
We are pleased to announce the workshop Remembering: Analytic and Bergsonian Perspectives 4 (Keio University, Tokyo); an in-person workshop. This workshop aims to foster research on memory from both an analytical and a Bergsonian perspective.This event will take place on 28th and 29th of June, 2025 at the Mita campus of Keio University (Tokyo, Minato-ku).
Colleagues interested in attending should please contact me for registration information before this Sunday, 22nd of June at boumazadoudja@gmail.com
Please note that the event may be broadcast as a hybrid event for those who contacted me to follow the conference online. If you are interested, please notify me at boumazadoudja@gmail.com.
Programme:
June 28, 2025
13:05-13:55. Continuism and Bergson’s theory of memory. Kourken Michaelian (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).
14:00-14:50. The problem of suggestion in Bergson’s theory of memory. Emiri Amano (Takasaki City University of Economics).
14:55-15:45. Bergson’s critique of the brain-storage model of memory. Ken-ichi Hara (Kanazawa Institute of Technology).
15:45-16:00. Break.
16:00-16:50. From a Bergsonian intuition to an analytic perspective: remembering and acting episodically. Doudja Boumaza (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes & Keio University).
16:55-17:45. A Bergsonian approach to dementia. Hisashi Fujita (Kyoto University of Technology).
19:00. Dinner.
June 29, 2025 (symposium on Yasushi Hirai’s multi-timescale interpretation of Bergson’s theory of pure memory)
10:00-10:50. A multi-timescale interpretation of Bergson’s theory of pure memory. Yasushi Hirai (Keio University & Project Bergson in Japan).
10:55-11:45. The explanatory power of memory traces: Against Bergson. Denis Perrin (Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).
11:45-13:15. Lunch.
13:15-14:05. Remembering recalling. Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology).
14:10-15:00. Hirai’s Bergsonism about episodic memory, situated. Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University).
15:05-16:25. Response by Yasushi Hirai + general discussion.
Venue:
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345
Saturday, June 28: Open Lab, 4th Floor, East Building
Sunday, June 29: G-Lab, 6th Floor, East Building
Workshop webpages:
https://matterandmemory.jimdofree.com
https://phil-mem.org/events/2023-bergson.php
The organizers: Doudja Boumaza (Centre for philosophy of memory, Université Grenoble Alpes, Keio University) Yasushi Hirai (Keio University, Project Bergson in Japan) Kourken Michaelian (Centre for philosophy of memory, Université Grenoble Alpes).