
Conflict and Modernity
The workshop is part of the Research Program “Conflict in Thought: Failure as a Resilience-Inducing Dynamic”.
Thursday, May 29
9:00–9:45
Sophie Loidolt: Deep disagreements and the constitution of a shared world
9:45–10:30
Patrice Canivez: Rousseau: internalizing the conflict between (modern) society and
the individual
10:30–11:15
Vojtěch Kolman: Marx, Engels, and Their “Old Hegel” on Infinitesimal Calculus
Coffee
11:30–12:15
Jakub Čapek: Perspectivity and Conflict
12:15–13:00
Petr Kužel: Conflicting constitutions of identity in Althusser’s theory of ideology:
imaginary unity, interpellation, performative
Lunch
14:30–15:15
Dan Zahavi: Conflict, demarcation, and national identity
15:15–16:00
Dan Swain: Disaster Utopia and the State: Success, Failure and the Fear of Co-option
16:00–16:45
Štěpán Raška: Conflict, Convergence and the End of History
Coffee
17:00–17:45
Ondřej Švec: Science as Collective Polemical Practice: From Historical
Epistemology to Fallibilism
17:45–18:30
Ivan Landa: Antagonistic and Non-Antagonistic Contradictions. Philosophical
Stalinism
Friday, May 30
9:00–9:45
Niklas Forsberg Modernism: When Art Enters the Condition of Philosophy
9:45–10:30
Hanna Gründler
The Aesthetics of Conflict
10:30–11:15
Tomáš Murár: Artwork and the Conflict of Seeing (in) the Modern World: On the
Archaelogy of the Gaze
Coffee
11:30–12:15
Lesley Jamieson: Sentimentality, Cynicism, and Failures of Realism
12:15–13:00
David Biernot: Cultural Wars and Why Daniel Dennett Aligned Himself with Militant
New Atheism: On the Forfeited Pragmatist Streak of Dennett`s Naturalism
Lunch
14:30–15:15
Chiara Mengozzi: Conflict at the European Borders: Mediterranean Tragedies on the
Contemporary Stage
15:15–16:00
Dora Poláková: Conflict in Hispanoamerican fantastic short stories: Samanta
Schweblin and Mariana Enríquez
Coffee
16:30–17:15
Eva Voldřichová Beránková: Environmental conflict in postcolonial perspectives: the
case of indigenous French-Canadian literatures
17:15–18:00
Frédéric Worms: Concluding Observations
Name of the Project and Registration Number: Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building. Reg. Nr. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595.
