Studiekretsar / Krets 8 2007-2009 Vintersymposium: Program 

Creation, Rationality and Autonomy/

Vintersymposium: Program

Inlagd i december 2007

Akureyri March 7.-9. 2008

Preliminary programme only

WINTER SYMPOSIUM: THE ADVENTURE OF MODERNITY: CASTORIADIS BEYOND POST-MODERNISM AND NEO-MODERNISM

At: University of Akureyri (”Solborg” by ”Nordurslod”). Room no. L101


Thursday All will be picked up by Agust at the airport. His cell phone: 00354 89930 35
Email agust@unak.is

To make this affordable, some will be accomodated privately, and some at the youth hostel.
Thursday evening we will meet at a bar, where there is a restaurant next door. Then, we can have a stroll around the town centre.

Remember to bring a bottle of wine, bathing suit + towel.


Friday
10:00 – 11:00 Welcome and presentation
11:00 – 12:30 Harald Wolf: Modernity at Work

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Giorgio Baruchello: Capitalism and Freedom: The Core of a Contradiction An Essay on Cornelius Castoriadis and John McMurtry
15.30 – 17:00 Andrea Gabler: Work Analysis and Autonomy -
„Socialisme ou barbarie's“ Concept of Revolutionary Work Research
17:00 – 18:30 Stuart Winchester: The Great Resistance

Dinner

Saturday
09:00 – 10:30 Wendy C. Hamblet: Castoriadis' "Quirky" Plato
10:30 – 12:00 J.F. Humphrey: Castoriadis and Democracy

Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Håvard Nilsen: On Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis (title yet to come)
15:00 – 17:30 Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: Modernity, legitimacy and organizational change:
The perspective of Cornelius Castoriadis
17:30 – 18:00 Ingerid Straume: Tight Socialization: On the notions of Paideia and the Individual in Castoriadis's thought
18:00 – 19:30 Birte Hatlehol: Social imaginations and digital representations as a
pedagogical way to autonomy? Presentation of a high school project in
Norway, where students create and articulate their opinions about questions in the society, using digital media.

Dinner

Sunday
Excursion – concluding talks


Papers:




Without paper: Fotis Theodoridis, Otto Masson, Anders Ramsay m.fl.