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Conference Thinking Plurality
12 June 2013 @ 09:45 - 14 June 2013 @ 16:00
|Thinking Plurality
From June 12-14, 2013, the conference Thinking Plurality will take place at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Immediately after this conference, prof. dr. Ben Vedder will deliver his valedictory lecture.
Topic: In the wake of the present-day critique of metaphysics and the primacy given to unity in the metaphysical interpretation of being, a number of alternative ontologies of plurality are developed in philosophy. During this conference, different speakers will address the question of how to think plurality. Among other things, they will discuss how the emphasis on plurality influences our conception of (cultural) identity, sovereignty and God.
Participation: To participate, please register before June 1 by sending an email to the organizer Gert-Jan van der Heiden ( g.vanderheiden@ftr.ru.nl ). (Please Note: for the valedictory lecture separate registration is necessary at the Office of the Pedel.)
Venue: Senaatszaal and Academiezaal of the Aula of the university, Comeniuslaan 2.
Sponsors: This conference is sponsored by NWO and the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Program
Wednesday, June 12
Venue: Senaatszaal
09:45 – 10:00 Welcome and Opening.
10:00 – 11:30 John Sallis (Boston College), Plurality and the Disintegration of Difference.
11:30 – 13:00 Ted George (Texas A&M University), The Impetus to Understand.
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break.
14:30 – 16:00 Chris Bremmers (Radboud University Nijmegen), Sharing the Unshareable: Singularity, Symbolization, Transcendence.
16:00 – 17:30 Sanem Yazıcıoğlu (Istanbul University), Identity or Identities? The In-Between of ‘No Longer and not Yet’.
Thursday, June 13
Venue: Senaatszaal
10:00 – 11:30 Günter Figal (Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg), The Decentral: Phenomenological Explorations.
11:30 – 13:00 Veronica Vasterling (Radboud University Nijmegen), A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Approach of Plurality: Arendt, Habermas, Gadamer.
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break.
14:30 – 16:00 Michael Naas (DePaul University Chicago), Reinventing the Wheel: Of Deconstruction, Sovereignty, and Theology.
16:00 – 17:30 Alejandro Vallega (University of Oregon), Plurality from Radical Exteriority: a View From Contemporary Latin American Liberation and Decolonial Philosophy.
Friday, June 14
Venue: Senaatszaal
10:00 – 11:30 Holger Zaborowski (Vallendar University of Philosophy and Theology), On the Way to an Absent Image: Heidegger on Language, Silence, and Another Beginning of Thought.
11:30 – 13:00 Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee), Towards A Communality of the Plural.
13:00 – 13:15 Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Radboud University Nijmegen), Concluding Remarks.
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch break.
Venue: Academiezaal
15:00 Valedictory Lecture Ben Vedder (Radboud University Nijmegen), Is er meer dan een God? Over de vraag naar de laatste eenheid (Is there More than One God? On the Question of the Last Unity).
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