Conference continued

I presented my paper on the second day of the conference and was very pleased with the helpful discussion afterwards. Other speakers were Frederic Pouillaude, Sorbonne; Graham McFee, University of Brighton; Julia Beauquel, a doctoral student at Nancy-Universite and one of the conference organizers; and Mikael Karlsson, who teaches at the University of Finland.

On the third and final day, Noel Carroll and Margaret Moore, from Temple University (my doctoral alma mater) presented a paper. They're at the front of the room here.

The other speakers on the final day were Bernard Andrieu and Uwe Behrens, both from Nancy-Universite. At the end of the second day, we saw a film on choreographer Pina Bausch and another contemporary dance performance, "Pluies," performed by Aurore Gruel and Francoise Klein.

Here are Roger Pouivet and Julia Beauquel, who did such a great job organizing this conference, going back a full year now. I learned at lunch with them a few days earlier that Julia actually obtained a copy of my 1981 doctoral dissertation, "Philosophical Problems of Dance Criticism." I think that demonstrates just how limited the literature on philosophy and dance is!

I understand that they are planning to publish all the papers presented at the conference, including French translations of the papers presented in English. The onerous translation duties will fall on Julia, who also translated our conference abstracts for the program.

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