PROGRAMME

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)

CALL FOR PAPERS

As old as philosophy itself, phenomenology can be traced back to the works of Plato and Aristotle. Yet the term reached its fame when Edmund Husserl, following Franz Brentano’s re-introduction of the scholastic concept of intentionality, developed a method of describing phenomena that he formally named phenomenology.

Since Husserl’s project of turning phenomenology into a science that would provide a transcendental theory of meaning, phenomenology diverged in various directions. From Heidegger’s existential analytic to Sartre’s existentialism and Marleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, to the radical thought of Levinas and Derrida; if there is a common characteristic that unifies these directions under the name of phenomenology, it is perhaps an exigency for a new beginning.

Within this broad understanding of the practice of phenomenology, we invite papers seeking to continue and/or reconfigure its legacy. ‘Launches and re-launches’ is a graduate conference in phenomenology, organized by graduate students for graduate students. It aims to bring together postgraduates engaging in original research on phenomenology and thus to promote contemporary studies in this field.




Keynote Speakers:

-Dr. Lawrence Hatab (Old Dominion University) “Dasein: the early years”


-Dr. Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) “Totality and Infinity and its reception”



Abstract format:

300-word abstracts and a brief CV should be sent to Alexandra Popescu (M.A.Popescu@sussex.ac.uk) no later than the 15th March 2010. General questions and queries should be addressed to Christos Hadjioannou (C.Hadjioannou@sussex.ac.uk). Accepted papers should not exceed 2000 words.


Best Paper Prize:

The best graduate paper will be rewarded by a prize. The prize is an artwork by the renowned Welsh painter Glynn Hughes. In order to be eligible for the prize, you must submit the paper in full by the 15th of May 2010.




Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Launches and re-launches: new initiatives in the name of phenomenology;
• The notion of gift, interruption and inheritance in phenomenology, as developed by Derrida, Levinas and others;
• The notion of ‘restoration’ or ‘return to a beginning’ in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger etc.);
• The ‘unfinished nature’ of phenomenology and the impossibility of defining it as a movement;
• The hermeneutic limits of phenomenology (Heidegger, Gadamer);
• Phenomenology and analytical philosophy;
• Phenomenology and deconstruction;
• Phenomenology and the body;
• Phenomenology and aesthetics.



This conference is organized by Christos Hadjioannou, Alexandra Popescu and Dr. Joseph Ward.
The conference is sponsored by the Centre for Literature and Philosophy of the University of Sussex