Conference

Philosophy and the Social Sciences

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University

Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 6

Wednesday, May 11th

Schedule

Meeting

13:00

13:30

Introduction: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Plenary: What is Emancipation?

Maria Pia Lara: "The Semantics of Conceptual Change:

The Emergence of a Concept of Emancipation"

14.45

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"

15:00 – 17:00

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"

15:00 – 17:00

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

17:00

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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

Schedule

Meeting

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary: What is Emancipation?

Frederick Neuhouser: "Marx (and Hegel) on How to Philosophize about Freedom"

11:15

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"

12:45 – 15:00

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"

15:00 – 17:00

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"

15:00 – 17:00

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"

17:00

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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

Schedule

Meeting

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary: Authoritarianism: Democratic, Non-Democratic and Post-Democratic

Jason D. Hill: "Illiberal Values in Liberal Europe: A Rawlsian Inquiry"

11:15

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"

12:45 – 15:00

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

15:00 – 17:00

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"

15:00 – 17:00

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"

17:00

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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"

17:15 – 19:15

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

Schedule

Meeting

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary: Diagnosing the Present: New Critical Perspectives

Regina Kreide: "Politicization: Changing the Semantics of 'the Political' in Political Theory"

11:15

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"

12:45 – 14:00

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"

15:30 – 17:30

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"

15:30 – 17:30

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"

17:30

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"

17:45 – 19:30

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"

17:45 – 19:30

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

Schedule

Meeting

10:00 – 11:15

Plenary: Politics and Sexuality

Amy Allen: "Gender, Power and Reason: Feminism and Critical Theory"

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:45

Plenary: Politics and Sexuality

Steven L. Winter: "Democracy and Gender Equality in Liberation Square"

End of the Conference