Note 1: Participation in the Webinar is by invitation only. In order to receive the invitation for the Webinar, please email Leonard Lawlor, lul19@psu.edu, or Ted Bergsma, tzb5226@psu.edu.
Note 2: All times below are Eastern Standard Time (EST) for the USA and Canada
Program
Friday, November 6
Welcome comments 8:45 am
Session 1
Keynote
9:00-11:00 am
Moderator: Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University, USA
Frédéric Worms, École normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, France, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago: “Global Bergsonism”
Session 2
Encounters with Bergson: Evaluations and Analysis
11:15 am-12:45 pm
Moderator: Nicolas de Warren, Penn State University
Joël Dolbault, Independent Scholar, France: “Pan-psychism in Bergson and James”
Mohit Abrol, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India: “Bergson-Eliot Encounters: Philosophical Notes on Time, Theology and Culture”
Session 3
Sympathy, Ethics and Aesthetics: Bergsonian Approaches in Dialogue
4:00-5:30 pm
Moderator: Débora Morato Pinto, Universidad Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Melanie White, University of New South Wales, Australia: “Bergson and Sympathy”
Miguel Paley, The New School for Social Research, USA: “Utility, Affect, and Self-Constitution: A Bergsonian Reading of Levinas and Whitehead”
Saturday, November 7
Session 1
Creative Evolution: Philosophical and Biological Perspectives
9:00-10.30 am
Moderator: Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University, Japan
Tano Posteraro, Penn State University, USA: “Canalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyond”
Emily Herring, University of Ghent, Belgium: “Bergson’s Creative Evolution and 20th Century Biology”
Session 2
Bergson and the Political: Liberalism and Colonialism
4:00-5.30 pm
Moderator: Émile Kenmogne, Yaounde 1 University, Cameroon
Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia: “Bergson and Liberalism”
Larry S. McGrath, Wesleyan University, USA: “Bergson’s Views on Colonialism: Education and Empire in North Africa after the French Third Republic”
Friday, November 13
Session 1
Bergson and Critical Theory of Race
9:00-10:30 am
Moderator: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University, Canada
Leah Kaplan, Emory University, USA: “Black Time and the Suspension of Duration”
Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia: “Reading Bergson beyond the Figure of Man with Wynter and Indigenous Philosophy”
Session 2
Bergson and Anglo-American Evolutionary Theories
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Moderator: Povilas Aleksandravicius, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Bruno Rates, University of São Paulo, Brazil: “Creative Evolution and American Evolutionary Thought: The influence of Edward Drinker Cope, James Mark Baldwin and Nathaniel Southgate Shaler on Bergson’s Views of Life and Technology”
Mathilde Tahar-Malaussena, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France: “The History of the Bergsonian Interpretation of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution”
Session 3
Keynote
4:00-5:30 pm
Moderator: Caterina Zanfi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/École normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, France
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA: Title to be announced
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Emily Herring (24 juillet 2020). Program for the 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project Webinar November 6-7, and 13. Société des amis de Bergson. Consulté le 2 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/lx4z
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