It's cheering to know there are some people such as yourself who are looking seriously at the problem. (I don't know Malpas but have heard of him. I should explain that I am something of an outsider in all this. My own major interest lies elsewhere and my observations about the analytic/continental divide are those of an interested observer rather than someone in the heat of the battle.)

A propos of conferences, I found this an amusing idea: Hold a conference on, say, 'What it means to be human." Say no more about the topic but invite (say) 5 mainstream analytic philosophers and 5 mainstream continentals. Then program them all alternately - one analytic, one continental - for maximum effect.  It would be philosophy's equivalent of the Tower of Babel.  (And how sad that would be, given the topic!)

DA