Friday, 22. 2. 2008


Opening: 9:30–10:30

    * Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter KAMPITS
      (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Vienna)
    * Prof. Dr. Elisabeth NEMETH
      (Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)
    * Dr. Silvia STOLLER
      (Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)

10:30–12:00
Prof. Dr. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University, USA):
The Age of Sex and the Sex of Age
Respondent: DDr. Ulrike Kadi (University of Vienna, A)
 

Lunch


14:00–15:15
Prof. Dr. Gail Weiss (The George Washington University, USA):
The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age: An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body
Respondent: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Anja Weiberg (University of Vienna, A)

15:30–16:45
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helen Fielding (University of Western Ontario, CAN):
The Poetry of Habit
Respondent: Mag. Kristin Rodier (University of Alberta, CAN)
 

Coffee Break
 

17:15–18:30
Prof. Dr. Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College, USA):
Beauvoir’s Old Age and Sartre’s Critique: The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience
Respondent: Dr. Susanne Moser (University of Vienna, A)

18:45–20:00
Prof. Dr. Linda Fisher (Central European University Budapest, H):
The Other Without and the Other Within: The Alterity of Aging and the Aged
Respondent: Prof. Dr. Veronica Vasterling (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL)

 

Saturday, 23. 2. 2008

 

9:30–10:45
Prof. Dr. Debra Bergoffen (George Mason University, USA):
Coming of Age: The Politics of Finitude
Respondent: Prof. Dr. Gertrude Postl (Suffolk College, USA / University of Vienna, A)

11:00–12:15
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado, USA):
Letting Go the Weight of the Past, Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence
Respondent: Dr. Annemie Halsema (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
 

Lunch
 

14:00–15:15
Prof. Dr. Sara Heinämaa (Helsinki University, FIN):
Aging and Death: Two Futural Perspectives
Respondent: Prof. Dr. Bonnie Mann (University of Eugene, USA)

15:30–16:45
Dr. Silvia Stoller PhD (University of Vienna, A):
The Child in Us, and We in the Other: The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty
Respondent: Dr. Marieke Borren (Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL)
 

Coffee Break
 

17:15–18.30
PD Dr. Christina Schües (Hochschule Vechta, GER):
Age and Future
Respondent: Prof. Dr. Beata Stawarska (University of Eugene, USA)
 

19:00 End

The full program can be downloaded as PDF-file:
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The full program can be downloaded as PDF-file:
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