The conference is generously
supported by the Cyrus H. Holley Professorship in Applied Ethics at Bloomfield
College, the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, the
University of Cadiz, the Conserjería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa and the
Project research "La calidad de la democracia" CSO2008-06525-C02-02/CPOL.
23 May, Sunday
Arrival at Conference Venue
Hotel Senator
C/ Rubio y Diaz, 1 (Plaza de San Agustín)
11004 Cádiz
John's Mobile: 1-518-791-7916
John's email: john.ryder@suny.edu
Carlos´s Mobile: 00 34 627928166
Conference center
Aulario La Bomba. Room 2.
All lunches will be served at the Facultad de Filosofía
20:00 Welcome Dinner (Hosted by the Americans)
24 May, Monday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Keynote Address
Herman Saatkamp
Santayana: Naturalism, Democracy and Values
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Session I Creative Democracy as a Way of Life
Emil Visnovsky:
Creative Democracy and Civic Culture Charlene Haddock-Seigfried: Democracy as a Way of Life
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Session II Pragmatism and Democracy
Don Morse: Democracy as a Way of Life and Death: Rethinking Pragmatism's Democratic
Vision Tigran Epoyan: Santayana, Pragmatism and Democracy
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30 Session III Pragmatism in Practice
Michael Eldridge:
Obama as a pragmatic democrat: What We Can Learn from His Presidency
17:45 - 19:45 Walking Tour through Cadiz
20:00 Dinner at Cathedral Square
Walks and Talks
25 May, Tuesday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 Session IV Perspectives on Dewey
Larry Hickman:
A New Direction for Philosophy: John Dewey's Class Lectures Nina Yulina: Contemporary Naturalism and the Naturalism of Dewey
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Session V Perspectives on Democracy
John Ryder: Is Democracy Really So Important? Alex Kremer: Rorty on Democracy
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Session VI Dewey and Rorty
Miklós Nyírõ:
Dewey and Rorty on Education and Democracy Christopher Voparil: Rorty and Dewey on Philosophy and Democracy: Toward a Fruitful Conversation
16:30 Free Time
19:30 Dinner at the Facultad de Filosofía Restaurant.
Walks and Talks
26 May, Wednesday
8:00 am Breakfast
8:45 - 10:45 Session VII Identity and Community
Kathleen Wallace:
Identity, Responsibility and Community Scott Pratt: Identity, Community and Power
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 13:15 Session VIII Challenges to Democracy
Ramon del Castillo:
Bernstein and Habermas on the Democratic Ethos Ramón Rodríguez Aguilera: Democracy within the Victory of the Market: A Pragmatic Transformation
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Excursion to Sevilla
20:00 Dinner
27 May, Thursday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 Session IX Transformation and Utopia
James Campbell:
The Transformative Power of Democracy Radim Šíp: Democracy: A Utopia
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Session X On Art
Krystyna Wilkoszewska:
How Art Helps To Share Our Experiences: Dewey's Approach Lyubov Bugaeva: Dewey and Santayana on Visual Art
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Session XI Democracy and Citizenship
Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus:
The European Union between Multi-Level Representation and Citizens
Participation: Can the Pragmatist Approach to Democracy Fix the Evils of
EU-Bureaucracy? Paul Thompson: Environmental Citizenship and Jeffersonian Democracy
16:30 Free Time
19:30 Dinner
Walks and Talks
28 May, Friday
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 Session XII Current Issues 1
Philipp Dorstewitz:
From Brownfield to Cultural Capital: The Idea of an "Urban Laboratory"
Developed by Zeche Zollverein Armen Marsoobian: The Moral Burden of Memory
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:30 Session XIII Moral Inquiry and Moral Perplexity
Richard Hart:
Democracy and Moral Perplexity: Dewey, Addams and Steinbeck Henrik Rydenfelt: Democracy and Moral Inquiry: A Response to Cheryl Misak
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Session XIV Current Issues 2
Gregory Fernando Pappas:
A Deweyan Criticism of Recent Repressive Views of Democracy Carlos Mougan: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Way of Life: A Deweyan Reading of R. Dworkin
