Marlies Kronegger, President

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Program Coordinator

Topic: LITERATURE IN SEARCH OF MORAL STANDARDS

Place: Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dates: May 12 and 13, 2004

P R O G R A M

MORAL SENTIMENTS

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute

Presided by: M. Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, University of Seville, Spain

MELVILLE'S BILLY BUD, SAILOR: WHETHER EVIL CAN BE THE CAUSE OF GOOD?

Sherlyn Abdoo, Saint Peter's College

SEARCHING MORAL STANDARDS IN A LOVE DIATRIBE

Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Temple University

BIZET'S CARMEN L'AMOUR EST UN OISEAU REBELLE

Marlies Kronegger, Michigan State University

IN SEARCH OF MORAL STANDARDS - WALKER PERCY'S LANCELOT

Bernadette Prochaska, Marquette University

IN SEARCH OF A MORAL EROTIC STANDARD: FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY AND EROS IN DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER'S ROUGH-HEWN AND THE BRIMMING CAP

Annika Ljung-Baruth, University of Vermont

Presided by: William Smith, Bridgewater State College

CULTURE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MORAL LIFE: THE TRUE, THE GOOD, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE SACRED

Lawrence Kimmel, Trinity University

DREAM'S SHADOWS (SOMBRAS DE SUENO)

M. Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, University of Seville, Spain

PHANTOM RELATIONS: FRIENDSHIP AND POLITICS IN PAUL AUSTER'S LEVIATHAN

Christopher Schreiner, Fukouka Women's University

TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED

Jadwiga Smith, Bridgewater State College

ABOUT IMAGINATION

Nancy Mardas, Saint Joseph College

FATE AND FATELESSNESS: A COMPARISON OF IMRE KERTSZ'S HOLOCAUST FICTION AND VIOLET DASUE DE CRISTOFORO'S JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP HAIKU

Sitansu Ray, Visva-Bharati University, India

9:00 AM; Room: Braun Presided by: Bernadette Prochaska, Marquette University

THE SEARCH FOR A UNIVERSAL STANDARD OF MORALITY: FILIAL PIETY AND ITS CHINESE EXPERIENCE

Tsung-I Dow, Boca Raton, Florida

LITERATURE AND THE PLAY OF ATTENTION: A NEW/ANCIENT LOOK AT THE ROOTS OF EVIL

Rebecca M. Painter, Marymount Manhattan College

DOSTOEVSKY ON THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

Peter Weigel, Washington College

POETRY IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX, THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE DIGESTIVE TRACTS: A STUDY OF ROMANUS EGUDU'S MORAL POETRY

Tony E. Afejuku, University of Benin, Nigeria

ON SUFFERING AND THE MEANING OF MORALITY

William Edelglass, Emory University

Presided by: Lawrence Kimmel, Trinity University

THE REDEMPTIVE GESTURES OF WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Kristine S. Santilli, Russell Sage College

A LIFE BEYOND GO(O)D IN THE FAUST BY GOETHE

Victor Gerald Rivas, University of Puebla, Mexico

ANTIGONE'S RETURN: THE ETHOS OF THE "COMING COMMUNITY"

Max Statkiewicz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"I KNOW EVERYTHING": THE GOVERNESS'S INEFFECTIVE-HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE TURN OF THE SCREW

R. Kenneth Kirby, Samford University

THE POLITICS OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND THE LOGIC OF DISCOURSE

Michael D. Daniels, Trinity University

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