> The Centre for Studies in Contemporary Approaches to Philosophy,
> University
> of Sunderland
> and
> Sunderland Business School
> 
> announce
> 
> BERGSON AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
> 
> To be held at Longhirst Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, UK
> from Sunday April 16th to Tuesday April 18th 2000.
> 
> To declare the need for a return to the work of Henri Bergson may well
> seem
> premature in the face of philosophy's singular resolve to ignore the
> enormous significance and influence of this man's thought at the beginning
> of the twentieth-century. Yet no philosopher has been as important to our
> age as Bergson.  At the threshold of the twentieth century, he reset the
> agenda for both philosophy and its relationship with the natural and human
> sciences. Concerned with examining and extolling the phenomena of time,
> change, and difference, he was at one point held as both 'the greatest
> thinker in the world' and 'the most dangerous man in the world'. Yet the
> impact of his ideas was so all-pervasive that, by the end of the  Great
> War,
> it had become impossibly diffuse. In a manner imitating his own cult of
> change, the Bergsonian school seemed to depart from the scene almost as
> quickly as it had arrived on it.
> As part of the current resurgence of interest in Bergsonism both in Europe
> and North America, this conference brings together thirty international
> academics from philosophy, sociology, organisation theory, psychology, and
> theology to address the significance of his work for the social sciences.
> Bergson's writing lends itself to such a dialogue in that it addressed
> issues such as evolutionary theory, bodily intentionality and the radical
> indeterminacy of time that have recently taken a leading theoretical role
> in
> the social sciences. While his ability to straddle disciplinary boundaries
> originally left Bergson himself in an intellectual no-man's land, perhaps
> it
> is the social sciences today which can act in favour of his work: in
> particular, recent developments in organisation and cultural theory can
> allow his thought to speak to us again with the same exciting force and
> vitality that met its first appearance one hundred years ago.
> 
> Speakers confirmed: Antoine Hatzenberger, Austin Harrington, Carl Power,
> David Toews, Elie During, Eric Alliez, Frederic Worms, Garrett Barden,
> Gavin
> Murray, Glen Rewston, Graham Jones, Gregory Adamson, John Pickering, Keith
> Ansell Pearson, Kenneth McConkey, Len Lawlor, Martin Wood, Melissa
> McMahon,
> Paul Atkinson, P.A.Y. Gunter, Philip Goodchild, Pierre Guillet De
> Monthoux,
> Richard A. Cohen, Robert Chia, Robin Durie, Roland Calori, Sean Watson,
> Stephen Crocker,
> Stephen Sheard, Tony OShea.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
> 
> SUNDAY April 16 2000
> Registration and Evening Buffet
> 
> Evening Session:
> 
> 7-8pm
> Kenneth McConkey
> Bergson
> 
> 8-9pm
> Gregory Adamson
> Tendencies
> 
> 
> MONDAY April 17 2000
> 
> Morning Session:
> 
> 9-10am:
> Plenary Paper:
> Keith Ansell Pearson,
> Thinking Beyond the Human Condition & Becoming-Virtual with Bergson
> 
> 10-11am:
> Parallel Papers:
> Robin Durie,
> On Duration and Simultaneity
> Paul Atkinson,
> FlexibleSurfaces/Flexible Concepts: Between Science and Metaphysics
> Graham Jones,
> Deleuze and (Post) Structural Bergsonism
> 
> 11am-12pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Philip Goodchild,
> On Two Sources of Society: Bergson, Capitalism and Religion
> 
> Lunch
> 
> Afternoon Session:
> 
> 1.30-2.30pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Len Lawlor
> Immanence versus Transcendence:  The Prioritization of Intuition over
> Language in Bergson
> 
> 2.30-3.30pm:
> Parallel Papers:
> Melissa McMahon,
> Bergson & James: an inclusive disjunction
> Gavin Murray
> Information Systems and Networks
> Sean Watson,
> Bodily Entanglement: Bergsonism and the Sociology of Affect
> 
> 3.30-4.30pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Robert Chia,
> Intuition and Pure Experience: The Implications of James, Bergson and
> Nishida for the Study of Organization & Management
> 
> Afternoon Coffee
> 
> Evening Session:
> 
> 5-6pm:
> Parallel Papers:
> Carl Power,
> Freedom and Sociability for Bergson
> John Pickering,
> Cognitive Science Catches Up With Bergson
> Stephen Sheard,
> Janusian Mirror
> 
> 6-7pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Eric Alliez,
> 'Bergson and Tarde'
> 
> Dinner
> 
> TUESDAY April 18 2000
> 
> Morning Session:
> 
> 9-10am:
> Plenary Paper:
> Frederic Worms,
> Is Life the Double Source of Ethics?
> 
> 10-11am:
> Parallel Papers:
> Antoine Hatzenberger,
> Open Society and Bolos: Politics and Everyday Life in Bergsons Two Sources
> of Morality and Religion and P.M.s Bolobolo
> Glen Rewston,
> The Dance of Atoms
> Martin Wood,
> Time as Originary Synthesis and the Evolution of Health Care Research and
> Practice
> 
> 11am-12pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Richard A. Cohen,
> Levinas and Bergson
> 
> Lunch
> 
> Afternoon Session:
> 
> 1.30-2.30pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Pete Gunter,
> Land Ethics and the Sources of Morality and Religion: Bergson and Leopold
> 
> 2.30-3.30pm:
> Parallel Papers:
> Tony OShea,
> The Becoming of Time and Innovation
> David Toews,
> Bergsons Law of Twofold Frenzy
> Stephen Crocker,
> The Whole of Time: Bergson and the Problem of Globalizing Theory
> 
> Afternoon Coffee
> 
> Closing Sessions:
> 
> 4-5pm:
> Parallel Papers:
> Elie During,
> False Problems, Wrong Gestures: Bergsons Vitalist Epistemology and its
> Heritage
> Austin Harrington,
> Between Life-Philosophy and Phenomenology: Bergson, Dilthey and Schutz
> Roland Calori
> Logical and Ontological Knowledge and Organizational Development : Toward
> Dialectical Creative Evolution
> 
> 5-6pm:
> Plenary Paper:
> Garrett Barden
> Creative Freedom
> 
> Dinner
> 
> After Dinner talk by Pierre Guillet De Monthoux
> 
> _______________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. There are
> three rates of attendance:
> 
> Single Day rate: 25.50
> 24hr residential rate: 75 - includes full bed and board (single bedroom)
> for one day
> Full residential rate: 210 - includes full bed and board (single bedroom)
> for three days
> ____________________________
> 
> To reserve a place and receive further details contact:
> 
> Dr John Mullarkey
> Philosophy
> School of Humanities and Social Science
> University of Sunderland
> Priestman Building
> Green Terrace
> Sunderland SR1 3PZ
> Tel: 0191 257 2007
> Fax: 00 1 603 6886556 (US based webfax)
> Email:  [log in to unmask]
> 
> You can also get updated details of the conference by visiting our website
> at:
> Http://slinstead.userworld.com/bergson.html
> 
> Gerard Greenway
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> managing editor
> A N G E L A K I
> journal of the theoretical humanities    
> 
> Taylor & Francis, Routledge
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0969725x.html
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