Philosophy and the Arts
Conference
Stony Brook Manhattan
March 27-28, 2009
Friday, March 27th
12:00-12:30pm – Welcome and Opening remarks
Welcome by Professor Robert Crease, Philosophy
Department Chair at SBU
Opening Remarks by Alyssa Kamin, 2009 Conference
Coordinator at SBU
12:30 -2:30pm – First Panel: Space and Possibility
Faculty Chair: Zabet
Patterson, Assistant Professor of Art at SBU
Student Respondent:
Laine
Nooney, SBU
Crashing the Page:
Implications of the Temporal and Spatial Nature of Hypertext Narrative
Scott Sundvall, University of Minnesota
Deleuze, Narrative and Game Design
Ian Cuslidge, Middlesex University
2:30-3:15pm – Break
3:15-4:45pm – Second Panel: Recording and Performance
Faculty Chair: Mary
Rawlinson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at SBU
Student Respondent:
Thaddeus Taylor-O’Neil, SBU
The Shift in Consciousness: Orality to Literacy and Back
Again
Kara Rooney, New York School of Visual Arts
The Hauntology of Performance
Josh
Schwebel, University of Western
Ontario in Visual Art and Culture
4:45:-5:00pm – Break
5:00-6:30pm – Keynote Address by Richard Kearney
Narrativity
Matters: Saying the Unsayable
6:30pm-8:00pm – Light Refreshments
8:00pm – Keynote Dinner
Saturday, March 28th
11:00am-1:00pm – Third Panel: Memory and Desire
Faculty
Chair: James DiGiovanna, Filmmaker, Film Critic and Playwright & Substitute
Professor of Philosophy at John
Jay College
of Criminal Justice
Student Respondent:
Catlyn Origitano, SBU
Metaphor and Memory: Nietzsche's Narrative of Self-Overcoming
Roy
Scranton, New School for Social Research
Love Uncanny: The Birds
Retells a Freudian Tale
Joshua
Delpech-Ramey, Rowan
University
Everything Will Be Okay
Shannan
Lee Hayes, Stony Brook University
1:00-1:30 Break
1:30-3:00pm—Fourth Panel: Public Space and Politics
Faculty
Chair: Bruce Wilshire, Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University
Student
Respondent: Eric Charles
Portraits of
Stories: Reading Hannah Arendt Through Narrative Art
Fanny Soderback, New
School for Social Research
Itinerant Artifacts
Michael Knierim, Northern
Illinois University
3:00-3:15pm—Break
3:15-5:15pm—Fifth Panel: Time and Context
Faculty Chair: Hugh Silverman, Professor of Philosophy at SBU
Respondent: Katie Brennan, SBU
Wires
Kristine
Granger, Stony Brook University
Notes for a Larger Story: The Role of Context, Image and
Materiality in Collage Art
Paul Jaissle, Stony Brook
University
Let’s Start At the Very Beginning: The
Trace as Event-ing
Daniel Goudge, Stony
Brook University
5:15-6:00pm—Closing Remarks by Megan Craig, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at SBU and Professional Painter
6:00-8:30pm – Reception featuring paintings by Austin
Furtak-Cole, Stony
Brook University
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