Love and Loneliness

The workshop is open, but registration is required. Make sure to register via the link on this page.

Schedule 

Friday, December 6   

10-11:10am: Kaitlyn Creasy (California State University, San Bernardino) Title TBD

Commentator: Keilee Bessho (University of California, Riverside)

11:15-12:25pm: Shu Wang (University of Southern California) "Love and Personal Style"

Commentator: Andréa Daventry (California State University, San Bernardino) 

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:10pm: Sanna Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki) "We need to show true love for our people": Loneliness and the Promise of a Community of Love

Commentator: Paul Katsafanas (Boston University) 

3:15-4:25pm: Justin White (Brigham Young University) "Commitment, Disruption, and Loving Perception" 

Commentator: Annemarie Munn (University of California, Riverside)

4:30-6:00pm: KEYNOTE

Vida Yao (University of California, Los Angeles) "The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Philosophy of Love"

Saturday, December 7  

10-11:10am: Joel Van Fossen (Hosei University) "Nietzsche on Affirmative Love"

Commentator: Katherine Martha (Vanderbilt University)

11:15-12:25pm: Macy Salzberger (San Francisco State University) "Alienated Love" 

Commentator: Taojie Wang (Brown University)

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:10pm: Alexia Papigiotis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) "Loneliness and Relatability" 

Commentator: Michael Blake (University of Washington)

3:15-4:25pm: Austen McDougal (Princeton University) "Love in the Time of the Breakup Era"

Commentator: Robert Bishop (California State University, San Bernardino)

4:30-6:00pm: KEYNOTE

Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University) "The Extremely Difficult Realization that Something Other than Oneself is Real": Iris Murdoch on Love and Morality