, St. John’s College, Annapolis: "Merleau-Ponty and

Agnes Martin on the Experience of Others”

Session 2B   South Lounge                                           Moderator: Gail Hamner, Syracuse University

•    11:30-12:15  Devin Fitzpatrick, New School for Social Research: “Meaning

Incarnate: Bodily Normativity as a Metaethical Foundation”

•    12:15-1:00  Randall Johnson, Practicing Psychiatrist: “Resisting the Kiss of a

Dream of Reading”

I:00-2:30 LUNCH BREAK

Session 3  12th Floor Lounge                                   Moderator: Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University

•    2:30-3:15 M.C. Dillon Award Winner: David Pena-Guzman, Emory University:

“Pathetic Normativity: Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Norms”

Session 4: 12th Floor Lounge                                       Moderator: Samir Haddad, Fordham University

•    3:15-4:05 Gayle Salamon, Princeton University: “The Simple Click of her Heel on

the Ground: Gendered Phenomenologies of Walking”

4:10-4:30 Coffee 12th Floor Lounge

Session 5: 12th Floor Lounge            Moderator: Kyoo Lee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/ CUNY

•    4:30-6:00: KEYNOTE LECTURE: Gail Weiss, Chair and Professor of Philosophy and

Human Sciences, George Washington University:

“The Silent Communion of Self and Other: Merleau-Ponty’s Intersubjective Ontology”

6:00-7:00  Reception 12th Floor Lounge **With comments by Ernest Sherman and a toast in his honor.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22ND

*All sessions are in the Lowenstein Building at W. 60th St. and Columbus Ave

Session 1A  12th Floor Lounge                                          Moderator: Richard Kearney, Boston College

•    9:30-10:15  Jack Reynolds, LaTrobe University, Australia: “Body Reading before

Mind-Reading? Intersubjectivity and the Centrality of Non-Inferential Perception of

Others”

•    10:15-11:00  Emmanuel Alloa, Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland: “Diacritical

Thinking: Aristotle, Saussure, Merleau-Ponty”

Session 1B: South Lounge                                            Moderator: David Gadon, Fordham University

•    9:30-10:15  Sarah LaChance Adams, University of Wisconsin Superior: "The

Ambiguous Logic of the Flesh: Merleau-Ponty's Hegelianism"