Program
Location: Universität Wien, Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
| Workshop Day 1 | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Martin Huth & Sergej Seitz (Innsbruck/Vienna): Introductory Remarks |
| 10:30 | Paper Discussion Catherine Koekoek (Rotterdam): Democratic Infrastructures for Imagination Simon Skempton (York): Reason and the Intersubjective Imagination Savvas Orfanos (Paris): Imagination and Truth: What Limits for Democratic Action? |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Carlo Salazani (Innsbruck): Phenomenology, Nonhuman Animals, and the Ethics of Embodiment Martin Huth (Innsbruck): Frames of Imaginability and Encountered Singularity: The Case of Non-Normate Embodiment |
| 16:00 | Coffeebreak |
| 16:30 | Paper Discussion Michaela Bstieler & Stephanie Graf (Innsbruck): Remembering the Unimaginable: Tracing a Critical Imagination with Walter Benjamin Julia Werthmann & Fynn Semken (Vienna): There are Alternatives, but None: Rethinking the Political Imaginary in Contemporary Neoliberalism |
| 18:00 | Break |
| 18:30 | Keynote | Lecture Hall III, NIG Ground Floor Lois McNay (Oxford):Ordinary Imagination and the Everyday Politics of Transfiguration |
| 20:30 | Debriefing over Dinner |
Location: Universität Wien, Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
| Workshop Day 2 | |
|---|---|
| 9:45 | Opening Talk | Besprechungsraum KSA C424 (4th floor) Michael Räber (Lucerne): Rupture and Response - Rorty, Cavell and Rancière on the Role of the Poetic Powers of Democratic Citizens in Overcoming Injustices and Oppression |
| 11:00 | Paper Discussion Alexander Altonji (New York): Electing Affinities: Imagination and the Politics of Friendship Rainer Stummer (Vienna): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Geological Metaphor in Ernesto Laclau's Postfoundational Imaginery |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Paper Discussion Bernardo Paci (Milan): Writing New Pasts to Imagine New Futures: Realism, Political Imagination, and Historical Knowledge Agnese Di Riccio (New York): With and Without Castoriadis: Rethinking the Imaginery under the Environmental Crisis Sergej Seitz (Vienna): Aporias of Political Imagination |
| 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45 | Paper Discussion Tania Eden (Bochum): The Unimaginability of Dementia: Limits of Surrogate Decision Making Ruadhán Flynn (Innsbruck): Cognitive Disability & Standpoint Epistemology: Building with Imagination |