OPO III, Hong Kong, 15-20 December 2008
Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK
Tentative programme

[ Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five ]

Time Day One (15 Dec 2008, Monday)
15:30 Registration ( ELB Foyer Area)
16:00-16:45 Tea Reception
16:45-17:30 Opening Ceremony Master of Ceremony: Esther TSANG
  Prof. Michael HUI Associate Pro-vice-chancellor, CUHK
  Dr. Edwin CHENG Patron of the Conference
Honorary Director,
Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, CUHK
  Prof. Wing-ping FONG Acting Head, Chung Chi College
  Prof. Lester EMBREE For the Executive Committee, OPO
  Prof. Dermot MORAN Representative, The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, USA
  Prof. Chan-fai CHEUNG Chairman, Department of Philosophy, CUHK
Director,
Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, CUHK
  Prof. Ping-keung LUI Chairman, Hong Kong Society of Phenomenology
17:30-18:45 Keynote Speech I (ELB LT1) Moderator: Kwong-loi SHUN
  Kah-kyung CHO
Ego cogito and Natural Existence		 State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
18:45 Welcoming Dinner Hosted by Dr. Edwin CHENG (Chung Chi College Staff Club Restaurant)

Time Day Two (16 Dec 2008, Tuesday)
9:30-10:45 Keynote Speech II (ELB LT1) Moderator: Tze-wan KWAN
 
Elmar HOLENSTEIN Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Where Are We? Meditation by a Philosopher Turned Cartographer on How We Are Oriented by Maps
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary Session I (ELB LT1) Moderator: Tze-wan KWAN
11:00-11:30
Robert BERNASCONI The University of Memphis, USA
Problems Marking the Difference between Nature and Culture : The Example of Race
11:30-12:00
Mario RUGGENINI Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
Language, Nature and Existence
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Parallel Session A1 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Steven CROWELL		 Parallel Session B1 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Robert BERNASCONI		 Parallel Session C1 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Ivan CHVATÍK
14:00-14:30 Victor MOLCHANOV
Russian State University for the
Humanities, Russia
On the Space of Internal
Experience		 Zdravko RADMAN
Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb,
Croatia
Encultured Embodiment		 Lubica UČNÍK
Murdoch University, Australia
Human Existence: Patočka’s
Appropriation of Arendt
14:30-15:00 Nicholas DE WARREN
Wellesley College, USA
The Painter and his Shadow		 Michael O’SULLIVAN
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Incarnation and Force in Henry
and Derrida		 Wen-sheng WANG
National Chengchi University,
Taiwan
Husserl’s Phenomenological
Epoché behind Arendt’s
Conception of an Authentic
Culture
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:15 Parallel Session A2 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Zhihua YAO		 Parallel Session B2 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Mario RUGGENINI		 Parallel Session C2 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Rosemary Jane R. P.
LERNER
15:45-16:15 Junichi MURATA
University of Tokyo, Japan
The Phenomenology of
Illumination: The Ontology of
Vision in Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and
Mind		 Andrea ALTOBRANDO
University of Torino, Italy
Subjectivity, Nature and Freedom
An Itinerary through Husserl’s
Philosophy		 Jochen DREHER
University of Konstanz, Germany
Human Existence, Symbolic Power
and the Constitution of Social
Inequality
16:15-16:45 Jow-jiun GONG
Tainan National University of the
Arts, Taiwan
Empiètement of Body
Image: Merleau-Ponty’s New
Ontology of Vision		 Chon-ip NG
National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan
Expression and the Experience of
Nature		 Maybelle Marie O. PADUA
Far Eastern University, Philippines
What Makes Woman Woman? The
Ethos of Woman in the Philosophy
of Edith Stein
16:45-17:15 Discussion    
17:15-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 Parallel Session A3 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Hans-Helmuth GANDER		 Parallel Session B3 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Michael BARBER		 Parallel Session C3 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Toru TANI
17:30-18:00 Jeff MALPAS
University of Tasmania, Australia
The Thinking of World: Exploring
the Significance of Heidegger’s
Later Philosophy		 Zhihua YAO
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Nothingness in Heidegger, Daoism
and Buddhism		 Kuan-min HUANG
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Place and Sense-giving in
Bachelard and Levinas
18:00-18:30 Ka-wing LEUNG
Tongji University, PRC
Heidegger on Animal and World		 George HEFFERNAN
Augustinian College, USA
From Violence to Evidence?
Husserl and Sen on Human
Identity and Diversity: Toward a
Postcolonial Phenomenology of
Humanity		 Melissa LAM
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Phenomenology and Re-Invention:
Questioning the Nature of
Existence in Nabokov’s Lolita
18:30-19:00 Discussion

Time Day Three (17 Dec 2008, Wednesday)
9:30-10:45 Keynote Speech III (ELB LT1) Moderator: Dermot MORAN
 
Tze-wan KWAN The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Heidegger’s Schematism of Life and Its Kantian Inheritance: A Critical Appraisal
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:30-13:15 Plenary Session II (ELB LT1) Moderator: Dermot MORAN
11:30-11:30
Steven CROWELL Rice University, USA
Heidegger on Deliberation and Practical Reasoning
11:30-12:00
Hans-Helmuth GANDER Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Some Considerations Concerning Man as Social Animal
12:00-12:30
Ivan CHVATÍK Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Rethinking Christianity as a Suitable Religion for Postmodern World:
An Attempt to Reconstruct the Most “Heretical” Idea of Jan Patočka
12:30-13:15 Disscussion
13:15-19:00 Free Time

Time Day Four ( 18 Dec 2008, Thursday)
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session III (ELB LT1) Moderator: Thomas NENON
9:30-10:00
Chan-fai CHEUNG The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tang Chun-I on Human Existence: A Phenomenological Interpretation
10:00-10:30
Kwok-ying LAU The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Who is the Philosopher Whose Shadow Merleau-Ponty is Facing?—
“The Philosopher and His Shadow” (Re-)Revisited
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Plenary Session IV (ELB LT1) Moderator: David CARR
11:15-11:45
Thomas NENON The University of Memphis, USA
Feelings and Reason in Husserl’s Ethics
11:45-12:15
Lester EMBREE Florida Atlantic University, USA
Phenomenological Nursing in Schutzian Perspective
12:15-12:45 Discussion
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Parallel Session A4 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Lubica UČNÍK		 Parallel Session B4 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Lester EMBREE		 Parallel Session C4 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Junichi MURATA
14:00-14:30 Rosemary Jane R. P. LERNER
Pontificia Universidad Católica
del Perú
Thinking of Difference and
Otherness from a Husserlian
Perspective		 Nobuo KASAZHI
Kobe University, Japan
The Invisible of the Post-Hiroshima
Age: Irradiated Body and Power		 Peter HA
Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Heidegger and the Origin of the
Science of History
14:30-15:00 Dermot MORAN
University College Dublin, Ireland
Universalism and Relativism in
Husserl’s Concept of Life-World		 Suguru IIDA
Waseda University, Japan
Action and Time—Toward
Elucidation of Life-Worldly Time		 Ching-yuen CHEUNG
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
From Phenomenology of Man to
Philosophical Anthropology—Max
Scheler’s Turn and Its Significance
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:15 Parallel Session A5 (ELB 202)
Moderator: George HEFFERNAN		 Parallel Session B5 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Jeff MALPAS		 Parallel Session C5 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Mathias OBERT
15:45-16:15 Nam-in LEE
Seoul National University, South
Korea
Husserl’s Transcendental
Phenomenology and Merleau-
Ponty’s Phenomenology of
Perception		 Wai-man KWOK
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Husserl’s Anti-Psychologism in
Logic and Katz’s Platonism in
Linguistics		 Ion COPOERU
UBB Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Phenomenology and the Task of
the Renovation of Professional
Practices
16:15-16:45 Richard L. LANIGAN
Southern Illinois University, USA
Husserl’s Phenomenology in
America (USA): The Legacy of
Wilbur Marshall Urban and the
Yale School of Communicology		 Kwok-kui WONG
The Baptist University of Hong
Kong
Husserl on the Problem of
Extension and Continuum of Time		 Stuart GRANT
Monash University, Australia
Phenomenology in Performance
Studies: A Brief Overview
16:45-17:15 Discussion
17:15-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 Parallel Session A6 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Natalie DEPRAZ		 Parallel Session B6 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Chung-chi YU		 Parallel Session C6 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Nicolas DE WARREN
17:30-18:00 Jean-Claude GENS
University of Burgundy, France
The Animal Roots of Social Life in
Husserl’s Phenomenology		 Ping-keung LUI
The Polytechnic University of Hong
Kong
Man and God		 Augustín Serrano DE HARO
Sociedad Española de
Fenomenología, Spain
Is Pain an Intentional Experience
(Once More)?
18:00-18:30 Po-shan LEUNG
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Heideggerian Existence after Being
and Time: In the Nameless		 Jeffrey BLOECHL
Boston College, USA
Echo of the Sacred		 Michaela PFADENHAUER
Karlsruhe University, Germany
Doing Phenomenology: On the
Basis of Which Characteristics
Are We Identifying Acting as
“Competent Organizing”?
18:30-19:00 Discussion
19:00 Business Meeting of OPO Committee

Time Day Five ( 19 Dec 2008, Friday)
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session V (ELB LT1) Moderator: Kwok-ying LAU
9:30-10:00
David CARR Emory University, USA
Experience and History
10:00-10:30
Natalie DEPRAZ University of Rouen, France
Holy body and Rainbow Body: Phenomenology as a Philosophical Bridging
10:30-11:00 Dicussion
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Parallel Session A7 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Peter HA		 Parallel Session B7 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Nam-in LEE		 Parallel Session C7 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Chung-yi CHENG
11:15-11:45 Michael BARBER
St. Louis University, USA
Ethics, Eidetics, and the Ethical
Subject: A Critique of Enrique
Dussel’s Appropriation of the
Thought of Emmanuel Levinas		 Peter SIMPSON
The City University of New York,
USA
How to Say “We”: The Democratic
Pluralism of Karol Wojtyla		 Yujian ZHENG
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Re-enchantment of Nature:
McDowell and Merleau-Ponty on
Perception
11:45-12:15 Gereon KOPF
Luther College, USA
Ethics and a Phenomenology of
Self-Cultivation		 Chung-chi YU
National Sun Yat-sen University,
Taiwan
Subjective Meaning and Objective
Meaning: A Clarification of
Schutz’s Point of View		  
12:15-12:45 Discussion
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Parallel Session A8 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Michael O’SULLIVAN		 Parallel Session B8 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Ka-wing LEUNG		 Parallel Session C8 (ELB 206)
Moderator: Peter SIMPSON
14:00-14:30 Mathias OBERT
National Sun Yat-sen University,
Taiwan
Body Mimesis and Chinese Ink
Brush Writing		 Mario WENNING
University of Macau
Heidegger’s Return from the East		 Chong-fuk LAU
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Logic and Ontology in Aristotle’s
Theory of Categories
14:30-15:00 Andreas Georg STASCHEIT
Dortmund University of Applied
Sciences and Arts, Germany
History of Technology as History
of Experience: The Case of Music		 Qingjie WANG
The Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Mortality, Heidegger and Human
Rights to Die		 Jun ABE
Taisho University, Japan
Reconsideration of Hýle in the
Phenomenology of Life—Viewed
from Western Phenomenology and
Yogācāra Buddhism
15:00-15:30 Discussion
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:55 Parallel Session A9 (ELB 202)
Moderator: Ching-yuen CHEUNG		 Parallel Session B9 (ELB 203)
Moderator: Chong-fuk LAU		  
15:45-16:05 Ho-jae SHIN
Seoul National University, South
Korea
Sensation in Husserl’s Static
Phenomenology: Apprehension-
Content Scheme and
Representation		 Yohei KAGEYAMA
University of Tokyo, Japan
The Formation of the Concept of
“Existence” in Early Heidegger		  
16:05-16:25 Tae-chang JUNG
Seoul National University, South Korea
Husserl's Criticism of Representation in Logical Investigations 		Young-Hwa SEO
Seoul National University, South
Korea
A Comment on the Transcendental
Philosophical Interpretation in the
Early Heidegger’s Thought		  
16:25-16:55 Discussion
16:55-18:10 Closing Ceremony and Tea Reception
  Prof. Chan-fai CHEUNG Chairman, Department of Philosophy, CUHK
Director, Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology,
CUHK
  Prof. Kwok-ying LAU Associate Director, Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for
Phenomenology, CUHK
  Prof. Lester EMBREE For the Executive Committee, OPO
  Prof. Thomas NENON Director, The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, USA
18:10-19:10 Cultural Performance
19:10 Dinner Hosted by CARP (China Red Shanghai Cuisine)