The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition
The Sea
Seattle University
Seattle, Washington
September 12-14, 2019
Conference Program
PANEL ONE [PLENARY]: OPEN WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)
1. Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco): “Living and Speaking the In-Between: Accessing the Ephemeral Loss of Migration and Language through the Medium of the Sea”
2. Russell Duvernoy (Seattle University): “Opaque Sea(s) and The Imaginary in Glissant”
3. Dan Bradley (Gonzaga University): “All Rivers End in the Sea: An Ecosystems Approach to Understanding Purpose and Value in the River-Sea-Salmon Relation”
(On Your Own at a Local Restaurant)
PANEL ONE: SHORELINES
MODERATOR: Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
1. David Macauley (Penn State University): “Liminal Aesthetics: The Edge of the Sea and the Allure of Shore Lines”
2. Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky): “Philosophy, History, and 'Fishes in the Sea': Reflections on Robert Scharff's How History Matters to Philosophy: Reconsidering Philosophy's Past After Positivism”
3. Timothy Jussaume (Saint Leo University): Between Land and Sea: Thoreau’s Walk along Cape Cod”
PANEL TWO: PHENOMENAL SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
1. Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University): “Amphibian Phenomenology: Roger Deakin’s Waterlog and the Frog’s-Eye of Our Common Home”
2. Brian Schwimme (California Institute of Integral Studies) and Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University): “An Ocean of Quantum Fields: What if Einstein had Read Schelling Rather than Spinoza?”
PANEL ONE: NAVIGATING ARTISTIC WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
1. Gabriel Reed (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Pelagic Clay: Thinking in the Ceramic Superstructure of Aeolian Dust”
2. Maura McCreight (CUNY): “Migration and The Mediterranean Sea: Visual Mobility and Political Resistance in Ursula Biemann and Lydia Ourahmane”
3. Parker Biehn (Loyola Chicago): “Moby Dick and Ecodeconstruction”
PANEL TWO: DEEP SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)
1. Bob Mugerauer (University of Washington): “Without Ground: Casting Our Fate to the Winds”
2. Samuel R. Talcott (University of the Sciences): “The Sea and the Sea beneath the Sea: Philosophical Implications of a Scientific ‘Essay in Geopoetry’”
3. Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs): “Fear the Sea”
PANEL THREE: SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Chris Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
1. Geoff Ashton (University of San Francisco): “Recuperating the Life of Nature in the Samkhya Karika: Crossing the Oceans Between Modern Science and Indian Sāṃkhya through Goethe’s Theory of Organics”
2. Ashton Arnoldy (California Integral Institute): “The Sea?”
3. Lucio Mare (University of San Francisco): “Piracy, Leisure, and Domination: Towards an Orphic Understanding of the Sea Imaginary”
Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University) and Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)
MODERATOR: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
H. Peter Steeves (DePaul University): “xx”
Fine wines and beers of Washington will served before, during, and after the session
Dinner on your own (at a local restaurant—see guide)
PANEL ONE: TAKING TO THE WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
1. Kim Carfore (University of San Francisco): “The Fluidity of the Unconscious: Baudrillard and The Ecological Self”
2. Mary Jeanne Larrabee (DePaul University): “The Salt Doll and the Sea: Discovering the Beings We Are, with Deleuze and Buddha”
3. Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University): “Fluidity and World-Traveling”
PANEL TWO: SUBMERGED VOICES AND THE FIGURE OF THE SEA (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Chris Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
1. Michael Eng (Appalachian State University): “Outre-mère/Outre-mer: The Figure Beyond the Mother, Beyond the Sea”
2. Kimberly Lamm (Duke University): “From the Sea to the Lake: Mediation and Maternal Losses in the Work of Jane Campion”
3. Deniz Durmuş (John Carroll University): “Fluid Embodiment: A Feminist Eco-phenomenology of Medical Discourse”
(On Your Own at a Local Restaurant)
PANEL ONE: THE OCEANIC (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Eric Severson (Seattle University): “A Plunge into the Elemental: Levinas and the Sea”
2. Florian Grosser (UC-Berkeley): “True Journey is Return? Handke and Heidegger, on ‘Home’ and the Sea”
3. Jeremy Gordon (Gonzaga University): “Monsters, Metamorphoses, and The Horror of the ‘Pelagioscene’”
PANEL TWO: WILD SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Jason Wirth (Seattle Univeristy)
1. Angelalynn Penelope Padua (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “Sea of Chaos”
2. Keren Moscovitch (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts): “The Oceanic as Perpetual Revolt: Intimacy and Negativity in Jeanette Spicer’s ‘Sea (See)’”
3. Nico Jenkins (Husson University): “Eleven Approaches to The End of the World” [performance piece]
PANEL ONE: GOOD WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Elizabeth Sikes (New School for Psychoanalysis)
1. Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University): “‘The Highest Good is Like Water’ or How to Become Daoist Assistants to Nature”
2. Julia Morgan (Kaua'i Community College): “The Tragedy of the Common Heritage of Mankind: The Nautilus, the UN, and the Failure of Western Legal Theory to Capture the Relationship of the Peoples of Moana Nui to the Ocean”
3. Rika Dunlap (University of Guam): “A Sea of Hope in Spinoza’s Ethics”
PANEL TWO: ENCHANTING SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
1. Justin Pack (CSU Stanislaus): “The Sea of Injustice and Injustice towards the Sea: Bauman’s Theory of Adiaphorization”
2. Matthew T. Segall (California Institute of Integral Studies): “The Sea of Post-Kantian Process Philosophy in Schelling, Whitehead, and Deleuze: Toward a Descendental Aesthetic Ontology”
3. Nicole Miglio (University of San Francisco): “No one Ever Sailed Past Us without Staying to Hear the Enchanting Sweetness of Our Song—and He who Listens Will go on His Way not only Charmed, but Wiser”: Some Philosophical Considerations about the Sirens”
MODERATOR: Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
Marianne Apostolides (Independent writer, Toronto, Canada)
“The Stand of the Tide: The Creative Process as the Rhythmic Interchange of Ethics and Aesthetics”
Marianne Apostolides is the author of six books, three of which have been translated. She's a recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the winner of the 2017 K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Her latest book, Deep Salt Water, is a surrealistic memoir about loss, abortion, and the oceans.
Reception to Follow
Dinner on your own (at a local restaurant—see guide)
PANEL ONE: GREEK WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Elizabeth Sikes (New School for Psychoanalysis)
1. Benjamin Young (University of South Florida): “The Rime of the Modern Mariner: Nature, Oikos, & the Hermeneutics of Shame and Improvisation”
2. Michael M. Shaw (Utah Valley University): “Sound and Water in Empedocles”
3. Thomas Thorp (Saint Xavier University): “‘O’ Thalassa: On Homer and Being Men of the Sea”
PANEL TWO: POETIC OCEANS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Arun Iyer (IIT Bombay): “The Sea Both Giveth and Taketh Away: Hölderlin, Coetzee and the Question of the Refugee”
2. Jacqueline Moulton (IDSVA) : The Sea and the Screen: The Rupture of Alterity and Identity as the Plane of Possibility, the Question of Hospitality”
3. Adam Blair (SUNY Stony Brook): “This Aqueous Power: Sensing the Essence of Cézanne’s ‘L’Estaque’ with Merleau-Ponty”
PANEL THREE: ARTISTIC SEAS (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
1. Jason Winfree (CSU Stanislaus): “The Sea at Big Sur: Self-Knowledge and Poiesis in Miller and Kerouac”
2. Chris Yates (IDSVA): “Caspar David Friedrich’s Seascapes and the Universal Ocean of Poesy”
3. Josh Hayes (Alvernia University): “Tidal Thinking: Reflections on Wu-wei and Heart-mind (Xin) in the Poetry of Robert Sund”
(On Your Own at a Local Restaurant)
PANEL ONE: OCEANGOING THOUGHT (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
1. Andy Jussaume (xx): “Deep Intellect: The Conscious Minds of the Octopus”
2. Chris Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo): “Seafaring and Debt in the Origins of Greek Philosophy”
3. David M. Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University): “Whale Phenomenology: Cetacean Cognition, Spatiality, and Ethics”
PANEL TWO: THOUGHT AT SEA (PIGOTT X):
MODERATOR: Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
1. Joe Balay (Christopher Newport University): “Watching the Sea: Sartre and Guido van Helten’s No Exit Murals in Icelandic Environmental Identity”
2. David Jones (Kennesaw State University): “The Frozen Sea: The Mortal Flaw of Humans”
3. Timothy Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo): “Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Wine-dark Sea”
PLENARY PANEL: A LAST DIP IN THE WATERS (PIGOTT X)
MODERATOR: Elizabeth Sikes (New School for Psychoanalysis)
1. Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco): “Sailing and Swimming with Dōgen and Steinbeck: Zen Perspectives on the Sea”
2. Brian Schroeder (Rochester Institute of Technology): “Lost at Sea”
3. Sam Mickey (University of San Francisco): “After We Drank Up the Sea: Nihilism, Crying, and Laughing”
MODERATOR: Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
POETRY READING: Shin Yu Pai
Concluding Reception to Follow
Dinner on your own (at a local restaurant—see guide)
Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
Elizabeth Sikes (New School for Psychoanalysis)
Gerard Kuperus (University of San Francisco)
Marjolein Oele (University of San Francisco)
Chris Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo)
Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
Josh Hayes (Alvernia University)
Conference Assistant:
Russell Duvernoy (Seattle University)
PACT would like to thank the following:
Kate Reynolds (Philosophy, Seattle University)
Maria Carl (Chair, Philosophy, Seattle University)
Russell Duvernoy (Seattle University)