The Life of Reason in the Age of Terrorism
PROGRAMME
ALL SESSIONS (9. 00-16.45) at
Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V.‘s Europasaal in Mosse Palais, Voßstraße 22, 10117 Berlin, very close to Potsdamer Platz, some 10 minutes of walk from Brandenburg Gate
TUESDAY, JULY 12
SESSION ONE: 9.00-11.00
Introductory Part
CHRIS SKOWRONSKI: Intro and Welcome
HERMAN SAATKAMP and MATTHEW FLAMM: Santayana Society Past and Present Presidents on the Advancement of Santayana Scholarship
Proper Session
Chair: Matt Flamm
JOHN LACHS/CHARLES PADRON: “The Life of Reason in the Age of Terrorism”
HERMAN SAATKAMP: ” “The Life of Reason in the Age of Terrorism: Individual, National, Global Strategies”
Coffee break
SESSION TWO: 11.30-13.00
Chair: Herman Saatkamp
CAYETANO ESTEBANEZ: “Santayana´s Idea of Madness and Normal Madness in a Troubled Age”
JACQUELYN KEGLEY: “Santayana in Relation to Remembering and Forgetting History”
Lunch at Amrit Berlin Ebertstrasse 14/Vosstrasse
(speakers invited for free; the cost of the lunch for non-speakers around 7 Euro)
SESSION THREE: 14.45-16.45
Chair: Cayetano Estebanez
EDUARDO MENDIETA: “Assassination Nation: The Drone as a Thanatological Dispositif”
MATT FLAMM: “The Liberalism of Irony: Santayana’s Political Philosophy”
DANIEL PINKAS: “ The Philosophical and Political Maneuvers of Egotism, According to Santayana“
Dinner on your own
Living Books Evening Event: 19.30-
(Club of Polish Losers, Ackerstrasse 168, 10115 Berlin-U 8 Rosenthaler Platz,
A small wine and pretzels reception)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
SESSION ONE: 09.00-11.00
Chair: Daniel Pinkas
TILL KINZEL: Santayana’s Philosophy and the Defence of Beauty in the 21st Century”
GIUSEPPE PATELLA: Barbarism Begins at Home: Santayana and Barbarism in Art and Life”
LUKA NIKOLIC: “Santayana and the (Postmodern) Spirit of Terrorism”
Coffee break
SESSION TWO: 11.30-13.00
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta
ALICIA GARCIA RUIZ: Santayana and Varieties of Extraterritoriality: Cosmopolitism and Displacement“
MAJA NIESTROJ: “Santayana’s Philosophy of Love“
Lunch at Dine Alex, Sony Center, Potsdamer Strasse 4
(the speakers for free; the cost of the lunch for non-speakers around 8 Euro)
SESSION THREE: 14.45-16.45
Chair: Till Kinzel
DANIEL MORENO: “Santayana on Americanism”
CHARLES PADRON: “Santayanan Reason, Terror, and the Everyday World“
MORENO/PADRON: Presentation of a Book on Santayana Published in 2015
Polish Dinner at ‘Polish Thursday Dinners’: 19.00-21.00
Lust Bar-Restaurant at Torstrasse 225, 10115 Berlin- U6 Oranienburger Tor (All speakers invited for free (drinks NOT included); non-speakers pay around 10 Euro)
THURSDAY, JULY 14
SESSION ONE: 09.30-11.00
Chair: Giuseppe Patella
NORA HORVATH: „The whirlwind cannot awe” – The Santayanan Alternatives of Ideological Decisions and Aesthetic Existence“
ANDRES TUTOR: “An Age of Conflicting Values: G. Santayana on Pluralism”
Coffee break
SESSION TWO: 11.30-13.00
Chair: Alicia Garcia Ruiz
MATTEO SANTARELLI “Organized Crime as seen by Dewey and Santayana“
CHRIS SKOWRONSKI: “Santayana’s Philosophy of Education Against Fanaticism and Barbarity”
Lunch at Amrit Berlin, Ebertstrasse 14/Vosstrasse
(the speakers invited for free; the cost of the lunch for non-speakers around 7 Euro)
SESSION THREE: 14.45-16.45
Chair: Jacquelyn Kegley
KATARZYNA KREMPLEWSKA: “Managing necessity: Santayana on forms of power and human condition “
ALL PARTICIPANTS: Video Recorded Discussion Session on The Presence of Philosophy in the Mass Media
THE END
Getting together at some pub/restaurant possible
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