Eighth International
Congress on Ecstatic Naturalism
2018 Theme:
Mind, Semiotics, and Symbols in Nature
Mind, Semiotics, and Symbols in Nature
Drew University,
Madison, NJ – April 13th and 14th
Co-Chairs:
Leon Niemoczynski (Moravian College) and
Robert S. Corrington (Drew University)
All papers, meals, wine,
beer, coffee, and non-alcoholic drinks will be in the Founder’s Room of Mead
Hall (Administration Building)
Friday April 13th
Registration Table Open all Day and Tomorrow by Desmond Coleman
9:00-10:10: Cosmology
“Re-Imaging the Human Mind
in the Mysteries of Space-Time and the Existence of Gravitational Waves” – Moon
Son (Yonsei University)
“Ecstatic Naturalism and
Quantum Physics in Terms of Consciousness”- Wang-Eun Serl (Drew University)
10:30-11:40: Semiotics
“Ecstatic Naturalist
Semiotics of the Sexed Body” – Susan Erke (CUNY)
“Relations and Insides:
Using the Semiotic of John Deely to Think Natural Interiority” – Desmond
Coleman (Drew University)
11:50-1:00: Psychoanalysis
“The Spirit In-Between the
Pulsing Heart of Nature: Interrogating Iterative Nihilation as Integral to
Ecstatic Difference” – Frank Scalambrino
“Absolute Void and Bleak Cosmos” – Leon Niemoczynski (Moravian College)
Lunch 1:00-2:00
Group Photograph 2:00-2:30
2:40-3:50: Mind in Nature
“Mind, Extended. or
Artificial, or Naturalized?: An Ecstatic Naturalist Quest for Mind and Nature”
– Iljoon Park (Methodist Theological Seminary)
“Human Mind and Nature’s
Mind” – Gene Nasser
4:10-5:20: Eco-Theology and Panpsychism
“A Study of
Eco-Cosmological Theology from a Naturalist Perspective” – SooYoun Kim
“As so Many Sense-Organs
of the Earth’s Soul: The Continuing Relevance of William James’s Reflections on
Panpsychism “ – Jonathan Weidenbaum (Berkeley College)
5:30-6:00 Announcement of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for
the Best Paper by a Junior Scholar ($500)
7:45 – Panel: Interview of Dr. Robert S. Corrington by Dr. Leon
Niemoczynski
“Questions
Concerning Mind in Nature”
Saturday April 14th
9:00-10:10: Expression of Mind
“On the Participation of
Nature in the Emergence of the Sacred: Bateson’s Ecology of Mind, Ecstatic
Naturalism, and Environmental Ethics” – Sarah O’Brien (Drew University)
“Deep Pantheism: Nature
Naturing and the Problem of Consciousness” -Thomas Millary
10:25-11:35: Metaphysics
“Transcendentalist
Metaphysics of the Semiosis of Nature” – Nicholas L. Guardiano (Southern
Illinois University)
“The Object Objects: An
Animist Turn to the Visceral Semiospheric Commens” – Emile Wayne (Drew
University)
11:50-1:00: Other Thinkers
“The Post-human and
Today’s Understanding of Paul: ‘The Remnants,’ ‘Becoming’ and the Ecstatic
Naturalist Mind” – Ick Sang Shin (Sunkonghoe University)
“To Find Reality: Bradley
and Ecstatic Naturalism” – Guy Woodward
Lunch 1:00-2:00
2:10-3:20: Asian Religion
“Learning from Water: A
Daoist Ecstatic Naturalism” - Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University)
“Thinking ‘Creative
Integrity’: Non-Coercive Ethical Agency in Ecstatic Naturalism and Confucian
Rule Ethics” – Joseph E. Harroff (East Stroudsburg University)
3:35-4:45: Community and Cosmos
“Beloved Community as
Cosmic Symphony” – Rory McEntee (Drew University)
“ Peirce and Ordinal
Psychoanalysis: A Jungian Approach” – Robert S. Corrington (Drew
University)
Concluding Remarks
Refreshments: Dinner on your own
Special Korean Session – Monday April 16th at 3:00 in
Seminary Hall
“The Mind and Nature in
the Prophetic Tradition” – Ji Eun Park
