DR. JAMES HATLEY
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Ph.D. Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony
Brook, 1989.
Dissertation: “Impossible Mourning: Transcendent Loss and the
Memory of Disaster”.
Committee: Mary Rawlinson (Director), Edward Casey, Hugh
Silverman, Peter Manchester.
Fulbright
Scholar:
Exchange Fellow:
M.A. English Literature, Bread Loaf School of
English (Middlebury College), 1985.
Overseas Study:
M.A. Philosophy, University of Montana, 1981.
Thesis:
“Three Papers on the Limits of Representation”
Thesis Committee: Fred McGlynn (Director), Albert Borgmann,
John Lawry, Hank Harrington
Overseas Study: Intensive French Program in Beaune
M.A. Studio Art, University of Montana, 1976.
Thesis Show: “Architectures of the Interior”
Thesis Show Committee: Rudio Autio, Ken Little,
Bruce Barton
B.A. Honors, English Literature with minor in
Philosophy,
(French
Minor, University of Montana, 1981).
Areas
of Specialization 20th Century Continental
Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics
Areas
of Competence Ethics, Environmental
Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion/Jewish Studies
Foreign Language Competence German, French, Hebrew
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Introduction to Philosophy Ethics Aesthetics Ancient Philosophy Medieval Philosophy Philosophical Concepts of
Literature 1991—Bachelard, Heidedegger
and Blanchot 1993—Testimony and Historical Violence
(Honors) 1995—Blanchot, Kristeva, Derrida 1997—Three Thinkers and their
Literatures 2000—Nussbaum: 2005—Scriptures:
Torah, Talmud, Parable, Sutra 2007—Between
Bible and Book: Rereadings of Job Contemporary Continental
Philosophy 2009—Being
and Time: Heidegger and Levinas 2005—Witnessing: Rereadings
of Levinas 2003—Why Ethics?: Responsibility, Forgiveness
1998—Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty 1996—Buber, Fackenheim and Levinas 1994—Derrida, Levinas and Irigaray 1992—Heidegger and Levinas |
American Philosophers of Nature: Emerson, Thoreau, Bugbee, Cavell Junior Seminar in History
of Philosophy 2000, 2004, 2009—Friendship from Socrates to Arendt Senior Seminar 2009—Why
Ethics?: Signs, Responsibilities and History 2005—Bugbee, Marcel, Thoreau: Affirmation
and Experience
2000—Casey, Bass, Abram: A Phenomenology of Place 1996—Levinas: Alterity and Responsibility 1992—Jaspers, Lifton, Lang: Principles of Responsibility Environmental
Responsibility: Intro
to Environmental Philosophy. Imagining
the Earth: Cultural
Approaches to Nature (Honors) Finding Heart: Three Traditions of
Spiritual Counsel (Honors) Interdisciplinary
Courses
Philosophy of Art/Music History (Philosophy/Music) Environmental Perspectives: Forests (Phil/Ecol/Econ) (Honors) Nature
Wars: Environmentalism
in Sciences and Humanities (Phil/Hist) Sports in Film and Philosophy (Philosophy/English) Learning Community: Intercultural Justice
(Phil/Engl/Hist) |
At
Books
Interrogating
Ethics: Embodying the Good in Merleau-Ponty, with Janice McLane and
Christian Diehm (
Review:
David
Morris. In Symposium. Vol. 11, no.1 (Spring /
Printemps, 2007)
Suffering Witness: The Quandary
of Responsibility after the Irreparable (
Book Session: Papers by
Silvia Benso (
Reviews:
Peter Haas. In
Cynthia
Coe. In The Journal of Speculative
Philosophy. Vol. 17, no. 1 (2003).
Martin Kavka. In Religious Studies
Review. Vol. 29, no. 2 (April, 2003).
Extensively Cited in:
Deborah Bird Rose. Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for
Decolonization (
Deborah Bird Rose. “What if the Angel of History were a Dog?” In Cultural
Studies Review: Environments and Ecologies Vol. 12, no. 1 (March 2006):
67-78.
David Denborough: “Trauma, meaning, witnessing and action: An Interview
with Kaethe Weingarten.” In International
Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2005, nos. 3 & 4.
Asale Angel-Ajani. “Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics
of Listening. In Anthropology and
Humanism, Vol. 29, no. 2: 133-144.
William K. Cody. “The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Healthcare: A
Beginning Exploration.” In Nursing Science Quarterly, Vol. 14, no.
4 (2001): 288-296.
Rahel Naef. “Bearing Witness:
Guest Editor
The Journal of Environmental Philosophy. Issue Theme: “Species of Thought—In the Approach of a more-than-human World.” (Fall, 2008).
Articles
20) “Blood Intimacies: Learning
one’s Humanity from Ticks.” In Unloved Others, eds. Thomas vanDooren
and Deborah Bird Rose (forthcoming).
19) “Witnessing Trees.” In Kunst, Bild, Wahrnehmen, Blick [Art, Image, Perception, Gaze], Bernd Waldenfels, Antje Kapust, eds., Antje Kapust, trans. (Fink Verlag: München, 2009).
18) “Sensing Environmentalism Anew: Gestate Witness of a more-than-human World in Merleau-Ponty.” In Environmental Philosophy Vol. 4, nos. 1-2 (Spring and Fall, 2007):
17) "Persecution and
Expiation: A Talmudic Amplification of the Enigma of Responsibility in
Levinas.” In Philosophy Today (Special
Edition: “Jewish Philosophy Today,” Claire Katz, ed.), Vol. 50, no. 1
(Spring, 2006): 80-91.
16) “Techne and Phusis: Wilderness and the Aesthetics of
the Trace in Andrew Goldsworthy.” In Environmental
Philosophy, Vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2005): 6-17.
15) “Generations: Levinas in the Jewish Context.” In Levinas and Rhetoric. Vol. 38, no. 2 (2005): 173-189.
14) "Beyond Outrage: The
Delirium of Responsibility in Levinas's Scene of Persecution," in Addressing
Levinas, Eric Nelson, Antje Kapust and Kent Still, eds. (
13) "The Uncanny Goodness of being Edible to Bears," in Nature
Reconsidered: New Essays in Environmental Philosophy, Bruce Folz and Robert
Froedeman, eds. (
12) “Interdisciplinary Teaching: Analyzing Consensus and Conflict in
Environmental Studies,” Dr. Jill Caviglia-Harris, co-author. In The
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 5, no 4,
2004: pp. 395-403.
11) "Nameless Memory: Levinas,
Witness and Politics." In Religion
and Public Life: Justice and the Politics of Memory. Gabriel Ricci,
editor. (
10) "Taking Phenomenology for a Walk: The Artworks of Hamish
Fulton," in Lived Images: Mediations in Experience, Life-World and
I-hood, Matti Itkonen and Gary Backhaus, eds. (
9) "The Malignancy of Evil: Witnessing
Violence beyond Justice." In Studies
in Practical Philosophy: Witnessing. Kelly Oliver and Shannon Hoff, eds.
Volume 3, Issue 2 (
8) "Where the Beavers Gnaw: Predatory Space in the Urban Landscape,"
in Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes, Gary Backhaus and John Murungi, eds.
(
7) "Lyotard, Levinas and the
Phrasing of the Ethical," in Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics and the
Sublime, Continental Philosophy VIII, Hugh J. Silverman, ed. (
6) "Recursive Incarnation and
Chiasmic Flesh: Two
5) "Creation and Responsibility in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: Ecological Ethics Beyond the
Language of Value," in Art Culture Nature: The Artist in a Cultural and
Environmental Context, Andrew
Hepburn, ed. (1995 Conference Proceedings) Andrew Hepburn, ed.
(Salisbury: Salisbury State University, 1995).
4) "The Sincerity of Apology: Levinas's Resistance to the Judgment of History," in Interpretation and Community, Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen H. Watson, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).
3) "Celan's Poetics of Address: How the Dead Resist their History," in Signs of Change: Premodern-Modern-Postmodern, Stephen Barker, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995).
2) "Grund and Abgrund: Questioning Poetic Foundations in Heidegger and Celan," in Questioning Foundations, Continental Philosophy V, Hugh J. Silverman, ed. (New York: Routledge, 1992).
1) "Impossible Mourning: Two
Attempts to Remember Annihilation." In The Centennial Review:
Discourses of Mourning, Survival and Commemoration. Vol. XXXV, no. 3
(November, 1991): 445-459. Reprint:
in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 42, under heading "Aharon
Appelfeld" (
Reviews
David Michael Kleinberg-Levin’s Before
the Voice of Reason: Echoes of Responsibility in Merleau-Ponty’s Ecology and
Levinas’s Ethics, in Ethics, Place
and Responsibility: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography. Forthcoming.
Deborah Bird Rose’s Reports from a Wild Country: the decolonization of ethics, in Environmental Philosophy Vol. 4, nos. 1-2 (Spring and Fall, 2007):
Oona Eisenstadt’s Driven Back to
the Text: the Premodern Sources of
Levinas’s Postmodernism, in Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (Vol. XIV, no. 2, Fall 2004).
David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous: Language and Perception in a
More than Human World, in Environmental Ethics (Spring, 1997).
Hugh Silverman's Textualities, in Philosophy and Literature (Spring, 1996).
John Llewelyn's The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience, in
Environmental Ethics (Spring, 1995).
Translations
Merleau-Ponty: "Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy." In Merleau-Ponty: Texts and Dialogues (Humanities Press, 1991).
Baudelaire: Les Phares. In Webster Review (Fall/1985).
Walking Mountains Thinking: Humane and
Inhumane Compassions in the Order of Phusis. A phenomenological study of
wilderness as a mode of religious, aesthetic and ethical orientation.
The Faces of Nature: Levinasian Ethics and
the Environment. Co-editing with William Edelglas and
Christian Diehm.
“The Bread from One’s Mouth and the Bread from the Other’s Mountain: Entangled Histories and Incessant Corrections.”
“Across the Generations: The Poetics of Paul
Celan and Emmanuel Levinas.”
“Necessary
Blasphemy: A Midrashic Reading of Celan
and Levinas.”
“Of
Affliction: John Lawry’s Reading of the
Book of Job”
“The Ambit
of Creation: Thoreau and Bugbee on Solitude.”
“Naming Adam, Naming Creation: A Midrashic Approach
to Environmental Philosophy.”
Epoche, 2009
University of Virgiania Press, 2009 (anonymous).
Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2008 (anonymous)
International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place Book Series, 2008 (anonymous).
Journal of Society and Animals, 2008 (anonymous)
Duquesne University Press, 2007 (Fleischacker, Heidegger's Jewish Followers: Essays on Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas)
Journal of Environmental Philosophy, 2006 (anonymous)
Mosaics, 2006 (anonymous)
Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2006 (anonymous)
Cross Roads, 2005 (anonymous)
Hypatia, 2003 (anonymous)
Indiana University Press, 2001 (Macauley, Walking the Earth:
Philosophical Footnotes)
SUNY Press, 2001 (Mensch, Ethics and Selfhood)
SUNY Press, 2001 (Eisenstein, Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust
Representation and the Hegelian Subject)
Northwestern University Press, 1998 (Ziarek and Deane, Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies).
SUNY Press, 1996 (Kunz, The Paradox of Power and Weakness)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 (Srajek, In the Margins of Deconstruction)
Organizer and Director of “Philosophers in Montana: Affirming Wilderness?” June 18, 2005. University of Montana. A public symposium. Funded by the University of Montana College of Arts and Sciences and the Montana Committee for the Humanities.
Organizer and Director of “What Calls for Thought: The Philosophy of Henry Bugbee.” June 16 and 17, 2005. University of Montana. A scholarly conference.
Director of first meeting of the Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context, held at Loyola University of Chicago in conjunction with SPEP, October 12, 2002.
Co-director of the third meeting of the Levinas Research Seminar, held at the Harvard University Center for European Studies, May 5-7, 2002.
Director of the twenty-second annual conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle on "Ethical Bodies," held at Salisbury University, September 17-19, 1998.
Founding member of the Levinas Research Seminar. Organizational meeting held at The Pennsylvania State University, April 28-29, 2000.
Founding member of the North American Society for Levinas Studies
Founding member of the Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context.
Executive Board Member, North American Association for Levinas Studies
(2007-2010)
Treasurer, International Association for Environmental Philosophy
(2005- )
Executive Board Member, Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion
(2005- )
Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (2001-07)
Paper, “Buber on Naming Creation.” Society for Nature in Philosophy and Religion. November 1, 2009. George Mason University.
Response Paper, “Skeptically Yours: When will this Howling Stop?” Response Paper to Diane Perpich’s Levinas’s Ethics. Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy. October 29, 2009. George Mason University.
Presentation, “Greek Philosophy in a Hebrew Tongue.” For “We Will Do and We Will Hear: Emmanuel Levinas and Talmud”: A Public Symposium. Penn State University. Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies October 25, 2009.
Paper, “Witnessing Creation: Temporal Discernment in a Time of Decreation.” Department of Philosophy Colloquium. LaTrobe University. Melbourne, AU. July 17, 2009.
. Presentation, “Witnessing Extinction.” Eco-Humanities Roundtable on “Writing at the End of the World.” Maquarie University, Sydney, AU. July 11, 2009.
Paper, “Earth without End: False Eternities and the Mortal Future of the Human Species.” Keynote Address for “Writing at the End of the World.” Roundtable in the Eco-Humanites sponsored by The Center for Research for Social Inclusion, Macqaurie University. Sydney, AU. July 10, 2009.
Paper, “Discursus without Silence: Skeptical Poetics and Noisy Legacies in Celan’s “Praise of Distance” and Levinas’s Otherwise than Being. Annual Raissa and Emannuel Levinas Address, North American Levinas Society. University of Toronto. June 28, 2009.
Respondent, Avivah Zornberg’s Talk on Murmuring Depths and the Biblical Unconsciousness. Pamona College. April 27, 2009.
Paper, “In the Flesh: An Apology for Witnessing Trees in Environmental Art.” Keynote Address of the Geo-Aesthetics Conference sponsored by the International Association for the Study of the Environment, Space and Place. Towson University. March 6, 2009.
Moderator: “The Philosophical Legacy of Val Plumwood.” Session of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy at the Eastern Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. December, 2008
Lecture, “Naming Adam, Naming
Creation: A Midrashic Approach to Environmental Philosophy.” Berman Lecture Series of the Eckerd College
Spirituality Center. Eckerd College.
Paper, “The Rose of Creation: Reading Paul Celan’s Psalm.” Society for Nature and Philosophy in Religion. Duquesne University. October, 2008.
Paper, “The Plainness of Ishmael, the Hyperbole of Akiva: Heschel and Levinas Rereading the Rabbis.” Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society. Seattle University. September, 2008.
Paper, “The G-d of Abraham, the G-d of the Rabbis and the G-d of John Lawry: Reading Psalm 19 Hebraically.” Symposium on the Thought of John Lawry. University of Montana, June 11, 2008.
Paper, “Over the Thorn: Rereading Celan Rereading the Shoah,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies. Toronto. December, 2007.
Presentation, “Ethics and the
University: Roundtable Discussion.” State University of New York at Binghamton.
Paper, “The Original Goodness of Nature: Tikkun Olam as the Affirmation of Creation,” Annual Program of the Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion. Chicago. November, 2007.
Presentation, “Building Walden in my Basement, or Living in the Ambit of one’s Horizon,” Annual Meeting of Thoreau Society. Concord, MA. July, 2007.
Paper, “Community beyond Colonization in the Australian Context.” Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society. Purdue University. June, 2007.
Presentation, “Building with Trees and Stones: Horizonal Structures in the Practice of Environmental Art.” International Association for the Environment, Space and Place. Silverman Phenomenological Center, Duquesne University. April, 2007.
Paper, “The Bread in One’s Mouth and the Bread on the Other’s Mountain.” Annual Meeting of the Levinas Research Seminar. Hamilton, Ontario. March, 2007.
Paper, “Wild Contacts: Merleau-Ponty and Thoreau on Witnessing Nature.” Annual Meeting of the Thoreau Society. Walden Pond, MA. July, 2006.
Paper, “The Devastation of Maternity: A Midrashic Reading of Levinas through the Book of Job.” Inaugural Meeting of the North American Levinas Society. Purdue University. May, 2006.
Lecture, “Does the Holocaust have a Future?.” Invited lecture for Jewish Studies Department. Penn State University. April, 2006.
Paper, “Behemoth and Behema: Some Thoughts on the Chimera from the Other Side of the Western Canon.” Response to Brett Buchanan’s “Chasing Chimeras: Aesthetic Constructions of the Animal.” Eastern Annual Conference of the American Philosophical Association. New York, N.Y. December, 2005.
Paper, “Witnessing Gestate Beings: On Bugbee’s Reading of the Book of Job.” International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Salt Lake City, UT. October, 2005.
Respondent, “Tracing out Responsibility in Henry Bugbee.” Response to Michael Palmer’s paper, “A Burden Tender and in no wise Heavy.” For “What Welcomes Thought: The Philosophical Legacy of Henry Bugbee.” University of Montana, Missoula, MT, June 2005.
Paper, “Tarn Ream and Trillium ovatum: A Case Study in Gestate Witness.” First Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place. Towson University, 2005.
Paper, “Environmental Witness via the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.” Joint Meeting of The International Association for Environmental Philosophy and The International Society of Environmental Ethics. Fort Collins, Colorado, 2004.
Paper, “The Bones of Joseph Mengele: Witnessing the Indifference of Nature.” Invited Paper for the Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, 2004.
Paper, "Witnessing the Equivocation of Responsibility: Responding beyond Outrage in Otherwise than Being." Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy. Boston University, 2003.
Presentation, “Techne and Phusis in the Artworks of Andrew
Goldsworthy.” International Association
for Environmental Philosophy. Boston
University, 2003.
Lecture, "Nameless: Witnessing the Holocaust's Future" Invited Lecture for Yom Hashoa Commemoration. St. Francis College, April 27, 2003.
Moderator, "Deliberating the Natural." International Association for Environmental
Philosophy. University of Loyola at Chicago, 2002.
Presentation, "Earthscaping and Bodyscaping the Land Art of Andrew
Goldsworthy and Hamish Fulton."
Society for Philosophy and Geography.
Towson University, 2002.
Paper, "Obedience Beyond Wonder: Cain's Insincerity and the Discourse of Repentance." Panel: "Judgment, Law and Guilt in Levinas and his Forebears." Association for Jewish Studies. Washington, D.C., 2001.
Invited Respondent, Book Session on Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable. Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy. Goucher College, 2001.
Presentation, "Elemental Walking." International Association for Environmental
Philosophy. Goucher College, 2001.
Presentation, "Drinking Sun Melted Snow by Moonlight." Art Culture Nature. Northern Arizona University, 2001.
Paper, "The Malignancy of Evil: Witnessing Violence without Justice." Levinas Research Seminar. Duquesne University, 2001.
Panel Organizer and Chair, "Bereshiyt/Genesis: Writing and Reading the Beginning of Beginning." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Spelman College, 2001.
Paper, "The Malignancy of
Evil: Witnessing Violence without Justice." Society for the Philosophical
Study of Genocide and the Holocaust.
Moderator, "Continental Approaches to Environmental
Philosophy." International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Pennsylvania State University, 2000.
Paper, "Fleshly Motility: Backpacking as a Mode of Crossing into the
Wilds." Society for Philosophy and Geography. Towson University, 2000.
Invited Paper, "Fleshly Motility: Walking into the Wilds."
Conference: "Merleau-Ponty and the Body." Goucher College, 1999.
Invited Paper, "Beyond Outrage." International Conference: "Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology and The Judaic Tradition." Emory University, 1999.
Paper, "Predatory Space: The Uncanny Goodness of being Edible to
Bears." International Association of Environmental Philosophy. University
of Oregon, 1999.
Paper, "Rick Bass's The Lost Grizzlies: Wilderness and its
Carcasses." Art Culture Nature. University of Washington, 1999.
Paper, "Where the Beavers Gnaw: Predatory Space in the Urban Landscape." Society for Philosophy and Geography. Towson University, 1999.
Presentation, "Cultural Relativity and Relative Beauties." Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1998.
Paper, "Asymmetrical Alterity and Invasive Alterity: The Uncanny as
a Key to Proto-Ethical Significance." Society for Phenomenological and
Existential Philosophy. University of Kentucky, 1997.
Presentation, "The Crisis in Environmental Responsibility: How
Radical is Radical Enough." Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1997.
Paper, "Bad Conscience and the Totalitarian State." International Conference "Ethics after the Holocaust." University of Oregon, 1996.
Paper, "Silko's Ceremony: Rereading Europeans in
Paper, "Prophetic Subjectivity: Inwardness without Secrets." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, University of Loyola at Chicago, 1995.
Moderator, "Louise Erdrich." American Women Writers of Color Conference. Salisbury University, 1995.
Paper, "Recursive Incarnation
and Chiasmic Flesh: Two
Paper, "Ecological Responsibility in Silko's novel Ceremony."
University of Montana, 1995.
Paper, "Surreptitious Subjectivity and Prophetic Sincerity: A Consideration of Kristeva's Notion of the Uncanny." Fifth Annual International Philosophic Seminar. Italy, 1995.
Moderator, "Virtual Bodies, Textual Bodies, Fleshy Bodies." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Villanova University, 1995.
Paper, "Creation and Responsibility: Ecological Ethics beyond the
Language of Value. Art Culture Nature.
Presentation, "Staging the 'Noble Savage': European Images of the Non-European": Cookie Colloquium. Salisbury University, 1995.
Paper, "Resisting Totalitarianism: Levinas's Fearful Conscience." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Seattle University, 1994.
Presentation, "Using Film to Teach Philosophy." Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Salisbury University, 1994.
Paper, "Prophetic History as Figurative Discourse: A Response to Lang's Notion of Historical Discourse." International Association for Literature and Philosophy. University of Edmonton, 1994.
Attended, "Ethics as First Philosophy? The Significance of Emmanuel Levinas for Philosophy, Literature and Religion." International Conference. University of Loyola at Chicago, 1993.
Commentator, "Visibility, Witness and Representation," International Association for Literature and Philosophy. Pittsburgh, 1993.
Paper, "The Restlessness of Ethical Sincerity: A Levinasian Response to Lyotard's Phrasing of the Ethical." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Boston, 1992.
Paper, "Generosity and Shame: The Struggle to Die-for-Another." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of California at Berkeley, 1992.
Attended, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston, 1991.
Paper, "The Sincerity of Apology: Levinas's Resistance to the Judgment of History." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. University of Memphis, 1991.
Paper, "Celan's Poetics of Address: How the Dead Resist their History." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of Montréal, 1991.
Response, "Palpable Memory and the Annihilation of Bodies." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of California at Irvine, 1990.
Paper, "Impossible Mourning: Levi, Levinas and Casey." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Emory University, 1989.
Paper, "Questioning History: Celan's Confrontation with Heidegger's Poetics." University of Montana, 1988.
Respondent, "The Image of Politics." International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Notre Dame, 1988.
Discussant, "Theory and the Visual Arts." Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Notre Dame, 1987.
Paper, "Gazing into Language: the Function of Remembrance in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale." Stony Brook Graduate Student Colloquium, 1986.
Public Lectures/Public Service/Public Seminars
Book Discussion Leader, Har Shalom Synagogue, The Puttermesser Papers (
Book Discussion Leader,
Co-Discussant, 25th
Annual Salisbury University Philosophy Symposium. “Extremity and
Moderation as Modes of Thought.” (
Adult Education
Speaker for Beth Israel Synagogue: “Environmental
Responsibility and the Baal Shem Tov” (
Eastern Shore Correctional
Institution Book Discussion Group Leader: “Virtues
and Vices” (January, 2004); “Case Studies in Ethics” (June, 2003)
Annual St. Francies College
Holocaust Memorial Address: "Nameless:
Does the Shoah Have a Future?" (
Beth Israel Synagogue:
Director, Community Holocaust
Memorial Service (
Adkins Arboretum Speaker’s Series: "Land Art: The Works of Andrew Goldsworthy and Hamish
Fulton" (
Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery Speaker's Series: "Land
Art: The Works of Andrew Goldsworthy and Hamish Fulton" (
“Reliquary for an American Chestnut Tree” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2009 Annual National Art Competition.
“Solar Orientations”: Site-specific sculptural installation on the Fulton Hall Green. March/April, 2009.
“Something/Nothing I” selected for juried 2008 Annual National Exhibition of the Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery. 47 works from 24 states selected from over 480 entries.
“Mu!”, “Balancing Act”, and “Something/Nothing II.” Annual Salisbury University Art Faculty Show (Fall, 2008). Fulton Hall Gallery.
“Vessel for Sticks,” “Might
Chestnut Shard,” and “Something/Nothing I.”
Recent Work of
“Something/Nothing II” awarded honorable mention for 2008 Regional Exhibition of Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.
“Howler” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2008 Annual National Art Competition.
“Clubfoot” selected for Adkins Arboretum 2007 Annual National Art Competition. 35 pieces selected from 112 entries.
“Tripod” awarded honorable mention for 2007 Regional Exhibition of Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.
“Cascading Limbs” and “Howler” selected for 2007 Members Regional Exhibition of the Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery.
“Blackfoot 1” and “Blackfoot 2”
included in the 2006 Regional Show of the AI&G.
“Earthly
Vessels, Earthly Lights.” One Person
Show. Photography, Ceramics and Land Art. Atrium Gallery. April 22-
"Waking to Light: New Visions." Two Person Show. Photography and Wilderness Writings. Atrium Gallery. August, 1999.
"Waking to Light: Finding our Way back to the Earth." Two Person Show. Photography and Wilderness Writings Bellavance Honors House Garden Room, April, 1999.
“Architectures and Interiorities.”
Masters Show,
Honorable Mention for “Tripod Shin”: Wood and Stone Sculpture included in Salisbury Art
Institute and Gallery’s 2007 Regional Show.
Highly Commended Paper: “Interdisciplinary Teaching: Analyzing
Consensus and Conflict in
Environmental Studies.”
Symposium/June, 2005
First Prize, “Stunted Rainbow”: Salisbury Art Institute and Gallery Photography Show, 2003.
Distinguished Program Award for the Eastern Correctional Institution Student-Inmate Group Discussions Project, Maryland Association of Higher Education, 2003.
Distinguished Faculty Award, Salisbury University, 1999.
Scholarship to attend the Calumet Photography Institute, 1999, 2000.
NEH Grant to attend international conference on Emmanuel Levinas, May 1993.
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship
for Study in
Tübingen Exchange Fellowship, University of Tübingen, Germany, 1986-87.
Wylie Sypher Memorial Scholarship,
Rural Teacher's Writing
Scholarship,
Bertha Morton Graduate Scholarship,
University Art Award,
Committees
University Promotions Committee (2004-Now)
University Forum Committee for the Honors Program (91-95; 98-2000)
Ad-hoc Committee for the Establishment of the Fulton Faculty Colloquium (99-00)
Cultural Affairs Committee (99-2004)
Speaker's Series Committee for the Question of Spirituality on Campus (99-00)
Steering
Committee for Environmental Studies Program (98-Now)
Speaker's Series Committee on Environmental Issues (98-99)
Ad-hoc Committee on the Question of Spirituality (98-00)
Committee for Ethnic Studies Minor (98-99)
Department Committee for the Philosophical Symposium (90-Now)
Speaker's Series Committee for the Myth of the West (94-96)
Ad-Hoc Committee for Development of a Minor in Environmental Studies
(92-98)
Speaker's Series Committee for the
Acts of Intolerance Resource Team (Spring, 1992)
Committee Chair
Promotions Committee (08-10)
University Forum Committee for the Honors Program (92-94)
Interim Departmental Chair
Philosophy Department (Spring, 2000)
Advisor
Eastern Correctional Institution Group Discussions Project (2001-Now)
Environmental Studies Association (99-Now)
Jewish Student Association (91-92, 94-96, 2004-)
Outdoor Club (96-2002)
Student Philosophical Society (93-96); Co-Advisor, (96-now)
Phi Sigma Tau (96-Now)
Community Education
Scholar and Discussion Leader for Delmarva Library Discussion Series (93-Now)
Discussion Leader for "Choices '98" (98)
Teacher for Elderhostel (93-00)
American Philosophical Association
Association of Jewish Studies
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
Levinas Research Seminar
North American Levinas Society
Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy
Society for the Study of the Environment, Place and Space.
Thoreau Society
Dr. Oona Eisenstadt, Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish Studies/Department of
Religious Studies,
Dr. Bruce Foltz,
Department of Philosophy,
Dr. Claire Katz,
Department of Philosophy/Women’s Studies,
Dr. Grace Clement,
Chair, Department of Philosophy,
Dr. Michael Lewis,
Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program,