Wednesday 19. 11. 2025 - Thursday 20. 11. 2025 9:30
conference | Fortna - Hradčany, Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, Hradčanské nám. 3/184, Prague 1
Social Isolation and Mental Deprivation
Held with the support of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. Organized by Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Detailed information
Wednesday, November 19
9:30 Welcome Coffee
Chair: Petr Kouba
10.00 Stephan Dietrich: Withdrawal instead of Fulfilment – Hikikomori as Privation of Personhood
10:45 Lucie Vacková: The Phenomenon of Social Isolation and Mental Deprivation in the Perspective of Jan Patočka's First Movement of Existence and Daseinsanalysis
11:30 Lunch break
Chair: Yukiko Kuwayama
13:00 Petr Prášek: Existential Movement of Hikikomori
13:45 Martin Nitsche: Aida of Hikikomori: Phenomenological Approach
14:30 Coffee break
Chair: Joff Bradley
15:00 Tatsuya Higaki: Contra-festum and Hikikomori
15:45 Yukiko Kuwayama: Social Withdrawal and the Crisis of Inter-Affective Resonances in the Era of Bodymind Alienation
16:30 Closing remarks
Thursday, November 20
9:30 Welcome Coffee
Chair: Martin Nitsche
10:00 Joff Bradley: On ill-being: Rhythmanalysis and Reich
10:45 Yuuki Tanaka: The Leakscape of Hikikomori and ASD
11:30 Lunch break
Chair: Petr Prášek
13:00 Anthony Faramelli: Community and Communion Online: Social Withdrawal in the Digital Age
13:45 Coffee break
Chair: Anthony Faramelli
14:15 Reki Ando: Withdrawing Into the Self: Serizawa’s Ontology of Hikikomori
15:00 Petr Kouba: Ontological Insecurity. Social Isolation from the Perspective of R.D. Laing and Wilhelm Reich
15:45 Closing remarks
