ALL THE SESSIONS (9.30-16.45) HELD AT EUROPASAAL (Voßstr. 22 )
Lachs’s Lecture and Reception held at two other locations (see below)
DAY ONE: AUGUST 11, 2015
Session One: 9.30-11.30
Chair: Michael Hodges
CHRIS SKOWRONSKI (Opole): Welcome and Intro
JOHN LACHS (Nashville): “Practical Philosophy”
NIKITA POKROVSKY (Moscow): “Life After the City: Practical Philosophy of Interaction Between Man and Nature Reconsidered”
coffee break (11.30-12.00)
Session Two: 12.00-14.00
Chair: Richard Rubin
ANDREW FIALA (Fresno): “Lachs, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness”
ULIANA NIKOLAEVA (Moscow): “Guess Who Comes to Dinner: Archaic World in Modern Everyday Life”
GRIFFIN TROTTER (St. Louis): “Nominalism in Ethics“
lunch (14.00-15.15)
Session Three: 15.15-16.45
Chair: Andrew Fiala
JACQUELYN KEGLEY (Bakersfield): “Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable Into Constituent Actions of Human Beings?”
DANIEL PINKAS (Geneva): “Stoic and Epicurean Strands in Santayana, Montaigne, and Lachs“
LACHS’ OPEN LECTURE ON PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY: 19.30-21.00
21.00-22.00 A small wine&pretzels Reception
BKK VBU – ServiceCenter, Lindenstraße 67 (U 6 Kochstrasse-Checkpoint Charlie)
DAY TWO: AUGUST 12
Session One: 9.30-11.30
Chair: Stephen Faison
MICHAEL HODGES (Nashville): “Lachs on Transcendence: Art and the Life of Reason“
IAN HLAVKA (Prague): “Shall we Mend ‘A Certain Madness’?”
MAJA NIESTROJ (Berlin/Frankfurt, Oder): “In Love with Life: A Groundwork for An Erotic Philosophy”
coffee break (11.30-12.00)
Session Two: 12.00-14.00
Chair: Michael Sullivan
SHANNON SULLIVAN (Charlotte): “‘Raisins in the Bread of Life’: On the Practical Joys of John Lachs’s Stoic Pragmatism”
PHILLIP McREYNOLDS (Charlotte): “Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs”
ERIC THOMAS WEBER (Oxford, MS): “Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness”
lunch (14.00-15.15)
Session Three: 15.15-16.45
Chair: Shannon Sullivan
RICHARD RUBIN (St. Louis): “Lachs vs. Santayana”
NORA HORVATH, PhD, University of West Hungary: “Philosophy as a Life-Practice: Philosophical Notions about the Ameliorative Care of the Self“
19.00-19.30
Reception for Conference Speakers AT Berlin Club of Polish Losers:
Ackerstr. 168, 10115 Berlin (U8 Rosenthaler Platz)
19.30-22.00
Mini Philosophical Film Festival: Erica Szabo, Michael Reichert, and Fahrad Bazyan present their own film projects
Berlin Club of Polish Losers
DAY THREE, AUGUST 13
Session One: 9.30-11.30
Chair: Daniel Pinkas
STEPHEN FAISON (Florida): “Poetic Justice: Apology Overdue”
MICHAEL SULLIVAN (Atlanta): “John Lachs’s fröhliche Wissenschaft: deep thoughts with a light touch and practical purpose”
CHARLES PADRON (Gran Canaria): “‘Just Do It’: Reflections on John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World”
Coffee break (11.30-12.00)
Session Two: 12.00-14.00
Chair: Jackie Kegley
EDGAR CABANAS DIAZ (Berlin): “Pragmatism: An ethic for life or an ethic for science (or are they the same)?”
PATRICK SHADE (Memphis): “Detente in the Family: Tolerance and Blindness in Facing Death“
JASON BELL (Massachusetts): “Lachs and the Prudential Opposition to Tyranny”
Lunch (14.00-15.15)
Session Three: 15.15-16.45
Chair: Griffin Trotter
CHRIS TAYLOR (Yale): “Lachs’s Individualism”
CHRIS SKOWRONSKI (Opole): “Relativism in Philosophical Education”
JOHN LACHS – Conclusion and final remarks
Getting together for those who stay in Berlin possible
THE END
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