Bay Area Continental Philosophy Association

Past Events

March 31, 2010 BACPA Group Meeting at the Pacific APA, San Francisco

Topic: The Beautiful

Chair: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)

Speaker: Thaddeus Taylor-O’Neil (State University of New York–Stony Brook)

“Kant and the Dynamically Sublime in Surfing: Sublimity Engaged Dynamically”

Commentator: Jason Burke Murphy (St. Louis University)

Speaker: David Won Johnson (Pennsylvania State University)

“The ‘Deadliness’ and Fragility of Action: An Oakeshottean View of Beauty”

Commentator: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)

November 18, Panel on Feminism

Speakers:

Amy Timko (Duquesne University; USF): "Identifying Beauvoir's Two Intentional Moments: The Value of the Autobiography"

Emily Parker (Santa Clara University): "Inter-dict and Dialectic in Speculum of the Other Woman"

Respondent:

Ada Jaarsma (Sonoma State University)

April 8, 2009 BACPA Group Meeting at the Pacific APA, Vancouver, BC

Topic: Nature
Chair: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)

Speaker: Egidius Berns (Tilburg University), “Living On: Philosophy and the Economical Conception of Life”
Commentator: Joshua Kurdys (Pennsylvania State University)

Speaker:Sebastian Rand (Georgia State University), “Organism, Normativity, Plasticity: Canguilhem, Kant, Malabou”
Commentator: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)

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April 2, 2009 BACPA Lecture by: Georges De Schrijver (KU Leuven)

"Lyotard's Political Ethics "

Respondent: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)

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March 18, 2009 - Colloquium by: Josh Hayes (Santa Clara University)

"The Logos of the Living: Towards an Ontology of the Animal."

Respondent: Daniela Vallega-Neu (California State University Stanislaus)

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November 13, 2008 - Colloquium by: Wes Swedlow (University of San Francisco)

"What Does the Sovereign Want? A Lacanian Analysis of Homo Sacer"

Respondent: Joseph Tanke (California College of the Arts)

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October 9, 2008 - Colloquium by: Colin Koopman (UC Santa Cruz)

"Problematization plus Reconstruction: Critical Inquiry through Foucault and Habermas"

Respondent: Ronald Sundstrom (University of San Francisco)

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