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Note 1: Participation in the Webinar is by invitation only. In order to receive the invitation for the Webinar, please email Leonard Lawlor, lul19@psu.edu, or Ted Bergsma, tzb5226@psu.edu.Note 2: All times below are Eastern Standard Time (EST) for the USA and Canada ProgramFriday, November 6Welcome comments 8:45 amSession 1Keynote 9:00-11:00 amModerator: Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University, USAFrédéric Worms, École normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, France, Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago: “Global Bergsonism” Session 2 Encounters with Bergson: Evaluations and Analysis 11:15 am-12:45 pmModerator: Nicolas de Warren, Penn State UniversityJoël Dolbault, Independent Scholar, France: “Pan-psychism in Bergson and James”Mohit Abrol, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India: “Bergson-Eliot Encounters: Philosophical Notes on Time, Theology and Culture” Session 3 Sympathy, Ethics and Aesthetics: Bergsonian Approaches in Dialogue 4:00-5:30 pmModerator: Débora Morato Pinto, Universidad Federal de São Carlos, BrazilMelanie White, University of New South Wales, Australia: “Bergson and Sympathy”Miguel Paley, The New School for Social Research, USA: “Utility, Affect, and Self-Constitution: A Bergsonian Reading of Levinas and Whitehead” Saturday, November 7Session 1    Creative Evolution: Philosophical and Biological Perspectives 9:00-10.30 amModerator: Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University, JapanTano Posteraro, Penn State University, USA: “Canalization and Creative Evolution: Images of Life from Bergson to Whitehead and Beyond”Emily Herring, University of Ghent, Belgium: “Bergson’s Creative Evolution and 20th Century Biology”Session 2 Bergson and the Political: Liberalism and Colonialism 4:00-5.30 pm    Moderator: Émile Kenmogne, Yaounde 1 University, CameroonAlexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia: “Bergson and Liberalism”Larry S. McGrath, Wesleyan University, USA: “Bergson’s Views on Colonialism: Education and Empire in North Africa after the French Third Republic” Friday, November 13Session 1 Bergson and Critical Theory of Race 9:00-10:30 amModerator: Alia Al-Saji, McGill University, CanadaLeah Kaplan, Emory University, USA: “Black Time and the Suspension of Duration”Rebecca Hill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia: “Reading Bergson beyond the Figure of Man with Wynter and Indigenous Philosophy” Session 2     Bergson and Anglo-American Evolutionary Theories 10:45 am-12:15 pmModerator: Povilas Aleksandravicius, Mykolas Romeris University, LithuaniaBruno Rates, University of São Paulo, Brazil: “Creative Evolution and American Evolutionary Thought: The influence of Edward Drinker Cope, James Mark Baldwin and Nathaniel Southgate Shaler on Bergson’s Views of Life and Technology”Mathilde Tahar-Malaussena, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France: “The History of the Bergsonian Interpretation of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution” Session 3 Keynote  4:00-5:30 pmModerator: Caterina Zanfi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/École normale supérieure, rue d’Ulm, FranceSuzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA: Title to be announced 