The Pains and Pleasures of Interpersonal Self-Consciousness

The pains and pleasures of a human life are closely tied to our consciousness of ourselves in relation to others. When we fall under the gaze of another we feel differently about ourselves. When we lose, or love, others we ourselves are changed.

Following the award of a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship for a project on ‘The Pains and Pleasures of Interpersonal Self-Consciousness’ in 2020/21, Lucy O’Brien is organising a one-day meeting both to present work from the project on how we might make sense of the kind of interpersonal self-consciousness that underlies the changes to ourselves wrought by others, and to bring it together with the work of others in UCL thinking about interpersonal social relations. All are welcome attend.

Programme

10.00-11.30 am
Lucy O’Brien
Department of Philosophy, UCL
‘The Puzzle of Interpersonal Self-Consciousness’

11.40am-1.10pm
Sarah Garfinkel
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
‘Interoceptive Mechanisms of Interpersonal Self-Consciousness’

1.10pm-2.20 pm Lunch break

2.20-3.50pm
Tom Stern
Department of Philosophy, UCL
‘Grief and the Second Self’

4.00-5.30 pm
John Mullan
Department of English, UCL
‘The Pains and Pleasures of Being a Jane Austen Heroine’