The 6th Annual Meeting of The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle

The 6th Annual Meeting of
The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle

March 2-5, 2011
University College Cork / Cork, Republic of Ireland

Wednesday 7:30pm, March 2 (Gresham Metropole)
Welcome / Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK
CCPC Presidential Address / David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA
CCPC Program and Organization Address / Michael Schwartz, Augusta State
University USA
CCPC Greetings / Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA
2011 Opening Reception


Thursday 9-10:30, March 3 (Gresham Metropole)
A
Experience and Language in Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of Zen / Bret W. Davis,
Loyola University Maryland USA
Notes on the Concept of Time in Asian and European Thought Tradition / Rein Raud,
Tallinn University Estonia
B
Generation (shēng 生) as Link between Nature and Human in Early Chinese Philosophy /
Franklin Perkins, DePaul University USA
Why Jijigua 既既既 Is the Best of All: Position, Transformation and Their Philosophical
Implications / Robin Wang Loyola Marymount University USA)

Thursday 10:45 -12:15
A
Virtue as Power in the Laozi and Spinoza / Jason Dockstader, University College Cork
UK

From Comparison to Convergence: Reflections on Steven Burik’s Comparisons of
Heidegger, Derrida, and Daoism / David Storey, Fordham University USA

B
Hegel and Absolute Difference / Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology
USA
Gadamer and Hegel on Experience / Frederique Rese, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet
Freiburg, Germany

C


The Japanese language in Dōgen's usage / Ralf Müller, Humboldt-University Germany
Is Koselleck’s Wirkungsgeschichte Applicable to China?— Translation, Comparative
Philosophy, and Comparative Culture / Sinkwan Cheng, USA

Thursday, Lunch 12:15-2:00

Thursday 2:00-3:00
Plenary Session I
Mountain Landscapes / John Sallis, Boston College USA
(Moderator: Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology USA)

Thursday 3:15-4:45
A
Śūnyatā—kong/ku(生) -----What It Says Through The Art? / Jinli He, Trinity University
USA
Heidegger, Levinas, and Intergenerational Justice / Matthias Fritsch, Concordia
University Canada

B
Eckhart and Dōgen: the Continuous Self-Revelation of Buddha-Nature / André van der
Braak, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands
Nāgārjuna analysis of the Self: Annihilation without nihilism / Itay Ehre, Ben Gurion
University Israel
C


Marxism and Buddhism: Shared Visions / James Stiles, West Chester University USA
Buddhist Marxism: Mao and Badiou / Bill Martin, DePaul University USA

Thursday 5-6:00
Plenary Session II
An Inquiry into the Good and Nishida’s Missing Basho / James W. Heisig, Nanzan
Institute for Religion and Culture Japan
(Moderator: Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK)

Thursday 8:00- onwards (UCC Campus)
Evening Reception

Friday 9-10:30, March 4 (Gresham Metropole)
A
Cadences: Between Earth and Technicity, Between Earth and Art
Silent Call of the Earth: Art and Technicity in Heidegger’s Work of the Mid-1930s / Will
McNeill, DePaul University USA
The Earth, Flesh, Carbon: The Elemental Art of Finitude in the Thought of Heidegger,
Merleau-Ponty, and Hirst / Andrea Rehberg, Middle East Technical University Turkey


B

Comparative Philosophy: Whither Now? / Geir Sigurdsson, Reykyavik University
Iceland/
Western Philosophy and Eastern Power / David Williams, Cardiff University UK

C
Acts of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Moses / Lyat Friedman, Bar Ilan University Israel
The Haudenosaunee Double / Brian Seitz, Babson College USA

Friday 10:45 – 12:15
A
On the paradigmatic character of comparative hermeneutics / James Risser, Seattle
University USA
Symptoms of Withdrawal: The Hermeneutic Complexity of Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s
Conceptual Structuring of Hindu Religion and Philosophy / Sai Bhatawadekar,
University of Hawai'i USA
B
Why Melody at All? On Music and Emptiness / Meilin Chinn, University of Hawai’iManoa USA
Difficult Freedom: Hegel’s Symbolic Art and Schelling’s Historiography in The Ages of
the World / Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario Canada


C
If God Is Dead, Then Tragedy Is Religious: On the Religious Turn in Nietzsche’s Birth of
Tragedy / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., Georgia State University USA
The Silence of the Origin in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy / Niall Keane,
University of Limerick UK

Friday, Lunch 12:15-2:00

Friday 2:00 – 3:00

Plenary Session III
Roundtable
Zen and Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Responding to Bret Davis
Graham Parkes, University College Cork UK
Jason Wirth, Seattle University USA
Bret W. Davis, Loyola University Maryland USA
(Moderator: David Jones, Kennesaw State University USA)

Friday 3:15-4:45


A
From Abgrund to Urgrund: On Luigi Pareyson's Constructivist Hermeneutics / Peter
Carravetta, SUNY-Stony Brook USA
Bateson's Left Hand / Elizabeth Sikes, University of Seattle, USA and Sarah Williams,
Evergreen State College USA

B
Hermeneutics and the Texture of Mathematics / Bernard Freydberg, Duquesne
University USA
Transformative Phenomenology / Rolf Elberfeld, University of Hildesheim Germany

C
No Perch: Giorgio Agamben and the Profane (A Buddhist Reading) / Steven DeCaroli
Goucher College USA
Is the Buddhist Face Raced? / Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi University USA

Friday 5:00-6:00

Plenary Session IV
Roundtable
On Erin McCarthy’s Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental,
Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University USA /Between Bodies: Rethinking Selfhood with
Erin McCarthy
Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland USA
Erin McCarthy, Saint Lawrence University USA
(Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes, University of Seattle, USA)

Friday 8:00-onwards (UCC Campus)
Evening Reception

Saturday 9:00-10:15, March 5 (UCC Campus)

A
Deleuze-Post-War Cinema and a world of constant modulation / Mauro Di Lullo, The
University of Glasgow UK
From the Sublime to the Event; the Great Wave / Connell Vaughan, UCD- Dublin, UK
School of Philosophy

B


The Interpretation of Death in Being and Time / Morganna Lambeth, University of
California at Riverside USA
Comparative Examination of the Dying Mind / Ira Gredenberg, University College Cork
UK

Saturday 10:30-11:45

A
Buddhist Approach to Ryle’s Mind / Gyan Prakash, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay India
Heidegger and Representationalism: Clarifying the Phenomenal Content / Robert
Kubala, University of Cambridge UK

B
From the Depths of Aesthetic Expression: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty and the Body /
Ryan Shriver, University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA
Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Perceptual Faith and Philosophic Practice / Adam
Loughnane, University College Cork UK

Saturday Lunch 11:45-1:30

Saturday 1:30-2:45
A
Making Sense of Nietzsche’s “Truths”: Slavery, Misogyny and Aristocracy /
Steven Burgess, University of South Florida USA


The Non-voluntary Character of Nietzsche’s Will to Power / Sarah Flavel, University
College Cork UK

B
Heidegger's Ontological Difference and the Concept of the Migrant / Andrea Martinez,
University College Cork UK
Butterflies Dancing into the Distance: Self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zhuangzi’s
Perspectivism / Marshall Staton, Kennesaw State University USA

Saturday 3-4:15

A
Kukai's notion of reality embodiment and Eriugena's concept of natura / Margaret
Twomey, University College Cork UK
Nishida and Nature: recognizing the importance of difference for a radical revision of the
relationship of humans to the environment / Matthew Izor, University of Hawaii at
Manoa USA
B
Ikkyu’s Notion of Nothing / Andrew Whitehead, University College Cork UK
Is Religious Dialogue Possible? / Saladdin Ahmed, University of Ottawa Canada

Saturday 4:15-5:30
A


Hybrid Language and Hybrid Thought: Haikai and Phenomenology in an essay by Kuki
Shūzō / Lorenzo Marinucci, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' Italy
Miki Kiyoshi’s Conception of Community / Kenn Steffensen, University College Cork
UK
B
Inner Sections: Hegel's Heuristic Ideal and the Tragic Spirit of the Phenomenology /
Chris Cappelletti, University College Cork, UK
Art Making Artists: A philosophical genealogy of participatory art / Brian Herczog,
University of Warwick UK