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Conference Announcement Theme: Emmanuel Levinas across the Generations and Continents Type: NALS 2015 Conference Institution: North American Levinas Society (NALS) Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL) College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University Location: West Lafayette, IN (USA) Date: 27.–30.7.2015 __________________________________________________ The resistance of analytic philosophy to continental philosophy, at least asit has been practiced in the United States, is well known. Anecdotes abound regarding failed attempts to bridge the divide or to discover continuities that have been missed. Increasingly however, younger scholars, thinkers, and critics who have been tempted on the one hand by analytic philosophy, and on the other by Levinas's ethical thinking, are turning to Levinas as a way of challenging the breach. In this year's conference, the tenth anniversary of the existence of the North American Levinas Society, we would like to explore this gap and the potential for this dismantling. Because the idea for the organization and for the yearly conference began at Purdue (in a graduate course on Levinas), we thoughtit appropriate that the tenth anniversary should take place at Purdue. The conference will begin on the morning of July 27 and conclude the evening of July 30, 2015. Two axes will organize our thinking: pairing older thinkers with younger ones, and inviting a number of French practitioners who have recently demonstrated an interest in finding continuities and in undoing the divide. We intend to explore all aspects of this continental-analytic divide in generational, national, and/or other relevant contexts. Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will take place in the Stewart Center, 128 Memorial Mall, on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Conference website: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/research/conferences/emmanuellevinas/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
