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35th Annual KJSNA Meetings (2013-2014)
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association

Winter
2013
December 27-30, 2013 Baltimore, MD
Marriott Waterfront
Spring
2014
Central
February 26 - March 1, 2014 Chicago, IL
Palmer House
Spring
2014

April 16-20, 2014
San Diego, CA
Westin Gaslamp Quarter

 

APA EASTERN DIVISION

DECEMBER 27-30, 2013

Saturday, December 28

8:15 - 10:15 p.m., GVI-3

SESSION ONE: Author meets Critics
“Art and Truth after Plato”
(Universtity of Chicago Press, 2013)

Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)

Author: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)

Critics: Joseph E. Margolis (Temple University)
Raymond Langley (Manhattanville College)
Sophie Cloutier (Saint-Paul University, Canada)
Alina Feld (Long Island University)

 

Sunday, December 29

8:00 - 10:00 p.m., GX-6

SESSION TWO: “Iconography and Transcendence: Reflections on Image, Icon, Economy by Marie-Jose Mondzain”

Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)

Speakers:
Alina Feld (Long Island University)
"Contagion Through Gazing:
Ontological Transformation in Hindu Darshan and Christian Icon Veneration"

Lydia Voronina (Independent Scholar)
"The Double Transcendence: The Unseen in the Eyes of an Icon-Maker and Icon-Viewer"

 

APA CENTRAL DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (Chicago, IL)

FEBRUARY 26 - MARCH 1, 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

7:40 - 10:40 p.m., Room tba

SESSION ONE: “Van Gogh with Jaspers, Heidegger, and Bataille”

Chair: David P. Nichols (Saginaw Valley State University)

Speakers: Ingvild Torsen (Florida International University)
"Agency and Event in the World of the Artwork"

Commentators: Frederic Seyler (DePaul Univeristy)
Dimitri Constant (Boston University)

Rebecca Longtin Hansen (Emory University)
"The Transformation of Experience in Art: Heidegger and Jaspers on Van Gogh's Painting"

Commentators: Frederic Seyler (DePaul Univeristy)
Constance Morley (Independent Artist)

James Luchte (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
"Prometheus Dismembered: Bataille on Van Gogh"

Commentator: Adrian Switzer (Park University)

 

Friday, February 28, 2014

7:00 - 10:00 p.m., Room tba

SESSION TWO: “Van Gogh with Jaspers, Heidegger, and Derrida”

Chair: Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University-Ottawa)

Speakers: Christian Lotz (Michigan State University)
"What is Wrong with Jaspers' and Heidegger's Van Gogh Interpretations?"

Commentator: Adrian Switzer (Park University)

Alina N. Feld (Long Island University)
"The Reign of Matter and the Task of the Times: Van Gogh's Illuminations"

Commentator: David P. Nichols (Saginaw Valley State University)

Kevin M. Richards (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
"Pointure mal or 'If the shoe doesn't fit…'"

Respondents: Colby Dickinson (Loyola University)
Debra Riley Parr (Columbia College)

 

APA PACIFIC DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (San Diego, CA)

APRIL 16 - 20, 2014

Thursday, April 17

6:00 - 9:00 p.m., G5D

SESSION ONE: “Van Gogh with Jaspers, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty”

Chair: David P. Nichols (Saginaw Valley State University)

Speakers: Hakhamanesh Zangeneh (California State University Stanislaus)
"Pathology and Truth–Jaspers and Heidegger on Van Gogh"

Stephen H. Watson (Notre Dame University)
"Van Gogh and the Absence of the Work: On the Remnants of a Hermeneutic Itinerary"

Commentator: Elena Bezzubova (University of California Irvine)

Speakers: Galen A. Johnson (University of Rhode Island)
"'I have taken a step:' Merleau-Ponty's Thinking of Perception and the Art of Van Gogh"

Stephen A. Erickson (Pomona College)
"Van Gogh, Heidegger, and the Attuned Life"

Commentator: Purushottama Bilimoria (University of California Berkeley)

General Commentator: Malek Khazaee (California State University Long Beach)

 

Saturday, April 19

6:00 - 9:00 p.m., G9F

SESSION TWO: Author meets Critics

(1) “Ride, Boldly Ride: The Evolution of the American Western”
(University of California Press, 2012)
Co-author: Kevin Stoehr (Boston University)

(2) “Hollywood Westerns and American Myth”
(Yale University Press, 2010)
Author: Robert B. Pippin (Chicago University)

Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)

Critics: Tomoko Iwasawa (Reitaku University, Japan)
Shai Biderman (Tel Aviv University)
Carlin Romano (Ursinus College)

KJSNA Business Meeting Following Session