Andrea Carlino

Institut d’Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé, Université de Genève

Andrea Carlino teaches the history of medicine at the Institute of History of Medicine and Health at the University of Geneva. On the history of anatomy and scientific visual culture, Carlino has published Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning (1999); Paper Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets (1538-1687) (1999); and, in collaboration with the art historians Deanna Petherbridge and Claude Ritschard, the catalogue of the exhibition Corps à vif: Art et Anatomie (1998). Currently, Carlino’s research focuses on the relationship between literature, medicine, and natural philosophy, specifically on the humanist foundations of scientific culture, as well as on literary practices and techniques in early modern science and medicine. Alongside this research, he is working on a project on skeptical and anti-medical literature in early modern Europe and has recently edited, with Alexandre Wenger, Littérature et médecine: Approches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (2007) and, with Michel Jeanneret, Vulgariser la médecine: Ecrivains, styles et publics en France et en Italie (XVI et XVII siècles) (2008).

Françoise Dastur

Archives Husserl, École normale supérieure Paris

Françoise Dastur taught at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) from 1969 to 1995, at the University of Paris XII (Créteil) from 1995 to 1999, and the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis from 1999 to 2003. Currently, she is Professor Emeritus of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis and is affiliated with the Husserl Archives in Paris. She has written and taught on such subjects as phenomenology, German philosophy, philosophy of language, and poetic Dasein analysis. Some of her publications include: Hölderlin. tragédie et modernité (1992); Dire le temps. Esquisse d’une chrono-logie phénoménologique (1994); La Mort. Essai sur la finitude (1994); Husserl. Des mathématiques à l’histoire (1995); Hölderlin. Le retournement natal (1997); Comment vivre avec la mort? (1998); Chair et langage. Essais sur Merleau-Ponty (2001); Heidegger et la question anthropologique (2003); Philosophie et Différence (2004); La phénoménologie en questions. Langage, altérité, temporalité, finitude (2004); À la naissance des choses. Art, poésie et philosophie (2005); Comment affronter la mort? (2005); Heidegger. La question du logos (2007); Daseinsanalyse (with Ph. Cabestan) (2011); and Heidegger et la pensée à venir (2011).

David Palumbo-Liu

Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

David Palumbo-Liu is Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, English, at Stanford University. Dr. Palumbo-Liu is the founder and editor of the electronic journal Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities and a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has written three scholarly books and edited three academic volumes on issues relating to cultural studies, ethnic studies, and literary theory. His recent books are: The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (Duke UP, 2011) and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, co-edited with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Duke UP, 2010). He has published over forty articles in learned journals and anthologies on subjects ranging from the canon and socio-cultural criticism to multiculturalism and East Asian and Asian Pacific American studies. His work has been translated into Chinese, German, French, and Portuguese. He is part of the Public Intellectual Project at Truthout and blogs for The Boston Review, Al Jazeera America, and the Huffington Post. He is on the Steering Committee of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) and of the Open Library of the Humanities.

H. Peter Steeves

Department of Philosophy, DePaul University

H. Peter Steeves was educated at Manchester University and Indiana University, has taught at Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela, and is currently Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University and Director of the DePaul Humanities Center in Chicago. His general research areas range from phenomenology (especially the work of Edmund Husserl), applied ethics (especially animal and environmental ethics), social-political philosophy (especially communitarianism), and the philosophy of science and of culture, to astrobiology, pre-biotic chemistry, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. Some of his book publications include Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry (Kluwer Publishing, 1998); Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life (SUNY P, 1999); The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (SUNY P, 2006); and Being and Showtime: Performance Scripts of the Hardest Working Man in Academia (forthcoming).

Elisabeth Weber

Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Elisabeth Weber received her PhD in Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1988. Currently, she is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of German, Slavic and Semitic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Weber’s teaching interests include the following courses: “Ethics and Psychoanalysis,” “German Judaism in Literature and Philosophy,” “Productions of Truth: Literature, Theory, Politics, and the Arts,” “Contemporary Theory: Activist Papers,” and “Humanities and Human Rights in Times of Torture.” She was the co-organizer of the international conference “Irreconcilable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion,” at which Jacques Derrida gave his last public address in the United States, and of a series of twelve public events under the title “Torture and the Future: Perspectives from the Humanities.” Currently, Weber’s research focuses on the ways in which literature and critical theory can contribute to an exploration of trauma, of human rights and their violations, and to a reflection on concepts whose definitions have become, in the contemporary context, more and more uncertain, including the concepts of “the human,” “democracy,” “justice,” and “rights.” Her publications include Verfolgung und Trauma: Zu Emmanuel Levinas' Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence (Passagen Verlag, 1990); Questioning Judaism: Interviews by Elisabeth Weber (Stanford UP, 2004); Speaking about Torture (Fordham UP, 2012); and Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace (Fordham UP, 2012). She is working on a book on poems written by detainees in Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp.

Inn at the Forks

75 Forks Market Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0A2
Phone: 204-942-6555
Fax: 204-942-6979
Hotel Website: http://www.innforks.com

Reserved Guestroom Block: 15 rooms
Rate: $182.00/night
Group Name: Mosaic Conference
Group Reservation number: 130594

Rates are based on double occupancy. An additional person charge of $20 per person applies according to the regulations set by Inn at the Forks.

Please make a reservation before September 1st, 2014. Call the Front Desk toll-free at 1-877-377-4100 to book your reservation. Please mention the group code #130594 and/or the Mosaic Conference to get the discounted rate. At this time, online booking for groups of guestrooms is not available.

Holiday Inn and Suites Winnipeg Downtown

360 Colony Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2P3
Phone: 204-786-7011
Fax: 204-772-1443
Hotel website: http://www.hiwinnipegdowntown.com

Reserved Guestroom Block: 35 rooms
Rate: $105.00/night
Group Code: MOS

Please make a reservation before September 16th, 2014. If booking online, go to http://www.hiwinnipegdowntown.com, click “Book Online” on the top left corner, and then click “Have a Group Code?” and enter the code MOS. Select any of the dates during our conference date range to get the discounted rate (October 1st-October 5th).

Best Western Plus Pembina Inn & Suites

1714 Pembina Highway
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2G2
Phone: 204-269-8888
Hotel Website: http://www.bestwesternpembina.com

eserved Guestroom Block: 30 rooms
Rate: $121/night
Group Name: Mosaic Conference
Group Code: MOSAIC

Please make a reservation before September 1st, 2014. Call toll-free at 1-877-269-8811 to make a reservation. Indicate that you are attending the “Mosaic Conference” to get the group rate. There is no extra charge for additional occupants in the hotel room. At this time, online booking for groups of guestrooms is not available.