Imaginaries in Intercultural Perspective

The international conference on Johann P. Arnason's 80th birthday

March 22-23, 2021
University of Vienna
Online-Conference

Organizers:
Georg Stenger (University of Vienna) & Ľubomír Dunaj (University of Vienna)
Department of Philosophy, the Research Area "Philosophy in a Global World"

For participation please contact: lubomir.dunajunivie.acat

Program:

March 22 (Monday)

09:30
Opening words: Georg Stenger & Ľubomír Dunaj & Johann P. Arnason

10:00
Jiří Šubrt (Charles University in Prague)
Long-term Developmental Processes as an unintended consequence of Human Action: some Theoretical and Methodological Questions of Historical Sociology?
10:45
Peter Wagner (University of Barcelona)
To what End does One combine Historical-comparative Sociology with Social and Political philosophy?

12:00
Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research)
The Rise of the Concept of Modernity as a Research Concept within Philosophy and the Social Sciences
12:45
Johann Schelkshorn (University of Vienna)
Axiality and Multiple Modernities. Philosophical Reflections on the universal Claims of European Civilisation

15:00
Jana S. Rošker (University of Ljubljana)
Arnason, Modern Confucianism and the Cultural Conditionality of Modernization
15:45
Heiner Roetz (Ruhr-University, Bochum)
The Multiple Modernities Theory – a Legitimate Heir to the Idea of the Axial Age?
16:30
Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida, Jacksonville)
Roots of Reflexivity—A Hermeneutic Critique of the Axial-Age-Discourse

17:45
Tongdong Bai (Fudan University, Shanghai)
Modernity Before Its Time — China's Zhou-Qin Transition (770-221 B.C.E.) as an Early Modernization
18:30
Geir Sigurdsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavík)
Confucianism as a 'Shared Problematic' in East Asia: A Note on Chinese Hermeneutics and Social Imaginaries in China

March 23 (Tuesday)

09:15
Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
When Was Eurasia? Childe, Goody, and the Connectivities of the Landmass
10:00
Marek Hrubec (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Chinese Civilization as a Precondition of New Silk Roads
10:45
Jeremy Smith (Federation University Australia, Ballarat)
Regionality and Civilizations in the Americas: Considerations on Civilizational Analysis in the Context of American Modernities

12:00
Dennis Schilling (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
Necessities of Life. Human Biological Condition and Ancient Chinese Political Theory
12:45
Leigh Jenco (The London School of Economics)
The Ming-Qing Transition in Chinese History as a Philosophical Problem

15:00
Milan Kreuzzieger (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Modernities at the Crossroads: Between the Great Futures and Failed Modernities
15:45
Ivan Landa (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Rethinking the Paradigm of Production: Arnason and Multiple Philosophies of Praxis
16:30
Ľubomír Dunaj (University of Vienna)
Johann P. Arnason: A Praguer?

17:45
Martin Šimsa (Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem)
Modern Democracy between Czech Philosophy and Critical Theory?
18:30
Kurt C. M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah)
Situating Civilizational Analysis Within the Project of Left Heideggerianism

Internationale Tagung: Philosophie, Religion und Wissenschaft in der islamischen Lebenswelt

Veranstalter*innen: Georg Stenger, Anke Graneß, Reza Dehghani
Eine Veranstaltung des Forschungsbereichs für Philosophie in einer globalen Welt/Interkulturelle Philosophie am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien in Kooperation mit der University of Tehran, dem Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies/Tehran, der Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy und der Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie-GIP
Termin:12.-15. 3. 2018
Ort: Universität Wien
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