Wednesday, May 13th

13:15 - 13:30 Welcome Address
(Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

13:30 - 14:45 Plenary
Hartmut Rosa: “Cold and Indifferent – or Responsive and Benign? Towards a Critical Sociology of Self-World-Relations”

Coffee Break

15:00 - 17:00 Workshops

Room A
Mattias Iser: “Recognition and Violence”
David Strecker: “Making Sense of the Power Debate”
Eva Erman: “What Is Wrong with Agonistic Pluralism? Reflections on Conflict in Democratic Theory”

Room B
Luigi Pellizzoni & Maria Ylönen: “Eco-challenges and the Idiom of Co-production. Edge of Criticism or Flawed Tool”
Furio Cerrutti: “Man-made Climate Change, the Last Event in the Dialectic of Enlightenment”

Room C
Chris Allsobrook: “Ideology Criticism and Crisis in the Knowledge Economy”
Radu Neculau: “Normative Validity, Cultural Identity, and Ideology Critique”
Paula Diehl: “Image Trouble and The Problem of Political Representation”

Coffee Break

17:15 - 19:15 Workshops

Room A
Josef Lewandoski: “Trust and Transitions: Civil Society in Contemporary Post-Communist Countries”
Pavel Barša: “Sources of Civic Solidarity: Rethinking Neo-Tocquevillean Social Theory”
Marek Skovajsa: “Ambivalent Historical Sources of Associational Life in Post-Communist Countries”

Room B
Erazim Kohák: “The Will to History and Our History”
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: “Moral Blindness and Banality in Contemporary Discussions of Violence and Domination”
Simon Laumann Joergensen: “Recognition and Violence: The Power of Non-domination?”

Room C
Ann-Marie Eggert Olsen: “The Concept of Theory in Critical Theory”
Pieter Duvenage: “What is Critique in Critical Theory?”
Pierre Francoise Noppen: “The Practice of Critique. Reflections on the Young Adorno’s Critical Materialism”
Timo Jütten: “Habermas on Reification”



Thursday, May 14th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary
Seyla Benhabib: “Human Rights, Cosmopolitan Norms, and Democratic Iterations: Contemporary Debates on International Law”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary
Thomas Pogge: “The Crisis as an Opportunity for Structural Change: Where Should We Focus Our Political Energies?”

Lunch Break

15:00 - 17:00 Workshops
   
Room A
Felix Koch: “Understanding Normative Power”
Andreas Bordum: “Power and Change”

Room B
Dimitar Vatsov: “The Performative: Between Citation and Sovereingty of  Power (Butler, Austin, Derrida)”
Isaac Balbus: “The Power of Klein”
Thomas Briebicher: “Theorizing the State and Its Power: Neo-Marxist and Postructuralist Perspectives”

Room C
Matthias Kettner: “How to Represent the Crash of Capitalism as Crisis and Get Away with It”
Anne Barron: “The `Access to Knowledge’ Movement and Global Intellectual Property Norms: Constitutionalisation versus Juridification?”

Coffee Break

17:15 - 19.15 Workshops

Room A
“On Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age”
Maeve Cooke: “Secularization as Pluralization: Reflections on Charles Taylor´s Secular Age”
Alessandro Ferrara: “A Third Kind of Secularism and Its Consequences”
María Pía Lara: “Narratives of Secularization and the Disclosure of Politics”

Room B
Eli Zaretsky: “Why Was There no Fascism in the USA?
Sergio Cremaschi: “Aldo Capitini and Guido Calogero, The Founders of Italian Liberal Socialism. On Violence and Power”

Room C
Krassimir Stojanov: “Empiricism as ‘Neo-liberal’ Policy (Justice vs. Liberty in the Recent Educational Research in Germany)”
Margarita Palacios: “Emotional Ties and Normativity: The Case of ‘Violent’ Youth”
Sussanne Draheim & Tilman Reitz: “Learning Opportunities and Social Hierarchy. Restructuring of Class Order in Knowledge Societies”

19.30
Lecture/Recital: Stefan Litwin
(wine and cheese before the recital starts)



Friday, May 15th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary
Jean Cohen: “Constitution, Representation, and Federation in a Global Context”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary
Rainer Forst:  “Justice and Power”

Lunch Break

15:00 - 17:00 Workshops

Room A
Lourdes Arizpe: “Cultural Recognition in World Politics”
Martin Sauter: “Construction and Management of Boundaries in Globalizing Societies”
Henning Hahn: “Iris Marion Young´s Conception of Political Responsibility”

Room B
Daniel Steuer: “Critique and the Ordinary: Habermas and Cavell as Readers of Austin and Wittgenstein”
Anastasia Marinopoulou: “Sciences as Main Contributors Towards Social Rationality: Some Interdisciplinary Concerns in Max Horkheimer and Jürgen Habermas”
Ojvind Larsen: “The Right To Disssent: The Critical Principle in Habermas’ Ethics and Political Philosophy”

Room C
Arto Laitinen: “Esteem as a Type of Recognition (Part 2)”
Somogy Varga: “Critical Theory and the Two Level Account of Recognition. Towards a New Fundament?”
Estelle Ferrarese: “Recognition Without Struggle. Why Struggle Is Necessary to the Theme of Recognition”

Coffee Break

17:15 -19:15 Workshops

Room A
Banu Bargu: “Toward the Red Republic: Machiavelli, Marx, and Critical Theory”
Robert Fine: “Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and the Critique of Capitalist Society”
Liu Wenxuan: “Marx’s Theory of Knowledge: Especially the Standpoint of the Paris Manuscripts of 1844”

Room  B
Gary Schaal, Claudia Ritzi, and Veith Selk: “Critical Perspectives on Post-democracy”
Todd Hedrick: “Implications of the Frankfurt School’s Concept of the Authoritarian State for the Theory of Democracy”
Bill Scheuerman: “Postnational Democracies Without Postnational States?”

Room C
Gigi Tevzadze & Giga Zedania: “Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identities: Towards a New Understanding of Regional Identity”
Marta Kolářová & Ondřej Slačálek: “Alternative Global Arenas: Zapatista’s Encuentro Intergaláctico and the World Social Forum 2009”
Asger Sorensen: “Critique of Ideology from the South: Enrique Dussel”



Saturday, May 16th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary   
Robin Celikates: “On Tyranny”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary
Dana Villa: “Arendt and Adorno: Genealogies of Terror”

Lunch Break

15:00 - 17:00 Workshops

Room A
Jason Hill: “ On Nancy Fraser’s Scales of Justice”
Ina Kerner: “‘Scales of Justice’ and the Challenges of Global Governmentality”
Gary Minda: “The Relevance of the Global Financial Collapse to the Global ‘Scales of Justice’”
Nancy Fraser: “Response to Hill, Kerner, and Minda”

Room B
Ann-Marie Smith: “Are the ‘Patternafare Conditions’ in America Welfare Law Justifiable? Fineman and Nussbaum on the Distributive Rights of Low-Income Single Mothers”
Chiara Bottici: Imagining Human Rights: Utopia or Ideology?”
Anja Karnein: “Intergenerational Justice: What We Owe to Their Children”

Room C
Ed Baker: “Liberal Neutrality”
Steven L. Winter: “Faux Constitutionalism (Of Coase and Footnote 4)”
Emil Višňovský: “Modern Society of Social Control”

17:15 - 19:15 Workshops

Room A
John Holmwood: “Sociology’s Misfortune: Problems of Achieving a Critical Discipline”
Milena Iakimova: “Some Negative Effects of the Critical Sociology on the Critique of Society”
Felicia Herrschaft: “Critique of Sociology: Adorno’s Sociology of Class”

Room  B
Benoit Challand: “The Exclusion of the Other: Scientific Literature and the Myth of the Clash between Civilizations”
Lenny Moss: “Autonomy and the Anthropology of Higher Level Skill Acquisitions: Critical Reflections on Reconstructing the Normative Basis of Critique”
Dietmar J. Wetzel and Aleksander Milosz Zielinski: “Financial Agent with Reduced Liability. Powerless Investors? Towards a Critical Sociology of Economy”

Room C (17:15-18:45)
Joaquín M. Valdivieso: “Locating Pro-Climate Politics”
Zhou Suiming: “Western Eco-Socialism in China”



Sunday, May 17th

10:00 - 11:15 Plenary
David Rasmussen: “Conflicted Modernity: Toleration as a Principle of Justice”

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:45 Plenary
Martin Matuštík: “The Unforgivable: The Possibility of Redemptive Critical Theory”