Un convegno su George Herbert Mead alla University of Chicago – 18-20 aprile 2013 George Herbert Mead Conference at the University of Chicago – April 18-20 2013
Dal 18 al 20 aprile 2013 si terrà presso l’Università di Chicago un convegno internazionale in occasione del centocinquantesimo anniversario dalla nascita di George Herbert Mead. Nato il 27 febbraio 1863, Mead svolse quasi interamente la sua carriera universitaria presso l’Università di Chicago. Il suo lavoro sulla natura sociale del sé, insieme a suoi contribuiti in altri campi, hanno influenzato in maniera fondamentale la psicologia sociale, contribuendo in particolar modo allo sviluppo del pensiero sociale della Scuola di Chicago e all’interazionismo simbolico. La rinascita recente dell’interesse dimostrato da vari studi hanno confermato il valore che ancor oggi riveste il pensiero di Mead per le scienze cognitive, la storia delle idee e l’etica democratica.
Oltre a Charles Taylor (McGill), che presenterà una relazione dal titolo “Was Mead a Dialogical Thinker?”, saranno presenti tra i relatori Mitchell Aboulafia (Manhattan College), Charles Camic (Northwestern), Daniel Cefai (EHESS), Dan Huebner (American), Hans Joas (Chicago, Freiburg), John Lucy (Chicago), Dmitri Shalin (Nevada–Las Vegas), Robert Westbrook (Rochester), e giovani studiosi di Mead.
Il convegno è organizzato da Hans Joas, Andrew Abbott e Dan Huebner. Per maggiori informazioni: huebner@uchicago.edu.
A conference will be held April 18-20, 2013 at the University of Chicago to celebrate the 150th anniversary of George Herbert Mead. Born on February 27, 1863, Mead was a pioneering pragmatist philosopher who spent virtually his entire professional career at the University of Chicago until his death in 1931. His teaching and writing on the social nature of the self, along with a diversity of other topics, has had an enduring influence on social thought, especially on the development of the Chicago School of sociology and Symbolic Interactionism. Recent research has only further reinforced Mead’s contemporary relevance to topics as diverse as cognitive science, the history of ideas, and democratic ethics.
The conference features a keynote speech by philosopher Charles Taylor (McGill) entitled “Was Mead a Dialogical Thinker?” along with innovative papers by Mitchell Aboulafia (Manhattan College), Charles Camic (Northwestern), Daniel Cefai (EHESS), Dan Huebner (American), Hans Joas (Chicago, Freiburg), John Lucy (Chicago), Dmitri Shalin (Nevada–Las Vegas), Robert Westbrook (Rochester), and a panel of young scholars.
The conference is being organized at the University of Chicago by Hans Joas, Andrew Abbott, and Dan Huebner. For more information about participating in the young scholars panel or for further information about the conference, please contact the organizers by email at huebner@uchicago.edu.
