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24th ANNUAL CRITICAL THEORY ROUNDTABLE
Penn State University,
November 11-13, 2016
Oak Bldg, University Park
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SPONSORED BY:
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Rock Ethics
Institute, Department of Philosophy, Department of German
Friday, Nov. 11
Oak Bldg
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Keynote Lecture: “Critique
and Disappointment”
Max Pensky, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton
University
Chair: Amy Allen, Penn State
University
6:30-10:00 p.m. Dinner/reception
405 Arbor Way, State College
Saturday, Nov. 12
Oak Bldg
8:30 coffee and pastries
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel 1: Critical Theories of Politics
Chair: Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University
“Democracy
Against Capitalism,”
Hauke Brunkhorst
“Democratic
Iterations and Cosmopolitan Boundary Making,”
Svenja
Ahlhaus, University of Hamburg/Yale University
“Immanent
Critique as Self-Transformative Practice,”
Arvi Särkelä,
University of Luzern
10:30-10:45 a.m. coffee break
10:45-12:15 p.m. Panel
2: Love, Dignity, and Animality
Chair: Olivia Rachel Deibler, Penn State University
“Critical
Love: Power, Transformation, and
Revolution,”
Federica
Gregoratto, University of St. Gallen
“Human
Dignity: A Critical Genealogy,”
Antonio
Pele, PUC-Rio
“Adorno and
the Normativity of Animality,”
Aaron Bell,
Binghamton University
12:15-1:30 p.m. lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel
3: The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth
Chair: Johanna Meehan, Grinnell
College
“Paradigms
and the Derailment of Critical Theory: The Critical Liberalism of Axel
Honneth,”
Harry Dahms, University of Tennessee
“Pathologies
of Freedom: Axel Honneth’s ‘Unofficial’ Theory of
Reification,”
David
Schafer, Fordham University
Cold
“Mothers”: A Crucial Gap in Honneth’s
Theory of Subjectivity and
Phenomenology
of Social Suffering,”
Nicole
Yokum, Penn State University
3:00-3:15 p.m. coffee break
3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel
4: Post- and Decolonial Perspectives
Chair: Alberto Bejarano, Penn State University
“The Power of
Colonization: Revisiting Foucault on Power,”
Verena
Erlenbusch, University of Memphis
“Towards a Decolonial Politics of Time:
Constellations in Adorno and Foucault,”
Romy Opperman, Penn State University
“Habermas’s
Silence on Silence: A Critique of Universal Pragmatics,”
Emma
Velez, Penn State University
4:45-5:00 break
5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel
5: Social Freedom, Capitalism, and
Ideology
Chair: Ben Randolph, Penn State University
“Hegel and
Honneth’s Theoretical Deficit: Education, Social Freedom, and the Institutions
of Modern Life,”
Jenn
Dum and Robert Guay, Binghamton University
“Social
Freedom as Ideology,”
Karen
Ng, Vanderbilt University
“The
Antinomy of Capitalism,”
Timo
Jütten, University of Essex
7 p.m. dinner (TBA)
Sunday, Nov. 13
Oak Bldg
8:45 a.m. Coffee and Pastries
9:15-10:45 a.m. Panel
6: Alienation, Materialism, and Immanent
Critique
Chair: Khagendra Prasai,
Binghamton University
“Governing
as Strangers: Rethinking Cosmopolitan Strategies of De-
Alienation,”
Melissa
Yates, Rutgers University-Camden
“Materialisms,
Old and New,”
Steven
Vogel, Denison University
“What
is Critical About Political Solidarity?”
Rochelle
DuFord, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
11:00-12:30 p.m. Panel
7: The Politics of Critical Theory
Chair: Kris Klotz, Penn State University
“The
Impossibilities of Political Practice,”
Tobias
Albrecht, University of Frankfurt/Yale University
“Does
Critical Theory Need a ‘Political Turn?
James
Ingram, McMaster University
“Critical
and Radical Theory,”
Gabriel
Rockhill, Villanova University
Finis
