If you happen to be in Oxford next week, then this looks like a good opportunity to engage in some serious wrestling with the thought of the late Paul Ricoeur:
Oxford Forum Public Conference — Ricoeur: On Memory, Politics and Forgiveness
20-21 March 2009, Faculty of Philosophy and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
Friday, 20 March, Faculty of Philosophy
14.00-15.15 Dialogue with Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford)
On Confidence, Power and Affirmation
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.45 Dialogue with Luc Bovens (LSE)
On Apologies and Forgiveness
16.45-17.15 Coffee/Tea
17.15-18.30 Dialogue with Morny Joy (Calgary)
On Solicitude and Gift
Saturday, 21 March, Regent’s Park College
11.30-12.45 Dialogue with David Klemm (Iowa-Glasgow)
On Reading Ricoeur (tbc)
13.00-14.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.15-15.30 Dialogue with William Schweiker (Chicago)
On Ricoeur and Theological Humanism (tbc)
15.30-16.00 Coffee/Tea
16.00-17.00 Round table
Chair: David Jasper (Glasgow)
The event is open to all and there are no registration fees. For further information and to book a place contact Roxana Baiasu, Roxana.Baiasu@philosophy.ox.acor Juliana Cardinale: 020 7955 7539, J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk
Forum for European Philosophy European Institute, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE www.philosophy-forum.org
Wow. Wish I could go there, Sean. Ricoeur was my Doktorvater at Chicago for my 2nd Ph.D.--the one in phil. of rel. (applying Ricoeur's hermeneutics to political thought) and not the one in theological ethics.
So, how do you like Australia and the UCA?
Posted by: Michael Westmoreland-White | Monday, March 16, 2009 at 06:20 AM