The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.3.3d)

Monday 17th September 2007
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Phil Fitzsimmons

14.15
Session 1: Theories of Hope
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

Andreas Lind
Moral Theory and Hope

Noel E. Boulting
Peirce on Hope

Nancy Mardas
The Rationality of Hope

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: Places of Hope
Chair: Nancy Mardas

Pedro Jesus Perez
Hope and Reason: The Desire of Immortality at the Spanish Philosophy

Dina Lache Lacov
Hope in the Promised Land: A Cross-Cultural Study of Filipino Migrants and American Immigrants

Mariangela Marcello
NGOs in Brazil - Hope is not a Verb, it is an Adverb: It is not an Action, it is a Modality

17.45
Notices/Announcements

17.50
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

 

Tuesday 18th September
09.00
Session 3: Hope, Despair and Hopelessness
Chair: Dina Lache Lacov

Phil Fitzsimmons
Existential Viewing in the Cinematic Escape: The Language of Hope and Hopelessness in the The Departed

Tomasz Wisniewski
Hope in Despair, or Expressive Void of Art

Linda Richter
Changing Perceptions of Opportunities: Hope for Young People in High HIV-Risk Environments

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: In-Between Hope and Despair
Chair: Mariangela Marcello

Yifat Harpaz-Itay
Consistency of the Optimism-Pessimism Variable; the Role of Emotions

Ruhtan Yalciner
In-between Hope and Despair: Notes on the Dialectic Hermeneutics of ‘Being’

Ariel Meirav
The Challenge of Distinguishing between Hope and Despair

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Hope and Horizons
Chair: Whitney Bauman

Tanim Laila
The Phenomenology of Hope

Noor Mohammad Osmani
Phenomenology of Hope and Despair from Qur’anic Perspective

15.00
Tea

15.30
Session 6: Hope: From Here to Modernity
Chair: David Feldman

Teresa Heffernan
Post Apocalyptic Culture

Edgar Rodríguez Sánchez
Theatre and Counselling: Factories of Hope and Resilliance

Whitney Bauman
Open-Ended Hope for Eco-Social Transformations

17.00
Sessions End

 

Wednesday 19th September
09.00
Session 7: Shifting Grounds of Hope and Indifference
Chair: Anna Feigenbaum

Janette E. McDonald
The Spirit of Hope and Its Near Enemy Indifference: A Phenomenological Continuum

Katharine Schweitzer
A Philosophical Analysis of the Act of Defining Hope

David Feldman
From Cure to Quality of Life: The Shifting Meaning of Hope at the End of Life

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Hopeful and Helpful
Chair: Teresa Heffernan

Darren Webb
Modes of Hoping and the Utopian Impulse

Fredelene Elie
Freedom, Democracy, Affirmative Action, Employment Equity -The Current Landscape of Post-Apartheid South Africa: Are We Opening or Closing Futures?

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Choosing and Chasing Hope
Chair: David Harrison

Beverly Sherringham
Hopeful Transcendence: Sublime Hope as aTwenty-First Century Antidote for the Ethos of Pride and Commodity Culture

Ariella Linovski
The Scandalously Impure: Hope for Transcending Cultural Norms

Siavosh Naderi Farsani and Mohammad Javad Abolghasemi
Is Hope Culture Bound?

15.30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting

16.30
Conference Close