The 5th Annual Meeting of
The Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle
TOKAI UNIVERSITY, HONOLULU, HAWAI`I
APRIL 8-10, 2010
Thursday 7:30pm, April 8
Welcoming Reception and CCPC Presidential Address −The Gift of Logos and
Friendship / David Jones, Kennesaw State University
Friday 9-10:30, April 9
A
Annie Pirruccello, Chair
Mimesis and the Imaginary / James Risser, Seattle University
Winckelmann at the Vatican: Looking in the Secret Archives for the Religious Roots of
Early Modern Aesthetics / Louis Ruprecht Jr., Georgia State University
B
Franklin Perkins, Chair
On Imagining A Few Birds and Any Horse: What Wang Bi and Dharmakirti could have
taught Berkeley /Alexandria Ham, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
How Real Are Fictions? /Giuliano Bacigalupo, Seattle University
Friday 10:45 -12:15
A
Brian Schroeder, Chair
The Shock of the Old: The Kyoto School and the Advent of a Post-Confucian World
Order/ David Williams, Cardiff University, UK
Dōgen’s Egoless Perspectivism / Bret Davis, Loyola University of Maryland
B
David Jones, Chair
Wang Guowei’s Criticism of Gu Hongming’s English Translation of the Zhongyong: A
Case Study of Cultural Translation / Hi Jinli, Trinity University
Individuality in Context: The Relationality of Finitude / Robert Stolorow, Institute of
Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles)
Lunch 12:15-1:30
Friday 1:45-3
Deweyan Pragmatism and Confucianism: A Dialogue, Roger Ames, University of
Hawai`i at Manoa
Respondent: Timothy Engström, Rochester Institute of Technology
Moderator: David Jones, Kennesaw State University
Friday 3:15 -4:45
A
Bret Davis, Chair
Dying One's Own Death: Nothingness, Recurrence and the “Great Death” / Brian
Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology
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The Dao and the Disruptiveness of Human Beings / Franklin Perkins, De Paul
University
B
David Jones, Chair
The Gift in Nietzsche: Some Reflections on Derrida’s The Politics of Friendship /
Timothy J. Freeman, University of Hawai`i at Hilo
The Parting of Being: On Creation and Sharing in Nancy’s Political Ontology / Walter
Brogan, Villanova University
Friday 5-6:30
A
Jason Wirth, Chair
Buddhism and Bell Hooks: Liberatory Aesthetics and the Radical Subjectivity of No-Self
/ Leah Kalmanson, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Nishitani on Nietzsche and Zen: a critical evaluation / André van der Braak, Radboud
University, Netherlands
B
David Williams, Chair
The Body and Expression in the Philosophies of Nishida and Merleau-Ponty / Lucy
Schultz, University of Oregon
Entanglements in the Visual and the Vulnerability of the Flesh / Carolin Woolson, Anne
Arundel Community College
Reception 19th Floor – 6:30
Saturday 8:15-10:15, April 10
A
Kyle Bond, Chair
Ambiguous Expression in Merleau-Ponty and Proust: Between Creative Regression and
Disappearance of the Self / Kaori Ochiai, Kwansei Gakuin University
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The Analects as an Ethics of Personal Relationships / Andrew Lambert, University of
Hawai`i at Manoa
Zen and the Question of Nature / Kyle Bond, University of Washington
Radical Deference: A Daoist Response to the Problem of Totalization / Sarah Mattice,
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
The Two Truths and Reasoning / Saladdin Ahmed, University of Ottawa
B
Elizabeth Grosz, Chair
Encountering a Philosophical Friend: Derrida Does Da-sein / Adam Burgos, Vanderbilt
University
On Musical Experience / Ryan Shriver, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Schelling and Hölderlin: Freedom, Genius, and Destiny in “The Death of Empedocles” /
Elizabeth Grosz, University of Oregon
Dancing on a Rainbow: Imagination, Virtuality, and Play in Collingswood, Langer, and
Winnicott / Thaddeus Taylor-O'Neil, Stony Brook University
The Philosophy of Art / James Stiles, West Chester University
Saturday 10:25 – 11:25
The Logic of Locus / Hideki Mine, Kwansei Gakuin University
Moderator: Joseph Lawrence, College of Holy Cross
Lunch 11:30-12:50
Saturday 1:00 – 2:15
Author Meets Readers – I
John Sallis, Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art, 2009
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Before Sallis: On Letting Heaven and Nature Sing / David Jones, Kennesaw State
University
After Sallis: On Painting and Paint / Michael Schwartz, Augusta State University
With Sallis: Making Visible the Sense of Truth / Jason Wirth, Seattle University
Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes, Seattle University
Saturday 2:20-3:20
The Space of Imagination and the Elemental in Nature / John Sallis, Boston College
Moderator: Jim Risser, Seattle University
Saturday 3:30- 4:45
Author Meets Readers – II
John Sallis, Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art, 2009
The Art of Making Visible: Sallis on Art's Coloring / Andrew Benjamin, Monash
University
Persona: Resounding Selves and Empty Music / Mei-Lin Chinn, University of Hawai`i
at Manoa
Earth and Sky: Transfiguring Transfigurements / Joseph Lawrence, College of the Holy
Cross
Moderator: Elizabeth Sikes, Seattle University
Saturday 5:00-5:45
A
André van der Braak, Chair
Precepts and Transgression: Ethics Between Legalism and Antinomianism / Gereon
Kopf, Luther College
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B
Jinli He, Chair
Model Minority as Foucauldian Security Mechanism / Sokthan Yeng, Adelphi University
Reception at 6:00
Robert Herr, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
&
Darin Miyashiro, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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