PACT 2024
The 15th Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition
Time
Hosted by Loyola Marymount University
October 3-5, 2024
Conference Program
Wednesday, October 2
6:00—7:30 PM Special Event
“An Evening with Schelling.” Philosophy Department Agora, University Hall 3600. From 6:00 to 7:30pm. With light refreshments. Scholars Marcela Garcia-Romero (LMU), Chris Lauer (Hilo), and Chandler Rogers (Gonzaga) discuss their recent work on Schelling as well as new directions in scholarly work on Schelling more generally. Moderated by Patrick Hall (LMU). All participants in the PACT conference are welcome to attend this event.
Thursday, October 3
09:00-09:30
•Welcome and Orientation. Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002
10:00-11:30
Session 3 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002]. Session Chair: Chris Lauer
•Mary Jane Larrabee, Husserl on Temporality and Latin American Decolonial Philosophers
•Holly Moore, Luther College
"Barbie Time: Repetition, Reproduction, and Queer Temporality"
Session 4 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Chester (Chet) Micek (LMU MA)
•Lucas Fishman, Anarchy and Agony in Reiner Schürmann and Sōtō Zen
•David McCullough, The Event of Anarchy
•Susanne Schilz, Time and Play, from Kant to Fink
Lunch 11:30-13:00
13:00-14:30
Session 5 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Aubrey Casterline (LMU MA)
•Cynthia Coe, Central Washington University
"The Refusal of Accountability in Politicized Masculinity: A Levinasian Critique of Masculinity"
•Oona Eisenstadt, Humans Who Would Not be Men
Session 6 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Liam Maher (LMU. MA)
•Keren Moscovitch, The Intimacy of Ecological Time in Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels
•Benjamin Young, Improvisational Temporality and Attunement
•Shannon Hayes, Tennessee State University
"Imaginaries of Weariness"
15:30-17:00
Keynote Session #1 [VDA Suite, William H. Library] Session Chair: Brian Treanor
•Welcome by Associate Dean and Professor of Philosophy Brad Stone
•Paul Harris, Cultivating Deep Time
17:00-18:30
Reception following the keynote
Evening/Dinner. On your own. See conference information packet for local options.
Friday, October 4
09:00-10:30
Session 7 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Jason Wirth
•Dan Bradley, Time and Agency
•Ian Moore, Time and Being in Heidegger
•Jeff Seimers, Time for Play
Session 8 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Ben Liu
•David McCauley, Story Time: Philosophy’s Need for Narrative
•Dana Belu, On the Limits of Techno-Scientific Rationality in the University
10:45-12:15
Session 9 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Elizabeth Sikes
•Jarrad Felgenhauer, The Unhappy Consciousness Today
•Peter Milne, Insistence in Time: Kofman and Lyotard on Transcribing the Unconscious
Session 10 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Hector Ramos
•Jason Wirth, Seattle University
"To Paint Real Time: On Malick’s A Hidden Life"
•Dominique Walmsley, Demythologizing Progress and Efficiency
•Jessica Elbert Decker, Quantum Awareness in Presocratic Thought
Lunch 12:15-13:30
13:30-15:00
Session 11 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Aidan Foucher
•Melissa Fitzpatrick, Ecological Time
•Ben Liu, Aristotle on How Our Sense of Time Leads Us Wrong
•Erin Stackle, Loyola Marymount University
"How You Can Step in a River Once"
Session 12 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Brian Treanor
•Jaden Vines, Wolves Across Time and Space
•Dermot Ryan, Loyola Marymount University
"Romantic Slow Time"
•Aimee Ross-Kilroy, Teaching Tolkien at the End of Time
15:30-17:00
Keynote Session #2 [Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall 1000] Session Chair: Chris Lauer
•Marjolein Oele, Radboud University
"A Phenomenology of Affects and Temporality: Carving out Sustainable Futures beyond the Anthropocene"
Evening/Dinner. On your own. See conference information packet for local options.
Saturday, October 5
09:00-10:30
Session 13 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Liam Maher
•Eric Severson, “Are We Not Unclocked?” Levinasian Reflections on Plato’s Water-Clock
•Chandler Rogers, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas: Identity, Difference, and the Question of Kinship
•Kaleb Cohen, Time in Space: On the Usefulness of the Anthropocene Idea
Session 14 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Aubrey Casterline
•Tim Freeman, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
"Running Out of Time: Reflections on the Eternal Recurrence"
•Brian Pines, University of San Francisco
"Rhythm and Personality in August 1888"
•Boram Jeong, University of Colorado—Denver
"When Time Halts: On the (Non)Temporality of Grief"
10:45-12:15
Session 15 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Ian Moore
•Mike Kelly, The Temporal Differences Between Nostalgia and Wistfulness
•Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, From Temporal Pathology to Temporal Multiplicity
Session 16 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: Melissa Fitzpatrick
•Justin Pack, Time and World in Arendt and Daniel Wildcat
•Josh Hayes, Wake Up
•Julia Sushytska, "Human Beings and AI: Time to Become More Stupid and Begin Thinking.”
Lunch 12:15-13:30
13:30-15:00
Session 17 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Jason Wirth
•Matthew Swanson, For the Time Being
•Brian Schroeder, “It’s About Blooming Time: Nihilism and the Recurrence of Spectacular Politics.”
•Chris Lauer, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
"Schopenhauer’s Waterfall and Bergson’s River"
15:30-17:00
Session 18 [Marymount Institute, University Hall 3002] Session Chair: Jerome Veith
•Brian Treanor, A Hard and Brutal Mysticism
•Charlotte Radler, TBA
Session 19 [BCLA Dean’s Suite, University Hall 4600] Session Chair: TBA
•Gabriel Reed, Cracking the Symballein
•Joe Balay, Ghost Forest: The Immemorial Age of the Anthropocene
•Vincent Munoz-Reja Alonso, The Temporality of Sin: Between the Concupiscible
17:15 “Business Meeting” and Reception: Philosophy Department “Agora” [University Hall 3600]
Evening/Dinner.
•On your own. See conference information packet for local options.
•Chez Harris (thanks Paul!). 3746 Olive Ave, Long Beach
Sunday, October 6
Optional Outing
Tour of the Ballona Wetlands Freshwater Marsh with Friends of Ballona. Meet on the SE corner of Lincoln Boulevard and Bluff Creek Drive. Perhaps 10 minutes from campus, and walkable from Hotel Jane. Tentative meeting time at 10:00am, which will be confirmed and announced during the conference.
INFORMATION
Conference Registration Fee: $50. PACT recognizes a wide range of inequalities in academia, and that not everyone has institutional support for research. If you do have institutional support or are otherwise able to pay the registration fee, we ask that you do so at this link:
PACT REGISTRATION.
These fees help to support PACT and its activities. However, if you are a student, are underemployed, or will otherwise find the registration fee unduly onerous, PACT is happy to welcome you to the 2024 conference without requiring a registration fee.
Getting Around.
If walking from Hotel June, expect to take about 20 minutes. If driving, there is parking underground at University Hall for a fee of $15 per day. Our two conference rooms are located on opposite ends of University Hall, which is approximately one quarter mile long: (1) the Marymount Institute UNH 3002, located on the third floor at the north end of the building, and (2) the BCLA Dean’s Conference Room UNH 4600, located on the fourth floor at the south end of the building. This will make switching between rooms in the middle of a session difficult, so you might want to consider picking one of the two concurrent sessions and sticking with it.
Campus maps can be found here.
Food. During our lunch breaks, you have the option of eating at several different locations on campus. The main dining hall is the Lair Marketplace, located on upper campus in Malone. Other options include Qdoba (also in Malone), Einstein’s Bagels (in University Hall), and the Crimson Lion (in University Hall), among others. Note that on-campus dining may be more limited on Saturday. You are also within walking distance of food on Lincoln Boulevard, between campus and Hotel Jane. Options include (a) Taj India Palace, (b) KC’s Crepes, (c) Kanpai Sushi, (d) Alejo’s Italian, and (e) Thai Talay, among others. Evening dinner options are too numerous to list, with many options available in Playa Vista, Playa del Rey, and Marina del Rey – all accessible with a short Uber ride.
A Library for the Time Beings.
Pop-up Exhibition Oct. 3-6, English Village (University Hall 3800). Conceived as a Library for PACT conference “Time Beings” to browse, this exhibition will feature a range of time-themed installations: archival materials and publications of The International Society for the Study of Time (founded 1966); stone and book displays exploring humanity’s role in deep time; an exhibit inspired by Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Dōgen’s notion of time being, created with students from the class Cultivating A Planetary Perspective (taught by Paul Harris).
Other on-campus attractions (see attached map below).
(1) The Garden of Slow Time, located on the edge of the bluff above Playa Vista. (2) The Tongva Memorial, also located on the edge of the bluff overlooking Playa Vista. Recognizing the continuing presence and culture heritage of the historical inhabitants and caretakers of the land on which LMU currently sits. The entire Ballona watershed, including the wetlands, the bluff, and adjacent land is the home of the Tongva. Additional artifacts are on display on the ground floor of University Hall. (3) The “Arc of Time,” located outside the Life Sciences Building, which visually documents the span of deep time.
PACT Organizing Committee 2023
Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University)
Elizabeth Sikes (New School for Psychoanalysis)
Gerard Kuperus (Radboud University)
Marjolein Oele (Radboud University)
Chris Lauer (University of Hawai‘i—Hilo)
Tim Freeman (University of Hawai‘ i—Hilo)
Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
Josh Hayes (Alvernia University)
PACT Conference Assistant
Eric Severson (Seattle University)
PACT Conference Helpers
Chloe Allen-Chang (Seattle University)
Snow Janes (Seattle University)
PACT would like to thank the very generous assistance of Kimberly Gawlik
The PACT ombudsperson is Elizabeth Sikes.
