Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy

12:30pm-1:30pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Dale Wilkerson, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
“Nietzsche on the Pre-Platonic Philosophers as Legislators”
Chair: Mariah Partida, University of New Mexico

Room B / Flowers 254
Luke Hillman, University of Arkansas
“The Nonsense of Faith: Weighing Wittgenstein’s Religious Language with Kierkegaard’s Faith”
Chair: David Liakos, Houston Community College

1:40pm-2:40pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Graham Bounds, Central New Mexico Community College
“Toward a Compatibilist Theory of Aesthetic Evaluation”
Chair: Roman Briggs, Conchise College

Room B / Flowers 254
Maria Gallego-Ortiz, Boston College
“Against Radical Hospitality: A Feminist Reading”
Chair: Becky Vartabedian, Regis University

2:50pm-3:50pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Chad Kidd, City College of New York and Robin Muller, California State University, Northridge
"Phenomenology Traps: Critical Assessments of Critical Phenomenology"
Chair: Humberto González Núñez, Villanova University

Room B / Flowers 254
Laura Campos, DePaul University
“Metaphor, Personality, and the Non-Conceptual Self in Nietzsche”
Chair: Shuishan Li, Boston College

4:00pm-5:00pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Garrett Bredeson, University of Colorado Boulder
“Reinach, Natorp, and the Question of Method”
Chair: Michael Butler, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Room B / Flowers 254
Michael Kim, University of Colorado at Denver (via Zoom)
"Difference and Representation: The Affective Core of Mimesis Between Image and Symbol"
Chair: Matt Bower, Texas State University

5:15pm

Keynote Address

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Alistair Welchman, University of Texas, San Antonio

"Schopenhauer's Mitleid: A Critique of Identification"

9:00am-10:00am

Room A / Flowers 252
Michael Butler, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
“On Mediated Memory - The Role of Journals and Images in Embodied Recollection”
Chair: Megan Flocken, University of South Florida

Room B / Flowers 254
Jonathan Lee, Colorado College
“Cinema as Spiritual Practice”
Chair: Robin Muller, California State University, Northridge

10:10am-11:10am

Room A / Flowers 252
Yuval Adler, Independent Scholar
“The Primordial Movement of Existence — Heidegger on Time and Temporality”
Chair: Chad Kidd, City College of New York

Room B / Flowers 254
Becky Vartabedian, Regis University
“The Uninvited Guest: Settler Logics and Hospitality”
Chair: Rodrigo De los Santos Alamilla, Texas A&M University

11:20am-12:20pm

Room A / Flowers 252

Roman Briggs, Cochise College

“Slouching Towards Venice: Mann’s Aschenbach as Nietzsche’s Unhealthy Ascetic”

Chair: Daniel J. Smith, University of Memphis

Room B / Flowers 254

Ana Pedroso, University of California, Santa Cruz

“How Can Hegel’s Logic Inform the Phenomenology?

Self-consciousness’ Drive to Risk Its Life as Thinking Itself Outside of Life”

Chair: Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University

2:00pm-3:00pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Rodrigo De los Santos Alamilla, Texas A&M University
“Infrapolitical Antigone: An (infra) structure of the Marrano Condition in Marc Pinate's Antigone at the Border”
Chair: Yuval Adler, Independent Scholar

Room B / Flowers 254
Shuishan Li, Boston College
“The Advent of As-structure in Being and Time”
Chair: Dale Wilkerson, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

3:10pm-4:10pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Megan Flocken, University of South Florida
“The Impersonal is Political: Dangers of Ontological Pluralism?”
Chair: Maria Gallego-Ortiz, Boston College

Room B / Flowers 254
Simon Jules, University of Texas at El Paso (via Zoom)
“Edith Stein: on Empathy as a Contribution to Phenomenological Ethics”
Chair: Matt Bower, Texas State University

4:20pm-5:20pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M University
“Marrano Derrida”
Chair: Laura Campos, DePaul University

Room B / Flowers 254

Mandel Cabrera, Yonsei University (via Zoom)
“Enjoyment and Consciousness in Levinas”
Chair: Matt Bower, Texas State University
 

9:00am-10:00am

Room A / Flowers 252
Humberto González Núñez, Villanova University
“Heidegger’s Unfinished Interpretation and Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda”
Chair: Timothy Golden, Walla Walla University

Room B / Flowers 254

Joachim Oberst, University of New Mexico (via Zoom)
“The Ontology of Death — Phenomenological Inspections Into the Reality of Death”
Chair: Matt Bower, Texas State University

10:10am-11:10am

Room A / Flowers 252
Anne-Marie Schultz, Baylor University and Lenore Wright, Baylor University
“The Inseparable Beauvoir: New Perspectives on Beauvoir’s Literature and Life and What We Can Learn from Them in Texas Today”
Chair: Luke Hillman, University of Arkansas

11:20am-12:20pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Timothy Golden, Walla Walla University
“Between Hegel and Husserl: Kierkegaard's Teleological Suspension of the Theological Attitude”
Chair: Jonathan Lee, Colorado College

Room B / Flowers 254
Mariah Partida, University of New Mexico
“Challenging Negative Assumptions About Disability with Spinoza and Deleuze”
Chair: Ana Pedroso, University of California, Santa Cruz

2:00pm-3:00pm

Room A / Flowers 252
David Liakos, Houston Community College
“Horizons of Passion: Hermeneutics as Fusion or as Fracture”
Chair: Lenore Wright, Baylor University

Room B / Flowers 254
Daniel J. Smith, University of Memphis
“‘A Goose Woke Up the Sleeping Philosophers’: Foucault on Political Historicism in the English Civil War”
Chair: Graham Bounds, Central New Mexico Community College

3:10pm-4:10pm

Room A / Flowers 252
Raoni Padui, St. John’s College, Santa Fe
“Is the Republic a Work of Political Philosophy?”
Chair: Anne-Marie Schultz, Baylor University

Room B / Flowers 254
Robert Stolorow, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (via Zoom)
“The Inseparability of Life and Thought in Heidegger’s ‘Turn’: Psychobiographical Reflections”
Chair: Matt Bower, Texas State University

5:00pm

Keynote Address

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Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Emory University

"Reflections on Charles Mills' Black Radical Kantianism"