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May 29 at 5:15 p.m.

11th Annual Collegium Lecture

Professor Nancy Fraser: Can society be commodities all the way down?

Venue: Porthania, lecture hall PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki.

 

Abstract:

In his classic 1944 book, The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi traced the roots of capitalist crisis to efforts to create “self-regulating markets” in land, labor, and money. The effect was to turn those three fundamental bases of social life into "fictitious commodities.” The inevitable result, Polanyi claimed, was to despoil nature, rupture communities, and destroy livelihoods. This diagnosis has strong echoes in the 21st century: witness the burgeoning markets in carbon emissions and biotechnology; in child-care, schooling, and the care of the old; and in financial derivatives. In this situation, Polanyi’s idea of fictitious commodification affords a promising basis for an integrated structural analysis that connects three dimensions of the present crisis, the ecological, the social, and the financial. This lecture explores the strengths and weaknesses of Polanyi’s idea.

 

Nancy Fraser is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her work concentrates on social and political theory, feminist theory as well as contemporary French and German thought. As leading critical theorist and noted feminist thinker, Professor Fraser is well known for her work on social justice. Her early books Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989) and Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997) are modern classics. Her recent work includes the book is Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008) and the article Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History (New Left Review, 2009).

 

Organised by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, www.helsinki.fi/collegium

 

Free admission. Welcome!

LITERARY FICTION AND RATIONALITY
University of Tampere, May 30−31, 2013

PROGRAM:

THURSDAY MAY 30

All Thursday sessions are held at Pinni B 1096

09.00 Welcome by Leila Haaparanta

09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Kathleen Stock: Fiction, Belief, Imagining and Cognitive Value

10.45−11.15 Coffee

11.15−11.50 Petr Kotatko: Narration in Decay

11.55−12.30 Arto Laitinen: On Literary Fiction, Science Fiction and Thought Experiments in Practical Philosophy

12.30−13.30 Lunch

13.30−14.05 Lars-Olof Åhlberg: Imaginary and Imagined Worlds in Narrative Fiction

14.10−14.45 Karen Simecek: The Rationality of Poetry

14.50−15.25 Alexander Bareis: The Interpretation of Fictional Narrative and Rationality

15.25−15.55 Coffee

15.55−16.30 María José Alcaraz León: Warranted Emotional Responses to Artworks and the Problem of Moral Education through the Arts

16.35−17.10 Angela Curran: Aristotle on the Nature of Our Affective Responses to Literature

17.15−17.50 Stephen Chamberlain: Emotion and Imagination in the Rationality of Fiction

19.00− Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Henriks


FRIDAY MAY 31

09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Elisabeth Schellekens: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096)

10.45−11.15 Coffee

11.15−11.50 Parallel Sessions
Riku Juti: Philosophical Lessons from Dickens (Pinni B1096)

Hanna Meretoja: Literature, Ethics and a Sense of History (Pinni B 1097)

11.55−12.30 Parallel Sessions
Timo Vuorio: A Novel as an Argument. Dostojevsky on Crime (Pinni B 1096)

Olli−Pekka Moisio: Ernst Bloch and Literature (Pinni B 1097)

12.30−13.30 Lunch

13.30−15.00 Plenary Talk by Garry Hagberg: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096)

15.00−15.30 Coffee

15.30−16.05 Parallel Sessions
Jukka Mikkonen: Literature, Irrationality, and Moral Reasoning (Pinni B 1096)

Niklas Forsberg: Teachings of Density and Distance. Remarks on the Philosophical Significance of Novels beyond the Presence of “Philosophy” (Pinni B 1097)

16.10−16.45 Parallel Sessions
Ana Falcato: Form is an Expression of Content. John Coetzee against Substitution of Ethical Thought (Pinni B 1096)

Ingeborg Löfgren: Cavell and Projective Imagination in Philosophy and Literature – Clarification, Mystification, and the Logic of Narration (Pinni B 1097)

16.50−17.25 Parallel Sessions
Bridget Vincent: Reasoning with Literature. Poetic and Prosodic Irrationality (Pinni B 1096)

Nora Hämäläinen: Cora Diamond, Alice Crary and an Extended Conception of Rationality (Pinni B 1097)

Closing Words by Leila Haaparanta (Pinni B 1096)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUCAULT 28 June 2013

University of Helsinki, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), room 12, 3rd fl.

10.15–12.00 Béatrice Han-Pile (University of Essex): Foucault, Normativity, and Critique as a Practice of the Self

12.00-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30–15.00 Martin Saar (Frankfurt University): Subject, Truth, Democracy: Foucault and Political Philosophy

Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä):  Plato and Bio-politics

15.00-15.30 Coffee

15.30–17.30 Sergei Prozorov (University of Helsinki):  Biopolitics of Stalinism: Ideas and Bodies in the Construction of Socialism

Jemima Repo (University of Helsinki):  Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler's Gender Genealogy

Lauri Siisiäinen (University of Jyväskylä):  From Global Vision to Short Sight: Foucault and the Neo/Liberal Turn in Political Optics


Contact:
Johanna Oksala (johanna.oksala at helsinki.fi) & Jemima Repo (jemima.repo at helsinki.fi)

Organised by the Subjectivity, Historicity, and Communality (SHC) Research  Network, University of Helsinki