NASPH 2024 Conference Information
The 2024 NASPH Annual Meeting will be held from September 12-14 at Grand Valley State University. All conference sessions will be held at the Seidman College of Business, 50 Front St. SW, Grand Rapids. The conference program, parking, hotel information, general information about Grand Rapids, and a guide to restaurants are below.
1. CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Conference and banquet fees can be paid HERE.
Thursday, Sept. 12
2:00-2:10 Welcome | Carolyn Culbertson (President) and David Vessey (Host)
2:15-3:15 “Gadamer’s Poet of the Return: Hilde Domin and the Return to Language” (paper) | Alexander Crist
3:30-4:40 “Written for Me and No One Else: The Humanities without Humanism” | David Liakos
4:55-5:55 “Practical Wisdom in a Conspiratorial Age” (paper) | Darren Walhof
Friday, Sept. 13
9:00-10:00 “‘A Breach in the Smooth Front of Opinion’: The Nascent Political Radicality of Gadamer’s Theory of Experience” (paper) | John Arthos
10:15-11:35 Book Panel: Carolyn Culbertson’s Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology | Respondents: Georgia Warnke, Ashley Krieger
11:50-12:50 “Heidegger and Gadamer on Making Phenomenology Hermeneutical” (paper) | Haley Burke
1:00-2:25 Lunch Break
2:30-3:30 “Interpretive Metaethics: Hermeneutics’ Neglected Contribution to Ethical Theory” (paper) | Michiel Meijer
3:45-5:15 Gadamer and Adorno: An Auseinandersetzung | Speakers: Christian Lotz, Lambert Zuidervaart
6:00-9:00 Banquet at San Chez (38 Fulton St. W.)
Saturday, Sept. 14
9:15-10:30 “Patient-Centered Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine” (paper) | Leah McClimans
10:45-11:45 “Pain, Health, and Play: Gadamer’s Carnal Hermeneutics” (paper) | Joey Aloi
11:45-12:15 Business Meeting
12:15-1:35 Lunch Break
1:40-2:50 “Speech, Storytelling, and Care in Hannah Arendt” | Magnus Ferguson
3:05-4:25 Book Panel: Cynthia Nielsen’s Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics | Respondents: Karen Davis, Dan Tate
2. PARKING – On Thursday and Friday, guests should park in the Fulton Lot. See campus map HERE. Please note that no pass will be needed for this lot only; guests can pull up and the gate will open for them to enter and park. On Saturday, parking is not enforced, so guests are welcome to park right out front of SCB in the Mount Vernon Lot.
3. HOTEL INFORMATION – discounted rates available at the following hotels until August 20, 2024:
Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown – $140/night plus taxes and fees
Link for reservation: Holiday Inn: Grand Rapids Downtown, or call 616-235-7611
Courtyard Marriott Grand Rapids Downtown – $179/night plus taxes and fees
Link for reservation: Courtyard Marriott Grand Rapids Downtown, or call 877-901-6632
4. GENERAL INFORMATION about Grand Rapids can be found HERE.
5. RESTAURANTS nearby can be found HERE.