Phenomena at the Margins

June 19, 2014 - June 21, 2014
University of Sussex

University of Sussex
Brighton
United Kingdom

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Speakers:

Ed Casey
SUNY at Stony Brook
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Tanja Staehler
University of Sussex

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Phenomena at the Margins- Graduate Conference and Workshop in Phenomenology,
University of Sussex, 19th - 21st June 2014

Workshop Programme: 'Heidegger on Enframing and Releasement'

Thursday, June 19th, Room Arts A 108

This workshop seeks to bring together a series of talks by both well
established and up and coming Heidegger scholars on two key themes in the
later thought of Martin Heidegger. The terms Gelassenheit, often translated
as ‘releasement’, and Gestell, translated as ‘enframing’ or ‘standing
reserve’, serve as two central and opposing concepts. With the recent
translations into English of the two key volumes of Heidegger’s collected
works, the Country Path Conversations (2010) and the Bremen and Freiburg
Lectures (2012), these critical terms in Heidegger’s philosophy are finally
able to be approached in their original contexts. The workshop focuses
centrally on important Heideggerian critiques of science, technology, modern
industrialized society, as well as his thoughts on the comportment
(Gelassenheit) which is able to resist the restrictive domain of modern
techno-scientific thought (Gestell). Also included are Heidegger’s early
reflections on the status of “things”, the errancy of metaphysics, art and
language, and proper thinking.

Together, these two texts and their attendant concepts are the central
points of entry into Martin Heidegger’s later thinking and this workshop
seeks to bring together into dialogue this rich philosophical material.

10:30 - 10:50    Registration + Coffee

10:50 - 11:00   Welcome by Organizers


11:00 - 13:00    Presentations and Discussion


Dr. Mahon O’ Brien (Sussex): Introduction to Heidegger’s concepts of Gestell
and Gelassenheit

Dr. Tobias Keiling (Freiburg): Verhaltenheit and Gelassenheit

Christopher Merwin (New School): Heidegger’s Challenge: Gelassenheit,
Gestell, and the Beiträge (for the few)

Chair: Christos Hadjioannou

13:00- 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00- 15:20 Papers

Margot Wielgus (Kentucky): Cultivating Gelassenheit through Thinking

Dr. Aaron Wendland (Johannesburg): Gestell contra Gelassenheit?: An Essay on
Heidegger and Kuhn

Chair: Jana Elsen

15:20- 15:30 Coffee break

15:30- 17:00 Keynote Address and Round Table Discussion


Professor Simon Glendinning (LSE): A Settlement with Technology

Convener: Dr. Paul Davies (Sussex)

*Drinks at IDS bar (on campus) and dinner in town


Conference Programme

Friday, June 20th, Room Arts A 108

11:00 - 11:30      Registration and Coffee

11:30 - 11:40      Plenary Session Welcome


Dr. Paul Davies and Christos Hadjioannou

11:40 - 13:00 Session 1


Speaker 1: Cæcilie Varslev-Pedersen (New School): Feminism and Phenomenology
in Heinämaa, Butler and Beauvoir

Speaker 2: Mihai Dan (Ecole Normale Supérieure): The Dissolution of Temporal
Intentionality with Regard to Binswanger’s Concept of Melancholic Disorder
and Heidegger’s concept of Angst

Chair: Christos Hadjioannou

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:20 Session 2

Speaker 1: Dr. Zohar Atkins (Oxford): Heidegger on the Holy: Suspending the
Onto-Theological Difference

Speaker 2: Claire Perryman-Holt (Sorbonne): Jan Patočka and the sacrificial
experience

Chair: Dr. Tobias Keiling

15:20 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:50 Session 3

Speaker 1: Devin Fitzpatrick (New School): Embodiment and Alterity:
Merleau-Ponty, Mead, and the Need for Receptivity

Speaker 2: David Martinez Rojas (Sussex): Kant and Levinas on ethical
activity and passivity

Chair: Christopher Merwin

16:50- 17:00 Break

17:00- 18:30 Keynote Address

Dr. Tanja Staehler (Sussex): Elemental Relations

Chair: Christos Hadjioannou

18:30 - 18:45 Closing Remarks

Drinks at IDS bar (on campus)



Saturday, June 21st, Room Arts A 108

9:30- 10:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00- 10:10 Opening Remarks

10:10- 11:30 Session 1

Speaker 1: Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford): A Phenomenology of the Pregnant Body:
The Anxiety of Expectation

Speaker 2: Dr. Bernardo Ainbinder (NCSR, Argentina): Experiencing the
Non-given: Birth, Death and the Methodological Foundation of Phenomenology

Chair: Christos Hadjioannou

11:30- 11:40 Break

11:40- 13:00 Session 2

Speaker 1: Liam Sprod (Kingston): Spatial Disruptions and Temporal
Amplifications: The effect of Heidegger’s turn to place on his reading of Kant

Speaker 2: James Matharu (Oxford): Wittgenstein’s Wasp: Disorientation
Towards Animals in the Remarks on the ‘Philosophy of Psychology’

Chair: Dr. Aaron Wendland

13:00- 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00- 15:20 Session 3

Speaker 1: Benjamin Draxlbauer (Vienna): Uncovering the Presence - Oblivion
in Husserl's Time-Consciousness

Speaker 2: Patrick Levy (Sussex): Phenomenology and Sleep – The Dream of
Suspension

Chair: Gabriel Martin

15:20- 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30- 16:50 Session 4

Speaker 1: Helen Ngo (SUNY, Stony Brook): Racialisation and the
Fragmentation of the Phenomenological Body

Speaker 2: Zhu Xinqu (Hong Kong): Between the Transcendental and the
Mundane: The Embodied Subject and the Undismissible Tension in Husserl’s
Transcendental Phenomenology

Chair: Patrick Levy

16:50- 17:00 Break

17:00- 18:30 Keynote Address:
Professor Ed Casey (SUNY, Stony Brook): Taking Place (And Several Other
Things) To The Edge

Chair: Dr. Paul Davies

18:20- 18:30 Break

18:30-19:00 Round Table discussion and conclusions

20:30- ____ DINNER

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