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Publications Hugh J Publications Hugh J. Silverman INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS photo by Donald A. Landes (Paris, 2008) Invited Lectures and Conference Papers - 1970s 1972-73 1. “Four Phenomenological Views of the Self.” Philosophy Department, University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, CANADA. March 1973. 2. “Man and the Self as Identity of Difference.” Philosophy Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. May 1973. 1973-74 3. “Beckett’s Philosophy of the Self.” Philosophy Department, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY. February 1974. 4. “Beckett’s Philosophy of the Self.” Philosophy Department, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY. February 1974. 5. “Sartre’s Concept of Person (or Saussure Stood on his Head).” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA. March 1974. 1974-75 6. “Dufrenne’s Phenomenology of Poetry.” Response to Mikel Dufrenne. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. November 1974. 7. “Sartre’s Words on the Self.” Philosophy Department, Union College, Schenectady, NY. May 1975. 1975-76 8. “Edgerton on Linear Perspective.” Response to S. Y. Edgerton. International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. April 1976. Hugh J. Silverman Invited Lectures and Papers - Page 2 of 30 9. “Is There a Science of Literature?” Response to Michel Beaujour. Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, New School for Social Research, NY. May 1976. 10. “Edwards’ Sartrianism.” Response to J. Edwards’ “Sartre’s The Words: Existence, Liberation, and Self- Knowledge.” Long Island Philosophical Society, York College, CUNY, Jamaica, NY. May 1976. 11. “Beckett, Philosophy, and the Self.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. May 1976 1976-77 12. “Re-reading the Tradition with Merleau-Ponty.” Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Akron, Akron, OH. September 1976. 13. “Sartre and the Structuralists.” Colloquium on the Thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Seventh Annual Philosophy Colloquium, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. October 1976. 14. “Sartrian Descriptions and Self-Descriptions.” Philosophy Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. November 1976. 15. “Imagining, Perceiving, and Remembering.” Response to E. S. Casey. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, MA. December 1976. 16. “For a Hermeneutic Semiology of the Self.” Conference on Hermeneutics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. January 1977. 17. “Cross-Cultural Approaches to the De-Ontological Self-Paradigm” (with David A. Dilworth). International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Bradford College, Haverhill, MA. April 1977. 18. “Jean-Paul Sartre versus Michel Foucault on Civilizational Study.”Panel on New Methods in the Comparative Study of Civilizations: Structuralism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory, International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Bradford College, Haverhill, MA. April 1977. 19. “Foucault’s Nineteenth Century System of Thought and the Anthropological Sleep.” Invited Speaker. Colloquium on Nineteenth Century French Studies, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, ME. May 1977. 20. “Is a Science of Literature Possible?” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN. May 1977. 21. “Communicability.” Conference on Cross-Cultural Phenomenology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA. June 1977. 1977-78 22. “Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Interpreting Hegel.” Merleau-Ponty Circle, Ohio University, Athens, OH. October 1977. 23. “From Utopia/Dystopia to Heterotopia: An Interpretive Topology.”Department of Physics, SUNY/Stony Brook, NY. November 1977. 24. “Self-Decentering: Derrida Incorporated.” Conference on Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. February 1978. Hugh J. Silverman Invited Lectures and Papers - Page 3 of 30 25. “Biographical Situations/Developmental Structures: Confronting Sartre and Piaget.” International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. April 1978. 26. “Biographical Situations/Developmental Structures: Confronting Sartre and Piaget.” Philosophy Club and Philosophy Department, University of Akron, Akron, OH. May 1978. 27. “For a Hermeneutic Semiology of Literature.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. May 1978. 28. “The Limits of Logocentrism (On the Way to Grammatology).”Workshop on Heidegger and Language, University of Warwick, Coventry, ENGLAND. July 1978. 29. “For a Hermeneutic Semiology of the Self.” International Council of Psychologists, Munchen Kongresshalle, Munich, W. GERMANY. July 1978 30. “The Appropriation of Language,” and “Seminar on Being and Time, Section 43.” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Monastero Monteripido, Perugia, ITALY. August 1978. 31. “From Utopia/Dystopia to Heterotopia: An Interpretive Topology.” World Congress of Sociology, Uppsala, SWEDEN. August 1978. 1978-79 32. “Psychology: Its Status as a Science.” Invited Discussion Paper on Studies by D. N. Robinson, J. Rychlack, and R. Romanyschyn. American Psychological Association, Toronto, CANADA. August 1978. 33. “Merleau-Ponty on Language and Communication (1947-48).” Merleau-Ponty Circle, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. September 1978. 34. “Literature/Text.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. September 1978. 35. “Epistemé, Dialectic, History.” Society for the Study of the History of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington D.C.. December 1978. 36. “The Autobiographical Space and its Limits.” Program in Comparative Literature, SUNY/Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. February 1979. 37. “The Place of History: Sartre/Foucault.” Department of Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, CANADA. February 1979. 38. “L’Espace autobiographique: topologie du sujet.” Département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, CANADA. February 1979. 39. «Existential Phenomenology and Structuralism: A Synchronic and Diachronic Account.» International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, California State University, Northridge, CA. March 1979. 40. “Le Lieu de l’histoire: Sartre et Foucault.” Colloque de Cerisy: “Sartre Aujourd’hui,” Cerisy-la-Salle, Normandy, FRANCE. June 1979. 41. «The Autobiographical Textuality of Thoreau’s Walden.” Anglistisches Seminar, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, WEST GERMANY. June 1979. Hugh J. Silverman Invited Lectures and Papers - Page 4 of 30 42. “The Interrogation of Language.” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Monastero Monteripido, Perugia, ITALY. July-August 1979. 1979-80 43. “Sartre versus Structuralism.” The Jowett Philosophy Society, Oxford University, Oxford, ENGLAND, January 1980. 44. “Relations Between Philosophy and Literature.” The Philosophy- Literature Society, University of Warwick, Coventry, ENGLAND, February 1980. 45. “History as Limit: Sartre/Foucault.” Staff and Post-Graduate Seminar, Department of Philosophy, School of Mental and Moral Science, Trinity College, Dublin, IRELAND, February 1980. 46. “The Appropriation and Interrogation of Language” and “Sartre versus Structuralism.” Department of Philosophy, University College, Cork, IRELAND, February 1980. 47. “Nietzsche’s Autobiographical Textuality.” Philosophy Residential Weekend/Guest Speaker. Warwick Philosophy Department, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, ENGLAND, February 1980. 48. “Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.” Departments of French and Philosophy, The University of Leeds, Leeds, ENGLAND, February 1980. 49. “Lévi-Strauss and Structuralism,” and ‘Seminar on Thoreau.” Two Matchette Foundation Lectures. Huddersfield Polytechnic, Huddersfield, ENGLAND, February 1980. 50. “Jacques Derrida and his ‘Works’.” Sponsored by the French Cultural Attaché, The University of Manchester, Manchester, ENGLAND, February 1980. 51. “Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.” Human Sciences Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, ENGLAND, February 1980. 52. “Sartre and Structuralism.” Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, The City University, Northampton Square, London, ENGLAND, February 1980. 53. “History as Limit: Sartre/Foucault.” The Philosophy Society, University of Warwick, Coventry, ENGLAND, February 1980. 54. “Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.” Philosophy Society, University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex, ENGLAND, February 1980. 55. “Between Phenomenology and Structuralism.” Philosophy Staff Seminar, University of Warwick, Coventry, ENGLAND, March 1980. 56. “Merleau-Ponty and the Interrogation of Language.” Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, Colchester, ENGLAND, March 1980. 57. “Writing at the Literature/Text Interface.” And Seminar Presentation: “The Practice of Literary Theory,” Conference on the Necessity of Theory, Organized by the Students of the English Course Degree, Oxford University, Oxford, ENGLAND, March 1980. 58. “Sartre versus Structuralism.” Filosofisch Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS, March 1980. Hugh J. Silverman Invited Lectures and Papers - Page 5 of 30 59. “Literature/Text: The Literary Theories of Sartre and Barthes.”Instituut voor Algemene Literatuurwetenschap, Rijksuniversiteit,
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