Towards a Phenomenology of Social Change

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Wednesday, 1st November

09.00 PETR URBAN (Prague): Welcome and Introduction

09:10 JAMES MENSCH (Prague): The Crisis of Legitimacy

09:50 DOUGLAS GILES (Essex): A Phenomenological Ontology of Personal Resistance to Social Change

10:30 coffee break

11:00 ANTONIO CIMINO (Nijmegen): Husserl´s Phenomenology of Social Change: A Reassessment

11:40 MIKHAIL BELOUSOV (Moscow): Is the Historical Way to the Reduction Possible?

12:20 TYLER PERKINS (New York): Syntax Error

13:00 lunch

14:30 GERHARD THONHAUSER (Berlin): A Postfoundational Ontology of Social Change

15:10 PETR KOUBA (Prague): Heidegger and Malabou on Social Change

15:50 MIRI ROZMARIN (Ramat Gan): Political Temporalities in the Age of Rapid Social Changes

16.30 coffee break

17:00 MARTIN RITTER (Prague): Asubjective or Trans-Subjective Movement? Thinking Patočka's Society Through

17:40 EMRE SAN (Istanbul): The Phenomenological Significance of Vulnerability and its Impact on Social Movements

18: 20 official dinner

Thursday, 2nd November

09:10 RAPHAEL AYBAR (Vienna): Levinas and Luhmann on Social Invisibility. A Dialogue between Sociology and Phenomenology concerning Exclusion

09:50 ERAN DORFMAN (Tel Aviv): The Doppelgänger as an Agent of Social Change: The Example of Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew

10:30 IRENE BREUER (Wuppertal): Social Change and the Experience of Exile: Towards a ´Narrative Diversity' Emerging from the Reconfiguration of both Collective and Individual Identities

11:10 coffee break

11:40 JAN ČERNÝ (Prague): Michel Henry and Socialism

12:20 AGATHA ANNA SLUPEK (Chicago): Between Rupture and Reproduction: Castoriadis' Theory of Social Change

13:00 lunch

14:30 BEATA STAWARSKA (Eugene, Nantes): Subject and Structure in Feminist Phenomenology

15:10 ÇIĞDEM YAZICI (Istanbul): The Politics of Location beyond the Secular/Islamic Binary in Feminism

15:50 MARTIN HUTH (Vienna): Recognition and Interruption. Thinking Social Change with Judith Butler and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

16:30 coffee break

17:00 JAN BIERHANZL (Prague): The Assembly of Bodies as Political Action. Arendt and Butler on Social Change

17:40 HAGI KENAAN (Tel Aviv): Imagination Matters: Phenomenology and the Possibilities of Change

Friday, 3rd November

09:00 GÚSTAV ADOLF BERGMANN SIGURBJŐRNSSON (Reykjavík): Seeking the Limits of Normality: Intersubjectivity, Normality and Epistemology

09:40 ALICE KOUBOVÁ (Prague): Play as an Instrument of Social Change

10:20 VÍT POKORNÝ (Prague): Tactility and Social Difference

11:00 coffee break

11:30 GALIT WELLNER (Haifa, Tel Aviv): Social Change in the Digital Age: Feudal Lords, Capitalists and Algorithms

12:10 CARLOS BERNARDO CAYCEDO (Amsterdam): Distributed Online Political Agency

12:50 PETR KOUBA (Prague): Recapitulation

13:00 end of the conference