Voluntary death – interdisciplinary approaches
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Description
Voluntary death – interdisciplinary approaches
Tentative agenda
Cf. the presentation of the conference : https://suicide-conference-2019.home.blog/2018/11/10/about/
July 17-18, 2019
Where: Drachlis Hall, Gilman building (Humanities), room 496, Tel Aviv University
Interdisciplinary workshop, organized under the auspices of
– the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying (IAPDD)
– The School of Philosophy, Linguistics & Science Studies at the Tel-Aviv University
– the Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life.
Co-organized by Dr Anna C. Zielinska, philosopher at the University of Lorraine/Archives Henri Poincaré, France and Yael Lavi, PhD candidate at the Tel Aviv University
Registration is free but please let us know that you are planning to come: [email protected]
Wednesday July 17, 2019
12:00-13:00 – Registration
13:00 – 13:15 – Welcoming notes and introduction – Yossi Schwartz (TAU), Yael Lavi (TAU) and Anna C. Zielinska (Univ. Lorraine)
13: 15 – 14:30 – Panel : Emile Durkheim, Suicide as a social fact – 100 years later
– Prof. Haim Hazan, Professor of sociology and social anthropology at Tel Aviv University: Suicide as moral seismograph – a neo-Durkheimian approach. (to be confirmed)
– Yotam Reuveni , Writer, poet, literary critic and publisher, the translator of Durkheim`s “suicide” to Hebrew (to be confirmed)
14:30 – 15:30 – Prof. Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy and Director, California Center for Ethics and Policy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona – Whatever Happened to the Right to Die?
15:30 – 15:45 – break
15:45 – 17:15 – Contributed papers session: conceptual frontiers (25 minutes per paper + 20 minutes of discussion)
– Miguel Ángel Quintana-Paz: Suicide, Stoicism and Wittgensteinian Ethics: A Controversial Approach
– Johannes Abel: Pathological and existential suicide and the pathology of existence
17:15 – 17:45 – coffee break
17:45 – 18:45 – Conversations – On Freedom, Choice & Death
– Prof. Michael Barilan, Professor at the Department of Medical Education, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
– Prof. Maya Bar-Hillel, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University. member and former Director of the Federman Centre for the Study of Rationality.
19:00 – 20:45 – Film screening – The Farewell Party (Mita Tova) and a short discussion, chaired by Anna C. Zielinska (University of Lorraine, France) – hall 223
Thursday July 18, 2019
09:00 – 10:30 – Contributed papers session (25 minutes per paper + 20 minutes of discussion):
– Aviram Sariel: Jewish suicide & mourning: a reflection of modern Jewish law and Orthodox society.
– Chang-Fang-Chi: Distinction between suicide and voluntary death in the context of Socrates’ death
10:35 – 11:20 – Conversations – Language as refusal (in Hebrew, with English simultaneous translation)
– Dr Michal Ben-Naftali, writer, essayist, translator and editor, winner of the 2016 Sapir Prize.
– Dr. Anat Matar, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Aviv University.
11:20 – 11:40 – coffee break
11:40 – 13:30 – Panel: Judgment and Decision Making regarding voluntary death
– Dr. Shmuel Kron, MD, Psychiatrist. Former director of Shalvata Mental health Center.
– Dr. Yermi Harel, MD, Psychiatrist at the Loewenstein Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, Raanana, Israel and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
– Dr. Shai Brill, MD. Chief Geriatrician – Clalit Health Services (until recently CEO, Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital) and Co-Director, Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the End of Life, Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University.
13:30 – 14:30 – lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 – Contributed papers session (25 minutes per paper + 20 minutes of discussion)
– Ran Sapir: A new look at suicide: A critique of the psychoanalytic approach to suicide
– Zohar Lederman: When Life Becomes too Hard
16:00 – 16:15 – break
16:15 – 17:15 – Prof. Andrew Bennett, Professor of English, University of Bristol & the author of: Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
17:15 – 17: 45 – coffee break
17:45- 19:00 – Final discussion with the Minerva Centre, the audience and the participant moderated by prof. Shay Lavi (director, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, professor at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University and co-director of Minerva Center for the Study of End of Life), with:
– Prof. José Brunner, Professor Emeritus at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas.
– Prof. Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
– Prof. Daphna Hacker, Professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and Women & Gender Studies Program
– Yael Lavi, The School of Philosophy, Linguistics & Science Studies at the Tel-Aviv University.
Site internet : https://suicide-conference-2019.home.blog/2018/11/10/about/