PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE
An international congress on philosophical questions related to literature and the study of literature, at the University of Vaasa, Finland, 27–28 May 2010.
Venue: The Auditorium Nissi in the Tritonia building
Program:
[updated 5.5.2010]
May 27, 2010
Coffee & Registration 8:30–9:20 am
Welcome Address 9:20
Professor Merja Koskela, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vaasa
Session 1
9:30–11:00
Chair: Tommi Lehtonen, University of Vaasa
Poetry Clarifies Meaning – Seneca on Tragedy and Moral Developments, Malin Grahn, University of Helsinki
Arguing Against Dummies – Hypothetical Simple-minded Opponents in Philosophical Dialogue, Sami Jansson, University of Vaasa
Possible Worlds in Literary Theory, Jenni Tyynelä, University of Tampere
Idealization and Exemplification as Tools of Philosophy – A Panel Discussion with Malin Grahn, Sami Jansson, and Jenni Tyynelä, chaired by Tommi Lehtonen
Session 2
11:00–12:00
Chair: Charles Norman Todd, University of Chicago
Keynote Address
Poetic Meaning, Kisor K. Chakrabarti, Davis & Elkins College
Lunch Break 12:00–1:00 pm
Session 3
1:00–2:30
Chair: Tiina Mäntymäki, University of Vaasa
Heidegger and Aesthetic Knowledge: On the Construction of Literary Hermeneutics and Phenomenological Ontology, Evan Smith, University of St. Andrews
Romantic Exteriority: On the Construction of Literature in Jean Paul and P.B. Shelley, William Coker, Bilkent University
Ethics, Literature, the Emotional Link, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, University of Oslo
Session 4
2:30–4:00
Chair: Robert Hughes, Ohio State University
Literary Metaphysics: The Case of Sufism, Ezgi Ulusoy Aranyosi, Bilkent University
Poetizing Nonduality, Kimiyo Murata-Soraci, Tama University
Beating the Ground at the Yi River: Philosophical Aspects of Shao Yong, 1012–1077, Martin Doesch, University of Erlangen
Session 5
4:00–5:30
Chair: David Bartholomae, University of Pittsburgh
Philosophical Thought in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Christopher Vasillopulos, Eastern Connecticut State University
The Path of Passion in Seneca’s Phaedra, Panos Eliopoulos, Olympic Center, Athens
George Bataille’s Politics of Unreason and His Position between Philosophy and Literature, Angelos Evangelou, University of Kent
Session 6
5:30–7:30 pm
Chair: Panos Eliopoulos, Olympic Center, Athens
Benjamin and Scholem Interpreting Kafka, Enrico Lucca, University of Milan
Thought Experiments in Philosophy of Fiction, Iskra Fileva, University of Nevada
Thesis, Antitheses, Godot: Adorno, Beckett, and the Impossibility of Sublation, Markku Nivalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Literature in Philosophy, or How the “True Friedrich Nietzsche” Finally Became a Fable? – The Story of an Error”, Kristóf Fenyvesi, University of Jyväskylä
May 28, 2010
Coffee & Registration 8:00–8:30 am
Session 1
8:30–12:00
Chair: Janice Schuetz, University of New Mexico
Language of Mystics, Chandana Chakrabarti, Davis & Elkins College
The Traumatized Hero Story: Representations of Magical Recovery, Melissa Burchard, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Sharing Expectations, Humberto Brito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lacanian Aesthetics and the Uncanny, Robert Hughes, Ohio State University
The Body as a Place of Resistance in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, Tiina Mäntymäki, University of Vaasa
Genre and Voice in Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety, Andrew J. Burgress, University of New Mexico
Harry Potter & Company - Friendship Incorporated, Diana Abad, University of Dortmund
Lunch Break 12:00–1:00 pm
Session 2
1:00–2:30
Chair: Carsten Fogh Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
The Conception of Life in Works of Boris Patternak and Mr. Henry, Tatiana Guschina, Research Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Okot p’Bitek and Richard Rorty’s Critique of Universalism, Gerald Porter, University of Vaasa
Readings of Galileo, Gereon Wolters, Universität Konstanz
Session 3
2:30–4:00
Chair: Kimiyo Murata-Soraci, Tama University
Personal and Literary Apocalypse – The Impossible Heap, Diana Adela Martin, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin
Modernism’s Romantic Roots, Irina Ruvinsky, University of Chicago
Philosophy as Literature: Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Mette Blok, University of Roskilde
Session 4
4:00–5.30
Chair: Gerald Porter, University of Vaasa
Cultivating Vice: Taking Pleasure in the Bad in Dorian Gray, Charles Norman Todd, University of Chicago
Virtue as Disease, Ana Almeida, University of Lisbon
Breathing a Different Air of Life: The Ethical Demand on Wittgenstein’s Reader, Jonathan Beale, University of Reading
Session 5
5:30–7:30 pm
Chair: Diana Abad, Dortmund University
Other Weapons: Fragmentation, Configuration, and the Ethical Life, Minerva Ahumada Tores, Northeastern Illinois University
Philosophical Approach of John Neumeier to Othello by William Shakespeare, phenomenological perspective, Elizabeth Koldzak, University of Lodz
Homesick for the Chains: The Burden of Freedom in Russian Literature and Thought, Alicja Gescinska, Ghent University
Beyond the Myth/Philosophy Dichotomy: Foundations for an Interdependent Perspective, Omid Tofighian, Leiden University
The Best and the Law: Kantian Thesis in Terry Prattchet’s, Carsten Fogh Nielsen, University of Copenhagen