25th Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle
"Merleau-Ponty, Feminism, and Intersubjectivity"
At The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
September 14-16, 2000
Plenary Speakers: Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, Kelly Oliver
Conference Sponsors: The George Washington University Departments of
Philosophy, English, Romance Languages, the Graduate Program in the
Human Sciences, the Women's Studies Program, the Columbian School of
Arts and Sciences Dean's Office; George Mason University Cultural
Studies Program and the Women's Studies Program; American University
Department of Philosophy and Religion; Ambassade de France
In recent years, feminist theorists have increasingly turned their
attention to the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty
has often been criticized for his failure to acknowledge the impact of
gendered experience upon the body, the body image, and perception, his
arguments for an active conception of the body, as well as the model he
provides of a dynamic interaction between our bodies and the world
grounded in the reversibility of the flesh, have proven to be enormously
useful as a framework for feminist theorizing. This conference seeks to
foreground the positive contribution Merleau-Ponty's work has made not
only to feminist scholarship but also in advancing our understanding of
the inescapably intersubjective dimensions of human existence.
Detailed information is online at
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~philosop/mpcircle/
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