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 (1.6)

Monday 22nd September 2008
from 12.30
Registration

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Nancy Billias

14.00
Session 1: Philosophical Thoughts on Hope
Chair: Janette McDonald

The Tension between Ideological Closure and Hermeneutic Openness in Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope
Sampie Terreblanche

On the Rationality of Hope, Given Naturalism
Michael W. Swanson

On Monstrous Hope
Noel Boulting

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 2: Hope in Poetry and Literature
Chair: Andrea Stephenson

What’s Hope Got to Do With It?
Robert Gerling

Where Music Plays and the Sirens Sing: Hope and Despair in George Steiner’s Tragic Vision
Ricardo G. Soeiro

Borderland: Space of Postcolonial Anxiety and Possibility in Anita Desai’s Migration Novels
Bhawana Jain

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

18.30
Dinner

Tuesday 23rd September
09.00
Session 3: Hope and Psychiatry
Chair: Aylin Demirli Yoraz

Hopes and Fears – a Psychiatrist’s View
István Kappéter

Positive Psychological Impact of Treating Victims of Politically Motivated Violence among Hospital-Based Health Care Providers
Shimon Shiri

Imagining Sisyphus Happy: From the Myth - To the Absurd (Tragic) Hero on Prozac
Bozhena M. Czarnecka-Anastassiades

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Hope and the Self, Part 1
Chair: Wendy O'Brien

Possibilities of Self-Transcendence: Integrating Systems Thinking and Philosophical Actions of Hope
Janette McDonald, Kevin C. Eby, II and Brittnay N. Boch

Predictive Value of Dispositional and State Hope Level in Determining Students’ Well-Being
Aylin Demirli Yoraz

Counselling as the Communication of Hope: Constructing a Philosophical Framework
Lincoln Michell

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Hope and Medically Bleak Situations
Chair: Erzsebet Novaky

Economies of Hope (Liver Transplants)
Mare Knibbe

Hope as Resilience – Sustainable After Ten Years?
Ellen Alexandra Lothe

Hope, Optimism and the Medical Context
Sara Haramati

16.00
Tea

16.30
Session 6: Hope and the Self, Part 2
Chair: Sampie Terreblanche

Hope and Self-Appraisal as Correlates of Meaning of Life in Chronic Somatic Disease
Anita Galuszka

Hope in Mexican Gay Migrants in the United States
Edgar Rodríguez Sánchez

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 24th September
09.00
Session 7: Hope and Politics
Chair: Bozhena M. Czarnecka-Anastassiades

Hoping to Fear: The Kathartic Transformation of the Civic Community
Stephanie-Alice Baker

Hope between Fatalism and Revolution
Meike Schmidt-Gleim

Mining in the Philippines: Probing Hope in Communities
Rodne Galicha

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Hope in Eastern European Contexts
Chair: Anita Galuszka

Das Prinzip Hoffnung: Relating to the European Union in Rural Romania and Inconclusive Evidence (Bloch, Rorty)
Katy Fox

Future Orientation of the Hungarian Society Surveyed in 1995 and 2006.
Éva Hideg & Erzsébet Nováky

Hopes and Fears for the Year 2025 in Hungary
Erzsébet Nováky

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Hope and Morality, Part 1
Chair: Ricardo Gil Soeiro

Dekalog, the Moral Revolution of Hope
Amaya Muruzábal

The Exercise of Hope: Reflections on Hope, Temporality and Imagination
Wendy O’Brien

Mining the “Crisis of Hope” in Contemporary Critical Theory
Sarah S. Amsler

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10: Hope and Morality, Part 2
Chair: Edgar Rodriguez

Hope as a Moral Virtue
Nancy Billias

A Theological Anthropology of the Self-Construction of Human Identity: A Vehicle for Hope
Andrea Stephenson

17.00
Development Meeting

17.30
Conference End