Programme: Saturday, June 7th 2008
| 10:00–10:30 |
Tea / Coffee
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| 10:30 –12:00 |
Session 4
Embodied Ethics
Chair: Dermot Moran, UCD Philosophy
| Name |
Institutional Affiliation |
Talk Title |
Mette Lebech |
National University of
Ireland, Maynooth |
Stein's Phenomenology of the Body: The Construction of the Human Being Between Description of Experience and Social Construction |
Eva Maria Korsisaari |
University of Helsinki,
Finland |
The Touch of the Caress: Luce Irigaray and Eugene Guillevic on Love, Intercorporeality and Ethics |
Hugh Cummins |
University College Dublin |
The Ontological Body and the Ethical Body: Levinas's Reading of Merleau-Ponty |
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| 12:00 – 1:00 |
LUNCH
Catered by Insomnia Café
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| 1:00 – 2:30 |
Session 5
Gender and Feminism
Chair: Prof. Gail Weiss, George Washington University
| Name |
Institutional Affiliation |
Talk Title |
Ann Cahill |
Elon University, USA |
Feeling Bodies: Material Intersubjectivity
and the Problem of Objectification |
Marta Diaz |
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK |
Islamic Journeys of the Soul expressed in European Female Bodies: Religious Conversion as Bodily Enactments |
Lanei Rodemeyer |
Duquesne University, USA |
From the Diaries of Lou Sullivan: Intersubjective Discourse and the Intersection of Embodiment |
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2:30 – 3:00 |
Tea / Coffee Break
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| 3:00 – 4:00 |
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Gail Weiss, George Washington University
“Intertwined Identities: Challenges to Bodily Autonomy”
Chair: Prof. Stephen Mennell, UCD Sociology
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| 4:00 |
Closing Remarks
Dr. Tim Mooney, UCD Philosophy
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| 8:30 |
Dinner
Courtyard Restaurant, Donnybrook |
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