SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY Executive Co-Directors Amy Allen, Dartmouth College Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology Executive Committee Amy Allen, Dartmouth College Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology Fred Evans, Duquesne University Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College Dermot Moran, University College Dublin Shannon Mussett, Utah Valley University, Secretary-Treasurer Graduate Assistant Jessica Ryan Sims, Stony Brook University Advisory Book Selection Committee Brent Adkins, Roanoke College, Chair Lynne Huffer, Emory University Gayle Salamon, Princeton University Chad Kautzer, University of Colorado Denver Thomas Brockelman, Le Moyne College Megan Craig, Stony Brook University Sebastian Luft, Marquette University Bret W. Davis, Loyola University Maryland Advocacy Committee Gail Weiss, George Washington University, Chair Mary Beth Mader, University of Memphis John Protevi, Louisiana State University Committee on the Status of Women Elaine Miller, Miami University Ohio, Chair Pleshette DeArmitt, University of Memphis Rocío Zambrana, University of Oregon Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee Devonya Havis, Canisius College, Chair Kris Sealey, Fairfield University Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Emory University LGBTQ Advocacy Committee Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo, Washington State University, Chair Jami Weinstein, Linköping University Emanuela Bianchi, New York University Webmaster Christopher P. Long, Pennsylvania State University Local Arrangements Contacts Constance Mui, local contact and co-organizer, [email protected] Richard Velkley, local contact and co-organizer, [email protected] Joshua Lott, book exhibit coordinator, [email protected] All sessions will be held at the InterContinental Hotel, located at 444 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130. A map of the hotel’s location and other hotel information can be found at http://www.intercontinental.com/NewOrleans Hotel Accommodations Lodging for conference participants has been arranged at the InterContinental Hotel, located at 444 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130. For reservations phone 1-800-496-7621 and mention group code SPEP 2014 or book online at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/SPEP2014 Conference rate: $189 (single & double). $15 each additional guest per room, per night for triple and quad occupancy (up to 4 per room). All guestrooms are subject to the city’s and state’s 13% sales tax, and a $2.00 per room, per night occupancy fee. Room rate includes complementary wireless internet in guestrooms. Other hotel amenities include a fitness center, pool, restaurant, and bar. Hotel parking is $39.95 per day. The InterContinental Hotel is in the heart of the business district, just two blocks from the historic French Quarter, and within walking distance of dozens of shops and restaurants. Note: Room reservations must be made by 5:00 pm on September 22, 2014. Rooms at the conference rate are limited and are not guaranteed after this date. Travel Information Directions for all modes of transportation are also posted on the SPEP website: http://www.spep.org Air New Orleans is served by Louis Armstrong Airport, 21 miles northwest from the New Orleans Central Business District (CBD). Taxi service from the airport (lower level, outside of the baggage claim area) to the hotel is $33 for one or two persons and $14 per passenger for three or more passengers. Shuttle service is available from the airport to the hotel for $20 (per person, one-way) or $38 (per person, round-trip). Call 1-866-596-2699 or 504-522-3500 for more details or to make a reservation. Car From I-10 East: Take Exit 234B to Poydras Street. Go 1 mile to Carondelete Street and take a left. Go 1 block to Perdido Street and take a right. Go 1 block and the hotel is in front of you. From I-10 West: Take exit 235A to Orleans Avenue toward Vieux Carré. Turn left onto Orleans Avenue. Go 4 blocks and turn left onto Gravier Street. Turn right onto St. Charles Avenue. The hotel will be on the left. Train Amtrak provides service to New Orleans. For schedules and fares, contact Amtrak at 800- USA-RAIL or www.amtrak.com. Taxi fee from train station is $10.00. From the train station, turn left onto Loyola Ave and go 3 blocks to Poydras Ave. Turn right onto Poydras and go 5 blocks to Carondelet Ave. and turn left. Go 1 block to Peridido and turn right. Go one block and hotel is in front of you. 2 Childcare Services Participants seeking assistance with childcare can contact Dependable Kid Care 504-486-5044 to make arrangements. Audiovisual Equipment All audiovisual equipment arrangements for the main program have already been made. Inquiries or confirmations may be sent to Jessica Sims ([email protected]). Satellite groups are responsible for the cost of audiovisual equipment and must contact Kay Everage at 504-525-5566. Arrangements must be made by September 1, 2014. Publishers’ Book Exhibit A publishers’ book exhibit will be held in the exhibit room, LaSalle B and C, at the conference hotel. The exhibit will begin on Thursday at 12:00 p.m. (open until 5:30 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 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. Website The complete program is available on the SPEP website: http://www.spep.org. Publication Notice SPEP retains the right of first review for papers presented at the annual meeting. Each presenter should forward to the current co-directors, Amy Allen ([email protected]) and Brian Schroeder ([email protected]), an electronic copy of her or his paper by December 1, 2014 for consideration in the special supplemental issue of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. If the paper is selected for publication, there will be an opportunity for minor revisions. Decisions regarding publication will be communicated by mid-January 2015. Executive Committee Elections Amy Allen’s term of office as Co-Director expires this year. The Executive Committee nominates Alia Al-Saji of McGill University for a three-year term as Co-Director. Alia Al-Saji is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She has served SPEP as Executive Committee Member-at-Large (2009-2012), on the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee (2007-2009), and was the local host and co-organizer of the 2010 meeting in Montreal. Al-Saji received her PhD in Philosophy from Emory University. She works in the areas of phenomenology, French philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Al-Saji has published widely on the topics of time, embodiment, perception, and affect in the philosophies of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and Fanon. She has also published on questions of ‘cultural’ racism toward Muslims, offering a feminist intersectional analysis of representations of veiling. Al-Saji has numerous articles in such journals as Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Research in Phenomenology, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy, in addition to anthologies in German, French and English. She is completing a monograph titled The Time of Difference: Thinking memory, perception and ethics with Bergson and Merleau-Ponty. Al-Saji is the editor of the Feminist Philosophy section of the journal Philosophy Compass and a co-editor of the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy. She has held fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study in Durham University and at the Camargo Foundation in France. She previously served on the Program Committee of the Eastern APA (2009-2011). 3 Frederick Evans’ term of office as Member-At-Large expires this year. The Executive Committee nominates both Johanna Oksala of the University of Helsinki and Alan Schrift of Grinnell College for a three-year term as a Member-At-Large. Johanna Oksala is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York (2013- 2015). She received her PhD from University of Helsinki in 2003. She is the author of Foucault on Freedom (Cambridge, 2005); How to Read Foucault (Granta, 2007; WW Norton 2008, republished in Brazil, Japan and South-Korea); Foucault, Politics, and Violence (Northwestern, 2012); Political Philosophy: All That Matters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2013). She has co-edited two books, Feminist Philosophy (in Finnish, with Laura Werner) and Essays on Ethics (in Finnish, with Sara Heinämaa) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on Foucault, feminist philosophy, phenomenology, and political philosophy. She recently completed a book on feminist philosophy (under review). Alan Schrift is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He received his PhD from Purdue University. He has served on the SPEP Advisory Book Selection Committee and the Committee for the Status of Women. In addition to many published articles or book chapters on Nietzsche and French and German twentieth century philosophy, he is the author of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Blackwell, 2006); Nietzsche’s French Legacy: A Genealogy of Post-Structuralism (Routledge, 1995); and Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1990). He has also edited sixteen books,