The conference is generously supported by the Embassy of the United States to
Hungary, The W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University,
and the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University
27 May
Arrival at Conference Venue – Novotel Hotel, Maros utca 1, H-6721,
Szeged,
Hotel Phone: (+36)62/562200
Hotel Fax: (+36)62/562221
Hotel email: H2996@accor.com
Alex’s Tel: (+36)62/544179
Alex’s Mobile: (+36)-30-363-5100
Alex’s email: alexanderkremer2000@yahoo.com
John’s Mobile: 518-791-7916
John’s email: john.ryder@suny.edu
19:00 Welcome Dinner: Gory Restaurant
28 May, Sunday
9:00 am Breakfast
10:30 – 12:00 Keynote Address
Hans Joas From the Soul to the Self: Problems of the Understanding of the
Person in Pragmatism
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
13:30 – 15:30 Session I Self and Social Institutions
Emil Višňovsky Self, Norms, and Institutions: a Pragmatist Approach Jane Skinner The Marginalization of the Self in the Era of Development
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Session II Individual and Community
Dorota Frackiewicz Community, Individual and Experience Paul Thompson Food, Community and Identity
19:00 Dinner Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
Walks and Talks
May 29, Monday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 Session III Self and Society I
James Campbell William James's Understanding of the Social Self Radim Sip Rorty’s Unpragmatic Conception of Society and Self
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Session IV Self and Society II
Michael Eldridge The Social Character of Obligation in Dewey's Pragmatic
Ethics Krystyna Wilkoszewska The Concept of Self in Dewey’s Theory of Expression
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
15:00 – 17:00 Session V Pragmatism and the Wider World
János Boros Europragmatism - Pragmatism for Europe John Ryder American Philosophy and Foreign Policy
17:00 Free Time
19:00 Dinner Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
Walks and Talks
May 30, Tuesday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 Session VI Pragmatism Extended
Sami Pihlström Quine, a Pragmatist? Leszek Koczanowicz Dialogue and the Self in American Pragmatism and Russian
Semiotics
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session VII Social Responsibility
Armen Marsoobian Genocide’s Aftermath: Reflections on Self and
Responsibility
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
14:00 Tour of Szeged
19:00 Dinner Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
Walks and Talks
May 31, Wednesday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 Session VIII The Self
Tom Hilde Traveling Selves Ramón Rodríguez The Sense of Self, the Sense of Reality
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Session IX Self and Identity
Kathleen Wallace Personal Identity of an Intersectional Self Sándor (Alex) Krémer Richard Rorty's Description of the Self
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
15:00 – 17:00 Session X Pragmatism and Literature
Lyubov Bugaeva The Construction of Social and Socialist Utopia: James, Wells
and Gorky Richard Hart Dewey and Steinbeck on the Individual and Community
17:00 Free Time
19:00 Dinner Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
Walks and Talks
June 1, Thursday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 Session XI Contemporary Problems
Donald Morse Dewey and the Lost Individual Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus The Political Self in Modern Democracy: Individual
Liberty and Personal Rights versus Republican Virtue and Communitarian
Responsiveness
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30 Session XII The Social Individual
Carlos Mougan Social Cooperation as Civic Virtue Lee McBride Collectivistic Individualism
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Stuszi Vadasz Restaurant
15:00 – 17:00 Session XIII The Public and Its Limits
Miklós Nyiri On Richard Rorty's Romantic Liberalism and its Limits Larry Hickman Publics and Products: Reassembling the Social
