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Friday June 2
9:45 am Welcome
10:00-11:00 Walter Lammi, The American University in
Cairo, “Gadamer’s Western
Tradition: Christian and Greek”
11:15-12:45 Invited speaker: Donatella DiCesare,
University of Rome, “Thinking in Utopias: Hermeneutics as Political
Philosophy”
LUNCH
2:15-3:15 Lauren Swayne Barthold, Gordon College,
“Hermeneutics and the Joy
of Being”
3:30-5:30 Keynote address, Dennis Schmidt, Penn State
University, “The Future of Hermeneutics”
DINNER
Saturday June 3
9:30-10:30 Ted George, Texas A & M, “What is
the Future of the Past? Gadamer and Hegel on Art in the Age of its
Liberation”
10:45-12:15 Invited speaker, P. Christopher Smith,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell,
“Understanding, Horizon Fusion, and the Odyssey's Reversed Similes: a
Gadamerian Reading of Penelope's and Odysseus' Gespräch,”
LUNCH
1:45-2:45 Lorenzo Simpson, SUNY Stony Brook, “Twin
Earth and Its
Horizons: On Hermeneutics, Reference, and Scientific Theory Choice”
3:00-4:00 David Vessey, University of Chicago, "Who
is Gadamer's Husserl?"
4:15-5:45 Invited speaker, James Risser, Seattle
University, “Distressed Memory: The Character of Understanding in
Dispossession and Exile”