2012 Uehiro CrossCurrents Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Thursday, March 8
6:00 – 8:00 pm Welcome Reception: Dr. Carl Becker
Sakamaki Hall C-308, Philosophy Lounge
Friday, March 9
8:00 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast
Imin Center
8:30 – 10:00 am Panel I: Aesthetics, Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Ryan Shriver
A Fusion of Religion and Artistry as Narratives: Buddhism in the Modern Works of Shōmyō
Hanako Takayama, University of Tokyo, Japan
Aesthetic Attitude: Full Attention Not Needed
Leland Harper, Ryerson University, Canada
Properly Passing Time: Kant and Boredom
Brandon Underwood, UHM
10:15 – 12:15 pm Panel II: Salvation and Anxiety, Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Lisa Widdison
Shameless Salvation: A Study of Enlightenment and Artistic Rescue in Nausea
Sydney Johnson, UHM
The Soteriological Import of Nāgārjuna’s Refutation of Reality
Benjamin Zenk, UHM
Emptiness and Compassion: Creating the Appropriate Context for śūnyatā-yoga
William Barnes, University of New Mexico
Kant’s Treatment of Imagination and Anxiety
Rika Dunlap, UHM
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch provided
Imin Center, Garden Room
1:45 – 3:45 pm Panel III: Politics and Institutions, Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Ian Sullivan
A Response to Rorty's Endorsement of the Idea of a Shared Humanity, Sympathy and the Human Rights Discourse as Means to Eliminate Global Injustice
Ayça Mazman, University of Cincinnati
Dismantling Purity: Toward a Feminist Curdling of Hawaiian Identity
Brooke Schueneman, University of Georgia
Subject and Institution: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Kiyoshi Miki
Shota Yokoyama, University of Tokyo, Japan
The Gendered Body of Perception
Sumaya Noush, Loyola University
4:00 – 6:00 pm Keynote Address
Introduction by Dr. Rajam Raghunathan
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Dr. Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, president of Sakyadhita: International Association of Buddhist Women and director of the Jamyang Foundation
5:30 – 7:00 pm Dinner with UHM students
Saturday, March 10
7:30 – 8:00am Continental Breakfast
Imin Center
8:00 – 10:00 am Panel IV: Ethics and Perception, Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Benjamin Zenk
What is Separation? The Jump in Levinas’ Analysis of Language
Kyle Peters, UHM
Sympathy, Empathy, and Telepathy
Tetsuro Irie, University of Tokyo, Japan
Self-Consciousness in Kant: How Much ‘I’ Do I need?
Matthew Izor, UHM
No Mere Forms: Dōgen’s Being-Time and Its Relation to Our Paradoxical View of Language and Temporal Order
Christina Da Silva, UHM
10:15 – 12:15 pm Panel V: Emptiness and the Universe, Imin Center, Pacific Room, Moderator: Brandon Underwood
The Holographic Universe and the Logic of Place
Jeff Hoyt, Drake University
The Misconception of Emptiness: Lessons from the Diamond Sutra
Steve Goodrich, San Diego State University
Why is Emptiness not Empty? The Limits of Schopenhauer’s Ontology
Miles Hamilton, University of Melbourne, Australia
Daoism and Computation
Carl Johnson, UHM
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch provided
Imin Center, Garden Room
1:15 – 3:15 pm Panel VI: Emptiness and Language, Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Kevin P. Maroufkhani
Non-Thetic Theses
Josh Stoll, UHM
A Consideration of Language, Ontology, and Silence in Dōgen
Ryan Shriver, UHM
Pragmatic Belief Formation and Upāya
Louise Williams, University of Arizona
Evanescence and Persistence
Itsuki Hayashi, UHM
3:30 – 5:30 pm Keynote Address
Introduction by Dr. Arindam Chakrabarti
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Dr. Masato Ishida
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
5:30 – 6:00 pm Closing Ceremony
Imin Center, Pacific Room
6:00 – 8:00 pm Potluck Barbeque
Kaimana Beach
Significant support for this conference was provided by the Uehiro Foundation.
Additional support was provided by the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Ching Foundation, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Philosophy Department, the Philosophy Student Association, and the Student Association Program Fee Board.
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