Thursday, May 20th
ROOM: ESSEX HOUSE 18
10:00-11:00 Registration + Coffee
11:00-11:15 Plenary Session Welcome by Christos Hadjioannou, Alexandra Popescu and Joseph Ward
11:20-12:40 Session 1 – Phenomenology and Husserl
Chair: Zoe Sutherland
Speaker 1: Andreas Vrahimis (London Consortium)
Title of paper: Dummett’s View of the Origins of Phenomenology
Speaker 2: Bradley Tuck (University of Sussex)
Title of paper: The Politics of Phenomenology: Husserl’s New Beginning
12:40-13:40 LUNCH
13:40-15:00 Session 2 – Hermeneutic issues in Phenomenology
Chair: Sam Reznek
Speaker 1: David Egan (Oriel College, Oxford)
Title of paper: Recollection and authenticity in Wittgenstein and Heidegger
Speaker 2: Sophie Vlacos (University of Cardiff)
Title of paper: Phenomenology of the Word; A Hermeneutic Approach
15:00-15:20 COFFEE BREAK
15:20-16:40 Session 3 – Issues of Embodiment
Chair: Chris O’ Kane
Speaker 1: Aaron Wendland (Somerville College, Oxford)
Title of paper: Freedom as Response-ability in Being and Time
Speaker 2: Denisa Butnaru (University of Strasbourg)
Title of paper: Disrupted Intentionality and its Implications for a Phenomenology of Embodiment
16:40-17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00-18:30 Keynote Speaker
Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University)
Title of paper: Dasein: The early years
Chair: Joseph Ward
18:30-18:40 Closing Remarks
Friday, May 21st
ROOM: FRISTON 112
9:00-9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30-10:50 Session 1 – Heidegger and Aesthetics
Chair: Zoe Sutherland
Speaker 1: Joe Ward (University of Sussex)
Title of paper: Heidegger on Art and the Beautiful
Speaker 2: Jonathan Conley (Boston College)
Title of paper: Art, Truth, and the Interrogative Mode
10:50-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:20 Session 2 – On the verge of the in-apparent: Ereignis and Cinematography
Chair: Alexandra Popescu
Speaker 1: Andreea Parapuf (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Title of paper: Phenomenology and Tautological Thinking in the Later Heidegger
Speaker 2: Timothy Secret (University of Essex)
Title of Paper: Phenomenology as Archi-cinematography?
12:20-13:20 LUNCH
13:20-14:40 Session 3 – Phenomenology and Literature
Chair: Jana Elsen
Speaker 1: Christina Andrews (University of St. Andrews)
Title of paper: Merleau-Ponty and the Novelistic: Literature as Philosophy
Speaker 2: Claire Guerin (St. John’s College, Oxford)
Title of Paper: Beauvoir reading Husserl: Phenomenology and Fiction- a privileged relationship?
14:40-14:50 COFFEE BREAK
14:50-16:10 Session 4 – Phenomenology and the singular
Chair: Gabriel Martin
Speaker 1: Bernard Cosgrave (University College Dublin)
Title of paper: Levinas’ Launching and Re-launching: Constantly the Same
Speaker 2: Alexandra Popescu (University of Sussex)
Title of paper: Community of Singularities: A Derridean alternative to the Levinasian 'gap' between ethics and politics
16:10-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-18:30 Keynote Speaker - Philosophy Society of the University of Sussex
Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University)
Title of Paper: Totality and Infinity and its reception
Chair: Paul Davies
18:30-18:45 Best Paper Prize and Closing Remarks
18:45- 20:00 Drinks at IDS Bar (Sussex Campus)
20:30 Dinner in Brighton and party! (Place to be announced)
