NorMed
December 2008
Volume 3, Number 2


WINTER SYMPOSIUM: THE ADVENTURE OF MODERNITY:
CASTORIADIS BEYOND POST-MODERNISM AND NEO-MODERNISM

 

University of Akureyri (”Solborg” by ”Nordurslod”).

Room no. L101

 

 

Thursday         All will be picked up by Agust at the airport.

 

Agust’s cell phone: 00354 89930 35 -  Email agust@unak.is

Ingerid’s cell: +47 98 88 72 21 (but please note that she doesn’t know much about Iceland).

Anders: +46 730663533 (ditto)

 

To make this affordable, some will be accomodated privately, and some at the youth hostel.

Thursday evening we will meet at a bar, where there is a restaurant next door. Then, we can have a stroll around the town centre.

 

Remember to bring a bottle of wine, bathing suit + towel and extra copies of your paper.  

 

 

Friday

10:00 – 11:00 Welcome and presentation

 

11:00 – 12:30 Harald Wolf: Modernity at Work

 

Lunch

 

14:00 – 15:30  Giorgio Baruchello: Capitalism and Freedom: The Core of a Contradiction. An Essay on Cornelius Castoriadis and John McMurtry

 

15.30 – 17:00 Andrea Gabler: Work Analysis and Autonomy - „Socialisme ou

barbarie's“ Concept of Revolutionary Work Research

 

17:00 – 18:30  Stuart Winchester: The Great Resistance

 

Dinner

 

Saturday

 

09:00 – 10:30  Wendy C. Hamblet: Castoriadis' "Quirky" Plato

10:30 – 12:00 J.F. Humphrey: Castoriadis and Democracy

Lunch

 

13:30 – 15:00  Håvard Nilsen: On Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis (title yet to come)

 

15:00 – 17:30  Jacob Dahl Rendtorff: Modernity, legitimacy and organizational change:

The perspective of Cornelius Castoriadis

 

17:30 – 18:00  Ingerid Straume: Tight Socialization: On the notions of Paideia and the Individual in Castoriadis's thought

 

18:00 – 19:30 Birte Hatlehol: Social imaginations and digital representations as a

pedagogical way to autonomy? Presentation of a high school project in

Norway, where students create and articulate their opinions about questions in the society, using digital media.

 

Dinner

 

Sunday

 

Excursion – concluding talks  

 

Without paper: Fotis Theodoridis, Otto Masson, Anders Ramsay m.fl.

 

See also www.nsuweb.net > Creation, Rationality, Autonomy > Winter Symposium programme and abstracts