June 28-30 2006| Temple University 6TH ANNUAL PHENOMENOLOGY ROUNDTABLE MEETING "East Indian and Afro-Caribbean Phenomenology: The Work of J. N. Mohanty and Paget Henry"   Photograph of Howard Thurman (1900-1981)

SPONSORS

Sponsors: The Phenomenology Roundtable, The Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, The Center for Afro-Jewish Studies, The Department of Philosophy, The Department of Religion, and The Society of Fellows

SCHEDULE

2006 Program

2006 Registration Form

Wednesday, June 28

12:00–3:00pm Arrival and Registration
3:00–4:30 Welcome and Opening Discussion: "The Task of Phenomenology Today"
4:30–5:30 Introductory Lecture: Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University): "Phenomenology East and West, but Both from the South"
Evening: Dinner at Nam Phuong

Thursday, June 29

8:00–9:00am Breakfast
9:00–9:15 Welcome
9:15–10:00 Session #1: Stephen N. Haymes (DePaul University): "Second Generation Memory and the Phenomenological Structure of Intergenerational Remembrance in Ernest Gaines' Fictional Life-World"
10:00-10:45 Session #2: Carolyn M. Cusick (Vanderbilt University): "Epistemology, Testimony, and Evidence"
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–11:45 Session #3: Josh W. Houston (Vanderbilt University): "The World and the Work: Interpretation in Goodman and Merleau-Ponty"
11:45am–12:30pm Session #4: Kenneth D. Knies (SUNY-Stony Brook): "What is an Epoch in Philosophy?"
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–3:15 Invited presentation #1: J. N. Mohanty (Temple University)
3:15–4:00 Session #5: Joan Jasak (Temple University): "Non-Atomistic Post-Colonial Social Theory through Indian Philosophy of Self"
4:00–4:15 Break
4:15–5:00 Session #6: Michael J. Monahan (Marquette University): "Sartre and the Phenomenology of Scarcity"
5:00-5:45 Session #7: Anthony Monteiro (Temple University): "War and the Possibilities of Phenomenology"
Evening: Dinner at Joan Jasak's House

Friday, June 30

8:00–9:00am Breakfast
9:00–9:30 Programmatics: Plans for the Seventh Annual Phenomenology Roundtable (2007)
9:30–10:15 Session #8: Douglas Ficek (Temple University): "Outing Frankfurt: An Existential Phenomenology of Bullshit"
10:15–11:00 Session #9: Niel Rosen (Catholic University of America): "Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Medicine"
11:00–11:15 Break
11:15am–12:30pm Invited presentation #2: Paget Henry (Brown University)
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:45 Session #10: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University): "'H' before 'L': Husserl before Levinas"
2:45–3:30 Session #11: Michael R. Michau (Purdue University): "Antiblack Racism as a ‘Sickness Unto Death'"
3:30-4:15pm Session #12: Paula J. Davis (University of Pittsburgh): "A Phenomenology of Market Space in an African City"
4:15-4:30 Closing Remarks

PAPERS

1. James Bryant (College of the Holy Cross) and Paget Henry (Brown University): "From the Pattern to Being: Howard Thurman and Africana Phenomenology"
2. Steven Nathan Haymes (DePaul University): "Second Generation Memory and the Phenomenological Structure of Intergenerational Remembrance in Ernest Gaines' Fictional Life-World"
3. Paget Henry (Brown University): "Africana Phenomenology: Its Philosophical Implications"
4. Josh Wayne Houston (Vanderbilt University): "The World and the Work: Interpretation in Goodman and Merleau-Ponty"
5. Michael R. Michau (Purdue University): "Antiblack Racism as a 'Sickness Unto Death'" (a precis)
6. Marilyn Nissim-Sabat (Lewis University): "'H' Before 'L': Husserl Before Levinas"

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