
Conflict and Modernity
The workshop is part of the Research Program “Conflict in Thought: Failure as a Resilience-Inducing Dynamic”.
Thursday, 29 May 2025
9:00–9:45 am
Sophie Loidolt: Deep Disagreements and the Constitution of a Shared World
9:45–10:30 am
Patrice Canivez: Rousseau. Internalizing the Conflict between (Modern) Society and the Individual
10:30–11:15 am
Vojtěch Kolman: On War, Peace, and Infinitesimal Calculus
Coffee
11:30 am – 12:15 noon
Jakub Čapek: Perspectivity and Conflict
12:15 noon – 1:00 pm
Petr Kužel: Conflicting Constitutions of Identity in Althusser’s Theory of Ideology. Imaginary Unity, Interpellation, Performative
Lunch
2:30–3:15 pm
Dan Zahavi: Conflict, Demarcation, and National Identity
3:15–4:00 pm
Štěpán Raška: Conflict, Convergence and the End of History
Coffee
4:30–5:15 pm
Ondřej Švec: Science as Collective Polemical Practice: From Historical
Epistemology to Fallibilism
5:15–6:00 pm
Ivan Landa: Antagonistic and Non-Antagonistic Contradictions. Philosophical Stalinism Revisited
Friday, 30 May 2025
9:00–9:45 am
Niklas Forsberg: Modernism. When Art Enters the Condition of Philosophy
9:45–10:30 am
Hanna Gründler: The Aesthetics of Conflict
Coffee
11:00–11:45 am
Lesley Jamieson: Sentimentality, Cynicism, and Failures of Realism
11:45 am – 12:30 noon
Tomáš Murár: Artwork and the Conflict of Seeing (in) the Modern World. On the Archaeology of the Gaze
Lunch
2:30–3:15 pm
Chiara Mengozzi: Conflict at the European Borders: Mediterranean Tragedies on the Contemporary Stage
3:15–4:00 pm
Dora Poláková: Conflict in Hispano-American Fantastic Short Stories. Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enríquez
Coffee
4:30–5:15 pm
Dan Swain: Disaster Utopia and the State. Success, Failure and the Fear of Co-Option
5:15–6:00 pm
Eva Voldřichová Beránková: Environmental Conflict in Postcolonial Perspectives. The Case of Indigenous French-Canadian Literatures
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.
