Friday, May 30th
10.00 - 10.30 Mahon, Marchetti and McHugh (UCD) - Welcome and Introduction
10.30 – 11.30 Russell Goodman (New Mexico)- Emerson on Race, Slavery, and the Nature of His Polemical Writings
11.30 – 12.30 Paul Grimstad (Yale) – Emerson's Style (Qualia and Criteria)
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Richard H. King (Nottingham) - Political Philosophy and (American) Literature: On Hannah Arendt
3.00 – 4.00 Rosa Maria Calcaterra (Rome) - Rorty's Aesthetic Challenge
4.00 – 5.00 Book Launch - Áine Mahon, The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell (London: Bloomsbury, 2014).
St. Stephen's Green Hibernian Club, 9 St. Stephen's Green
Supported by the Fulbright Commission of Ireland and UCD School of Philosophy.
6.00 Dinner
Saturday, May 31st
10.00 – 11.00 Martin Woessner (The City College of New York, CUNY)- “A posture of sufficient humility”: Martha Nussbaum on Love and Literature
11.00 – 12.30 Panel (1) on David Foster Wallace
Áine Mahon (UCD) – “The Difficulty of Reality” in Cora Diamond and David Foster Wallace
Adam Kelly (York)- In Quest of American Sincerity: Emerson, Cavell, Wallace
Clare Hayes-Brady (UCD) - "Personally I'm neutral on the menstruation point": Wallace and the Feminine
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Panel (2) on Stanley Cavell
Erik Hmiel (Wisconsin) - Brillo Boxes and Souls: Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and the Aesthetics of Ordinary Synonymy
Fergal McHugh (UCD) - On Cavell and Don DeLillo
3.00 – 4.00 Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research, New York) – Ethics and the Concept of the Human
Participation is free but space is limited. To confirm your attendance, or with any other enquiries, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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