EPLab • Workshop
The Last Systematic Philosopher – A retrospective on Jürgen Habermas
Habermas turned 90 this year. This international workshop aims to assess the scope and the international impact of life-long teaching and thinking in different domains of philosophy, as well as the reception of his work in different countries, with a special focus on his political theory.
Programme
21/11/2019
09:30
Welcome and Practical Information
09:45
Alessandro Ferrara (Università La Sapienza, Rome)
Post-metaphysical reason, solidarity and the reasonable: on Habermas's Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie
10:45
Isabelle Aubert (La Sorbonne, Paris)
Social Inclusion and Public Sphere: Discussing Habermas' Conception of Democracy
11:45
coffee break
12:00
António Marques (Universidade NOVA, Lisbon)
Habermas on Kant and the Program of Enlightenment
13:00
Lunch break
14:30
Krysztof Kedziora (University of Lodz)
Habermas and Strawson on the Free Will Problem and Responsibility
15:00
Valentina Rosina (University of Genova)
Habermas on Free Will: A Critical Account
15:30
Stella Casola (University of Milan)
Articulating What's Missing: The Role of Religion in Political Modernity
16:00
coffee break
16:15
Peter Verovšek (University of Sheffield)
The Philosopher as Engaged Citizen: Habermas on the Role of the Intellectual in the Modern Democratic Public Sphere
16:45
Matteo Bozzon (re:constitution fellow, Berlin)
"In the Vertigo of this Freedom": Democracy Between Procedural and Divided Sovereignty
17:15
Pedro Teixeira (Freie Universität, Berlin)
A political economy for open democratic self-rule: the possibility of democratic socialism in Habermas
18:00
End of day 1
22/11/2019
09:30
William Outhwaite (Universiy of Newcastle)
The Postnational Constellation Revisited: Critical Thoughts on Sovereignty
10:30
Regina Kreide (University of Giessen)
The Repression of Democracy. Habermas's Colonization Thesis Revisited
11:30
coffee break
11:45
Gabriele De Angelis (Universidade NOVA, Lisbon)
Is a "Project of Modernity" possible?
12:45
lunch break
14:30
Regina Queiroz (Universidade NOVA, Lisbon)
Habermas on People-building in the European Union
15:00
Javier Gil (University of Oviedo)
On the Democratic Scope and Legitimacy of Constitutional Review: Habermas and Beyond
15:30
Roderick Condon (University College, Cork)
Reconsidering Habermas's Thesis of the Colonisation of the Life World
16:00
coffee break
16:30
Jan Overwijk (University of Amsterdam)
Rationalising Modernity: Habermas and the Third Way
17:00
Patrick O'Mahony (University College, Cork)
Towards a Cognitive Sociological Re-elaboration of the Category of Public Sphere
17:30
Conclusions and Farewell
20:00
[informal conference dinner]
Date
21/11/2019 – 22/11/2019
Place
Colégio Almada Negreiros, Room 209/217