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Self Portrait (2001)
by Fred Mandell

The Self - Le Soi

26 January 2007
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

27 January 2007
University of Chicago Divinity School
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007
Events take place in Ida Noyes Hall
9:00-9:15 Welcome & Introduction
Richard Rosengarten, Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School
9:15-12:00 SESSION I - SELF IN HISTORY
Chair: Robert Pippin, Philosophy, University of Chicago

Gabriel Richardson Lear, Philosophy, University of Chicago
Plato on Acting & Being Yourself

Vincent Carraud, Philosophy, Université de Caen
L'ego et le moi chez saint Augustin et Descartes*

Robert Morrissey, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
The Napoleonic Self and the Poetics of Fusion

12:00-1:30 Lunch (Provided in Foyer)
1:30-4:30 SESSION II - THE MORAL SELF
Chair:

Charles Larmore, Philosophy, Brown University
Les moi et ses raisons d'être*

Kathryn Tanner, Divinity School, University of Chicago
On Not Wanting to be Oneself

Jocelyn Benoist, Philosophy, Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Being Oneself, Having One's Own

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2007
Events take place in Swift Hall
9:00-12:00 Opening Remarks
Danielle Allen, Dean of the Division of the Humanities

SESSION III - THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SELF