Day
Time
Event
Presenter
School
May 2
9:30
Ethics, Organs, and Embodiment: Transplantation and an Ethics of Openness
Daniel Harris
University of Guelph
10:30
Transferences or Cessation: The Destabilization of the Life/Death Binary in Organ Transplantation
Jesse P Hiltz
Trent University
11:30
Fetishised Meat: Asserting Power Over Animals
Stephanie Cram
University of Victoria
12:30
Lunch
2:00
Keynote: In Defense of Negative Liberty
Daniel Marc Weinstock
L'université de Montréal
4:00
Taboos and Transgressions: Georges Bataille on Eroticism and Death
Renee Fuchs
Concordia University
5:00
The Two-fold Structure of the Death Death-Event: Deleuze on Death, Temporality, and the Self
Vladimir Dukic
6:00
Reception (GSA House, 2030 Mackay)
May 3
10:00
The Concept of Plato: An Exegesis of the Sixth Through Eighth Lectures of Kojve's 1938-39 Series on the "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Colin Cordner
Carleton University
11:00
Repetition and Recurrence: Freedom and Power in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard
Martin King
12:00
How to Kill Zombies: The Incoherence of the Zombie Conceivability Argument Against Materialism
Robert Stephens
McGill University
1:00
The Friend/Enemy Distinction and its Ethical Implications: A Critical Analysis of Carl Schmitt's Political Thought
Alexandru Racu
University of Ottawa
3:00
To and Fro: Pluralism and the Power of the State as Described in a Foucauldian Approach to International Law
Brendan Naef
University of British Columbia
Break
4:30
John Rawls's Duty of Assistance: An Evaluation of its Robustness and Sufficiency
Nicole Oliver
5:30
Sufficient Future Obligations: Ethical Frameworks and Intergenerational Justice
Deirdre Kelly
7:00
End of Conference Dinner at The Irish Embassy Pub and Grill (1234 Bishop Street)
Special Thanks
