Friday April 25, 2008
Location: Fisher Conference Center, Alumni Center
1:00 p.m.--6:30 p.m.

Keynote 1:00-2:00
Prof. Amy Hollywood, Harvard University

Session 1 2:30-4:30

Michele Petersen, University of Iowa
"A Portrait of a Moral Artist: Creating the Self of Paul Ricoeur"

Eric Sapp, Stanford University
"Transcending Immanence: Of (Anti-) Platonism"

Sarah Cabral, Loyola University of Chicago
"Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace: God's Absence and Presence in Death"

Nathan Philips, University of Chicago
"Dying Well, Or the Question of the Subject"

Session 2 5:00-6:30

Andrea Jain, Rice University
"Without Sex, Without Body: Transcendence Beyond Embodiment in the Indian Ascetic Tradition"

Daniel Burton Rose, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Nurturing the Holy Embryo, Birthing the Yang Spirit"

David Boyd, Indiana University
"Moving Up in the World? The Origins and Development of Transcendence in Early China"

Saturday April 26, 2008
Location: Old Union Nitery, Second Floor, Room 210
9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m.

----------------------Breakfast 9:00-9:30---------------------

Session 3 9:30-11:45

Terry Terhaar, University of California, Santa Cruz
"A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Notion of Transcendence"

Nicole Krysinski, Johns Hopkins University
"Divine Love Affairs: Skepticism and Stories"

-----------------15 minute break 10:30-10:45---------------

Danielle Dubois, Johns Hopkins University
"Immanence Through Annihilation: Marguerite Porete's Le Mirouer des simples ames"

Joshua Hall, Vanderbilt University
"Absolute-Brahma: Royce and the Upanishads"

------------------------Lunch 11:45-1:00---------------------

Keynote 1:00-2:00
Prof. Robert Sharf, University of California, Berkeley

Session 4 2:15-3:45

Constance Kassor, Emory University
"Gorampa, Negation, and the Tetralemma: A Critique of Tsongkhapa's Approach to Emptiness"

Peter Woodford, Stanford University
"Hegel on 'Overcoming' Transcendence"

Alison Bjerke, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Transcending Religious Studies with Hegel"

Session 5 4:00-5:00

David Marno, Stanford University
"Between the Visible and the Invisible: Pontormo's Noli Me Tangere"

Benjamin DeForest, Johns Hopkins University
"From the Representation of Reality to its Realization: Two Early Figures of Transcendence"