Conference: "Shame and Self"

The conference will focus on the relation between shame and self. Confirmed speakers include Galen Strawson, Peter Hobson, Philippe Rochat, W. Ray Crozier, Gretty Mirdal, Vasudevi Reddy, Hilge Landweer, Claudia Welz, Arne Grøn and Dan Zahavi.  

Participation in the conference is free but prior registration is required.
Please register before 1 December by clicking here. (Registration is closed)

Thursday 2 December 2010

09:15-09:30 Welcome and Introduction
09:30-10:45 Vasudevi Reddy (University of Portsmouth):
                  "Falling in your eyes: the possibility of shame in early infancy"
10:45-12:00 Philippe Rochat (Emory University):
                  "Fear of rejection and the origins of shame"
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:15 Galen Strawson (University of Reading): 
                  "Shame as superficial"
14:15-15:30 Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen, CFS):
                   "Shame and shamelessness"
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:15 Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen, CFS):
                  "The self-transforming experience of shame"

Friday 3 December 2010

09:30-10:45 Peter & Jessica Hobson (Tavistock Clinic & University College London):
                   "Shame and the structure of personal relations"
10:45-12:00 Claudia Welz (University of Copenhagen, CFS):
                   "Scenes of shame, social roles and the play with masks"
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:15 Gretty Mirdal (University of Copenhagen):
                  "Fading honour - blushing shame"
14:15-15:30 W. Ray Crozier (Cardiff University & University of East Anglia):
                  "The blush in relation to embarrassment and shame"
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:15 Hilge Landweer (Freie Universität Berlin):
                   "Shame, appropriateness and morality"

Organized by Dan Zahavi.