19:00 Welcome Reception in Prague: (Kavárna Adria)
The Adria Palace is located on Jungmann square, a few steps from Můstek station.
Pickup from hotels at 18:30. www.caffeadria.cz/en/
4 June, Monday
Breakfast
8:30 Walk to Meeting Site: From all our hotels it
takes 15 to 20 minutes to reach the conference room. The first conference day (June
4th), we will be picked from each hotel and shown how to reach the conference
site.
9:00 - 9:30 Welcoming Remarks
Emil Visnovsky
John Ryder
House Keeping
Karolina Sedivcova
Martin Svantner
9:30 - 11:00 The Michael Eldridge
Lecture
Rosa Calcaterra: Feelings
and Reasons in Communication. Signposts for the Epistemology of the Self and
Recognition of Others
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Session I Social Justice
Chris Voparil:
Social Justice Pragmatism: Toward a Working Program
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Location TBA
14:30 - 16:30 Session II Rorty’s
Legacies
Rich Hart: Rorty
and the Divided States of America
Emil Visnovsky: Rorty in
Conversation with Czech Intellectuals
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Session III Fragments
Kathleen Wallace:
Intersectionality and Fragments
19:00 Dinner: Location TBA
Walks and Talks
5 June, Tuesday
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 Session IV Experience
Roberta Dreon: John Ryder,
Making Our Way: An Outline of a Theory of Experience. A Reading
Lyubov Bugaeva: Experience.
Language, and Narrative
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Session V Conflict and
Dialogue
David Hildebrand:
Reasoning Across Borders: Pragmatic Proposals for Pluralistic Conflict
Hans-Herbert Kögler:
The Utopian Potential of Cosmopolitan Dialogue for Global Public Reaso
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Location TBA
14:30 - 16:30 Session VI Pragmatism and
China
Carlin Romano: Hu
Shih, Dewey, Pragmatism, and Confucianism
Lubomir Dunaj: Between
Pragmatism and Chinese Thought
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Session VII Borders and
Mind
Jane Skinner: A
Consideration of Some Neglected Borders of the Mind
19:00 Dinner Location TBA
Walks and Talks
6 June, Wednesday
Free Day
On Our Own in Prague - Enjoy!
Dinner on Your Own
7 June, Thursday
Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 Session VIII Pragmatism
and Its History
James Campbell: Robert
Pollack’s Influence on John McDermott
Karolina Sedivcova and
Michal Karla: Prolegomena to a History of Pragmatism
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Session IX Political
Categories
John Ryder: The
Shifting Borders of Political Categories
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Location TBA
14:30 - 16:30 Session X Ethos, Ethics,
and Democracy
Carlos Mougan:
Scientific Research Ethics and Democratic Ethos: A Pragmatist View
Brendan Hogan: The
Work of Social Inquiry: Labor as a Site of Epistemic Democracy
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Session XI Body
Martin Svantner: Sounding
Body Semiosis: ‘keep your ears closed and let your eyes listen’
19:00 Dinner Location TBA
Walks and Talks
8 June, Friday
Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 Session XII Identity and
the Americas
Rebecca Farinas:
Alain Locke’s Moonlit Values: Transversing Boundaries of Race, Gender, and
Identity
Gregory Pappas: An
Inter-American Approach to Injustices
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Session XIII Rationality
Alexander Scerbak: The
Pragma-Dialectic Model as a Practical Method of Rational Discussion
Scott Pratt: On the
Border: Decolonizing Natural Logic
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Location TBA
14:30 - 16:30 Session XIV Selves and
Societies
Armen Marsoobian:
The Social Self and Social Death: Rethinking the Crimes Against Humanity
Alex Kremer: The
‘Melting Pot’ Metaphor and the Question of Immigrants in Dewey and Rorty
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Session XV Agency
Philipp Dorstewitz:
Agency, the Blind Spot in Pragmatist Theory
