Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture
Schedule
The workshop took place October 10 to 12, 2008 at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Friday, October 10, 2008
1:30 pm
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
Daniel Vickers
Robert Brain
Susan Lanzoni
Historical Perspectives
2:00-3:30 pm
Einfühlung and its Aesthetic Origins
Harry Mallgrave, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Robert Vischer's Notion of Einfühlung and Contemporary Neuroscience."
Robert Brain, University of British Columbia
“Kinesthesia and Physiological Possibilism in Fin de Siecle Culture”
Einfühlung/Empathy in Psychology, Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
4:00-6:00 pm
Susan Lanzoni, MIT
“Translating Empathy in the Psychological Laboratory”
Dan Zahavi, University of Copenhagen
“Varieties of Empathy in Husserl, Stein and Scheler”
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Vanderbilt University
“Psychoanalytic Empathy, from Sándor Ferenczi to Heinz Kohut”
Open Discussion
7:00 PM
Reception and Dinner
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Empathy & Hermeneutics in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
9:00-11:30 am
Stephen Turner, University of South Florida
“Following the Thought of Another: Normative or Naturalizable?”
Ruth Leys, Johns Hopkins University
"'Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula': How Is Emotional Empathy Supposed to Work?"
Karsten Stueber, College of the Holy Cross
Circumscribing the Scope of Empathy: The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
Open Discussion
Lunch
Empathy and Evolution
1:00-2:30 pm
Marga Vicedo, University of Toronto
“Outside or Inside the Animal? Konrad Lorenz on Intuition and Empathy in the Study of Animal Behavior”
Allan Young, McGill University
“The Evolution of Empathic Cruelty”
Gordon McOuat, University of King's College
Commentator
Current Perspectives
Mirror Neurons & Empathy in Cognitive Neuroscience
3:00-5:00 pm
Evan Thompson, University of Toronto
“Empathy: A Neurophenomenological View”
Amir Raz, McGill University
“A Prelude to the Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Suggestion as a Top-down Process Involving Attention and Self-Regulation”
Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
“Neurons, neonates and narratives: From empathic resonance to empathic understanding”
Frank Stahnisch, University of Calgary
Commentator
Keynote Lecture
6:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Empathy and its Limits: Transmission of Affect at Cultural Boundaries
9:00-11:30 am
Laurence Kirmayer, McGill University
“Empathy in the Clinic: The Problem of Intercultural Understanding”
Carolyn Dean, Brown University
"Styles of Dying: Critical Responses to Victim Testimony."
Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia
"Subaltern Empathy: Beyond European Categories in Affect Theory"
Lunch
Empathy and Aesthetics in Film and Literature
1:00-2:30 pm
Adam Frank, University of British Columbia
“Feeling into Objects, or the Compositional Aspect of Affect in Perception (Stein, Klein, Tomkins)”
Steven Meyer, Washington University, St. Louis
"Why Mirror Neurons? Richard Powers' The Echo Maker and the Conceptual Limitations of Empathy"
Robin Curtis, Freie University, Berlin
“Einfühlung and Abstraction in the Moving Image”
Closed Session
Integration of Current and Historical Perspectives; Discussion of Publication of Workshop Papers
3:00-3:30 pm
The participants of the workshop will engage in a pointed discussion as to how to stitch together common themes while also making differentiations between historical and contemporary approaches to empathy in a comparative and integrative manner in the edited volume of these papers to appear with a major university press.