Wild Coast Philosophy Symposium
Theme: LOVE
Crawford’s Beach Lodge, Cintsa
27 April 2013
09h00 – 09h30: Welcoming and Coffee
Session 1
09h30 – 10h00: Andrea Hurst (NMMU): Is this Love? Eros and Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
Respondent: ?
10h00 – 10h30: Mark Kourie (UP): Where Truth Lies: Everlasting Love?
Respondent: Mhlan Nqumshe (UFH)
10h30 – 11h00: Rafael Winkler (UJ): The insufficiency love and the problem of modernity:
Hegel’s fragment on Love and The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate.
Respondent: Sampie Terreblance (UFH)
11h00 – 11h30: Morning Tea
Session 2
11h30 – 12h00: Kevin Behrens (Wits): Bioethics’ Principlism: Where’s the love?
Respondent: Thad Metz (UJ)
12h00 – 12h30: Thad Metz (UJ): Love as normative foundation.
Respondent: John Lamola (UFH)
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch
Session 3
14h00 – 14h30: Abraham Olivier (UFH): The lover’s choice.
Respondent: Sam Vice (Rhodes)
14h30 – 15h00: Francis Williamson (Rhodes): Romantic Love: Fundamentally Sexual,
Necessarily Exclusive and Essentially Chaste.
Respondent: Rianna Oelofsen (UFH)
15h00 – 15h30: Afternoon Tea
Session 4
15h30 – 16h00: Ward Jones (Rhodes): The lover’s shame.
Respondent: Sam Vice (Rhodes)
16h00-16h30: Pedro Tabensky (Rhodes): Love and vulnerability.
Respondent:
Neal O‘Donnell (UFH)
16h30 – 17h00: Discussion of topic and host for next year
17h00: Free Time & Settlement of Payments to Sampie Terreblanche
18h00: Supper (The Barefoot Cafe)
Procedure
Every speaker will have 15 minutes, every respondent 5 minutes, and 10 minutes are left for
discussion.