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 for the 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project Webinar November 6-7, and 13
Friday, November 6
8:45am
Welcome Comments from Leonard Lawlor (Penn State University, USA) and Caterina Zanfi (Centre national de la recherche scientifique/รcole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโUlm, France)
Session 1: Global Bergsonism
9:00-11:00am
Moderator: Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University, USA
Frรฉdรฉric Worms, รcole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโUlm, France
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
โHistory of Life and Vital Dilemmas: A Global and Bergsonian Discussion Between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Frรฉdรฉric Wormsโ
Session 2: Encounters with Bergson: Evaluations and Analysis
11:15am-12:45pm
Moderator: Nicolas de Warren, Penn State University, USA
Joรซl Dolbault, Independent Scholar, France โPan-psychism in Bergson and Jamesโ
Mohit Abrol, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India โBergson-Eliot Encounters: Philosophical Notes on Time, Theology and Cultureโ
Session 3: Sympathy, Ethics and Aesthetics: Bergsonian Approaches in Dialogue
4:00-5:30pm
Moderator: Dรฉbora Morato Pinto, Universidad Federal de Sรฃo Carlos, Brazil
Melanie White, University of New South Wales, Australia โBergson and Sympathyโ
Miguel Paley, The New School for Social Research, USA โUtility, Affect, and Self-Constitution: A Bergsonian Reading of Levinas and Whiteheadโ
Saturday, November 7
Session 1: Creative Evolution: Philosophical and Biological Perspectives
9:00am-10:30am
Moderator: Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University, Japan
Tano Posteraro, Penn State University, USA โCanalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyondโ
Emily Herring, University of Ghent, Belgium โBergsonโs Creative Evolution and 20th Century Biologyโ
Session 2: Bergson and the Political: Liberalism and Colonialism
4:00-5:30pm
Moderator: รmile Kenmogne, Yaounde University, Cameroon
Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia โBergson and Liberalismโ
Larry S. McGrath, Independent Scholar, USA โBergsonโs Views on Colonialism: Education and Empire in North Africa after the French Third Republicโ
Friday, November 13
Session 1: Bergson and Anglo-American Evolutionary Theories
10:45am-12:15pm
Moderator: Povilas Aleksandravicius, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Bruno Rates, University of Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil โCreative Evolution and American Evolutionary Thought: The influence of Edward Drinker Cope, James Mark Baldwin and Nathaniel Southgate Shaler on Bergsonโs Views of Life and Technologyโ
Mathilde Tahar-Malaussena, Universitรฉ Toulouse Jean Jaurรจs, France โThe History of the Bergsonian Interpretation of Charles Darwinโs Theory of Evolutionโ
Session 2: Bergson and Critical Philosophy of Race
2:15-3:45pm
Moderator: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University, Canada
Leah Kaplan, Emory University, USA โBlack Time and the Suspension of Durationโ
Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia โReading Bergson beyond the Figure of Man with Wynter and Indigenous Philosophyโ
Session 3: Bergson, Knowledge, and the Planetary
4:00-5:30pm
Moderator: Caterina Zanfi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/รcole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโUlm, France
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Thinking with Bergson: Decolonizing What it is to Know and Rethinking the Planetary"
Occurrences
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Friday, November 6, 2020, 8:45 a.m.