Following up on our 2020 conference on Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis\, this second edition seeks to re-examine the applicability of existential philosophy\, broadly understood\, for dealing with the drastic changes to our lives brought about by the pandemic and ensuing social and economic difficulties.
\nAs &lsquo\;pandemic fatigue&rsquo\; has settled in\, bringing about waves of social contestation and exacerbating the divisions within our societies\, but also among them\, questions about our responsibility toward others\, the meaningfulness of our lives\, and the types of sacrifices we are willing to make become increasingly pressing.
\nAt the heart of these questions reside fundamental tensions between individual freedom and selfhood and notions of moral and social responsibility\, between the personal and subjective dimensions of human experience and the collective\, social realities of our lived condition\, and between internal and external perspectives on what makes human life worthy and what constitutes a good life. Twentieth-century thinkers struggled intensely with these issues\, and the aim of this conference is to bring together international scholars to discuss these existential\, ethical\, and meta-ethical challenges of our times\, examining what philosophical resources can we draw upon to help us better think through our current situation. \;
\nIs it possible to lead a good life when others are oppressed? Do we have a moral obligation to resist oppression\, and if so what counts as oppression? \;Should our understanding of human existence and our moral duties focus on internal change or outward social change? How can we articulate the link between these demands? What do they entail for our understanding of human equality? \;What is the ground for that equality\, supposing it needs any ground? Or maybe it does not? To be more precise\, does equality rely on some universal internal qualities of the human being or is it an upshot of our social forms of life?
\nConference Programme: (NB: All times are Central European Summer Time (Paris)
\nThursday 26 August
\n9.00 Opening Words (Mé\;lissa Fox-Muraton and Jakub Gomułka)
\n9.10 \;Jon Stewart(Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences): The Problem of Nihilism in the Literature of the 19thCentury
\n10.00 \;Daniele Fulvi(Western Sydney University): \;Freedom as a Matter of Resistance in the Philosophy of Schelling
\n10.50-11.10 Break
\n11.10 \;Hjö\;rdis Becker-Lindenthal(University of Cambridge): \;Face your self and let go: Approaching the selfie culture with Kierkegaard and German mysticism
\n12.00 \;Oliver Norman(University of Poitiers): Can a Serious Philosophy of Death be Ethical? Kierkegaard and Janké\;lé\;vitch on Death\, Ethics and Seriousness
\n12.50-13.50 Lunch Break
\n13.50 \;Flaviu-Victor Câ\;mpean(Forum of the Lacanian Field\, Romania): The Lacanian &ldquo\;Biology&rdquo\; of the Event within the Age of Dailiness of Death \; \;
\n14.40 \;Maciej Kałuża(Polish Albert Camus Society): \;Oppression\, liberty and the absurd: Can we imagine Sisyphus happy\, when a factory robot took his job?
\n15.30 \;Mé\;lissa Fox-Muraton(ESC Clermont/University Clermont Auvergne): Camus on the (im)possibility of a good life where others are in chains
\n16.20-16.30 Break
\n16.30 \;Rajesh Sampath \;(Brandeis University):An Existential and Continental Phenomenological Analysis of the European Crisis of the Times: A Reading of Heidegger\, Hegel\, and Derrida to unpack the intersections of Islamophobia\, anti-Semitism\, and anti-immigration movements in continental Europe
\n17.20 \;Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco(Grand Valley State University): Repairing Moral Damage Through Self-regarding Resistance
\n18.10 \;Joshua Livingstone(Queen's University):Hannah Arendt and the Dynamics of Imagination
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\nFriday 27 August 2021
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\n9.00 \;Sebastien Hü\;sch \;(University Aix Marseille): Spiritlessness. On the timeliness of Sø\;ren Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s reflections on the Self between probability and possibility
\n9.50 \;Jakub Marek(Charles University): Existential Anthropology and the Problem of Dignity in Caring for Alzheimer&rsquo\;s patients
\n10.40-11.00 Break
\n11.00 \;Jakub Gomułka(Pedagogical University of Krakó\;w): \;A radical change of worldview: extra-systemic arguments and rationality of emotions
\n11.50 \;Timur Cengiz Uç\;an(Bordeau Montaigne University) Liberatory practices of philosophy in an age of extractivism
\n12.40-13.40 Lunch Break
\n13.40 \;Patrick Miller(University of South Florida): \;The Ethical Call towards the Third Party: Levinas and Disgust during the Pandemic
\n14.30 \;Shai Frogel(Kibbutzim College of Education &\; Tel Aviv University):Fear and Anxiety
\n15.20 \;Chloe Nicole D. Piamonte(Polytechnic University of the Philippines):Revisiting the Sartrean View on Love for Times of Change and Crisis
\n16.10-16.30 Break
\n16.30 \;William C. Pamerleau(University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg):Being-in-the-World and Being-with-Coronavirus: a Heideggerian Analysis of Life During the Pandemic
\n17.20 \;Skye Cleary \;(Barnard College and City College of New York): Simone de Beauvoir and the Responsibility of Privilege
\n18.10 \;William Parkhurst(University of South Florida): Nietzsche in the Anthropocene: Archival Evidence\, Climate Ethics\, and Future Generations
\n19.00 Closing remarks
\n\nPlease see the conference website for further information and updates: www.changeandcrisis.eu
\nParticipation open to all but registration is required.
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