CENTRAL
EUROPEAN
PRAGMATIST
FORUM

Eighth International Conference

Pragmatist Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics

June 9 – 13, 2014

University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS)

Wrocław, Poland

The conference is generously supported by the Cyrus H. Holley Professorship in Applied Ethics at Bloomfield College,

and the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University

Program

8 June, Sunday          Arrival in Wrocław

                                    Hotel: Hotel Vega, ul. Grabiszyńska 251
53-234 Wrocław

Hotel website: http://www.hotelvega.pl/en

Conference Venue: Uniwersity of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Faculty in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, ul. Ostrowskiego 30b

19:00                           Welcome Dinner in Wroclaw

9 June, Monday         Breakfast

8:40                             Walk to Meeting Site

9:00 – 9:15                  Welcoming Remarks

9:15 – 10:30                Keynote Address

                                                Richard Shusterman

Pragmatism, Somaesthetics, and Contemporary Art

10:30 – 11:00              Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00              Session I          Somaesthetics

Radim Šíp

Making It Somatic: Aesthetics as an Important Part of Acting and Inquiry

Leszek Koczanowicz

Clinical Pragmatism and  Somaesthetics

13:00 – 14:00              Lunch              Conference Venue

14:00 – 16:00              Session II       Pragmatism and Literature

Ramón Rodriguez

Poetry, Action and Thought: Has Anyone Read Juan Ramón Jiménez?

Richard Hart

Reading, Instruction and Pluralist Democracy: The Critical Pragmatism of Charles Johnson

16:00 – 16:30              Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30              Session III       The Canon

Carlin Romano

America the Philosophical and the ‘American Philosophy’ Canon

17:30                           Free Time

19:00                           Dinner: “Welcome Pierogi Dinner”

Restaurant: Steinhaus Wrocław ul. Wlodkowica 11

http://www.steinhaus.pl

Walks and Talks

10 June, Tuesday      Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00                Session IV      Art, Theory, and Action

Alexander Kremer

Art as Experience

Rebecca L Farinas

Art as Revolution: A Pluralistic Aesthetic of Inclusion

11:00 – 11:30              Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30              Session V       Contemporary American Naturalism

Kathleen Wallace

Buchler’s Theory of Communication as Signifying Activity

Emil Visnovsky

Pragmatic Naturalism and Things in Heaven and Earth (Some Thoughts on John Ryder’s Thoughts)

13:30 – 15:00              Lunch              Conference Venue

15:00 – 17:00              Session VI      Enaction and Imagination

Lyubov Bugaeva

Enactivism and Pragmatism

Philipp Dorstewitz

Imagination in Action

17:00                           Free Time

18:00                           Dinner             Conference Venue

Drink at Dorota & Leszek Koczanowicz’s apartment: Wrocław ul. Rymarska 20/5 (half an hour walk from the conference venue)

11 June, Wednesday Breakfast

Excursion Day!

On Our Own in Wroclaw

18:00   screening: “Philosophy as a Way of Life — On Camera: Cinematic Encounters with Richard Shusterman”

Wroclaw Contemporary Museum: 2A Strzegomski Sq. 
53-681 Wrocław   http://muzeumwspolczesne.pl/mww/?lang=en

20:00                           Dinner: Restaurant “Pod Gryfami” address:  Rynek (Main Square) 2, 50-106 Wrocław

http://restauracja.podgryfami.pl

12 June, Thursday    Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00                Session VII       Aesthetics, Freedom, and Judgment

Roberta Dreon

Aesthetic, Pleasure and Happiness: Why Freedom is not Enough

John Ryder

Judgment and Art

11:00 – 11:30              Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30              Session VIII      James and Mead

James Campbell

Pragmatism and Moral Growth: William James and the Question of Vivisection

Roman Madzia

Inquiry and the Primacy of the Aesthetic: The Concept of the Life-World in the Work of George H. Mead

13:30 – 15:00              Lunch                Conference Venue

15:00 – 17:00              Session IX         Ethics: Persons and Animals

Wojciech Malecki

Slaughtering Pigs While Protecting Koalas: Rorty on Non-Human Animals and Our Attitudes Toward Them

Donald Morse

Pragmatism, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life

17:00                           Free Time

18:00                           Dinner             Conference Venue

Walks and Talks

13 June, Friday         Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00                Session X          Muscles and Memory

Dorota Koczanowicz

Between Trauma and Satisfaction: Ambiguities of Muscle Memories

Armen Marsoobian

Memory, Commemoration and Community: Bridging the Divide of Contested Histories

11:00 – 11:30              Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:30              Session XI         Politics and Aesthetics

Kenneth Stikkers

Politics and the Aesthetics of Existence in the American Anarchist Tradition

Krzysztof Skowronski

Rortyan and Kantian Varieties of the Good Life in Democratic Culture: Discourses, Norms, and Axiological Points of Reference

13:30 – 15:00              Lunch              Conference Venue

15:00 – 17:00              Session XII     Pragmatism and Representationalism

Sami Pihlström

The Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition

Miklós Nyírő

Some Notes on Anti-Representationalism

17:00                           Final Thoughts

19:00                           Farewell Dinner   Hotel Europeum, Wroclaw ul Kazimierza Wlk. 27a,

http://en.europeum.pl