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Love and Vulnerability: In Memory of Pamela Sue Anderson

love and vulnerability
16 March 2018
Mansfield College, Oxford

This conference focuses on Pamela Anderson's wonderful, but largely unpublished, late work on love and vulnerability. The event is interdisciplinary and international, reflecting Anderson's achievements in British and European Philosophy, Theology and Feminism and her influence in Europe, North America and China. Speakers include her teachers, colleagues and former students. While focusing on love and vulnerability, participants will explore connections with related themes drawn from her work, such as forgiveness and its limits; dialogue; epistemic injustice; self-confidence; nonsensicality; ineffability; and vulnerability in relation to invulnerability, violence, human and divine affectivity, narrative, friendship, thoughtfulness, resilience, belonging, and enhancing life. Her engagement with Kant, Wittgenstein and the French philosophers, Henri Bergson, Paul Ricoeur, Simone de Beauvoir, Emmanuel Lévinas and Michèle Le Doeuff, will also be represented. The portrait of Pamela's passionate commitment to making sense of what it is to be human will be shared through a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.

This is a free event; there is no need to register.

For a full programme of speakers and abstracts, please download the word document here. 
Keynotes:

Professor Adrian Moore, Oxford, Philosophy
Professor Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes, Theology

Panelists:

Professor Alison Assiter, West of England, Bristol, Feminist Theory
Professor Carla Bagnoli, Modena, Italy, Philosophy
Dr Roxana Baiasu, Oxford, Philosophy
Professor Andrea Bieler, Basel, Switzerland, Theology
Dr Jordan Bell, Oxford, Philosophy
Dr Paula Boddington, Oxford/Cardiff, Philosophy
Dr Nicholas Bunnin, Oxford, Philosophy
Associate Professor Kristine A. Culp, Chicago, USA, Theology
Revd Dr Susan Durber, Taunton URC, Moderator of Faith and Order Commission, WCC, Minister
Professor Paul Fiddes, Oxford, Theology
Professor Dorota Filipczak, Lodz, Poland, Literature
Professor Elizabeth Frazer, Oxford, Politics
Assistant Professor Sylvie Gambaudo, Durham/Paris, Philosophy/Gender Studies
Professor Sandra Harding, UCLA, USA Philosophy/Women's Studies {a short piece to be read}
Professor Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary, London, Politics
Professor Morny Joy, Calgary, Canada, Philosophy
Dr Kate Kirkpatrick, Hertfordshire/Oxford, Philosophy/Theology
Professor Michèle Le Doeuff, Paris, Philosophy
Dr Sabina Lovibond, Oxford, Philosophy
Dr Mao Xin, Sun Yat-sen, China, Philosophy
Professor Alan Montefiore, Oxford, Philosophy
Professor Stephen Mulhall, Oxford, Philosophy
Associate Professor Laurie Anderson Sathe, St. Catherine, USA, Holistic Health Studies
Dr Chon Tejedor, Hertfordshire/Valencia, Spain, Philosophy 
Professor Günter Thomas, Ruhr, Germany, Theology {a short piece to be read}
Professor Heather Walton, Glasgow, Theology

Further details (including the programme) will be announced here early in 2018

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Conference Programme

Mansfield College

2.15 pm Conference Opening & Welcome

2.30 pm Associate Professor Laurie Anderson Sathe, Saint Catherine, Minneapolis: A Place at the Table for Love and Vulnerability

3.00-4.30 pm Panel I

Professor Alison Assiter, West of England, Bristol: Some Aspect of Vulnerability

Professor Carla Bagnoli, Modena and Reggio Emilia: Love's Vulnerability

Professor Stephen Mulhall, Oxford: A Savour of Holiness Groping for Expression: Perfectionism, Irony and the Theological Virtues

TEA

5.00-6.15 pm Keynote I & Discussion

Professor Adrian Moore, Oxford: The Concern with Truth, Sense, et al: Androcentric or Anthropocentric?

Regent's Park College

DINNER

8.15 – 9.45 pm Panel II:

Professor Paul S. Fiddes, Oxford: Forgiveness, Empathy and Vulnerability: An unfinished conversation with Pamela Sue Anderson

Dr Nicholas Bunnin, Oxford: Vulnerable Selves and Openness to Love

Dr Mao Xin, Sun Yat-sen: The Three Faces of Vulnerability: The vulnerability of the ‘I', the vulnerability of the other and the vulnerability of the third