Rethinking Europe III

December 19, 2014
Vrije University

Brussels
Belgium

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The Centre for Ethics and Humanism (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and the Centre for Critical Philosophy (Ghent University) are very pleased to announce the third edition of the workshop Rethinking Europe.

This year the workshop will focus on the tensions between cosmopolitan/universalist discourses and the experience of otherness. Keynote speaker is Prof. Dr. Lukas Sosoe of the University of Luxembourg.

Date: December 19th.  Venue: Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, room C/5.402 ('Profzaal'), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.  

Attendance is free, but registration in advance is necessary as places are strictly limited. To register or for further information send an email to: [email protected] by December 1st.

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    • 16:00. Lukas Held (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) Blumenberg's Hermeneutics of the Other.
    • 16:30. Elisabeth Lefort (Université de Luxembourg) Hans Kelsen and Claude Lefort : on Human Rights and Democracy.  

Coffee break

    • 17:15. Mihail Evans (Institute for Advanced Studies, NEC, Bucharest) Husserl, "the gypsies" and Europe.
    • 17:45. Petr Agha (Universiteit Antwerpen) The Burqa Ban's Dark Side - Uncovering Face Covering Bans.

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  • 18:00. Keynote lecture
    Lukas Sosoe (Université de Luxembourg) The Birth of the European Cosmopolitan Idea.

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