seminaarit

Conference and call for papers:

International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
4th Annual Conference

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Friday July 29 – Sunday August 1, 2010

Proposal deadline: 1st of February 2010
ISME encourages paper proposals addressing the entire spectrum of ethical, social, political, historical and ideological problems related to the current economic crisis, drawing on or responding to the works of Alasdair MacIntyre.

Keynote Speakers

Bob Brecher
Center for Research and Development, University of Brighton
Zenonas Norkus
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vilnius
John O’Neill
School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Clemens K. Stepina
Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Sciences, University of Vienna

THEME:
Virtue and Economic Crises

Alasdair MacIntyre once argued that Karl Marx left philosophy and turned to political economy at a time when his philosophical enquiry was still incomplete.  From After Virtue to Dependent Rational Animals MacIntyre’s work has laid a solid philosophical foundation for building an understanding of the nature of human rationality, virtue and practice. This conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary research into the field of ethics, philosophy, political economy, social theory and theology in order to think through the moral and political aspects of the future of economic development. Its underlying presupposition rests in our belief that the orthodox neoclassical economic theory has to be theoretically challenged. A robust Aristotelian social theory and moral philosophy can contribute in rethinking these presuppositions and beliefs.

Possible Questions to Address Include:
* The importance of moral and intellectual virtues for equitable economic development.
* What are the moral and philosophical presuppositions behind the neoclassical economic thought and behind the existing socio-economic order of market capitalism?
* What can economic theory learn from moral philosophy and virtue ethics?
* What is the role of business ethics in times of economic crises?
* What does the current economic crisis tell us about the place of an ethics of social relationships in the economic system of advanced modernity?

Please submit proposals, including title and abstract, of no more than 350 words to: Dr. Andrius Bielskis, Department of Political Sciences, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania, e-mail: andrius.bielskis(at)mruni.eu

For more information on theme please visit
http://www.macintyreanenquiry.org/Vilnius2010/Vilnius2010.html

Workshop: "Agency and Nature" i Stockholm den 27 och 28 maj.

HEMSIDA: http://www.philosophy.su.se/agencyworkshop.htm

Speakers and Titles:
Andrew Janiak, Duke University, North Carolina
“Agents and their powers in Isaac Newton's philosophical thought”

Lilli Alanen, Uppsala University
“Explaining (away) the passions: Spinoza and the science of the human mind”

Valtteri Viljanen, Academy of Finland
“Force and Striving in Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics”

Charlotta Weigelt, Stockholm University
”A potential origin? Aristotle’s conception of archê in the Physics.”

Marcel Quarfood, Uppsala University
“Kant’s antinomy of teleological judgment”

Martin Gustafsson, Stockholm University
“Anscombe's Bird, Wittgenstein's Cat.”

Ulrika Björk, Uppsala University
“Praxis and Initium: On Hannah Arendt's Conception of Action”

Erik Åkerlund, Uppsala University
"The Four Causes in Suárez - the Transformation of the Aristotelian Causes in Late
Scholasticism."

Organisatorer: Robert Callergard och Charlotta Weigelt
 

Ihmistieteet ja evoluutionäkökulma -seminaari Turussa 21.5.2010

Koneen Säätiö järjestää seminaarin Ihmistieteet ja evoluutionäkökulma Turussa Sigyn-salissa  perjantaina 21.5.2010. Seminaarissa puhuvat:

* Professori Mark V. Flinn (Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Yhdysvallat)
* Johtaja Stephen C. Levinson (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Alankomaat)
* Professori Geoffrey Hodgson (Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, Iso-Britannia)
* Professori Ullica Segerstråle (College of Science and Letters, Illinois Institute of Technology, Yhdysvallat).
      

Lisäksi Koneen Säätiön rahoittamat Ihmistieteet ja evoluutionäkökulma -hankkeet esittäytyvät.

Seminaariin on vapaa pääsy, mutta tilaisuuteen tulee ilmoittautua. Seminaari on englanninkielinen. Lisätietoa seminaarista ja ilmoittautumisesta http://koneensaatio.fi/seminaari.php.


Alustava Ohjelma:

9:00–10:00
Ilmoittautuminen ja aamukahvi

10:00–10:15   
Hanna Nurminen, Koneen Säätiön hallituksen puheenjohtaja: Seminaarin avaus

Puheenjohtajana professori Erkki Haukioja, Koneen Säätiö:

10:15–11:00   
Professori Geoffrey Hodgson, Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, Iso-Britannia: Darwinian evolution and the social sciences

11:00-11:20   
Professori Klaus Kultti: Men, women and economic well-being

11:20-11:40
Dosentti Erkki Kilpinen: The nature of social reality and the relevance of evolutionary theory

11:40–12:25   
Johtaja Stephen C. Levinson, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Alankomaat: The evolutionary revolution in the language sciences

12:25–12:45
FT, tutkija Outi Vesakoski: Biological evolution and the diversification of languages (Urho Määtän hanke)

12:45–14:00   
Lounas

Puheenjohtajana professori Risto Alapuro, Koneen Säätiö:

14:00–14:45
Professori Mark V. Flinn, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA: Hormonal mechanisms for human sociality
 
14:45–15:05
University Researcher Markus Jokela: Reproductive behavior in contemporary societies: Combining evolutionary theory with social science research
  
15:05-15:25
Dosentti Karri Silventoinen: Mate selection in humans (Project: Spouse selection and reproductive success in humans: a population genetic study)

15:25-16:00
Kahvi

16:00–16:45 
Professori Ullica Segerstråle, College of Science and Letters, Illinois Institute of Technology, Yhdysvallat: Minding our surroundings – views from nonverbal communication, evolutionary psychology and neuroscience

16:45–17:05 
Professori Olli Lagerspetz: Westermarck and beyond. Evolutionary approaches to morality and their critics.

17:05–18:00  
Yhteenveto ja keskustelu (puheenjohtajana professori Risto Alapuro, Koneen Säätiö)

18:00–18:45
Viinitarjoilu
 

The 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies Gender, Nature and Culture
Helsinki, Finland 20.-22. May 2010

Registration for the 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies is now open. For more information, please visit http://www.helsinki.fi/genderstudies/conference/

The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture. Recent research has increasingly viewed nature and culture as inherently entangled and inseparable, suggesting that nature is often understood through discourses of gender and, conversely, that gender is made sense of through historically contingent assumptions about nature. Building on this growing body of scholarship, the conference asks how this mutual intertwining of nature, culture and gender has been theorized, represented and experienced in the past as well as the present. The conference aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines.

Keynote speakers:

* Rosi Braidotti. Utrecht University, the Netherlands
* Sarah Franklin, London School of Economics, UK
* Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Linköping University, Sweden
* Priscilla Wald, Duke University, USA

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*Early bird *(by 31 March 2010)
Participant 125€
Student (including postgraduate students) 50€

*Full fee* (from 1 April 2010)
Everyone 150€

Please note that the fee does not include Friday night’s conference dinner (additional 35€)
 

The Nordic Society for Phenomenology
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/nosp/index.htm

The Nordic Society for Phenomenology / Nordisk Selskab for Fænomenologi (NoSP)
was founded in May 2001 in Copenhagen. Its aim is to further dialogue and cooperation between phenomenologists in the Nordic countries, and to promote scholarship, teaching, research,and publication affiliated with phenomenology.

The executive committee of the society consists of five members, one from each of the five Nordic countries.

Membership of the Society is free and open to all persons interested in furthering its purposes and in participating in its activities.

The eighth annual meeting of the Society will take place at Södertörn University College in Stockholm, April 22-24, 2010.

POSTER: http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/nosp/NOSP%20affisch.pdf

PROGRAM:

Thursday 22/4
17.00 MB 416, Registration
17.30 Words of welcome from the University: Rector Ingela Josefson. Music: Jörgen Petterson.
18.00 Ronald Bruzina “Phenomenology’s recovery of nature antecedent to naturalism”
19.30 Reception with buffet at Södertörn University
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Friday 23/4
9.30 -11.00 MB 416, Camilla Serck-Hanssen "Critique conceived as Fundamental Ontology; Heidegger's Reading of Kant"
Chair: Hans Ruin
11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions Section I
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Parallel Sessions Section II
16.30-18.00 MB 416 Jeff Malpas “Nihilism and the Thinking of Place”
18.00-18.30 Board meeting
Chair: Sara Heinämaa

Saturday 24/4
9.30-11.00 MB 416, Panel on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenology
Chair: Sven-Olov Wallenstein
11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions Section III
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel Sessions Section IV
16.00-17.30 MB 416, Claudia Baracchi “The End of Philosophy and Another Beginning”
Chair: Hans Ruin
20.00 Conference dinner at Restaurant Rival


Parallel Sessions Section I
1a) MC 238, Phenomenology and Ancient Philosophy
Jussi Backman “The Unthought Distinction: Heidegger’s Notion of the First Onset of Western Philosophy”
Charlotta Weigelt: “The hermeneutic significance of Aristotle’s concept of chance”
Antonio Cimino: “Performativity and Philosophy as a Form of Life. New Perspectives on Heidegger’s Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist”
Chair: Hans Ruin

1b) MC235, Merleau-Ponty, Speech, Space, Gender
Anna Petronella Fredlund: “A phenomenology of speech: Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Saussure”
Petri Berndtson: “The Respiratory Constitution of Space and its connection to the Origin of Space”
Linda Fisher: “Gendering Body Memory in Merleau-Ponty”
Chair: Lisa Käll

1c) M243, Space and Orientations
Friederike Rese: “Places, Human Beings and Things”
Denisa Butnaru: “‘Distorted‘ Body, ‘Distorted’ Space”
David Connolly: “Space not spaces: Spatial unities in experiences of pathological synaesthesia”
Chair: Fredrika Spindler

1d) MC 544, Finitude and Responsivity
Anna-Karin Selberg: “Achtung versus wakefulness – Heidegger’s approach to Kant’s practical philosophy”
Thomas Schwarz-Wentzer: “Being responsive – an existentialist reading of the late Heidegger”
Eddo Evink: “A Phenomenology of Surrender”
Chair: Christian Nilsson

1e) MC546, Husserl, Eidetics and Life World
Mirja Hartimo “Husserl and algebra of logic”
Rosa-Maria Lupo: “The eidetic constitution of objectivity between Husserl and Aristotle”
Simo Pulkkinen: “On the Pregivenness of the Lifeworld”
Chair: Jonna Bornemark

1f) MC219, Phenomenology and Aesthetics
Trevor Perri: “The Imaginary and the Work of Art”
Mitha Firth: “Phenomenology and Anonymous Architecture”
Cecilia Sjöholm: “The Aestheticization of public space; art, phenomenology and the feminist revolt”
Chair: Sven-Olof Wallenstein

Parallel Sessions Section II
2a) MC 238, Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
Andrzej Leder: “Can Husserl’s concept of consciousness’ structure serve as a starting point for the development of a theory of not-conscious?”
Johan Eriksson: “Freud the reluctant philosopher – on psychoanalysis and its relation to science and philosophy”
Jagna Brudzińska: “In-depth Phenomenology and the dynamic of the unconscious experiences in the Psychoanalysis”
Nicholas Smith: “Husserl’s late philosophy of science and the Freudian contribution”
Chair: Christian Nilsson

2b) MC 235, Self and Other
Dan Zahavi: ”Shame and the exposed self”
Joel Backström: ”The phenomenology of conscience: turning ethics inside out”
Vivian Bohl & Bruno Mölder: “The directness of the other”
Chair: Jonna Lappalainen

2c) MC 243, Phenomenology of Affectivity
Hanne Jacobs: “Affection and Distance”
Irina Poleshchuk: “Affected intentionality in Levinas’ philosophy”
Christophe Perrin: “Useful but incertain: Heidegger’s critique of Pascal”
Chair: Carl Cederberg

2d) MC 544, Eugen Fink’s Critical Elaboration of Phenomenology
Daniele de Santis: “Fink’s Criticism of the Concept of Evidence”
Peter A. Varga: “Distinguishing between Fink’s and Husserl’s Notion of Phenomenological Philosophy”
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

2e) MC 546, Agency and Action
Ulrika Björk: “World and worldlessness. Romantic cosmopolitanism in the Varnhagen salon”
Hans Pedersen: “Heidegger’s Critique of Causal Theories of Action”
Martina Reuter: ”Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Personal Responsibility”
Chair: Charlotta Weigelt

2f) MC219, Community and Politics
Lisa Folkmarson Käll: “Community as Space of Sharing and Exposure”
Kristian Klockars: “Political Ontology, its Possibilities and Role”
Timo Miettinen: “Husserl and body politic”
Ramona Rat: “Singular and Multiple”
Chair: Anna-Karin Selberg

Parallel Sessions Section III
3a) MC 238, Intentionality and Hyletic Content
Ingvar Johansson: "How to Situate Fictions in the Spatiotemporal World – Developing Thoughts from Ingarden"
Dalius Jonkus: “Transformation of the Notion of Sensibility in Contemporary Phenomenology”
Helena de Preester: “Hylè and imagination: Sartre’s critique of Husserl”
Luis Niel: “The Fundamental Problem of the Phenomenology of Time: The Phenomenologizing of Primal Phenomenality in Husserl’s C-Manuscripts”
Chair: Johan Eriksson

3b) MC 235, The Spatiality of the Body
Dermot Moran: “Pain takes Place at a Distance from the Ego: The Experience of Inner Spatiality in Husserl and Stein”
Timothy Mooney: “On the Intelligence in Concrete Movement: Merleau-Ponty’s Proper Conclusion”
Rasmus Thybo Jensen: “Is spatial awareness in action conceptual?”
Chair: Carl Cederberg

3c) MC 243, Roundtable on Feminist Phenomenology
Lisa Folkmarsson Käll, Beata Strawarska and Lanei Rodemeyer
Chair: Sara Heinämaa

3d) MC 544, Bodily Reflection
Johan Eckart Hansen:  “Bodily reflection”
Wenjing  Cai: “Phenomenological Reflection and the Possibility of a ‘Phenomenological Language’”
Erika Ruonakoski: “Embodied Situation As the Object of Empathy”
Chair: Nicholas Smith

3e) MC 546, History and Death
Paul John Ennis: “Phenomenology and the Problem of the Ancestral”
Gabriel Malenfant: "'We Do Not Have a Present' Levinas, Wyschogrod, and the Dead Other"
Søren Gosvig Olesen: “The History of Reason”
Chair: Hans Ruin

3f) MC516, Intentionality
Jonna Bornemark: “Beyond naming and non-naming”
Anne Granberg: “Phenomenology of anonymity”
Māra Grīnfelde: “From Erlebnis to Erfahrung: The Quest for a New Understanding of Experience in Contemporary Phenomenology”
Chair: Karl Weigelt

Parallel Sessions Section IV
4a) MC 238, Phenomenology of the Unapparent
Andreea Parapuf: “Phenomenology and Tautological Thinking in the Later Heidegger”
Sinead Hogan: “Shifting grounds… ‘…der satz vom grund klingt an…’”
Fredrik Westerlund: “The Epiphany of the World: Heidegger’s late phenomenology of origins”
Chair: Fredrika Spindler

4b) MC 235, Phenomenology and Music
Peter Hanly:  “Dark Celebration: Heidegger and the Song”
Erik Wallrup: “The phenomenon musical space”
Jessica Wiskus: “Listening: On Phenomenological and Musical Form”
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

4c) MC 243, Indexicality and Intentional Content
James McGuirk: “Indexicality and the First Person Perspective”
Karl Weigelt: “What is in your mind? Phenomenology and theory of content”
Tõnu Viik: “Cultural constituents of intentional objects: towards reading noema as a cultural form”
Chair: Johan Eriksson

4d) MC 544, Technology, Nature and Subjectivity
Sven-Olov Wallenstein: “Husserl, the Earth, and Technology”
Björn Thorsteinsson: “Responsively entangled: Merleau-Ponty meets Niels Bohr”
Joona Taipale: “Husserl and Freud on the Origins of Otherness”
Chair: Anna-Karin Selberg

4e) MC 546, Phenomenology of Body and Organ
Lanei M. Rodemeyer: “Beyond Time: Considering Ecstatic Time through the Living Present and the Body”
Line Ryberg Ingerslev: “Bodily awareness and self-distance”
Fredrik Svenaeus: “What is an organ? Towards a phenomenology of organ transplantation”
Chair: Jonna Bornemark
 

Husserl-Archiv
der Universität zu Köln lädt zur Tagung ein
Workshop Phänomenologie
16. April 2010, 10.00-18.00 Uhr

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft (Marquette University): Die Dimension der Phänomenologie

Dr. Christian Ferencz-Flatz (Bukarest/Köln): Umstand und Situation. Zur bekundenden Funktion des Jeweiligen bei Husserl und Heidegger

Virginie Palette (Freiburg/Paris): Der phänomenologische ‚Zwischen-Raum‘: zu dem ‚korrelativen‘ Wesen der Phänomenalität bei Husserl und Heidegger

Fabian A. Hernandez (Puerto Rico/Köln): Is Husserl a Platonist?

Dr. Inga Römer (Wuppertal): Beispiel und Vorbild in der Ethik. Kant und Scheler

Ina Marie Weber (Köln): Von der Unmöglichkeit, die Welt nicht zu verändern. Überlegungen zur husserlschen Epoché

Aroun Iyer (Marquette University/Wuppertal): The Question of Knowledge in Husserl's Transcendental Idealism: Reading Husserliana XXXVI


16. April 2010, 10.00-18.00 Uhr im
Husserl-Archiv, Kerpener Str. 30

Kontakt: Husserl-Archiv der Universität zu Köln
Tel. 0221-470-2367
e-mail: Monika.Heidenreich(at)uni-koeln.de
 

Helsingin yliopiston Porthaniassa (sali P672, Yliopistonkatu 3, 6. krs) järjestetään
12.4. klo 13-16 varhaismodernia filosofiaa käsittelevä kollokvio Psychology and Morality
in Early Modern Philosophy. Tapahtuma on avoin yleisölle ja se sisältää seuraavat
esitelmät:

Roger Ariew (Univ. of South Florida): “Ethics in Descartes and the First Cartesians”

Donald Rutherford (Univ. of California, San Diego): “Spinoza on the Mastery of the
Passions: The Significanceof Ethics IVP8”

Dana Jalobeanu (Western University 'Arad'): “Learned experience and constructed facts:
pedagogical andtherapeutic aspects of Francis Bacon's natural history”

James Harris (Univ. of St Andrews): “Hume's intellectual development 1731-34: the
origins of theTreatise”

Lisätietoja: Juhana Lemetti (juhana.lemetti(at)helsinki.fi).
 

April 8-10, 2010
Politics of the One:
The Limits of Fragmentation and the Chances for Consolidation

Centre d’amitié franco-russe, Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The European University at Saint Petersburg, The “Chto Delat” group

http://www.smolny.nw.ru/research-en/conferences/april-8-10-2010.-politics-of-the-one-the-limits-of-fragmentation-and-the-chances-for-consolidation/april_8-10_2010?set_language=en

[PDF for this event can be found here]

The conference will be dedicated to the actual problems of the contemporary political
philosophy. Their focus will be the problematic of unity and multiplicity, of synthesis
and dissolution. These concepts, which may seem highly abstract, from the first sight,
have been, in the last 30 years, central for the continental philosophy, particularly for
the French tradition. Thus, the problems and paradoxes of the one and the many are
thematically discussed in the fundamental works by Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Alain Badiou. Some of them, for example “The clamour of being” by Alain Badiou and the “Being singular plural” by Jean-Luc Nancy, were recently translated into Russian. In the last two years, in Saint-Petersburg there has been working an informal philosophical seminar dedicated to the problems of unity (coordinators: Artemy Magun and Alexey Cherniakov). In this seminar, we study the texts by Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze, Badiou, which are dedicated to the notion of the one. The subject of the conference is not limited, of course, to these authors. Thus, at a more concrete level of analysis, the theme of the constitution of collective was actively elaborated in philosophy by Jean-Paul Sartre. The issues of the constitution of social unity through the mechanism of identification have been deeply investigated by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Some similar problems have been treated, in the recent years, by the philosophers of other European countries, such as Italy Slovenia, Austria, Finland, and others.

The today’s interest in the concept of uniting the multiple is motivated by the current
socio-political processes. The process of “globalization”, understood as the unification
of the world via the world market and the mass media, does not introduce any working form of unity. This unification is rather negative (in the logical sense) than positive, since it stems from the destruction of the current local socio-political units. The things and the people are united, rather, by the absence, by the disappearance of forms and principles. Simultaneously, the process of society’s atomization is underway, and a subject looses the intermediary levels of reference, finding itself one to one with the totality of the world. Unity appears today in its two modes at once - as a limitless totality and as an excluded, excepted one-as-singularity. Hence the highly popular theme of the universal “state of emergency,” of exception becoming a rule.

Unity of the world is in the process of practical realization – and this is why it reappears as a problem. Some suggest a post-metaphysical abandonment of the one in favor of the multiple: the fulfillment of unity would lead to the overcoming of the one. Some, on the contrary, suggest that the true unity requires an irreducible singularity: the singular one (understood, this time, ontologically and not as exception) should rise against the one-as-a-form. Some, like Jean-Luc Nancy, propose a synthesis (“being singular plural”).

At this juncture, the concept of the one demonstrates its polysemantic and contradictory: it simultaneously means unity as totality, singularity as exception, identity, and privative delimitation. It is this polyvocity which makes it almost indeterminate, but which also puts it into the center of philosophical questioning of the century.

The process of a negative unification brings with itself, not just the negative value of
dissolution but equally, a chance for any democratic reunion of people, beyond all existing classifications and hierarchies. Currently, when, in politics, there comes a crisis of a party-type mass organization and of the parliamentary system of representation, philosophy should elaborate, along with the empirical social sciences and the arts, forms of the possible social synthesis.

The former binary structure of political forces is currently undergoing a deep
transformation. The mutual opposition between the former historical blocks and parties disappeared or became diffuse; objective antagonisms do not disappear but they are, so to say, pulverized in the multitude of social conflicts. Social power acts not any more through the repressive forms of uniformization or exclusion of the antagonistic elements but through the “soft” forms of control and governance and through the emphasis on the plurality and diversity of various identities. In social philosophy this is reflected in the theories of “multiculturalism” and other affirmations of difference and plurality.

If, for the avant-garde philosophy of the last half of the 20th century, the principle of
multiplicity was a call to micro-analysis and an instrument of criticizing the repressive
forms of the One (the political and discursive ones), today, in the new situation, multiplicity often seems to be losing its innovative and critical potential and is
hypostasized as a positive principle which is in accord with the reigning socio-political
configuration. This is why the notion of the One, in its renewed form which expresses and affirms, rather than excludes, the disorder of the multiple, becomes an important stake in the contemporary philosophical work.

As Russian scholars, we are particularly interested in the history of the concepts ofd
unity and multiplicity in the Russian and, later, the Soviet intellectual tradition. One
of the main themes of the Russian philosophy, from the moment of its emergence in the beginning of the 19th century, was the search for the collective models of subjectivity and of the subjectless and synthetic forms of consciousness. While in the early period (the Slavophiles Ivan Kireevsky, brothers Aksakov, A. Khomyakov), this search happened in the religious and religious-philosophical context, accompanied with the critique and revision of the Western Christianity (primarily, Protestantism), in the later years, by the end of the XIX century (Vladimir Solovyev and his circle, Nikolay Fedorov and others) the interest shifted towards the ethical and epistemological problems, and in the final stage (the 1920s, time of Gustav Shpet, Mikhail Bakhtin, LEF and Proletkult) it turned to the aesthetical and political discourse, while criticizing the “bourgeois” philosophy, the Western European culture and art. This tendency found its final expression in the ideological models of the Soviet collectivity.

Thus, against the widespread hypothesis of the idiosyncratic character of the “Russian
philosophy” - of its religious, fideist, intuitive, or “sobornyi” nature, which is supposedly engaged and justified by an idea of the chosenness and of the world’s
salvation, we suggest to analyze, with the contemporary research methods, the social and anthropological experience of unity, the historically cultivated types of community in Russia, in relation to the phenomenon of the Russian power. In particular, it is
important to answer the question of the possible specificity of the idea of collectivity (the “all-unity”, “sobornost’”, “collective”) in the Russian tradition and its place in the world philosophical context.

Thus, the theme of the one and the many lies at the crossroads of the contemporary
philosophical, sociological, and politological discussions. At the conference, we suggest
discussing the philosophical logic of the one as well as the more concrete questions of
unity in the context of globalization and atomization of the society, and of the chances they bring.

The conference program:

Thursday, April 8
The European University at Saint Petersburg (Gagarinskaya, 3)

19.00 The registration

Welcoming addresses:
Artemy Magun, Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Oleg Kharkhordin, The European University at Saint Petersburg
Dmitry Vilensky (Saint-Petersburg, Group “Chto Delat”, Laboratory of critical art at the European University at Saint Petersburg).

Opening of the exposition “When one must say “we”. Art and practices of solidarity.”

Friday, April 9
The European University at Saint Petersburg (Gagarinskaya, 3)

09.00  The registration

09.15 – 11.15 Unity and the perspectives of political solidarity
Nina Power (Great Britain). Humanity, Unity and the One.
Alexey Penzin (Moscow). TBA
Gerald Raunig (Wien/Zürich). Condivision, or Towards a non-communitarian concatenation of singularities.

11.15-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.30 The perspectives of political solidarity (protraction)
Alberto Toscano (Great Britain). An Enthusiasm for the Abstract: Fanaticism and the
Politics of the One
Keti Chukhrov (Moscow). The Universal, the General, the Multiple in the perspective of a Political Utopia

13.30 - 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – 16.30 Unity and/or community?
Jonathan Flatley (USA). Semblables
Artemy Magun (SPb). Unity and solitude
Boyan Manchev (Bulgaria). The One: Construction or Event? For a Politics of the Becoming

16.30-16.45  Coffee break

16.45 – 19.00 E Pluribus Unum: Res Publica and Community
Oleg Kharkhordin (SPb). How does one constitute the one? Theology of the icon, theory of non-representative art and of non-representative politics
Viktor Kaploun (SPb). The Problem of the Public Sphere
Yves Sintomer (France). Drawing lots in politics: Unity and totality

19.00 -19.30 Coffee break

19.30 - 21.00 Keynote lecture
Jean-Luc Nancy, Plus d’un

10 April, Saturday
Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Galernaya, 58-60)

9.30-11.45 Topic TBA
Igor Tchubarov (Moscow). TBA
Dmitry Fedchuk (Saint-Petersburg). TBA
Boris Markov (Saint-Petersburg). Being and totality. Problem of unity in the German
philosophy of the early 20th century

11.45-12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 Unity and multitude in nature
Susanna Lindberg (Finland). Elemental Nature as the Ultimate Common Ground of the World Community
Michael Marder (Canada). Vegetative democracy, or the post-metaphysics of plants

13.30-14.15 Lunch

14.15-17.45 The metaphysics of the one

Alexey Chernyakov (SPb). Truth and Infinity in Badiou and Heidegger
Jussi Backman (Finland). Complicated Presence: The Unity of Being in Parmenides and Heidegger
Marcia Cavalcante (Sweden). TBA

17.45-18.00 Coffee break.

18.00-20.30 The praxis of unity and multiplicity: Self-organization in contemporary Russia
Pavel Arsenyev (SPb). TBA
Dmitry Dubrovsky (SPb). TBA
Carine Clement (Moscow). Fighting together: the problem of solidarity

20.30 Closing comments
 

The Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) is pleased to announce a conference on the topic of

Haiti and the Politics of the Universal
The conference is free and open to all.
Friday and Saturday, March 12-13, 2010

After two centuries of neglect and disavowal, the Haitian Revolution has suddenly become a fundamental reference point for global emancipatory politics, a touchstone for critical philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Buck-Morss, Peter Hallward, and Hardt and Negri. This conference will address this contemporary
theoretical turn in Haitian Studies, discussing Haiti’s place in Atlantic Modernity and its central role in political history and theory since 1791. Topics will range from the world-historical significance of the Haitian Revolution to the place of Haiti in the
global political order since 2004. The conference will bring together a mix of academic and activist speakers to discuss the broad historical, philosophical, and political implications of Haiti since 1791.

Since 1804, Haiti has named the founding, repressed, ‘legitimate’ violence of Western Modernity in its totality: both our spectral fantasies of slavery, revolutionary violence, and the ‘failed state,’ as well as the site of an eternally disavowed egalitarianism without compromise.

Program:
Friday, March 12, 2010  (Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen)

9:00-9:30 AM, coffee

9:30-9:45 Welcome and opening remarks, Christopher Fynsk (Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen)

10-00-10:50 Nick Nesbitt (Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen) ‘ Traversing Haïti, Beyond the Universal Phantasm ’

11:00-11:50 Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University) ‘”Our past, our presents, and our possible futures”: situating Toussaint Louverture’

12:00-12:50 Alberto Moreiras (University of Aberdeen) ‘Historicality and Historiography: Haiti and the Limits of World  History’

1:00-2:00 Lunch break

2:30-3:20  Deborah Jenson (Duke University) ‘Placing Haiti on the Geo-psychoanalytic Map: Hypnose, Pathologies of the Middle Passage, and the Creolization of the Unconscious’

3:30-4:20  Kim Ives (Haiti Liberte) ‘How the Earthquake has affected Haiti’s National Democratic Revolution and International Geopolitics’

Coffee

4:45-5:45 David Scott (Columbia University) ‘The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Ethos of Universal History'

Saturday, March 13, 2010

9:00-9:30 AM, coffee

9:30-10:20 Andrew Leak (UCL) ‘Haiti's “Nouveau Contract Social” of 2005: a Simulacrum of Citizenship’

10-30-11:20 Chris Bongie (Queen’s University) ‘(Not) Razing the Walls: The Post-Politics of 'World Literature'

11:30-12:20 Patrick Elie (Haitian activist) ‘The Lessons of Haïti’

12:30-1:30 Lunch break

1:30-2:20 John Kranauskias (Birckbeck) 'Haiti's Marvelous Revolution: Reflections on Alejo Carpentier's "The Kingdom of the World"'

2:30-3:20  Valerie Kaussen (University of Missouri) ‘Ghosts of Universal History’

Coffee

4:00-4:50 Peter Hallward (Middlesex University) ‘Self-Emancipation and the Politics of Violence in Haiti’

5:00-5:30 Discussion and concluding remarks


For more information, please contact Nick Nesbitt (n.nesbitt(at)abdn.ac.uk) or Laura Mackenzie (laura.mackenzie(at)abdn.ac.uk)

Visit us at the Centre for Modern Thought website at: http://abdn.ac.uk/modern/
  

Tampereen yliopistossa järjestetään yksipäiväinen filosofian seminaari otsikolla
Arkikielen filosofia
Perjantaina 5.3.2010
Pinni B 3116


10:00–10:15 Kortelainen, Ilmari Ja Järvenkylä Joose: Avaussanat
10:15–10:45 Järvenkylä, Joose: Tavallisen kielen reunaehdoista
10:45–11:15 Vuorio, Timo: TBA
11:15–11:45 Korko, Alma: P.F. Strawsonin kritiikki atomistista analyysia kohtaan

11:45–13:15 Lounas

13:15–13:45 Maury, André: Hyvän merkitys – Von Wright vs. Austin
13:45–14:15 Keskinen, Antti: Kieli, Logiikka ja Ontologia
14:15–14:45 Valtonen, Pasi: Merkitys on käyttöä: Michael Dummett ja arkikielen filosofia

14:45–15:15 Kahvitauko

15:15–15:45 Kovalainen, Heikki: “Kaikella on merkitystä” – Stanley Cavell kielestä ja olemisesta
15: 45–16:15 Koskensilta, Risto: Arkikielen filosofia ja kaksi kielikäsitystä


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