Program for the 2020 Global Bergsonism Research Project Webinar
November 6-7, and 13
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
Friday, November 6
8:45am Welcome comments
Session 1 9:00-11:00am
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
11:15am-12:30pm
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
4:00-5:30pm
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 Bergson and Critical Philosophy of Race
9:00-10:30am
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 Creative Evolution: Philosophical and Biological Perepectives
10:45am-12:15pm
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”
Friday, November 13
Session 1 Bergson and the Political: Liberalism and Colonialism
9:00-10:30am
Moderator: Émile Kenmogne, Yaounde 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”
Session 2 Bergson and Anglo-American Evolutionary Theories
10:45am-12:15pm
Moderator: Povilas Aleksandravicius, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
Bruno Rates, University of São Paolo, 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
4:00-5:30pm
Moderator: Caterina Zanfi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/École Normale Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm, France
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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