Wednesday, May 11th

13:00 - 13:30
Introduction: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

13:30 - 14:45 Plenary: What is Emancipation?
Maria Pia Lara: “The Semantics of Conceptual Change: The Emergence of a Concept of Emancipation”

Coffee Break

15:00 - 17:00

Room A: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
William E. Scheuerman: “Who's Afraid of World Government?”
Asger Sørensen: “Cosmopolitan Democracy and the State”
Hristo Gyoshev: “Emancipation Games in International Relations”

Room B: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
He Cuixiang: “The Frankfurt School’s Historical Effects in China”
Zhao Sikong: “China Model in the Eyes of Chinese Scholars: Debate between the Left and the Right”

Room C: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Pieter Duvenage: “Reason, Critique, and Society. Three Animating Concepts of Critical Theory”
Dimitar Vatsov: “Diagnosing Social Critique Today: Toward an Agonistic Reading of Recognition Problematic

Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:15

Room A: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Maeve Cooke: “The Postmetaphysical Condition – and Beyond”
Huw Rees: “What Postsecularism Is Not”
George Hull: “Nietzschean Genealogy as Diagnosis of Ethical Irrationality”

Room B: Workshop on Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Felicia Herrschaft: “New Forms of Authoritarianism in Youth Cultures”
Ondřej Štěch: “Can We Question Authority?”
Øjvind Larsen: “Perikles and Plato – From Democratic Political Practice to Totalitarian Political Philosophy”

Room C: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Robert Gianni: “What is Emancipation?”
Brian O’Connor: “Emancipation as Construction: The Case of Marx on the Senses”
Per Jepsen: “The End of Emancipation? Pessimism and Critical Theory in the Late Horkheimer”



Thursday, May 12th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary: What is Emancipation?
Frederick Neuhouser: “Marx (and Hegel) on How to Philosophize about Freedom”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary: What is Emancipation?
Hartmut Rosa: “What Is the Opposite of Alienation? Towards a New Conception of a Non-Alienated Life”

Lunch Break

15:00 - 17:00

Room A: Workshop on Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Erazim Kohák: “Authority as Experience: Methodological Prolegomena to the Study of Social Phenomena”
Martin Šimsa: “Critique of Authoritative and Despotic Elements and Regimes in the Czech Democratic Discourse”
Yujia Zhang: “Leviathan and the Guerrilla Strategy”

Room B: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Gurminder K. Bhambra: “Emancipation and the Struggle for Equality: The African American Dilemma”
David Strecker: “Arguing for Emancipation? Lessons of the Fight against Slavery on Forms, Ambiguities and Limitations of Moral Argument”

Room C: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Filipe Campello: “Pathos of Reason: Hegel, Emotions and Fanaticism”
Giorgio Cesarale: “Freedom and Institutions in Robert B. Pippin’s Philosophical Perspective”

Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:15

Room A: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Donald J. Moon: “Rawls, Global Justice, and the Paradox of Globalization”
Jonathan Trejo-Mathys: “Kant, Habermas and the Duty to Promote a Global Legal Order of Human Rights”
Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio: “International Law between Two Postmodernisms: Reframing the Relationship between International Law and Domestic Law”

Room B: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Ross Poole: “Human Rights and Human Beings”
Ayten Gündoğdu: “Perplexities of ‘A Right to Have Rights’: Hannah Arendt and the Outlines of a Groundless Cosmopolitics”
Matthias Fritsch: “Discourse Ethics and the Intergenerational Chain of Concern”

Room C: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Harry F. Dahms: “Theorizing Modern Society as Artifice: Adorno’s Negative Dialectics as Contemporary Critical Theory”
Krassimir Stojanov: “Ideology Critique as Struggle against Reification?”
Gary Minda: “The Relevance of Worker Awareness and the Uprising in Egypt and America”



Friday, May 13th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary: Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Jason D. Hill: “Illiberal Values in Liberal Europe: A Rawlsian Inquiry”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary: Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Enrique Dussel: “Democratic Representation and Participation: A Latin American Political Philosophy – Bolivia and Venezuela”

Lunch Break

15:00 - 17:00

Room A: Roundtable on “Multiple Modernities and Political Philosophy”
organized by Johann Arnason & David Rasmussen with interventions by Eduardo Bittar and Alessandro Ferrara

Room B: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Tania Mancheno: “Emancipation and Pragmatism: Two Incompatible Concepts?”
Miriam Madureira: “Emancipation between Negative Liberty and Reconciliation”
Timo Jütten: “Reification and Freedom”

Room C Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Claudio Corradetti: “What Does Pluralism Require of Human Rights?”
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “The Ethics and Politics of Recognition of Cultures”

Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:15

Room A: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Banu Bargu: “Theorizing Self-Immolations in the Middle East”
Marianne Le Nabat: “Setting Aside Sovereignty: On Recent Events in the Middle East”
René Dorn: “Mapping Sovereignty”

Room B: Workshop on Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Ian Zuckerman: “Plebiscitarian Democracy as Political Theology”
Lars Vinx: “Carl Schmitt and the Authoritarian Deformation of Popular Sovereignty”
Vitor Blotta: “The Fascination of Authority and the Authority of Fascination: Rationalization and Legal Theory in Habermas Revised”

Room C: Workshop on Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Mario Alfredo Hernandez: “Learning from Catastrophes in a Gendered Way: Transitional Justice Revisited from Feminist Critical Theory”
Rafael Schincariol: “Brazilian Transitional Justice: What Remains of the Brazilian Dictatorship?”
Lorella Cedroni: “Dis-Advanced Democracies: The Reversal of the Common Western Sequence”

20:00 - 20:45
Communal Dinner at the Villa Lanna

20:45 - 22:00 After-Dinner Plenary: Critical Theory and The Arab Spring – 2011
Micheline Ishay: “Teheran, Tunis, Tahrir and Beyond: Is Human Rights Progressing?”



Saturday, May 14th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary: Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Regina Kreide: “Politicization: Changing the Semantics of ‘the Political’ in Political Theory”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary: Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Claus Offe: “From Migration in Geographic Space to Migration in Biographic Time: Views from Europe”

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Room A: Roundtable on “The Future of the Public University”
John Holmwood, Hartmut Rosa, Bill Scheuerman, Asger Sorensen. Chaired by Gurminder K. Bhambra.

15:30 - 17:30

Room A: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Martin Hartmann: “Paradoxes of Contemporary Capitalism: How To Go On?”
Somogy Varga: “The ‘Machine’ of Contemporary Capitalism”

Room B: Workshop on Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic
Dirk Jörke: “Redescribing Democracy”
Michael Halberstam & Meili H. Steele: “Adding Insult to Injury: Political Rhetoric and Consequence in Citizens United”
Antonio Palumbo: “Beyond the Post-War Schumpeterian Consensus: Governance, Legitimacy and Post-Democracy”

Room C: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Andreas Busen: “The Other of Emancipation: On the Potential of Re-Thinking the Relation between Emancipation and Solidarity”
Eva Erman: “The Boundary Problem: A Discourse-Theoretical Solution”

Coffee Break

17:45 - 19:30

Room A: Workshop on Politics and Sexuality
Martin Saar: “The Government of Affect: Conceptualizing the Politics of Emotions”
Inara Luisa Marim: “Psychoanalysis and/or Feminism”
Zhou Suiming: “Gender Studies in China: A Perspective from Chinese Studies on Western Marxism’s Feminism”

Room B: Workshop on Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives
Furio Cerutti: “Against the Humanism of Critical Theory”
Andrew Biro: “Emancipation in a Warmer World: Mitigating ‘Catastrophe’ or Adapting for Autonomy?”
Pedro Affonso D. Hartung: "Educating for the Having Mode of Existence: Diagnosing the Effects of Advertising to Children in Brazil"

Room C: Workshop on What is Emancipation?
Michael Hirsch: “What Is the Task of Critical Theory and What Could an Emancipatory Political Project Look Like? An Egalitarian, Radical Democratic and Feminist Proposal”
Teppo Eskelinen: “The ‘Cannot Afford’–Argument and the Essence of Money”
Isaac Ariail Reed: “Theorizing the Power-Causality Link”



Sunday, May 15th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary: Politics and Sexuality
Amy Allen: “Gender, Power and Reason: Feminism and Critical Theory”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary: Politics and Sexuality
Steven L. Winter: “Democracy and Gender Equality in Liberation Square”

End of the Conference.