The 6Th Annual Meeting Of
The 6th Annual Meeting of
The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle
March 2-5, 2011
UniversityCollegeCork / Cork, Republic of Ireland
Wednesday 7:30pm, March 2 (GreshamMetropole)
Welcome / Graham Parkes, UniversityCollegeCorkUK
CCPC Presidential Address /David Jones, Kennesaw State UniversityUSA
CCPC Program and Organization Address / Michael Schwartz, Augusta State UniversityUSA
CCPC Greetings / Jason Wirth,Seattle UniversityUSA
2011 Opening Reception
Thursday 9-10:30, March 3 (GreshamMetropole)
A
Experience and Language in Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of Zen/ Bret W. Davis,Loyola UniversityMarylandUSA
Notes on the Concept of Time in Asian and European Thought Tradition/ Rein Raud,Tallinn UniversityEstonia
B
Generation (shēng生) as Link between Nature and Human in Early Chinese Philosophy / Franklin Perkins, DePaul UniversityUSA
Why Jijigua 既济卦Is the Best of All: Position, Transformation and Their Philosophical Implications / Robin Wang Loyola Marymount UniversityUSA)
Thursday 10:45 -12:15
A
Virtue as Power in the Laozi and Spinoza /Jason Dockstader,UniversityCollegeCorkUK
From Comparison to Convergence: Reflections on Steven Burik’s Comparisons of Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism/ David Storey, Fordham UniversityUSA
B
Hegel and Absolute Difference / Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of TechnologyUSA
Gadamer and Hegel on Experience / Frederique Rese, Albert-Ludwigs-UniversitaetFreiburg, Germany
C
The Japanese language in Dōgen's usage/ Ralf Müller,Humboldt-UniversityGermany
Is Koselleck’s Wirkungsgeschichte Applicable to China?—Translation, Comparative Philosophy, and Comparative Culture / Sinkwan Cheng,USA
Thursday, Lunch 12:15-2:00
Thursday2:00-3:00
Plenary Session I
Mountain Landscapes / John Sallis, Boston CollegeUSA
(Moderator: Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of TechnologyUSA)
Thursday 3:15-4:45
A
Śūnyatā—kong/ku(空) -----What It Says Through The Art?/ Jinli He,Trinity UniversityUSA
Heidegger, Levinas, and Intergenerational Justice / Matthias Fritsch, Concordia UniversityCanada
B
Eckhart and Dōgen: the Continuous Self-Revelation of Buddha-Nature/ André van der Braak, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
Nāgārjuna analysis of the Self: Annihilation without nihilism / Itay Ehre,Ben Gurion UniversityIsrael
C
Marxism and Buddhism: Shared Visions / James Stiles,West Chester UniversityUSA
Buddhist Marxism: Mao and Badiou / Bill Martin,DePaul UniversityUSA
Thursday 5-6:00
Plenary Session II
An Inquiry into the Good and Nishida’s Missing Basho /James W. Heisig,Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Japan
(Moderator: Graham Parkes, UniversityCollegeCorkUK)
Thursday 8:00- onwards (UCC Campus)
Evening Reception
Friday9-10:30,March 4 (GreshamMetropole)
A
Cadences: Between Earth and Technicity, Between Earth and Art
Silent Call of the Earth: Art and Technicity in Heidegger’s Work of the Mid-1930s/ Will McNeill,DePaul UniversityUSA
The Earth, Flesh, Carbon: The Elemental Art of Finitude in the Thought of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Hirst/ Andrea Rehberg,Middle East Technical University Turkey
B
Comparative Philosophy: Whither Now? / Geir Sigurdsson,Reykyavik UniversityIceland/
Western Philosophy and Eastern Power/ David Williams,Cardiff UniversityUK
C
Acts of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Moses/ Lyat Friedman,Bar Ilan UniversityIsrael
The Haudenosaunee Double/ Brian Seitz,Babson CollegeUSA
Friday 10:45 – 12:15
A
On the paradigmatic character of comparative hermeneutics/ James Risser,Seattle UniversityUSA
Symptoms of Withdrawal: The Hermeneutic Complexity of Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s Conceptual Structuring of Hindu Religion and Philosophy / Sai Bhatawadekar,University of Hawai'i USA
B
Why Melody at All? On Music and Emptiness / Meilin Chinn,University of Hawai’i-ManoaUSA
Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of the World / Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Canada
C
If God Is Dead, Then Tragedy Is Religious: On the Religious Turn in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.,Georgia State UniversityUSA
The Silence of the Origin in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy / Niall Keane,University of LimerickUK
Friday, Lunch 12:15-2:00
Friday 2:00 – 3:00
Plenary Session III
Roundtable
Zen and Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Responding to Bret Davis
Graham Parkes, UniversityCollegeCorkUK
Jason Wirth, Seattle UniversityUSA
Bret W. Davis, Loyola UniversityMarylandUSA
(Moderator: David Jones, Kennesaw State UniversityUSA)
Friday 3:15-4:45
A
From Abgrund to Urgrund: On Luigi Pareyson's Constructivist Hermeneutics /Peter Carravetta, SUNY-Stony BrookUSA
Bateson's Left Hand / Elizabeth Sikes,University of Seattle, USAandSarah Williams, EvergreenState College USA
B
Hermeneutics and the Texture of Mathematics / Bernard Freydberg, Duquesne UniversityUSA
Transformative Phenomenology / Rolf Elberfeld, University of HildesheimGermany
C
No Perch: Giorgio Agamben and the Profane (A Buddhist Reading) / Steven DeCaroliGoucher CollegeUSA
Is the Buddhist Face Raced?/ Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi UniversityUSA
Friday 5:00-6:00
Plenary Session IV
Roundtable
On Erin McCarthy’sEthics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies
Leah Kalmanson, Drake UniversityUSA/Between Bodies: Rethinking Selfhood with Erin McCarthy
Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of MarylandUSA
Erin McCarthy, Saint Lawrence University USA
(Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes,University of Seattle, USA)
Friday 8:00-onwards (UCC Campus)
Evening Reception
Saturday 9:00-10:15, March 5 (UCC Campus)
A
Deleuze-Post-War Cinema and a world of constant modulation / Mauro Di Lullo,The University of GlasgowUK
From the Sublime to the Event; the Great Wave / Connell Vaughan, UCD- Dublin, UK School of Philosophy
B
The Interpretation of Death in Being and Time / Morganna Lambeth,University of California at Riverside USA
Comparative Examination of the Dying Mind / Ira Gredenberg,UniversityCollegeCorkUK
Saturday 10:30-11:45
A
Buddhist Approach to Ryle’s Mind / Gyan Prakash, Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia
Heidegger and Representationalism: Clarifying the Phenomenal Content / Robert Kubala,University of CambridgeUK
B
From the Depths of Aesthetic Expression: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty and the Body / Ryan Shriver,University of Hawai'i at ManoaUSA
Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Perceptual Faith and Philosophic Practice / Adam Loughnane,UniversityCollegeCorkUK
Saturday Lunch 11:45-1:30
Saturday 1:30-2:45
A
Making Sense of Nietzsche’s “Truths”: Slavery, Misogyny and Aristocracy /
Steven Burgess,University of South FloridaUSA
The Non-voluntary Character of Nietzsche’s Will to Power / Sarah Flavel, University College Cork UK
B
Heidegger's Ontological Difference and the Concept of the Migrant / Andrea Martinez,UniversityCollege Cork UK
Butterflies Dancing into the Distance: Self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi’s Perspectivism / Marshall Staton,Kennesaw State UniversityUSA
Saturday 3-4:15
A
Kukai's notion of reality embodiment and Eriugena's concept of natura / Margaret Twomey,University College Cork UK
Nishida and Nature: recognizing the importance of difference for a radical revision of the relationship of humans to the environment / Matthew Izor,University of Hawaii at ManoaUSA
B
Ikkyu’s Notion of Nothing / Andrew Whitehead, University College Cork UK
Is Religious Dialogue Possible? / Saladdin Ahmed,University of OttawaCanada
Saturday 4:15-5:30
A
Hybrid Language and Hybrid Thought: Haikai and Phenomenology in an essay by Kuki Shūzō / Lorenzo Marinucci, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' Italy
Miki Kiyoshi’s Conception of Community / Kenn Steffensen, University College CorkUK
B
Inner Sections: Hegel's Heuristic Ideal and the Tragic Spirit of the Phenomenology / Chris Cappelletti,UniversityCollegeCork, UK
Art Making Artists: A philosophical genealogy of participatory art / Brian Herczog,University of WarwickUK