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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2007 Events take place in Ida Noyes Hall
9:00-9:15	Welcome & Introduction Richard Rosengarten, Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School
9:15-12:00	SESSION I - SELF IN HISTORY Chair: Robert Pippin, Philosophy, University of Chicago Gabriel Richardson Lear, Philosophy, University of Chicago Plato on Acting & Being Yourself Vincent Carraud, Philosophy, Université de Caen L'ego et le moi chez saint Augustin et Descartes* Robert Morrissey, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago The Napoleonic Self and the Poetics of Fusion
12:00-1:30	Lunch (Provided in Foyer)
1:30-4:30	SESSION II - THE MORAL SELF Chair: Charles Larmore, Philosophy, Brown University Les moi et ses raisons d'être* Kathryn Tanner, Divinity School, University of Chicago On Not Wanting to be Oneself Jocelyn Benoist, Philosophy, Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne Being Oneself, Having One's Own
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2007 Events take place in Swift Hall
9:00-12:00	Opening Remarks Danielle Allen, Dean of the Division of the Humanities SESSION III - THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SELF Chair: Jonathan Lear, Philosophy, University of Chicago Jean-Luc Marion, Divinity School, University of Chicago; Philosophy, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne La finitude de l'ego* Rodolphe Calin, Philosophy, Université Paris-IV Sorbonne Le Soi et le Sens: soi éthique et soi poétique chez Levinas et Ricoeur* James Conant, Philosophy, University of Chicago Kierkegaard and Climacus on Subjective Thought
12:00-1:45	Lunch (Quad Club - participants only)
1:30-1:45	Coffee (Foyer)
1:45-4:45	SESSION IV - THE THEOLOGICAL SELF Chair: Bernard McGinn, Theology, University of Chicago David Tracy, Divinity School, University of Chicago The Subjected Self: Tragedy and Theology Jean-Yves Lacoste, Philosophy, Institut Catholique de Paris Again: Reasons and Persons Panel Discussion
4:45-5:00	Closing Comments Reception to follow.
* Papers will be given in English and French. English translations of French papers will be provided.