WEDNESDAY MAY 14


13:00 Opening address: Director of Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

Plenary
13:30 – 14:30 Johann Arnason, Critical theory and multiple modernities

Coffee break

Workshops 15:00 - 17:00

A
End(s) of Multiculturalism
Sybille De la Rosa: Apropriation or Approximation: The Emergence of Immediate Horizons
Erazim Kohák: On the End(s) of Multiculturalism Mikuláš Havran: Towards Ideals of Multiculturalism
Ian Angus: Plurality of Regimes, Federalism, the Truth of Multiculturalism

B
Politics of Methodology
Cathrine Holst: Gender Justice in the EU: Normative Subtext of Methodological Choices
Sam Lucas: Evidence Problems in Adjudicating Allegations of Genocide
Emmanuel Melissaris: A critique of legal theory as an expert culture
Catherine Kellogg and Stephanie Martens: Politics of Concepts, Concepts of Politics

C
Modern Social Imaginaries
Matthew Binney: Burke and Kant’s Sublime: The Imagination and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
John Mahoney: Secularism and Political Legitimacy
Oana Pastae: Imagination and the Theory of Emotions: Joy and Sadness: A Semantical Approach

Coffee Break

Workshops 17:30 - 19:30

A
Human Rights
Claudio Corradetti: Dialectic of recognition. For a post-metaphysical justification of human rights
Jeff Flynn: From Constitutional Rights to Human Rights
Benjamin Gregg: Multiculturalism and “Universal” Human Rights
Jason Hill: The Right to Permanent Residency as a Human Right

B
Adorno & Marcuse
Deborah Cook: Adorno’s Inverse Theology
Inara Luiza Marin: Marcuse’s Critical Model: Between Negativity and Normativity
Samantha Bankston: The Smooth Space of Intellectual Property: Hegel, Marcuse, and the Nomadic State

C
Politics of Imagination
Camil Ungureanu: Derrida and Davidson on the Place of Fiction and Literature
Cerasel Cuteanau: Rorty and the Paradigm of Imagination
George Taylor: Imagination and the Displacement of Reason



THURSDAY MAY 15


Plenaries
09:30 - 10:30 Ronald Beiner, Domestic Murder: Machiavelli, Freud, and Christianity

10:45 - 11:45 Banu Bargu, Sacrificial Partisanship, Sovereignty, and History

12:00 - 13:00 Amy Allen, "Reason, Power, and the Future(s) of Critical Theory"

Lunch Break

Workshops 15:00-17:00

A
Politics of Imagination
Chiara Bottici: The Politics of Imagination
Alessandro Ferrara: Politics and the Imagination
Maeve Cooke: Response to Alessandro Ferrara
Fred Rush: Politics and Imagination

B
Identity, Hegemony, Democracy
Allison Weir: Who Are We? Between Taylor and Foucault
Stefan Rummens: Democracy as non-hegemonic struggle: Mouffe's agonistic model
Dimitar Vatsov: Citizenship after Multiculturalism: Toward an Affirmative Concept of Democracy

C
Democracy, Representation, Communication
Martin Šimsa: Normative Theory, Democratic Practice, and Context
Shane Ryan: Representative democracy
Gary Schaal: Empirical Challenges to Communicative Democracy
Charles Girard: Can the Deliberative Ideal Help us Rethink News Media Regulation?

Coffee Break

Workshops 17:30-19:30

A
Capitalisms
Andrew Chitty: Nature & Freedom in Marx’s Critique of Capitalism
Matthias Kettner: What (if anything) is Morally Wrong with Commercialization?
Heiner Michel: Towards Fair Terms of Global Economic Co-Operation
Ed Baker: Media, Markets, Democracy

B
Theorizing Autonomy
Italo Testa: Second Nature and History
Christian Rostbøll: Provoking Self-Reflection: Cartoons, Deliberation and Autonomy
Steven Winter: Democracy, Autonomy, Self-Governance
John Holmwood: From 1968 to 1951: How Habermas transformed Marx into Parsons

C
Revisiting 1968
Maria Pia Lara: 1968: Powers and Illusions of Imagination
Kevin Gray: Saving 1968 after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Arguing with Habermas against Habermas
Felicia Herrschaft: 1968 in Frankfurt

Dinner and film
20:00 – 24:00 Catered buffet dinner and screening of landmark film on 1968:
Chris Marker, “Grin without a Cat” (v.o. “Le fond de l'air est rouge”)


FRIDAY MAY 16


Plenaries
09:30 - 10:30 Albena Azmanova, The Left-Right Discontinuum and the Politics of Re-commodification

10:45 - 11:45 Krassimir Stojanov, Post-Socialist Transition as Uncompleted Process of Informal Learning: Genesis of a „Non-Participative Democracy“ in Eastern Europe

12:00 - 13:00 Lorella Cedroni, Global Capitalism and the Transformation of Democracy

Lunch Break

Workshops 15:00 - 17:00

A
Multiple Identities, Multiple Democracies
Andrea Baumeister: Civic Nation Building: Legitimacy, Solidarity Diversity
Robert Fine: Postnational Europe and antisemitism: Hidden affinities?
Eyal Chowers: Peace and the Nation State
Jaroslava Gajdosova: Multicultural narratives of guilt in German collective memory

B
Revisiting 1968
Robin Celikates: Civil Disobedience as Social Critique
Daniel Loick: “No Justice, no Peace”: Towards a Critical Theory of the Police
Mattias Iser: 1968’s Challenge: Critical Theory and the Question of Legitimate Violence

C
Politics of Nature
Steven Vogel: What is Alienation from Nature?
Andrew Biro: “Enlightenment Reverts to Mythology”: Climate Porn and the Death of Environmentalism
Lenny Moss: Critical Theory and Human Nature after Genomics and the Science Wars

Coffee Break

Workshops 17:30-19:30

A
Cosmopolitanism
David Rasmussen: Kant, Rawls and the Critique of Cosmopolitanism
Lea Ypi: Politically Constructing Solidarity: The Idea of a Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde
Gurminder Bhambra: Multiculturalism, A Provincialized Cosmopolitan Approach
Stefan Militzer: Law versus Humanity

B
Recognition, Reification, Normalization
David Owen: Forgetting Recognition: Honneth, Reification and Disrespect
Michail Skomvoulis: Lukacs as a Theorist of the Social Imaginary
Dianna Taylor: Normativity and Normalization

C
Religion, Publicity, Privacy
Karsten Fischer: Secularization and its Discontents: Politics and Religion in Habermas
Jorg Schaub: Political Liberalism as a Response to Pluralism
David Peritz: Religion in Public Reason and the Public Sphere
Sandra Seubert: Why are we interested in privacy? Problems of liberal self-containment

19:45-21:00 Catered buffet dinner and Panel on Social Movements in the Czech Republic and in the World (No Basis Initiative and World Social Forum) Chico Whitaker, Jan Májíček, Jiří Silný


SATURDAY MAY 17


Plenaries
09:30 - 10:30 James Fishkin, Deliberative Democracy: from thought experiments to real experiments

10:45 - 11:45 Andreas Kalyvas, Toward a Theory of Constituent Democracy

12:00 - 13:00 Robert Goodin, Global Democracy: In the Beginning

Lunch Break

Workshops 15:00 - 17:00

A
Revisiting 1968
Otakar Turek and Miloš Pick: The Economic Reform in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s
Nancy Fraser: 1968 and the Cunning of History: Capitalism, Feminism, Hillary
Zhou Suiming: New Social Movements and China

B
Marx, Habermas, Agamben
Samir Gandesha: Marx, Modernization and Modernism
Gordon Finlayson: Bare Life and Political Life in Agamben’s Social Theory
Rafaella Giovagnoli: Autonomy: a Matter of Content

C
Political Conflict and Deliberative Competence
Joel Anderson: Deliberative Competence Gaps
Kevin Olson: Authorized Speech and Hegemonic Idiom
Bert van den Brink: Circumstances of Democratic Deliberation
Shawn Rosenberg: Autonomy and Equality in a World of Sub-Standard Citizens

Coffee Break

Workshops 17:30 - 19:30

A
Reason, Norm, Critique
Barbara Fultner: Meaning, Norms and Creativity
Nikolas Kompridis: Democratic Politics, Public Reason, and the Freedom for New Beginnings
Titus Stahl: Social ontological foundations of immanent critique

B
Borders, Sovereignty, War
Brian Milstein: Re-conceptualizing the Boundary in Political Theory: A Critical-Hermeneutic Approach
Ricard Zapata-Barrero: Normative Theorizing on Territorial Boundaries
Petra Gumplová: Kelsen’s Critique of Sovereignty
Bill Scheuerman: Torture and the 'New Paradigm' of Warfare

C
Politics of Nature
Taine Duncan: Future of Human Nature: Habermas and the Ethics of Expanding Human Nature
Anja Karnein: Controversial Biomedical Technologies: A Challenge to Freedom?
Luigi Pellizzoni & Marja Ylönen: Responsibility in uncertain times: Institutional perspectives on precaution
Chris Allsobrook: State of Nature: Appeal to the profit motive


SUNDAY MAY 18


Plenaries
09:30 - 10:30 Anthony Laden, The Emergence of Norms Through Casual Conversation

10:45 - 11:45 Lauren Langman, 1968- 2008: Diary of an Activist Generation

12:00 - 13:00 Martin Saar, Violence, Utopia, Revolution? Social Criticism “after 68”