10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE IN ROME May 11-13, 2017 John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago
PROGRAM THURSDAY 11 MAY PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – CONFERENCE ROOM 09:00-09:30
BREAKFAST
09:30-10:15
Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza Axel Honneth's idea of socialism Chair: Hugh Miller
10:15-11:00
Deborah Cook, University of Windsor Notes on Individuation in Adorno and Foucault
11:15-12:00
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University The Bias of Rationality: Marx after Foucault
12:00-12:45
Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley Adorno and Blumenberg: Nonconceptuality and the Bilderverbot
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
THURSDAY 11 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON) Session 1 – Conference Room Chairs:
Session 2 – Room 5
Verena Erlenbusch Verena Erlenbusch, University of Memphis The Spatiality of History: Critical Theory and the Coloniality of Power
Moreno Rocchi Mary Caputi, California State University, Long Beach Repressive Desublimation: Antidote to Mindless Syncopation
15:00 15:30
Lars Rensmann, University of Groningen Authoritarian Politics Reloaded: Towards a Critical Theory of RightWing Populism in Light of the Frankfurt School
Alhelí Alvarado-Díaz, School of Visual Arts, New York The Illusion of Democracy: False Freedoms and Total Control in Marcuse’s Essay on Liberation and One Dimensional Man
15:30 16:00
Robert Fine, University of Warwick The so-called Jewish question, the left, and the contemporary tasks of critical theory
Jeffery Nicholas, Providence College Eros, Utopia, Method: Marcuse and Hope for a Better World
14:30 15:00
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Session 3 – Room 6 Barbara Castaldo Jakub Górski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow T.W. Adorno, P. Lacoue-Labarthe and the idea of Mimesis. Comparative analysis Marjan Ivković, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade Philosophical experience and semantic surplus: the post-metaphysical sensitivity of Adornian negative dialectic Stefano Papa, University of Vienna Adorno and Sohn-Rethel on the Possibility of a Positive Dialectics
Session 4 – Room 4 Dagmar Wilhelm Dagmar Wilhelm, University of the West of England, Bristol Honneth and the challenge of feminism(s) Douglas Giles, University of Essex Affirmational and Rectificatory Struggles for Recognition
Session 5 – Room 3 James Murphy James Murphy, Loyola University Chicago Adorno Looks for the Invisible Committee: Social Psychology and Sovereignty in the Theory of Bloom Camilla Brenni, Ecole Normale Supérieure Skepticism in Hegel and Adorno's dialectic
Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez, Emory University Reclusion, Exclusion, and Inclusion. Two Complements to Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition
Daniel Pepe, DePaul University Secularization or The Permanent Cult: On Water Benjamin's Critical Reading of Max Weber
Jenny Kneis, Humboldt-University of Berlin Adornos' Introduction into Dialectics via Descartes' Rules of Method
Miriam Madureira, UAM-C, Mexico City Recognition, reification, work. The place of the material world of objects in recent critical theory
Ashley Fleshman, DePaul University A Question of Regression: On the propensity to psychological immaturity in late capitalism
Anders Johansson, Mid Sweden University Adorno and the Anthropocene
Anders Ramsay, Mid Sweden University History of freedom or freedoms right?
Kieran Aarons, DePaul University What is a Destituent Pledge?
Georgios Sagriotis, University of Osnabrück Adorno's philosophy of love
Carl-Göran Heidegren, Lund University, Sweden The Concept of Alienation in Contemporary Critical Theory
Neal Miller, DePaul University Cynical Communism: Foucaultian Exits from Neoliberalism
COFFEE BREAK Marcos Nobre, University of Campinas, Brazil Immanence in Late Capitalism. Adorno’s Negative Dialectics
David Seymour, City University London Elites and Lobbies: Personalising Politics in an Age of Reaction Thomas Ogrisegg, University of Vienna Adorno's political practice
Federico Sollazzo, University of Szeged, Hungary The Legacy of Marcuse’s OneDimensional Man: From a Pre- to a Post-Technological Culture and Society Robert Vigliotti, Rockhurst University Marcuse, Automation, and the Development of New Human Needs Taila Picchi, University of Florence A Note on Disparative Dialectics
10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
FRIDAY 12 MAY
PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – CONFERENCE ROOM 09:00-09:30
BREAKFAST
09:30-10:15
Hille Haker, Loyola University Chicago The ‘tickling in the heels’ – Kafka, Benjamin, and Postcolonialism Chair: Hugh Miller
10:15-11:00
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University Adorno After Trump: Fascist Propaganda in the Advanced Digital Age
11:15-12:00
David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago Unsustainable Capitalism in the 21st Century and the Crisis of the State
12:00-12:45
Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome, Tor Vergata Political liberalism, indigenous unreasonability and post-liberal democracy
13:00-14:00
LUNCH
10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
FRIDAY 12 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON) Session 1 – Conference Room
Session 2 – Room 5
Hugh Miller Hugh Miller, Loyola University Chicago The Aesthetics of Manifestation(s): Revisiting John Berger’s ‘The Nature of Mass Demonstrations’ Today
Melis Menent Ioannis Kampourakis, Freie Universität Berlin Power and Democracy: Revisiting the Foucault-Habermas debate in the context of the rising populisms
Dave Mesing Claudia Leeb, Washington State University Mourning Denied: The Living Dead
Moreno Rocchi Didier Contadini, Università degli Studi di Milano - Statale Time and Space: Plural temporalities and "spatial turn" in Benjamin's thought
15:00 15:30
Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon, Simon Fraser University Adorno on Huxley's Brave New World
Daniel Kuchler, Freie Universität Berlin Towards a Critical Republican Theory
Sean Bray, Villanova University The Beginning of the End of Time: Hegel and Agamben on the Deactivation of the Law
15:30 16:00
Martin Niederauer, University of Applied Sciences WürzburgSchweinfurt Aesthetics and enlightenment as central constants in the intellectual work of Theodor W. Adorno
Siyang Liu, Durham University Examining the Necessity of a Common National Identity: Jurgen Habermas' Constitutional Patriotism versus David Miller's Theory of Nationality
Amanda Holmes, Villanova University Hungry for Fresh Brains: Negation and the encounter between Jean Hyppolite and Jacques Lacan
Elia Zaru, Università degli Studi di Milano - Statale The Global Benjamin. Uses of the 'plural temporality' in Postcolonial Studies Lorenzo D'Angelo, Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca Plural temporal encounters. Microhistory of a revolt in West Africa
Chairs:
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16:00 16:30 16:30 17:00
17:00 17:30 17:30 18:00
Session 3 – Room 6
Session 4 – Room 4
Session 5 – Room 3 Simon Susen Rodrigo Cordero, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile On the right to speculation: Critical theory between social abstractions and political imagination (Notes on Gillian Rose) Simon Susen, City, University of London The Seductive Force of ‘Noumenal Power’: A New Path (or Impasse) for Critical Theory? Guido Barbi, KU Leuven The Rule of Nobody: Bureaucracy and Agency
COFFEE BREAK David Horne, Royal Northern College of Music Philosophy as Music, Music as Philosophy: Problems of Analysis in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen Stan Erraught, Bucks New University Music and Enigmaticalness in Adorno Paulina Aroch Fugellie, UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico City Identity in Ideology: Theatre of the Oppressed Under Neoliberalism
Melis Menent, Sussex University The Two Track Model of Habermasian Democracy in constitutional Patriotism
Dave Mesing, Villanova University Plural Temporality and the Critique of Political Economy: Notes on the Concept of Threat
David Bainbridge, Royal Northern College of Music Democracy and Tyranny: On Ethical Law
Amirhosein Khandizaji, Free University of Berlin The Culture Industry in the Age of Simulation and Hyperreality
Rosalba Mallardo, Independent Scholar Habermas’ Critical Project at the Challenge of Non-curative Eugenics Keith Pisani, University of Malta An Actor-Oriented Conception of Complexity
Charles Prusik, Villanova University Neoliberal Subjects: Mediation, Individuation, Competition Charlie Strong, Villanova University Emergence & Structure, Freedom & Constraint: Considerations Regarding Sociality
Melayna Lamb, University of Brighton Benjamin, Hobbes and Eschatological Violence Mathias Sørensen, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Gay marriage after 2008: temporal reconfigurations in neoliberal capitalism
Assaf Sharon, Tel Aviv University The populist challenge to discursive democracy Georgios Moraitis, Bremen University Jean-Jacques Rousseau: an early critical thinker of the 18th century
10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
SATURDAY 13 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (MORNING) 09:30 10:00
BREAKFAST Session 1– Conference Room
Session 2– Room 5
Session 3– Room 6
10:00 10:30
Paulo Yamawake Inara Luiza Marin, Cebrap What is left after the end of internalization? Jessica Benjamin on Adorno's social psychology
10:30 11:00
Raquel Patriota, Unicamp Adorno's aesthetics and the changing image of modernism
Damiano Roberi Panagiota Schoina, Panteion University, Athens Being for other and critique in Benjamin's theory of possible historical experience. An exemption? Nathan Ross, Oklahoma City University Perception, Experience and Truth in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin
Moreno Rocchi Michael C. Cifone, City University of New York, Bronx Marcuse and the Possibility of a New Utopia - Intimations of a Cinematic Society Sam Ben-Meir, Mercy College, New York City Marcuse on Beauty: The Emancipatory Significance of Aesthetic Form BREAK
Andrea Aureli George W. Shea, IV, Misericordia University The Return to Metaphysics in Horkheimer’s Critique of Instrumental Reason Thorsten Fuchshuber, Université Libre de Bruxelles Max Horkheimer’s racket theory – a critical theory of post-bourgeois society
Davide Ruggieri Davide Ruggieri, University of Bologna Lebenssoziologie. The Relational perspective and the Critique of ‚social forms‛ Shin-ichi Tabata, Waseda University, Tokio ‘The transcendence from within’ as the basis of Habermas’ political theory
Fernando Bee, Unicamp Benjamin: Culture as phantasmagoria
Damiano Roberi, University of Turin Benjaminian Notes for a Barbaric view of the Web
Alexey Savin, IF RAS/RANEPA, Russia Dehistorization and historicity in the early Marcuse’s philosophy
Luiz Repa, University of São Paulo/CEBRAP On the notion of reconstructive critique in Habermas and Celikates
Paulo Yamawake, Unicamp The Early Critical Theory on the Working Class: A Comparison between Fromm's and Kracauer's Empirical Research Ricardo Lira, Unicamp After the aging of the new music: the category of musical material in T.W. Adorno
Elena Pnevmonidou, University of Victoria The Body in Benjamin and Marx
Will Stronge, University of Brighton The Immanent Utopianism of Critical Theory
Christos Memos, Abertay University, Dundee Permanent Crisis and Decline as a Refuge of Hope: Notes on Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse Sid Simpson, University of Notre Dame Socialization as Self-Domination: The Necessary Neuroses of Political Life
Lisbet Rosenfeldt Svanøe, Aarhus University Schiller Revisited – Aesthetic Play as the Solution to Halbbildung and Instrumental Rationalism
Edward Hamilton, Capilano University Power, subjectivity, history: Reconsidering the implications of Nietzsche's thought for critical theory
Jarno Johannes Hietalahti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Critical Humor Theory
Thomas Wren, Loyola University Chicago The Possibility of a Post-Critical Multiculturalism
Chairs:
11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00
12:00 12:30
12:30 13:00
13:00 14:00
Session 4– Room 4
Session 5– Room 3
Christine Brueckner McVay, School of Visual Arts, New York The Public Sphere in a Time of Crisis: Reason/Resistance
LUNCH
10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
SATURDAY 13 MAY PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON) Session 1 – Conference Room Chairs:
14:30 15:00
Ingrid Cyfer Karin Stöegner, University of Vienna Intersectionality of ideologies: on the relationship of society and individual
15:00 15:30
Yara Frateschi, Unicamp-SP Subjection and Autonomy in Amy Allen
15:30 16:00
Ingrid Cyfer, Unifesp-SP Politics and Vulnerabilty in Judith Butler’s ethical turn
16:00 16:30 16:30 17:00
Session 2 – Room 5
Session 4 – Room 4
Session 5 – Room 3
Colby Dickinson Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago The Necessary Fetish? Adorno and Lacan on the Necessity of das Ding/the Thing Danelle Fourie, North-West University, South Africa Jouissance as entertainment in capitalist consumer societies
Session 3 – Room 6 Andrea Aureli Radu Neculau, University of Windsor, Ontario Ideology as deceptive recognition. Revising the theory to fit the facts
Sonia Arribas Sonia Arribas, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona The folded Fan in Walter Benjamin: Love and Fetish
Moreno Rocchi Simon Clarke, Royal Northern College of Music The Preponderance of the Object: NonIdentity and the Logic of Appearing
Marco Angella, University of Pretoria, South Africa Non-human Environment and Extreme Violence: The limits of Axel Honneth’s Concept of Reification
Giovanni Tusa, The Global Center for Advanced Studies, New York Materialist film praxis: Alienation and Empathy beyond Hegel and Marx
Marcos Antonio Norris, Loyola University Chicago Happiness in Death: A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Messianic in Walter Benjamin’s ‚Theologico-Political Fragment‛
Vanessa Capistrano Ferreira, Sao Paulo State University Weaknesses in Recognition: Inclusion and Inferiorization in Times of Migratory Crisis
Gabriel Cabello, Granada University/ Paris 8 University ‘Dans les plis sinueux des vieilles capitales...’: the Little old Women and the Benjaminian Armor of Modernity Alicia Valdés, Carlos III University, Spain Woman’s Fetishism and the City. A Benjaminian Reading of Prostitution
Richard Westerman, University of Alberta The phenomenological, ontic, and ontological levels of reification in Lukács
Irene Valle, Granada University, Spain Walter Benjamin and the two Moments of the Urban Labyrinth: Mass and Rêverie
Ilias Giannopoulos, Independent Scholar From decay of aura to cultural industry: Benjamin and Adorno on autonomy of art
Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University Reification, Recognition, and the Peculiar Case of the Law
Günter Gassner, Cardiff University Aestheticising versus Beautifying the City: Benjamin and Rancière Yehotal Shapira, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Dwelling Beyond Being and Alterity: Negative Dialectics, Nonphilosophy and Messianic Architecture in East Jerusalem
Pierre-François Noppen, University of Saskatchewan Suffering and Negativity: Adorno on the Foundations of Normativity Karel Hlaváček, Charles University, Prague On the Central Paradox of Adorno’s Minimal Theology. Adorno’s work as a contemplative eschatology
Ulrich Mathias Gerr, Carl von Ossietzky-University Oldenburg On the concept of childhood in Benjamin and Adorno
COFFEE BREAK Ina Kerner, Kate Hamburger Kolleg/ Center for Global Cooperation Research Post colonial theory as a global critical theory
17:00 17:30
Mariana Teixeira, Unicamp-SP Reconstructing the Dialectics of Recognition: Peripheral Stances
17:30 18:00
Arthur Bueno, Max Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt The abstract third: reconnecting abject relations theory and the critique of capitalism
Todd Hedrick, Michigan State University Social Freedom and Non-Repressive Socialization: Honneth’s Combination of Hegel and Winnicott, and its Limitations Agnès Grivaux, ENS-Ulm PSL Psychoanalysis and Pathologies of Reason: a Confrontation between Adorno and Honneth Andreas Gelhard, University of Vienna The Dialectic of Individuation Adorno's Critique of Psycho-Technics
Alessandro De Cesaris, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli Technology and Second Nature. Towards a Critical Approach to Media Theory
10TH INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE in ROME
