Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis: Loneliness and Togetherness (3rd edition)

Dates and Location:

2-3 September 2022, 10:00-17:00 Central European Summer Time (times subject to modification once the conference programme is finalised). This will be an in-person event only, held at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. 

Description:

For this third edition of our Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis conference series (see the website www.chandeandcrisis.eufor archives), we will seek 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.

Programme:

Friday 2 September 2022

Session 1

10.00 - 10.20 Opening words 

10.20 - 11.10 Adrienne de Ruiter, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht 

“Vulnerable Elderly as Homines Curati: Pandemic politics through an Arendtian lens” 

11.10 - 12.00 Daniil Koloskov, Charles University Prague and UC Louvain

“Arendt and Dostoevsky on the Crisis of Tradition”

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break

Session 2

13.00 - 13.50 Mélissa Fox-Muraton, ESC Clermont/PHIER, University Clermont Auvergne

“Distinctiveness, Diversity and Relationality: Challenging Kierkegaard’s Concepts for a Contemporary Existential Ethics of Inclusiveness”

13.50 - 14.40 Carl Humphries, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Cracow

“Schmalenbach on Diachronic Isolation and Togetherness in Times of Crisis”

14.40 - 15.20 coffee break

Session 3

15.20 -16.10Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam

“Existentialism and Genealogy for Corona Times”

16.10 - 17.40 Panel debate:“Philosophers’ social responsibility in times of crises”

             Mélissa Fox-Muraton, Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady, Michiel Leezenberg, Tomasz 

             Zarębski, Jakub Gomułka. Moderation: Batrłomiej Kossakowski-Kisiel 

Saturday 3 September 2022

Session 4

10.00 - 10.50 Hanna Nasielska, Pedagogical University of Krakow and Cracow University of Economics

“The Melancholic Collective. Reflections on the community of loners based on the writings of Emil Cioran”

10.50 - 11.40 Katarzyna Gurczyńska-Sady, Pedagogical University of Krakow

“Being lonely and being alone. David Bom's reflection on the meaning of being together”

11.40 - 13.00 Lunch break

Session 5

13.00 - 13.50 Jakub Marek, Charles University Prague

“Homesickness, Separation, and the Problem of Philosophy in Karl Jaspers”

13.50 - 14.40 Tomasz Zarębski, University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław 

“Man dares not to say ‘I think’, ‘I am’, but quotes some saint or sage: an existentialist view on Emerson and Cavell”

14.40 - 15.20 coffee break

Session 6

15.20 -16.10 Francisco Javier Hernandez Guitierrez, Central European University

“‘Yes, I’m a Racist’: yet another attempt at solving the Freedom/Facticity Problem” 

16.10 - 17.00 Bartłomiej Kossakowski-Kisiel, Pedagogical University of Krakow

“‘We are all Socialists now.’ The Existential Crisis of 19thCentury British Liberals.”