Conference Programme

Philosophy & The Uses
of Narrative

All Talks in Humanities Building (H0.58)

9.00–9.30	Registration and Coffee outside H0.58
9.30–10.30	John Lippitt (Philosophy, Hertfordshire): Getting the Story Straight: Kierkegaard, MacIntyre and the Problems of Narrative (Chair: Christine Battersby, Philosophy, Warwick)
10.30–11.30	Evy Varsamopoulou (Department of European Philosophy and Literature, Anglia Polytechnic University): The Mythopoetics of Duration: Time in Balzac and Proust (Chair: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Philosophy, Warwick)
11.30–11.50	Coffee (included in Registration Fee)
11.50–1.00	Veronica Vasterling (Philosophy & Women’s Studies, Nijmegen University, Netherlands): Hannah Arendt’s Narrative Philosophy: The Political Relevance of Story-Telling (Chair: Rachel Jones, Philosophy, Dundee)
1.00 – 2.15	Lunch (not included in Registration Fee)
2.15 – 3.15	Teresa Ludden (German, Oxford Brookes University): Getting Back to the Umbilical Cord: Narration and Birth in Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum and other post-1945 German Texts (Chair: Georgina Paul, German, Warwick)
3.15 – 3.30	Coffee (included in Registration Fee)
3.30 – 4.30	Michael Bell (Warwick): Narrative and Meaning in Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table (Chair: Nicholas Davey, Philosophy, Dundee)
4.30 – 6.00	Round Table Chaired by Christine Battersby, with Speakers and Georgina Paul (Warwick) and Nicholas Davey and Rachel Jones from Dundee