NASPH at SPEP 2020
NASPH will be holding a satellite session at SPEP 2020 in Toronto. The CFP is here.
Note that since submissions are due soon (May 1), we are requesting only abstracts, not full papers.
Hope to see you in Toronto!
2019 NASPH APA Pacific Session
The NASPH Session at the APA Pacific will take place in April, 2020. The speakers for this session are:
- Rachel Cicoria (Texas A&M University) “Who Has a Say?: Heidegger and Gadamer on the Death of the Other”
- Carlo DaVia (Fordham University), “Gadamer on Essences”
- David Vessey (Grand Valley State University), “On Beiser’s Reading of Gadamer: Historical Facts and Aesthetic Truths”
- Georgia Warnke (University of California, Riverside), “Identity, Experience, and Understanding”
Hermeneutical Movements
For those interested, some of our members have launched a new site, Hermeneutical Movements, which is devoted to hermeneutic philosophy. The site is still “in flux,” but new content will be added regularly.
Words Underway by Carolyn Culbertson
One of our members, Dr. Carolyn Culbertson, has recently published her first book, Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language. Congratulations, Carolyn. Below is a brief description of the book from Rowman and Littlefield.
Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carolyn Culbertson examines the vital work of a range of thinkers, including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot, and Kristeva. The book argues that Continental theorists are particularly helpful in recognizing our unique potential for becoming alienated from some discourse. At the same time, Culbertson argues that Continental philosophy of language tends not to treat the alienated relationship to language as something absolute. For most Continental theorists, at least, language is a living system, that is, a system maintained by undergoing constant expansion and transformation by language users. The book goes on to explore the attention Continental theorists have given to the way that forms of political power, for example, gender dynamics in communication, can sometimes thwart this process and thus reinforce alienation. This book will transform the reader’s sense of what the philosophy of language is about and will attract the attention of students and scholars of both philosophy of language and the Continental tradition.
NASPH 2019 Conference Schedule, University of Oregon
Thursday, Oct. 3, EMU Miller Room
9:00-10:00 “Historical Materialism as Hermeneutics in Herbert Marcuse,” Oscar A. Ralda (Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon)
10:15–11:15 Invited Paper: “Decolonial African Thought and Hermeneutics,” Michael Stern (German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oregon)
11:30–12:30 Key Note I: “Understanding and the Political: Lessons from Arendt and Gadamer,” James Risser (Seattle University)
LUNCH
1:30 Words of Welcome, Dean and Head of Department
1:45–2:45 Invited Paper: “Accounting for an Assumed Responsibility,” Peter Warnek (Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon)
3:00–4:00 Key Note II: “Diversifying the Canon of Hermeneutics”? Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University)
Reception 6:00–7:30, Civic Winery
Friday, Oct. 4, University of Oregon Library, Browsing Room
9:00–10:00 “Interpretation in Kristeva’s ‘Psychoanalysis and the Polis’,” Ricardo Friaz (Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon)
10:10–11:10 Hans George Gadamer Essay Prize: “Hermeneutic Justice in Miranda Fricker and Hannah Arendt,” Magnus Ferguson (Boston College)
11:15–12:15 Key Note III: “Interpreting Silence?” Charles Scott (Penn. State)
LUNCH
1:15–2:15 “Gadamer and the Nature of Language: Hermeneutics and Chinese Aesthetics,” Andrew Fuyarchuk (Hanson College, Yorkville University)
2:30- 3:30 Invited Paper: “Folds and Fragments of the Desert: Lineages of ‘Border Arte’,” Omar Rivera (South Western University, Texas)
3:45 Business Meeting
Open Dinner
Saturday, Oct. 5, Graduate School Lounge, Susan Campbell Hall
10:00–11:00 Panel Session: 1. “Hermeneutics … Beyond Philosophy,” Abram Fernandez (University of Oregon); 2. “Ethical Hermeneutics/Hermeneutical Ethics: Some Reflections on a Pedagogy of Kindness,“ Caroline Lundquist (University of Oregon); 3. “Art of Interpreting Landscapes,” Annie Ring (University of Oregon).
11:15–12:15 Invited Paper: “Hermeneutic Practice: What Gadamer has to Teach Nursing,” Nancy Moules (University of Calgary, Chair of the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute)
LUNCH
University of Oregon Library, Browsing Room
1:30–2:30 What Gets Fused in Fusion of Horizons,” Greg Lynch (North Central College)
2:45–3:45 Invited Paper: “Nietzsche and History,” Jason Winfree (California State University)
4:00–5:00 Book Session: Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language by Carolyn Culbertson (Florida Golf Coast University): David Vessey (Grand Valley State University) and Jessica Elkayam (Sam Houston State University)
Closing Banquet 6:30-8:30 pm, Excelsior Inn