CEPF Draft Program 2016
CEPF Draft
Program 2016
Seventh
International Conference
Society and
Culture: Theory and Practice
June 4 – 8, 2012 , Turda ,
Romania
The conference is generously
supported by the Cyrus H. Holley Professorship in Applied Ethics at
Bloomfield College , and the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois
University
3 June, Sunday Arrival in Cluj-Napoca
Hotel Centrum Hotel Phone: +40 0264 315 220Web: www.hotelturda.ro
Organizer's Mobile: +40 0728 989 090 (Claudia
Rosca)Organizer's Email: claudia_rosca_rita@yahoo.com John's email: jryder6682@gmail.com ;
jryder@khazar.org
(Breakfasts are at hotel, Lunches and Dinners
at Raşiu Center)
19:00 Welcome Dinner in Cluj (Belvedere Hotel)
22:00 Bus from Belvedere Hotel to Train Station,
Airport and Turda; Check-in at Hotel Centrum
4 June, Monday 8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:30 Short walk to Raşiu
Center for Democracy
10:00 - 10:15 Welcoming Remarks: John Ryder and
Indrei Raşiu
10:15 - 11:30 Keynote Address
Larry Hickman : Pragmatic
Religion for Global Culture
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 Session I Democracy in Practice
Indrei Raşiu : Discovering
John Dewey by the Back Door - The Work of the Ratiu Democracy Center 2003 - 2012
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Session II Ecological Ethics
Jane Skinner Seeking an Ethics of Ecological Responsibility
within a Deweyan Perspective
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Session III Local Democracy
Madalina Mocan Can We Bailout Local Democracy?
17:00 Free Time
19:00 Dinner
Walks and Talks
5 June, Tuesday 8:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
10:00 - 12:00 Session IV Democracy, Conflict,
and Consensus
Leszek Koczanowicz : Beyond
Consensus and Antagonism: A Pragmatist Concept of DemocracyJohn Ryder : Democratic
Theory: Interests and Antagonisms
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:30 Session V Jane Addams
Marilyn Fischer Jane Addams's Pragmatist Reconstruction of Politics
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 Session VI Backgrounds of
American Thought
Scott Pratt :Agency
and Sovereignty in American Indian PhilosophyJames Campbell : Abraham Lincoln and Pragmatism
17:00 Free Time
19:00 Dinner
Walks and Talks
6 June, Wednesday 8:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
Excursion Day!
10:00 Bus Departs from Hotel
Excursion in Cluj and (maybe) Babeº-Bolyai
University
19:00 Dinner in Cluj
21:00 Return to Turda
7 June, Thursday 8:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
10:00 - 12:00 Session VII Rorty and Art
Alex Kremer :
Heidegger and Rorty (Philosophy-Politics-Art)Richard Hart : A
Novel Advance in Morality: Rorty and Steinbeck
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:30 Session VIII Rorty and Science
Miklós Nyírõ :
Incommensurability and Culture: Rorty's Account of the Sciences
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 Session IX Pragmatism and
Practice
Ramón Rodríguez
Aguilera : Democracy in the Global CrisisDon Morse : How
Thought Can Change the World: Reflections on Dewey's Middle Period
17:00 Free Time
19:00 Dinner
Walks and Talks
8 June, Friday 8:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast
10:00 - 12:00 Session X Our Times
Armen Marsoobian :
Constructing History: The Role of National Narratives in Democracy BuildingEmil Višòovskı :
Pragmatism and Modernity
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:30 Session XI Pragmatism and Policy
I
Carlos Mougán Rivero :
Martha C. Nussbaum, John Dewey, and Education for Democratic Citizenship
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Session XII Pragmatism and
Policy II
Philip Dorstewitz :Evaluating Normative Frameworks for Policy Making -
a Role for Pragmatist Philosophy
16:00 - 17:00 Open Session
17:00 Final Thoughts
19:00 Farewell Dinner - Barbecue in Center
Courtyard
9 June, Saturday Departure
3:30 am Absurdly Early Bus to Cluj Airport
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
10:30 am Second bus to Cluj and Cluj Airport
Bon Voyage!
