Category: Personalism

I have posted some photos from the 12th International Conference on Persons in Lund last month on the conference website. It is likely that more will be added.

I want to extend my warmest thanks to all sixty-one participants, presenting as well as non-presenting, for your contributions to this year’s International Conference on Persons. It was a pleasure to receive you at Lund. Together, you made the event a success.

Most of all, my co-organizer, Randall E. Auxier of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the current editor of the Library of Living Philosophers, deserves credit for making this a memorable conference.

Special mention must also be made of our wonderful conference assistant Rebecka Klette, a promising student in our department of the History of Ideas, who took care of the welcome reception, the coffee breaks, and much else; without her, the meeting would not have been possible.

My friend and colleague Jonas Hansson also set aside much time and energy to see to that everything ran smoothly.

A number of partners or accompanying persons who attended the conference dinner and in some cases a few of the sessions also contributed to the event.

My thanks go, finally, to Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund; to Prof. Marianne Thormählen; to Prof. Thomas Kaiserfeld, Christel Anderberg, Kristiina Savin, Karin Salomonsson, and Susann Roos in the department of Arts and Cultural Sciences; to MediaTryck; and to the staff of Hotel Concordia and of the Grand Hotel.

I, Randy, Tom Buford and other past organizers of the ICP whom you met hope we will get an opportunity to see you all again at future ICPs.

At least two prominent publishers have expressed an interest in publishing the proceedings in book form; we will come back to you with information about this as soon as possible.

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Tuesday, August 6

 

1:00-3:00

Registration, Tea and Coffee

Room 227

3:00-3:30

Welcome and Conference Information

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Gunnar Broberg, Lund University (Sweden)

Room 201

3:30-4:15

Opening Panel on the History and Purpose of the ICP

Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)

Responses:

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Room 201

4:15-4:30

Break

4:30-5:30

Keynote Address

Keith Ward, Oxford University (UK)

Absolute and Personalist Idealism

Room 201

5:30-8:00

Welcome Reception

Room 227

 

Wednesday, August 7

 

9:00-10:20

Session A:

O. A. Oyowe, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)

Velleman and the Dis-guises of Self

Geraldine Ng, University of Reading (UK)

Persons, Agency, and the Operations of Blame

Commentator: Richard C. Prust

Room 202

Session B:

Anthony L. Cashio, Manchester University (USA)

Embracing a Personalist Approach to Environmental Philosophy

Jason M. Bell, University of New Brunswick and Mt. Allison University (Canada)

Toward a Methodology Against Genocide                               

Commentator: Federico Lauria

Room 109

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A:

Robert F. DeVall, Jr., West Chester University of Pennsylvania (USA) 

Keeping the “I” in the “I-Thou” Relationship: Pringle-Pattison’s Rejection of an Impersonal Absolute

Douglas McDermid, Trent University (Canada)

Are Selves Sui Generis? McTaggart on Immortality and the Argument from Impermanence

Commentator: Jan Olof Bengtsson

Room 202

Session B1 (10:40-11:20):

Anne Runehov, Copenhagen University (Denmark)

The Process of Believing 

Commentator: Eike-Henner W. Kluge

Session B2 (11:20-12:00):

Janne Kontala, Åbo Akademi (Finland) 

Eastern Spirituality in Sweden: Identifying Emerging Worldview Patterns Amongst Practitioners  

Commentator: Ferdinando Sardella

Room 109

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:45

Plenary Panel on Hindu Personalism

Kenneth R. Valpey, Oxford University (UK)

Personhood as Multivalent Reality in Premodern Indian Theography

Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa (Israel)

Resorting to Aesthetics: The Articulation of Divine Personhood in the Vaishnava Vedanta Tradition

Ferdinando Sardella, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Modern Hindu Personalism

Room 201

3:45-4:30

Tea and Coffee

4:30-5:50

Session A:

Lucian Delescu, Berkeley College (USA)

On Darwin’s Account of Consciousness and its Implications for a General Theory of Person

Victoria Höög, Lund University (Sweden)

Persona and Ethos in Contemporary Technoscientific Cultures

Commentator: Anthony L. Cashio

Room 202

Session B:

Soyoung Park, Independent Scholar, Vancouver, BC (Canada)

Suspended Subjectivity: Artistic Intention in Making Art

Jonnie Eriksson, Lund University and Halmstad University (Sweden)

Realist by Nature, by Nature Abstract: Personalist Aesthetics in Mounier and Henry

Commentator: James McLachlan

Room 109

5:50-6:00

Break

6:00-7:00

Plenary

Juan Manuel Burgos, CEU San Pablo University (Spain)              

A New Personalist Proposal: Modern Ontological Personalism

Room 201

 

Thursday, August 8

 

9:00-10:20

Session A:

Bogumił Gacka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (Poland)

Personalism in Brazil

Andris Sevels, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Personalistic Mariology of John Paul II

Room 202

Session B:

James Beauregard, Independent Scholar, Manchester, NH (USA)

Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach

Eike-Henner W. Kluge, University of Victoria (Canada)          

Personhood, Brain Death and Resource Allocation: The Implications of Aquinas’ Conception of Human Persons                                              

Commentator: Juan Manuel Burgos

Room 109

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-11:40

Plenary

Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)

The Creative Person: Neuropsychological Perspectives              

Room 201

AFTERNOON FREE

7:00

Conference Dinner

 

Friday, August 9

 

9:00-10:20

Session A:

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Scheler and the Existence of the Impersonal

James McLachlan, Western Carolina University (USA)     

Levinas, the Person, and Eschatology 

Commentator: Philip Cronce

Room 202

Session B:

Jerzy Król, State University of Higher Education in Chełm (Poland)

Upbringing and Education from the Personalist Perspective

Inger Enkvist, Lund University (Sweden)                     

Personalism: Identifying Two Opposite Views of the Teaching Profession

Commentator: Thomas O. Buford

Room 109

Session C: 

Agnieszka Gąsior-Mazur, Independent Scholar, Lublin (Poland) 

The Development of Person vs. Building the Value of a Company

Ewa Smołka, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)

Openness to Others as a Way of Personal Development

Room 022

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A: 

Richard C. Prust, St. Andrews University (USA)

The Ragged Edge of our Personal Past

Federico Lauria and Alain Pé-Curto, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

The Situationist Boomerang

Commentator: Michael Thompson

Room 202

Session B:

J. J. MacIntosh, University of Calgary (Canada)

Persons, Identity, and Irenaean Theodicies

Joseph Diekemper, Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) 

Temporality, Creation, and Divine Personhood      

Commentator: Eoin O’Connell

Room 109

12:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00- 3:45

Plenary Panel on the Roots of the Philosophical Problem of the Person

Lorenzo Greco, Oxford University (UK)                        

Hume and the Narrative of the Self            

Michael Thompson, University of North Texas (USA) 

The Antinomy of Identity: Personal Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy

Daryl L. Hale, Western Carolina University (USA) 

Persons as Supra Pretium: Kant’s Neglected Argument for Personalism?

Room 201

3:45-4:30

Tea and Coffee

4:30-5:50

Session A:

Argun Abrek Canbolat, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)

Personhood: From Physical to Social

Simon Smith, Independent Scholar, Haslemere, Surrey (UK)

A Convergence of Cosmologies: Personal Analogies in Modern Physics and Modern Metaphysics

Commentator: Daryl L. Hale

Room 202

Session B:

Ian Winchester, University of Calgary (Canada)

Collingwood’s Conception of Personhood and its Relation to Language Use

Giusy Gallo, University of Calabria (Italy)  

Dialogue and Language: The Way to Be a Person

Commentator: Randall E. Auxier

Room 109

5:50-6:00

Break

6:00-7:00

Plenary

Claes G. Ryn, Catholic University of America (USA)

“Idealistic” Dreaming: The Imagination of Unbounded Egotism

Room 201

 

Saturday, August 10

 

9:00-10:20

Session A1 (9:00-9:40):

Erik Persson, Independent Scholar, Harlösa (Sweden)                        

The Catholic Critics of Personalism: Before and After Father Meinvielle  

Commentator: Jerzy Król

Session A2 (9:40-10:20):

Philip Cronce, Chicago State University (USA)

Dewey, Rorty, and Honors Education after the Fall of the Academy

Room 202

Session B1 (9:00-9:40):

Susanna Åkerman-Hjern, Independent Scholar, Stockholm (Sweden)       

Swedenborg and the Grand Human

Commentator: James McLachlan

Session B2 (9:40-10:20): 

Kerstin Maria Pahl, Humboldt University (Germany)                                       

Timing Life: Portraiture and Biography in 18^th Century England

Commentator: Jonnie Eriksson

Room 109

Session C1 (9:00-9:40):

Guillermo Barron, Red Deer College (Canada) 

Gender and Personhood

Commentator: Giusy Gallo

Room 022

10:20-10:40

Tea and Coffee

10:40-12:00

Session A:

Christina Conroy, Morehead State University (USA)   

Branch-Relative Identity

Eoin O’Connell, Manhattan College (USA)

Inferences to Personhood 

Commentator: Randall E. Auxier

Room 202

Session B:

Kenny Siu Sing Huen, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)

The Crux of Living a Human Life: From Heidegger to Wittgenstein

Alastair Beattie, University of the Andes (Venezuela)                    

Person as Platonic Idea Form

Commentator: Douglas McDermid

Room 109

12:00-12:10

Break

12:10-12:40

Closing Panel: Conference Overview and the State of the Person

Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)

Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)

Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)

Room 201

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After the one in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy written together with Thomas D. Williams, another encyclopedia article on personalism, this time by me alone, is now published in Springer’s new Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.

Springer   Amazon.com

The conference dinner will be held at Lund’s historic Grand Hotel on Thursday, August 8. The price for the three-course dinner, including pre-dinner drink, wine, and coffee, is 300 SEK (approx. 45 USD, 35 EUR, 30 GBP) for those who pay the full registration fee. Both fees are payable either in advance by direct bank transfer or upon arrival in Lund, in accordance with the instructions here.

The Grand’s website

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Hotel Concordia further reduces their special conference rate. Single rooms are now offered to participants at the conference at 850 SEK, double rooms at 1050 SEK per night.

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The conference venue is one of the several buildings of the new, administratively rationalized mega-department of “Arts and Cultural Sciences”. It is the work of the architect Salomon Eberhard Sörensen (1856-1937), and was built in 1896 in Neo-Renaissance style. The interior is dominated by a huge staircase which connects three of the four floors, but there is also a lift connecting all four floors. There are excellent spaces for coffee breaks, but no meals will be served here. We expect all to prefer to go out in beautiful Lund to choose their own restaurants for lunches and dinners (except for the Conference Dinner which will be advertised later). The address is Biskopsgatan 7.

Photo: Martin Thörnkvist

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Claes G. Ryn is Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America, Chairman of the National Humanities Institute in Washington, D.C., editor of Humanitas, former President of the Philadelphia Society, President of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University. Born and raised in Sweden, he is widely published on both sides of the Atlantic and in China. He lectures widely and is a frequent guest on television and radio. In 2000 he gave the Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Beijing University. Among his books are Democracy and the Ethical Life, Will, Imagination and Reason, The New Jacobinism, America the Virtuous, and A Common Human Ground. He recently published the novel A Desperate Man.

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