“Pragmatism and the Political” – International Conference – Paris 4-6 June 2015
PRAGMATISM AND THE POLITICAL
International Conference
4-6th June 2015
EHESS – Amphi François Furet / 105, bd. Raspail – 75006 Paris
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Thursday, June 4th
Democracy and Institutions
9h.30-12h.30
(Chair Daniel Cefaï)
Roberto Frega (CNRS, CEMS-IMM), Steps towards a Pragmatist Theory of Democracy.
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University), Pragmatism and the Overcoming of Discrete Individualism.
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14h-17h.30
(Chair Giovanni Maddalena)
Charles Sabel (Columbia University), Pragmatism and the Politics of Crisis.
Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M University), The Pragmatist’s Approach to Problems of Injustice.
Joelle Zask (Université Aix-Marseille), The Usefulness of Pragmatism for a Democratic Conception of International Politics.
Friday, June 5th
Resistance, Disobedience, and Mobilizations in the Public Space
9h.30-13h
(Chair Mathias Girel)
Christopher Ansell (California University at Berkeley), The Protective State and the Problem-Solving State.
Daniel Cefaï (EHESS, CEMS-IMM), Public Arena: A Pragmatist Concept of the Public Sphere.
Albert Ogien (CNRS, CEMS-IMM) – Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Democracy as Claim and as Form of Life.
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14h.30-18h
(Chair Nadia Urbinati)
Just Serrano Zamora (Frankfurt University and IfS), Inquiring from below? Exploring the Democratic Value of Situated Inquiries.
José Medina (Vanderbilt University), Pragmatism, Racial Frictions and Epistemic Injustice.
Francis Chateauraynaud (EHESS, GSPR), Environmental Issues between Regulation and Conflict. Pragmatic Views on Ecological Controversies.
Saturday, June 6th
Pragmatism as a Critical Project
9h.30-14h
(Chair Magali Bessone)
Torjus Midtgarden (Bergen University), Dewey’s Publics Reconsidered: Process Ontology, Communication and Vulnerable Agents.
Emmanuel Renault (Université Paris-Ouest), Dewey’s Pragmatism and Frankfurt Critical Theory as Social Philosophies.
Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS, Centre Georg Simmel), How Critical can Pragmatism be? On Some Pragmatist Foundations for Critical Sociology.
Molly Cochran (Oxford Brooks University), The Pragmatism of Jane Addams: International Justice and the Ethics of Social Radicalism.
