Bergson and Bergsonism Workshop - London, French Institute 4-6 April 2008
Friday 4th April
Morning: “Historical and Thematic Perspectives”
9:00 Registration
9:30 Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick) : Introduction
10:15 Giuseppe Bianco (Université de Lille III/Trieste) 'Bergson as a PH paper. 'Bergsonism' in French Philosophy's Solution'.
11:00 Break
11:15 Frédéric Worms (Université de Lille III/Ecole Normale Supérieure) 'Les moments de la pensée bergsonienne'
12:00 Respondent : Federico Leoni (Università degli Studi di Milano)
12:20 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon: “Being”
14:30 Pierre Montebello (Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) 'Deleuze, lecteur de Bergson: monisme et naturalisme'
15:15 Rudolf Bernet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 'The Driven Force of Consciousness and Life'
16:00 Break
16:15 Débora Morato-Pinto (Universidade Federal de São-Carlos) 'De la critique du Néant à l'expérience de l'Etre-Bergson et l'empirisme purifié'
17:00 Respondent: Florence Caeymaex (Université de Liège)
17:20-18:00: Discussion
Saturday 5th April
Morning: “Life”
9:00 Registration
9:30 Jean-Christophe Goddard ( Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail) 'Vie et survivance. Le spectre de l'élan vital dans les Deux sources de la morale et de la religion'
10:15 John Mullarkey (University of Dundee) ‘The Impossibility of Bergsonism’
11:00 Break
11:15 David Morris (Trent University) 'Embryos and the Virtual: Organisms as Living Concepts at the Turn of Experience'
12:00 Respondent : Paul-Antoine Miquel (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
12:20-13:00 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon: “The Concept”
14:30 Patrice Maniglier (Essex University) ‘Bergson structuralist? Beyond the Foucaldian opposition between life and concept’
15 :15 Rocco Ronchi (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila) 'Acte, concept, infini: ce qu'il n'y avait pas sur le tableau noir de Bergson'
16 :00 Break
16 :15 Respondent: Ray Brassier ( University of Middlesex)
16:35 Discussion
17:00-18:00 Concluding General Discussion, animated by Mauro Carbone (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Arnold Davidson (Università di Pisa).
Sunday 6th April
9:30-12:30 PhD students working on Bergson and Bergsonism to present their current research:
Caterina Zanfi ( Università di Bologna) 'Max Scheler face à l'anthropologie bergsonienne'
Michael Kolkman ( University of Warwick-Université de Toulouse le Mirail) 'Bergson and Fichte, Qualitative and quantitative difference'
Michael Vaughan ( University of Warwick). 'Creative revolution: Bergson's social thought'
All welcome.
If you are interested in attending the workshop or if you would like more information please contact Marjorie Gracieuse (m.gracieuse@warwick.ac.uk) as seats are limited.
With the generous support of The French Institute (London) and The Leverhulme Trust
