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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

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Programme 

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