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This session will allow delegates to participate in a game about how not to go about meeting the objectives of meetings. In other words, the game illustrates and highlights in a vivid way some of the politics of meetings.

This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is characterized by a quality of grace; it occurs only when the Hegelian world gives way to a presence that has a different temporality, spatiality and ontology. This world is glimpsed, but inadequately conceptualized, in Durkheim s theory of religious congregation, which is characterized by a tension between identity and relational logics.

Board disbanded, Sept. 1925. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; has title: Minutes of the . annual meeting. ; 1923 included in: United States. Perry's Victory Memorial Commission. Annual meeting, 1923.