Conference, University of Galway

April 18th and April 19th 2024

Mapping Attention: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

DAY 1 THURSDAY 18th APRIL

SESSION 1 Theories of Attention – YESTERDAY

9.30-10.00 Arriving

10–10.30 Opening

10.30-11.00 Graham Burnett (Professor of History and History of Science, Princeton University) – The Attentive QUESTION: Epistemics and Erotetics in the Philosophy of Attention.

11.00-11.30 Vitor R. De Almeida (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)- The beauty of the present: Augustine, Murdoch, and Plato.

11.30-12.00 Amy Ward (MA Student, University of Guelph Nova Scotia, Canada) – Attending Against Self-Assertion.

12.00-12.30 Katherine Martha (PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University) – Where is the Justice in Iris Murdoch’s ‘Just and Loving Gaze’?

12.30–13.00 Hibi Pendleton (Senior Lecturer, Colgate University Hamilton, NY) – From Gazing to Conversing Building on Murdoch’s Conception of Virtuous Attention.

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.00 Keynote: Silvia Panizza

SESSION 2 Practices of Attention – TODAY

15.00-15.30 Antony Fredriksson (Assistant professor, Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice) – Shared Attention as a Revelatory Practice.

15.30-16.00 Ananya Rajoo (PhD Candidate, University of Galway)- Art is Attention.

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break.

16.30-17.00 Michael Quinn (PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow) – Pedagogy of AI interactions through Film.

17.00-18.00 Keynote: Megan Laverty

Day 2 FRIDAY 19th April

SESSION 3 Beneficiaries of Attention – TOMORROW

9.30-10.00 Arriving

10.00-10.30 Fay Lee (Master Student, KU Leuven) – The Vulnerable and the Lovable: On the Scope and Ethics of Attention.

10.30-11.00 Allyn Fives (Senior Lecturer, University of Galway) – Akrasia and moral conflict in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell.

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break.

11.30 12.00 Yener Çağla Çimendereli (PhD Candidate, Syracuse University, NY) – Cognitive Noise and Attention in Nonnative Speaking.

12.00-13.00 LUNCH 

13.00-14.00 Keynote: Nora Ward

14.00-14.30  Chiara Li Mandri (PhD Candidate, University of Palermo)- The Relevance of Our Non-Essentiality: Contemplating Human Extinction to Focus Attention on Non-Human Worlds.

14.30-15.00 Enea Bianchi. (PhD, currently teaching at the University of Galway) – The Last Gaze: Attention and Post-Apocalyptic Narratives.

15.00-15.30 Conclusions and Thanks.