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CAVE HILL PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM 2011

PROGRAMME

All sessions will be held in Room A, The Solutions Centre, except for the Philosophy Day Public Lecture/Keynote which will be in LT 4.

Please click on the links for access to the papers.

In each panel, presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length, leaving 10 minutes for discussion.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2011

8.30 a.m. - 9.00 a.m. Registration (The Solutions Centre foyer)

9 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.: Session 1

OPENING SESSION

Professor Pedro Welch, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.: Session 2

• Cody Campbell - The Happy Swine and the Lonesome Outcast; Or, Why Philosophers Just Seem So Weird
• Eric Chelstrom - Phenomenology and First-Order Institutional Facts

Chair: Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo

10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Coffee break

10.45 a.m. - 12.45 p.m.: Session 3: Struggles Around Visuality, Pedagogy, Technology and the Global City: Intersections in Neoliberal Times

• Ergin Bulut - Visual Pedagogy of Walter Benjamin and Video Games
• Michelle Castro - Antidialogical and Dialogical Actions: A Freiren Analysis of Chilean Educational Reform and the English Opens Door Program
• Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer - How Techne Shapes Bodies in a Classroom
• Cameron McCarthy - The Aftermath of Race: The Politics and Perils of Theorizing Racial Identities in Education in the Age of Information

Chair: Deryck Murray

12.45 p.m. - 1.45 p.m.: Lunch

1.45 p.m. - 2.45 p.m.: Session 4

• Bryce Henson - Spatial Racialization: A Contextual Analysis of Contemporary Brazilian Film
• Elaine Rocha - Marianismo in Latin America: Gender and Race in five hundred years of Social and Political Struggle

Chair: Sandra McCalla

2.45 p.m. - 3.00 p.m. Coffee break

3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.: Session 5

• Mark Devenney - Towards an Improper Politics
• Peta-Ann Long - Third World Pragmatism

Chair: Clevis Headley

4.15 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.: Reception

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2011

9 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.: Session 6

• Marisa Forbes - No Natural Rights
• Anne Hewitt - Emotion and the Law, Ancient and Modern Perspectives
• Sandra McCalla - Is there a prima facie obligation/duty to obey the law? An exploration of John Rawls and W.D Ross's views
  

Chair: Sherry Asgill

10.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Coffee break

10.45 a.m. - 12.15 a.m.: Session 7

• Curtis Forbes - Scientific Realism as a Resource for Social Criticism
• Brian Smith - Collective Responsibility: Holding Ourselves Responsible
• Frej Klem Thomsen - But some groups are more equal than others – a critical review of the group-criterion in the concept of discrimination

Chair: Roger Marples

12.15 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.: Lunch

Afternoon Free - Island Tour, 1.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Charles Mills - Racial Justice

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2011

9 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.: Session 8

• Tunde Bewaji - Culture as site for contest: tracing the stress factors in European cultural influence on the Caribbean society
• Kevin Layne - Unifying the Caribbean - A Philosophical Approach
• Kahiudi Mabana - Francophone Postcolonial Writing and its Unsolved Dilemmas