We are happy to host Professor Megan Craig for a fall lecture, entitled, "Relation and Rupture at the End of Life."
Craig will consider three kinds of relations: being-there-alongside, waiting, and staying, that come into focus at or after the end of life. The first relation is explored in light of Heidegger’s and Levinas’s contrasting accounts of responsibility, the second in terms of Bergson’s notion of hesitation, and the third in relation to Winnicott’s description of a “holding environment.” The work serves as a plea for spaces and practices that support more generous, open-ended, and nuanced relations among those who are dying and those who attend to and survive them.
Megan Craig is an artist, essayist, and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Art at Stony Brook University. Craig has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally and has been awarded painting residencies and grants from several institutions. She is also the graphic designer for Firehouse 12 Records.
Her publications include: Thinking in Transit: Explorations of Life in Motion (with Edward S. Casey) 2025, Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, (edited with Marcia Morgan 2016, and Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology 2010.
An informal reception will follow the lecture at the home of Professor Mary Magada-Ward.
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