The Inaugural OSU Colloquium on Consciousness and Its Representation

(Click here for abstracts of all the papers.)


Wednesday, March 7, 11:30 – 1:18


Panel I: Rethinking Psychoanalytic Approaches to Consciousness

Candice Pitts, “The Case of Dora: Female Hysteria or a Case of Freud’s Other?”

Pat Carr, “L’autre c’est moi: Poulet’s Cogito as objet a”

Wamae Muriuki, “Thieves In The Grass: Zen Praxis and the Lacanian Real”


Panel II:  Minding the Fact-Fiction Distinction

Greg Smith, “Pirandello’s Possible Worlds: The (Meta)Fictionality of Six Characters in Search of an Author”

Aaron Seddon, “The Factual-Fictional Divide and Malleability of the Self”

John Nees, “Across a Porous Border: Consciousness Report and Nonfiction.”


Thursday, March 8, 6:15 – 8:00

Panel III: Consciousness Representation across Media and Genres

Dennis Wise, “Beyond Modernist Depth: Consciousness and Context in Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever”

Calvin Johns, “Portrayals of Artificial Consciousness in Anime: Material Souls”

Alejandro Jacky, “Creating a Past Amid a Sheet of Bullets: Memory Reconstruction in Latin American Testimonial and United States Hip Hop”


Panel IV: Consciousness as Theory-Building Resource

Kaela King, “Readers Meet Theory: 'A Rose for Emily' and the Construction of Audience Consciousness”

Ruth Ann Harris, “Habermas and Learning Theory: Communication, Social Relationships and a New Form of Consciousness in Democratic Adult Learning Practices”