PES Memphis Program

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Thursday, March 12^th

2:00-6:00 Graduate Student Pre-Conference Workshop (Tennessee A-B)

10:00-5:00 COSW Pre-Conference Workshop (Cossitt Library)

5:00 -7:00 Executive Committee Dinner Meeting (tbd)

5:00-6:00 Welcome Reception  (Hotel Lobby)

Friday, March 13^th

7:30-8:30 Breakfast  (Tennessee Hallway 2^nd floor)

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Business Meetings

Committee on Race and Ethnicity (Mississippi C)

Ethics SIG (Buffalo B)
Committee on Professional Affairs (Cumberland)

Friday, 8:30-10:00am Opening Plenary (Tennessee A-B)

Philosophy, Education, and After the Lynching Blues

Bill Lawson, 

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

University of Memphis Department of Philosophy

Friday, 10:15-11:45am Morning Concurrent Session

“Blues and the Pedagogical Subject”(Mississippi C)

“When Nothing Happens: Thinking Education without Purpose: Autos, Autism, & “Disabled” Technology” (Buffalo)

“The Metaphysical Blues and the Juke Joint of Ideas” (Tennessee A)

“On Teaching Books, 'Restricting Speech' and the Promise of Education” (Mississippi B)

“Demoralization and Teaching: Lessons from the Blues” (Cumberland)

“Immanence: A Life…” An Educational Formula? (Tennessee B)

Friday, 11:45-12:00 Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Friday, 12:00-1:30 Studio Sessions 

“A Touch of the Ineffable: a 12-Bar Blues for Philosophies of Education” (film, critique,) [Mississippi C]

“Sounding Off: Collectively Improvised Philosophy” (sound, music)[Tennessee A]

“A Graphic Novel Approach to Philosophy of Education” (visual, writing)[Cumberland]

“PIPEline: Profiles in Philosophy and Education”(podcast, dialogue)[Buffalo]

“Engaging Publics Outside the Academy: Scholarship in Alternative Venues” (writing, publishing)[Board Room]

Friday, 1:45-3:15 Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

“Learning to Teach: Developing Practical Wisdom with Reflective Teacher Narratives” (Tennessee B)

“Out of the Armchair and into the Fire: A Conversation about the Ethics of the Common Core” (Cumberland)

“Education as Pharmakon: Plato’s and Derrida’s Dialectic on Learning” (Buffalo)

“Imagining Ourselves in the Future: Toward an Existential Ethics for Teachers in the Accountability Era” (Mississippi B)

“Shared Learning and the Ignorant Schoolmaster”( Tennessee A)

Friday 3:15-3:30  Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Friday 3:30-5:00 Afternoon Plenary (Tennessee A-B)

“Setting ‘Philosophical Horizons’ in Memphis: Philosophy and Education in the Bluff City” (Tennessee A-B)

Friday 5:00-6:30  Maxine Greene Salon Reception

(First Floor Lobby)

Friday 6:30-8:00 Evening Concurrent Sessions

“Dewey and Coltrane: A Study on Rhythm and Growth” (Tennessee B)

“Angry People at an Empathy Conference” (Tennessee A)

"Søren Kierkegaard’s Despair and Maya Angelou’s Blues: Pedagogy of Suffering"(Cumberland)

“Suicide and Existentialism: Notes on Method” (Buffalo)

“Cosmopolitanism and a Politics of Difference” (Mississippi C)

“Grieving In Community: Reparative Arts of Learning to Live” (Piano Lounge)

Friday 8:00 Dinner Meetings

          Spirituality and Religion SIG  (TBD)

Friday 9:00 COSW Social Keough Café (Main Street)


Friday 10:00 Music-Making Philosophy Jam Session (Tennessee B)
PES Studio Session Musicians & Guests from the 2015 Mid-South Philosophy Conference

Saturday, March 14^th

7:30-8:30 Breakfast  (Tennessee Hallway 2^nd floor)

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Business Meetings

         Committee on the Status of Women  (Tennessee B)

         Membership Committee   (Cumberland)

Saturday 8:30-10:00 Morning Plenary (Tennessee A-B)

“Teacher formation: And the epistemic suppression of Borinquen” 

Saturday 10:15-11:45 Morning Concurrent Session

“Making Disability (Matter) in Philosophy of Education" (Buffalo)

“Exploring Ethics in Educational Activism” (Mississippi C)

“Empathy Blues at the Colonial Difference: Underrepresented Undergraduate Women in STEM” (Cumberland)

“A Human Education?” (Tennessee B)

 "The air conditions of philosophy of education: Toward a microsphereology of the classroom"(Tennessee A)

Simón Rodríguez, the Socrates of Caracas, or Philosophy as Education: Sense.  A LAPES Book Launch (Mississippi A)

Saturday, 11:45-12:00 Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Saturday 12:00-1:30 Studio Sessions 

“In search of the ‘feel of teaching” (interactive, critique)[Buffalo]

“Mythological, Romantic, and Eco-Feminist Readings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Implications for Philosophy of Education”(praxis, critique)[Tennessee A]

“LAPES Simon Rodriguez Writing Studio” (writing, thinking)[Wolf]

“Phonic Philosophy: A Performative Participatory Podcast” (podcast, dialogue)[Cumberland]

“Dialogue in Art Production: Aesthetics As Philosophical and Art Inquiry” (visual, critique)[Tennessee B]

Saturday 1:45-3:15 Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

 “Counteracting Epistemic Totality and Weakening Mental Rigidities: The Anti-Totalitarian Nature of Wonderment” (Tennessee B)

“Beyond Rejectionism: Educational Theory Engaging with Economics” (Sat. 3.14; 13:45, Mississippi A)

“μουσικε and Bluegrass” (Mississippi C)

“Knowing in Feeling” (Mississippi B)

“Technology, Attention and Education” (Cumberland)

Saturday, 3:15-3:30 Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Saturday 3:30-5:00 Kneller Lecture (Tennessee A-B)

           
                        “Blues Subpeople”

            Professor Charles Mills

                        Department of Philosophy

                        Northwestern University

Saturday 5:00-6:30 Kneller Lecture Reception (Hotel Lobby)

Saturday 6:30-8:00 Evening Concurrent Sessions

“Heidegger and the Nature of Social Learning” (Mississippi C)

“Existential Encounters with (and through) Maxine Greene: A Tribute to the Great American Existentialist” (Tennessee B)

“The End of the University?” (Cumberland)

Unlocking the World: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality.   (Tennessee A)

“An Element-ary Education” (Mississippi B)

“The ‘Absolute Modernity’ or ‘the Fragments and the Ruins’ of Culture:

The School in the Time of the De-traditionalization” (Buffalo)

Saturday 8:00 Dinner Meetings

          PES 2016 Committee (TBD)

Sunday, March 15^th

7:30-8:30 Breakfast  (Tennessee Hallway 2^nd floor)

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Business Meetings

            Phenomenology and Existential SIG (Tennessee A)

Disability SIG (Buffalo)

Sunday 8:30-10:00 Morning Concurrent Session

“Theorizing Gifts and Gifting in Education from without Schooling” (Tennessee B)

“A Pedagogy of Perplexity: Reimagining the Role of the Poetic in Education” (Cumberland)

“The Arrhythmic Blues: the Rhythm of Learning and How Humanity's Natural Propensity for Arrhythmia May Doom Civilization” (Buffalo)

“Indeterminateness and ‘Going Beyond’: Education, Dewey and the Blues” (Mississippi C)

A Levinasian Ethics  For Education’s Commonplaces: Between Calling And Inspiration: Palgrave (Tennessee A)

Sunday 10:15-11:45 Presidential Address

                            Opting Out of Neocolonial Relationality

                                    Professor Frank Margonis,

                                    PES 2015 President

                                    Department of Education, Culture and Society

                                    University of Utah

Sunday, 11:45-12:00 Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Sunday 12:00-1:30 Studio Sessions 

“Speaking from Relocated Identities: A Conversation n Peace, Collaboration, and Critical Hope in Race Pedagogy”(Buffalo)

Late to Love (music, sound, poetics)(Tennessee A)

“Philosophical Engagements with Equity – Oriented Collaborative and Community- Based Research” (praxis, visual)(Tennessee B)

“Educationalthought.org” (writing, thinking)(Cumberland)

Sunday 1:45-3:15 Afternoon Concurrent Sessions

“Be Here, Now. Philosophical Considerations on Teacher Presence” (Buffalo)

“Gifts from a Foreign Land: Lost in Translation and the Understanding of

Other Cultures” (Cumberland)

“Needing Not to Know: Ignorance, Innocence, Denials and Discourse” (Tennessee B)

“Affect, Trust and Dignity: Ontological Possibilities and Material Consequences for a Philosophy of Educational Resonance” (Tennessee A)

"Women and Globalization in Education"  (Mississippi C)

Sunday, 3:15-3:30 Coffee break  (Tennessee Hallway)

Sunday 3:30-5:00 Afternoon Plenary (Tennessee A-B)

“Lines of Tension, Rays of Light: An Autotheography” (Tennessee A-B)

Sunday 5:10-6:20 PES Business Meeting (Tennessee A-B)

Sunday 6:30-8:00 Evening Concurrent Sessions

“The Drama of the Leap: Kaspar Hauser Exits the Cave” (Cumberland)

“Reproductive Labor: On the Feminized Subject Position and Education” (Tennessee A)

“The Passion of (Not) Teaching: An Agambenean Meditation on the Value of Philosophy with Children” (Tennessee B)

The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education (Routledge) (Mississippi C)

“Experiencing Transcendence” (Buffalo)

Sunday 9:00 PES 2015 President’s Symposium/Jam Session

Monday, March 16^th

7:30-8:30 Breakfast  (Tennessee Hallway 2^nd floor)

7:30-8:30 Breakfast Business Meetings

Executive Committee (Board Room)

Monday 8:45-10:15 Morning Concurrent Session

“Opening minds through Improvisation” (Tennessee B)

“Philosophical Perspectives on School Shootings: Demands of Honor, Sovereign Exception, Aesthetic Reclamation, and Civic Response” (Mississippi C)

“Paideia as Metanoia: Transformative Insights from the Monastic Tradition” (Tennessee A)

“Restructuring Intellectual Authority: Affective Democratic Friction” (Cumberland)

Monday 10:30-Noon Concluding Plenary

“The Rhythm and Blues of Indebted Life: Notes on Schools and the Formation of the Indebted Man” (Tennessee A-B)