40^th Annual KJSNA Meetings
2019

Winter 2019	Eastern	January 7 - 10, 2019 New York, NY Sheraton Times Square
Spring 2019	Central	February 20 - 23, 2019 Denver, CO Westin Downtown
Spring 2019	Pacific	April 17 - 20, 2019 Vancouver, CANADA Westin Bayshore

 

APA 115th EASTERN DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (New York, NY)

January 7 - 10, 2019

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

7:30-10:30 p.m., G9N

Joint Session of The International Society for Chinese Philosophy and
the Karl Jaspers Society of North America

Author meets Critics
Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

Chair: Paul Boshears (Georgia State University)

Author: Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Critics: Kai Marchal (National Cheng Chi University)
Mario Wenning (University of Macau)
Carine Defoort (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

 

APA 116th CENTRAL DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (Denver, CO)

February 20 - 23, 2019

Thursday, February 21, 2019

7:10 - 10:10 p.m.

SESSION ONE: Humankind as Historical Beings
Karl Jaspers and José Ortega y Gasset

Chair: Jillian Coleman (Cosumnes River College)

Speakers:

Marnie Binder (Cosumnes River College and California State University, Sacramento)
Two Philosophers Born in 1883: Jaspers and Ortega on the Historicity of Being Human

Keith M. Brown (University of North Texas)
Finding the Way: Philosophical Faith in Karl Jaspers and Jose Ortega y Gasset

Oliver W. Holmes (Wesleyan University)
On Being with Others: Jaspers and Ortega

Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)
Ortega, Jaspers, and the Dynamics of Reason

Friday, February 22, 2019

7:30 - 10:30 p.m.

SESSION TWO: Author meets Critics
The Concept of History
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)

Chair: Irina Symons (The University of Kansas, Lawrence)

Author: Dmitri Nikulin (The New School)

Critics: Jeffrey Bernstein (College of the Holy Cross)
John V. Garner (University of West Georgia)
Adam J. Graves (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Sonja M. Tanner (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

Commentator: Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)

APA 93rd PACIFIC DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (Vancouver, CANADA)

April 17 - 20, 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

SESSION ONE: International Relations and Philosophy in a Global Age

Chair: Tim Fitzjohn (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)

Speakers:

Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire University)
Jaspers on Death

Pierre Keller (University of California, Riverside)
Kantian Constitutional Patriotism

Devin Zane Shaw (Douglas College, Canada)
Two Concepts of Responsibility after Fascism: Reading Beauvoir and Jaspers

Joshua Tepley (Saint Anselm College)
Jaspers on the Question of Free Will

 

KJSNA Business Meeting Following Session

 

Saturday, April 20, 2019

6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

SESSION TWO: Author meets Critics
Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action:
Daimonic Disclosure of the ‘Who'
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Chair: Dane Sawyer (University of La Verne)

Author: Trevor Tchir (Algoma University, Canada)

Critics: Frederick M. Dolan (University of California, Berkeley)
Karin Fry (Georgia Southern University)
Jennifer Gaffney (Gettysburg College)
Helmut Wautischer (Sonoma State University)