Love and Loneliness Workshop

December 6-7, 2024

California State University, San Bernardino

Friday, December 6   

10-11:10am: Kaitlyn Creasy (California State University, San Bernardino)  "Loneliness and Ressentiment"

Commentator: Keilee Bessho (University of California, Riverside)

11:15-12:25pm: Shu Wang (University of Southern California) "Love and Personal Style"

Commentator: Andréa Daventry (CSUSB) 

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:10pm: Sanna Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki)  "When the Search for Love Turns into Vengeance: Loneliness and Antagonistic Political Emotions"

Commentator: Paul Katsafanas (Boston University) 

3:15-4:25pm: Justin White (Brigham Young University)  "Commitment, Disruption, and Loving Perception" 

Commentator: Annemarie Munn (University of California, Riverside)

4:30-6:00pm:

Vida Yao (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Avoidance of Intimacy: A Reorientation in the Moral Philosophy of Love”

Saturday, December 7  

10-11:10am: Joel Van Fossen (Hosei University) "Nietzsche on Affirmative Love"

Commentator: Katherine Martha (Vanderbilt University)

11:15-12:25pm: Macy Salzberger (San Francisco State University) "Alienated Love" 

Commentator: Taojie Wang (Brown University)

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:10pm: Alexia Papigiotis (The Graduate Center, CUNY) "Loneliness and Relatability" 

Commentator: Michael Blake (University of Washington)

3:15-4:25pm: Austen McDougal (Princeton University) "Love in the Time of the Breakup Era"

Commentator: Robert Bishop (CSUSB)

4:30-6:00pm:

Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University)  “‘The Extremely Difficult Realization that Something Other than Oneself is Real’: Iris Murdoch on Love and Morality”

Workshop sponsored by the American Philosophical Association, the Office of the President at CSUSB, and the Office of the Provost at CSUSB