MOORE HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM
“NIETZSCHE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE”
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
APRIL 17-19, 2008

In honor and memory of Robert C. Solomon

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 11:00 AM
ED LANDRETH AUDITORIUM
“Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life”
Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University)

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2-5:30 PM

JUSTIN BOARDROOM, DEE J. KELLY ALUMNI CENTER

Topic:  “Nietzsche and the Aesthetic Life”

2:00    "Nietzsche's Ethics of Philosophy"    
            Tom Miles (Boston College)

3:10    "Death and the Culture of Life"
            Daniel Conway (Texas A&M University)

4:20    "Feeling good feeling bad: The aesthetic life in On the Genealogy of Morals"
            Christa Davis Acampora (Hunter College, CUNY)

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 10-12:30 PM

JUSTIN BOARDROOM, DEE J. KELLY ALUMNI CENTER

Topic:  “Nietzsche, Free Spirits, and Spirituality”   

9:00 “High and Low in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”
         Robert Wood (University of Dallas)

10:10 "Nietzsche's
 Spirituality"
            Clancy Martin (The University of Missouri-Kansas City)

11:20    "So Polyphonous a Being: Friedrich Nietzsche in his Middle Works"
            Ruth Abbey (University of Notre Dame)
            Friday afternoon: Lunch for presenters at the Café Modern. The afternoon is open to explore the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Kimbell Art Museum

Friday evening: Open

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 9-12:30 AM; 2-5 PM

JUSTIN BOARDROOM, DEE J. KELLY ALUMNI CENTER

Topic:  “Nietzsche on Pessimism and Life Affirmation”

9:00    "The Great Health"
            Jessica Berry (Georgia State University)

10:10 "Living as Dancing"
            Alan White (Williams College)

11:20 "Nietzsche on
 Human Nature"
            Richard Schacht (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:30-1:45 Lunch (on your own)

Topic:  “Nietzsche on How to Be a Philosopher”

2:00 “Tantaluses of the Will: Philosophizing in (Post-)Modernity”   
        David Sherman (The University of Montana)

3:10    “Why Nietzsche Writes the Way He Does”
            Maudemarie Clark (Colgate University)

4:20    "From Time to Time There Is Magic: Nietzsche and the
 Philosophical Life"
           Kathleen Higgins (The University of Texas at Austin)

6:30    Reception at the home of Ron Moore.


FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The Moore Humanities Symposium is made possible by the financial support of The Ronald E. Moore Foundation
TCU AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences
TCU Department of Philosophy
TCU Office of Marketing and Communication

SYMPOSIUM CONVENER
Blake Hestir

SYMPOSIUM PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
Blake Hestir, Kathleen Higgins, Ann McDonald, Carrie Moore, Beth Philp

PUBLICITY
Lisa Albert, Gorland Mar