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Program for the 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project Webinar

Friday, November 6, 2020
8:45 a.m. ET
Program for the 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project Webinar

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/ร‰cole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโ€™Ulm, France)

Session 1: Global Bergsonism

9:00-11:00am

Moderator: Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University, USA

Frรฉdรฉric Worms, ร‰cole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโ€™Ulm, France

Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

โ€œHistory 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 โ€œPan-psychism in Bergson and Jamesโ€

Mohit Abrol, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India โ€œBergson-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 โ€œBergson and Sympathyโ€

Miguel Paley, The New School for Social Research, USA โ€œUtility, 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 โ€œCanalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyondโ€

Emily Herring, University of Ghent, Belgium โ€œBergsonโ€™s Creative Evolution and 20th Century Biologyโ€

Session 2: Bergson and the Political: Liberalism and Colonialism

4:00-5:30pm

Moderator: ร‰mile Kenmogne, Yaounde University, Cameroon

Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia โ€œBergson and Liberalismโ€

Larry S. McGrath, Independent Scholar, USA โ€œBergsonโ€™s 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 โ€œCreative Evolution and American Evolutionary Thought: The influence of Edward Drinker Cope, James Mark Baldwin and Nathaniel Southgate Shaler on Bergsonโ€™s Views of Life and Technologyโ€

Mathilde Tahar-Malaussena, Universitรฉ Toulouse Jean Jaurรจs, France โ€œThe History of the Bergsonian Interpretation of Charles Darwinโ€™s 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 โ€œBlack Time and the Suspension of Durationโ€

Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia โ€œReading 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/ร‰cole Normale Supรฉrieure, Rue dโ€™Ulm, France

Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Thinking with Bergson: Decolonizing What it is to Know and Rethinking the Planetary"

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