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SPEP Conference Program 2008 SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY Executive Co-Directors Peg Birmingham, DePaul University Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University Executive Committee Amy Allen, Dartmouth College Peg Birmingham, DePaul University Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University Anthony Steinbock, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Shannon Lundeen, University of Pennsylvania, Secretary-Treasurer Graduate Assistant Jeff Pardikes, DePaul University Advisory Book Selection Committee Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis, Chair John Drummond, Fordham University Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University, Canada Theodore George, Texas A & M University Margaret A. McLaren, Rollins College Daniel Selcer, Duquesne University Advocacy Committee Noëlle McAfee, George Mason University, Chair Sharon Meagher, Scranton University Bill Martin, DePaul University Committee on the Status of Women Diane Perpich, Clemson University, Chair Kyoo Lee, John Jay College, CUNY Shannon Winnubst, Southwestern University Diversity Committee Olufemi Taiwo, University of Seattle, Chair Alia Al-Saji, McGill University Namita Goswami, DePaul University Webmaster John Protevi, Louisiana State University Local Arrangements Contacts James Swindal, organizer, [email protected] Matt Valentine, graduate assistant, [email protected] Lori Crosby, book exhibit coordinator, [email protected] Sessions will be held at the Pittsburgh Marriott, located at 112 Washington Place (66 Mario Lemieux Place), Pittsburgh PA and at Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15282. The hotel is on the southwest corner of the Mellon Arena complex, one block north of the Duquesne campus in downtown Pittsburgh. A map of the hotel’s location and other hotel information can be found at http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pitdt-pittsburgh- marriott-city-center/ Hotel Accommodations Lodging for conference participants has been arranged at the Pittsburgh Marriott. For reservations, phone (412) 471-4000 or (877) 645-3553, or fax (412)281-4797. Ask for the SPEP room block. Conference rate: $129 (single and double). NOTE: Room Reservations must be made by September 29, 2008. Mention SPEP conference rate. Graduate Student Accommodations For information, contact Brock Bahler, [email protected], or Christina Rawls, [email protected] Travel Information Directions are also posted on the SPEP web site: http://www.spep.org. Air The Pittsburgh International Airport is served by most major airlines. Bus service from the airport is available via the 28X Airport Flyer. Fare is $2.60 each way; buses run approximately every 30 minutes. See www.portauthority.org for schedules and maps (downtown stop at Seventh Avenue & William Penn Place is 4 blocks east of the Marriott. One way cab fare is about $35. The Pittsburgh Marriott has an airport (Express Shuttle USA) van service– no reservations are needed-- for $20 each way. Train and Bus Amtrak serves Pittsburgh’s Amtrak Station, 1100 Liberty Avenue, four blocks north of the Marriott. For schedules and fares, contact Amtrak at (800) USA-RAIL or www. Amtrak.com. Greyhound provides service through Pittsburgh. Its terminal is at 909 Second Avenue, just two blocks south of the Duquesne campus. Contact www.greyhound.com for reservations. Car From: Pittsburgh International Airport: take the airport exit to Route 60 (South). It eventually merges into Routes 22/30 (East) and I- 279 (North). Follow it through the Fort Pitt Tunnel, over the Fort Pitt bridge to the first exit, I- 376 (East). Once on it, take the first exit for Grant Street. Stay on Grant street to the Forbes Ave intersection. Turn right, and continue until Chatham Square. Turn left on it, for two blocks, and the hotel is on your left. I-76 Westbound: exit onto I-376 (West), take the exit for Duquesne University. This will put you on Boulevard of the Allies. Stay in the right lane, and turn right after about four blocks on Stevenson Street. After three blocks on Stevenson turn left on Fifth Avenue. After two long blocks, turn right on Washington Place (Chatham Square). After a half a block, the Marriott is on your left. 2 I-76 Eastbound: take the exit for Route 60 (South). Once you pass the exit for the Pittsburgh airport, follow the directions from the Airport (above). I-79 Northbound or Southbound: take the exit onto I-279 (North). Follow that through the Fort Pitt Tunnel over the Fort Pitt bridge to the first exit after the bridge, I- 376 (East). Once on it, take the first exit for Grant Street. Stay on Grant Street to Forbes Ave. Take a right on Forbes, and continue two blocks until Chatham Square. Turn left on it, for two blocks, and the hotel will be on your left. Childcare Service Please contact Small World Early Learning Center. www.smallworldearlylearning.com. It is located at 960 Penn Avenue, downtown Pittsburgh, about three blocks from the Marriott. It is NAEYC accredited, and can take children up to 5 years old. Please contact them by September 30, 2008 to secure a reservation: (412)391-8269. Audiovisual Equipment To make arrangements for audiovisual equipment, contact Eric Boynton by September 15, 2008 at [email protected]. Abstracts of Papers Abstracts provided by authors will be available at registration. Publishers Book Exhibit A publishers’ book exhibit will be held in Salons 4-5 of the Marriott beginning at noon on Thursday until 6:00 p.m.. It will run from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. The display is organized in cooperation with publishers specializing in scholarship influenced by continental philosophy and literary, social and political theory. Publishers offer discounts on books ordered at the exhibit. Web Site The complete program, with updates and corrections, is available on the SPEP web site: http://www.spep.org. Publication Notice SPEP retains the right of first review for papers presented at the annual meeting. Each presenter should bring two copies of her or his paper to turn in to the registration table at the time of registration. Decisions about publication will be based on this version. If the paper is selected for publication, there will be an opportunity for minor revisions. Decisions regarding publication will be communicated by mid-January 2009. Executive Committee Elections Peg Birmingham’s term of office as Executive Co-Director expires this year. The Executive Committee nominates Cynthia Willett of Emory University for a three-year term as a Executive Co-Director. Cynthia Willett currently teaches in the areas of ethics and social and political philosophy, including feminism, critical race theory, and queer theory at Emory University. She has just published Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives and Democracy and Freedom with Indiana University Press. Her other books include The Soul of Justice: Social Bonds and Racial Hubris (Cornell, 2001); Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (Routledge, 1995) and edited the collection Theorizing Multiculturalism (Blackwell, 1998). She is one of the co- editors for the e-journal Symposia on Race and Gender. She served as member-at-large of the SPEP Executive Committee from 2003-2006 3 Robert Gooding-Williams’ term of office as Member-At-Large expires this year. The Executive Committee nominates both Andrew Cutrofello of Loyola University Chicago and Wayne J. Froman of George Mason University for a three-year term as a Member-At-Large. Andrew Cutrofello is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005), Imagining Otherwise: Metapsychology and the Analytic A Posteriori (Northwestern, 1997), The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 1995), and Discipline and Critique: Kant, Poststructuralism, and the Problem of Resistance (SUNY, 1994). Since 1997 he has been graduate program director at Loyola. He served on the SPEP Advisory Book Selection Committee for the 2006 and 2007 meetings. Wayne J. Froman is Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University, where he served as department chair for ten years (1989-1999). He is the author of Merleau-Ponty: Language and the Act of Speech (Bucknell, 1982) as well as an extensive number of articles on Heidegger, Levinas, Gadamer and Ricouer. He has co-edited several volumes including Thresholds of Western Culture (Continuum, 2002) and Merleau-Ponty and the Possibilities of Philosophy: Transforming the Tradition (forthcoming). During 1995-1996, he held a Senior Fulbright Research Professorship at the Hegel-Archiv, Ruhr Universität/Bochum. Registration Fee and Membership Dues Faculty membership dues: $60 Faculty conference registration fees: $25 Student and Emeritus membership dues: $20 Student and Emeritus members will have no additional fee for conference registration. Annual SPEP Lecture and Reception at the Eastern APA Meeting The eighth annual SPEP lecture at the Eastern Division APA meeting will be delivered this year by Cynthia Willett, Emory University: “The Ethics of the Dog-Man: Coetzee and Kristeva.” There will be a response by Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University, and the session will be moderated by Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago. The Eastern APA meeting will be held December 27-30, 2008 in Philadelphia at the Marriott Hotel. Immediately following the lecture, SPEP will host a reception for all members and friends of continental philosophy. The location of the lecture and reception will be announced on the SPEP web site later this summer and also at the Pittsburgh meeting. Call for Papers The forty-eighth annual meeting will be hosted by George Mason University at the Marriott Keybridge Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, October 28-30, 2009. Papers and panels from diverse philosophical perspectives in all areas of Continental Philosophy are welcome. All submissions must be submitted electronically. SPEP is pleased to offer two prizes for superlative submissions: the best submission by a junior scholar and the best submission by a graduate student. To be eligible for the SPEP Junior Scholar Award you must have earned a Ph.D.
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