Philosophy

33rd Annual Conference of the
International Merleau-Ponty Circle
Ryerson University, Toronto,
September 18—20, 2008

Time, Memory and the Self:
Remembering Merleau-Ponty
at 100

Preliminary Program

Thursday, September 18—Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St.

8:30 - 9:00	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
9:00 - 9:15	Opening Remarks
Trauma, Memory, Identity
9:15 -10:30	Panel: Painful Bodies: Time, Memory, Identity The ‘Normal Abnormalities’ of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir Gail Weiss, The George Washington University (USA) Is there a Phenomenological Unconscious? Pain and Embodied Memory in Merleau-Ponty and Freud Gayle Salamon, Princeton University (USA) Moderator: Nancy Barta-Smith, Slippery Rock University (USA)
10:30 - 10:40	BREAK
10:40 - 11:25	Placing Ourselves at the Service of the Spectacle Susan Bredlau, Northern Arizona University (USA) Moderator: Rachel McCann, Mississippi University (USA)
11:30 - 12:15	Merleau-Ponty and the Narrating Body Subject Fiona Utley, University of New England (Australia) Moderator: John Caruana, Ryerson University (Canada)
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 2:45	Instituted Time, Memory and the Self: For a Phenomenology of Narrativity Annette Hilt, University of Heidelberg (Germany) Moderator: Bryan Smyth, University of Memphis (USA)
2:50 - 3:35	The Communal Push and its Implications for Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Intersubjectivity Paul Qualtere-Burcher, University of Oregon (USA) Moderator: Nancy Walton, Ryerson University (Canada)
3:35 - 3:45	BREAK
3:45 - 5:00	Keynote Address Null Body, Protean Body, Potent Body, Neutral Body, Wild Body Elizabeth Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body (USA) Moderator: Dennis O’Connor, Concordia University (Canada)
5:00 - 5:15	BREAK
5:15 - 6:45	*Commemorative Panel—Adega Restaurant, 33 Elm St. Hugh Silverman, Stony Brook University (USA) John O'Neill, York University (Canada) Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) Master of Ceremonies: Lawrence Hass*, Muhlenberg University (USA)

Friday, September 19—Oakham House, 63 Gould St.

8:45 - 9:10	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
Anonymity, Selfhood, Time
9:10 - 10:00	M.C. Dillon Award On the Life that is “Never Simply Mine” Emma Jones, University of Oregon (USA) Moderator: James Morley, Ramapo College of New Jersey (USA)
10:05 - 10:50	This Power to Which We are Vowed Scott Marratto, University of King’s College (Canada) Moderator: Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University (USA)
10:50 - 11:00	BREAK
11:00 - 11:45	The Subject as Time Michael Kelly, Boston College (USA) Moderator: Kascha Semon, Boston College (USA)
11:50 - 12:35	Memory, Sedimentation, Self: The Weight of the Ideal in the Logic of Expression Don Landes, Stony Brook University (USA) Moderator: Rajiv Kaushik, Brock University (Canada)
12:35 - 2:30	LUNCH
The Time of Art, Expression and Nature
2:30 - 3:15	The Time of the Art Work, A Past That Is Not Past: Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island (USA) Moderator: Don Landes, Stony Brook University (USA)
3:20 - 4:20	Invited Paper The Role of Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics, Ontology,and Philosophy of Nature Véronique Foti, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Moderator: Carol Bigwood, York University (Canada)
4:20 - 4:35	BREAK
4:35 - 5:50	Keynote Address Edges of Time, Edges of Memory Edward Casey, Stony Brook University (USA) Moderator: David Morris, Concordia University (Canada)

Saturday, September 20—Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St.

8:45 - 9:15	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION
Being and Time, Ethics and Philosophy
9:15 - 10:00	The Temporality of Merleau-Ponty’s Intertwining James Mensch, St. Francis Xavier University (Canada) Moderator: Suzanne Cataldi, Southern Illinois University (USA)
10:05 - 10:50	The Depths of Time in the World’s Memory of Self Glen Mazis, Penn State University Harrisburg (USA) Moderator: Helen Fielding, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
10:50 - 11:00	BREAK
11:00 - 11:45	The Gift of Memory: Sheltering the I Kirsten Jacobson, University of Maine (USA) Moderator: Stefan Kristensen, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
11:50 - 12:50	Invited Paper Title TBA John Russon, The University of Guelph (Canada) Moderator: Kym Maclaren, Ryerson University (Canada)
12:50 - 2:45	BUSINESS LUNCH—ARTS AND LETTERS CLUB
2:45 - 3:30	A Violent Act That is Perception Itself: The Motif of Violence in Merleau-Ponty Ann Murphy, Fordham University (USA) Moderator: Bryan Bannon, Miami University (USA)
3:35 - 4:35	Invited Paper “Benign Sexual Variation”: An Essay on the Late Thought of Merleau-Ponty Leonard Lawlor, The Pennsylvania State University (USA) Moderator: Duane Davis, University of North Carolina (USA)
4:35 - 4:50	BREAK
4:50 - 6:05	Keynote Address Coming and Going of Time Bernhard Waldenfels, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) Moderator: John O’Neill, York University (Canada)
7:00	BANQUET DINNER —Adega Restaurant, 33 Elm St.