The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle

The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle March 2-5, 2011 University College Cork / Cork, Republic of Ireland Wednesday 7:30pm, March 2 Gresham Metropole

The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle

March 2-5, 2011 University College Cork / Cork, Republic of Ireland

Wednesday 7:30pm, March 2 (Gresham Metropole)

Welcome / Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK

CCPC Presidential Address / David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA CCPC Program and Organization Address / Michael Schwartz, Augusta State

University USA

CCPC Greetings / Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA

2011 Opening Reception

Thursday 9-10:30, March 3 (Gresham Metropole)

A

Experience and Language in Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of Zen / Bret W Davis,

Loyola University Maryland USA

Notes on the Concept of Time in Asian and European Thought Tradition / Rein Raud,

Tallinn University Estonia

B

Generation (shēng生) as Link between Nature and Human in Early Chinese Philosophy

/ Franklin Perkins, DePaul University USA

Why Jijigua 既济卦 Is the Best of All: Position, Transformation and Their Philosophical

Implications / Robin Wang Loyola Marymount University USA)

Thursday 10:45 -12:15

A

Virtue as Power in the Laozi and Spinoza / Jason Dockstader, University College Cork

UK

From Comparison to Convergence: Reflections on Steven Burik’s Comparisons of

Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism / David Storey, Fordham University USA

B

Hegel and Absolute Difference / Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology

USA

Gadamer and Hegel on Experience / Frederique Rese, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet

Freiburg, Germany

C

The Japanese language in Dōgen's usage / Ralf Müller, Humboldt-University Germany

Is Koselleck’s Wirkungsgeschichte Applicable to China?— Translation, Comparative

Philosophy, and Comparative Culture / Sinkwan Cheng, USA

Thursday, Lunch 12:15-2:00

Thursday 2:00-3:00

Plenary Session I

Mountain Landscapes / John Sallis, Boston College USA (Moderator: Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology USA)

Thursday 3:15-4:45

A Śūnyatā—kong/ku(空) -What It Says Through The Art? / Jinli He, Trinity University

USA

Heidegger, Levinas, and Intergenerational Justice / Matthias Fritsch, Concordia

University Canada

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

University Israel

C

Marxism and Buddhism: Shared Visions / James Stiles, West Chester University USA Buddhist Marxism: Mao and Badiou / Bill Martin, DePaul University USA

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, University College Cork UK)

Thursday 8:00- onwards (UCC Campus)

Evening Reception

Friday 9-10:30, March 4 (Gresham Metropole)

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 University USA

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

Comparative Philosophy: Whither Now? / Geir Sigurdsson, Reykyavik University

Iceland/

Western Philosophy and Eastern Power / David Williams, Cardiff University UK

C

Acts of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Moses / Lyat Friedman, Bar Ilan University Israel The Haudenosaunee Double / Brian Seitz, Babson College USA

Friday 10:45 – 12:15

A

On the paradigmatic character of comparative hermeneutics / James Risser, Seattle

University USA

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-Manoa USA

Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of

the World / Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Canada

If God Is Dead, Then Tragedy Is Religious: On the Religious Turn in Nietzsche’s Birth of

Tragedy / Louis A Ruprecht, Jr., Georgia State University USA

The Silence of the Origin in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy / Niall Keane,

University of Limerick UK

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, University College Cork UK Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA Bret W Davis, Loyola University Maryland USA

(Moderator: David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA)

Friday 3:15-4:45

From Abgrund to Urgrund: On Luigi Pareyson's Constructivist Hermeneutics / Peter

Carravetta, SUNY-Stony Brook USA

Bateson's Left Hand / Elizabeth Sikes, University of Seattle, USA and Sarah Williams,

Evergreen State College USA

B

Hermeneutics and the Texture of Mathematics / Bernard Freydberg, Duquesne

University USA

Transformative Phenomenology / Rolf Elberfeld, University of Hildesheim Germany

C

No Perch: Giorgio Agamben and the Profane (A Buddhist Reading) / Steven DeCaroli

Goucher College USA

Is the Buddhist Face Raced? / Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi University USA

Friday 5:00-6:00

Plenary Session IV Roundtable

On Erin McCarthy’s Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental,

Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies

Leah Kalmanson, Drake University USA /Between Bodies: Rethinking Selfhood with

Erin McCarthy

Bradley Park, St Mary’s College of Maryland USA 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 Glasgow UK

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, University College Cork

UK

Saturday 10:30-11:45

A

Buddhist Approach to Ryle’s Mind / Gyan Prakash, Indian Institute of Technology

Bombay India

Heidegger and Representationalism: Clarifying the Phenomenal Content / Robert

Kubala, University of Cambridge UK

B From the Depths of Aesthetic Expression: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty and the Body /

Ryan Shriver, University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA

Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Perceptual Faith and Philosophic Practice / Adam

Loughnane, University College Cork UK

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 Florida USA

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,

University College Cork UK

Butterflies Dancing into the Distance: Self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi’s

Perspectivism / Marshall Staton, Kennesaw State University USA

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

Manoa USA

B

Ikkyu’s Notion of Nothing / Andrew Whitehead, University College Cork UK

Is Religious Dialogue Possible? / Saladdin Ahmed, University of Ottawa Canada

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 Cork

UK

B

Inner Sections: Hegel's Heuristic Ideal and the Tragic Spirit of the Phenomenology /

Chris Cappelletti, University College Cork, UK

Art Making Artists: A philosophical genealogy of participatory art / Brian Herczog,

University of Warwick UK