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16th
Annual Critical Theory Roundtable
Fordham
University
Lincoln Center Campus - New York City September
20-21, 2008
12th Floor Lounge, Leon Lowenstein Building, 113 West 60th St. Enter at the corner of Columbus Ave. and 60th St. Download pdf version of Program |
Main Program Hotels Travel Information Map Organized by: Jim Bohman Jeff Flynn |
| Saturday, September 20 | |
| 8:45 –
9:15 |
Coffee
and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:15 –
12:15 |
Global Politics, Global Justice, and Immigration |
| Jonathan Trejo-Mathys (Northwestern) Pablo Gilabert (Concordia) John Davenport (Fordham) Jorge Valadez (Our Lady of the Lake) |
Political Obligation and Global
Transformations Is the Scope of Distributive Justice Global? A Democratic Federation is both Feasible and Just: A Response to Habermas and to his Pluralist and Postmodern Critics Immigration and Liberal Egalitarianism |
| 12:15-1:30
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Lunch |
| 1:30
– 3:45 |
Critical Theories of Race, Gender, and Identity Formation |
| Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern/Yale) Allison Weir (Wilfrid Laurier) Courtney Jung (Toronto) |
"Neoracism": Reflections on the Ideology
of Racism after the Demise of "Race" Reinventing Women Critical Liberalism: The Normative Implications of a Critical Theory of Identity Formation |
| 3:45 –
4:15 |
Coffee
Break |
| 4:15 –
5:45 |
Subjectivity
and Negative Dialectics |
| Christoph Menke (Potsdam/New School) Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) |
Capacity and Achievement: The Critique of
Subjectivity in Adorno and Derrida Negativism and Praxis: Adorno’s belated Apophaticism |
| 5:45
– 7:15 Amy Allen (Dartmouth) Fred Rush (Notre Dame) Morton Schoolman (SUNY Albany) Nikolas Kompridis (Toronto) |
Author Meets Critics: Nikolas Kompridis' Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future MIT Press, 2006 |
| 8:00 | Dinner -
Baluchi's 240 W. 56th St. (Between Broadway and 8th Ave.) |
| Sunday, September 21 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30
|
Coffee
and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30 –
11:45 |
Religion in the Public Sphere |
| David Peritz (Sarah Lawrence) Melissa Yates (St. John’s University) María Herrera Lima (UNAM - Mexico) |
Religion in Public Reason and the Public
Sphere The Moral Gravity Objection to Political Liberalism: A Habermasian Proposal Learning (and Un-learning) from Religion in Moral Philosophy |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Reason, Imagination, and Philosophy of Language |
| Barbara Fultner (Denison) Andrew Volmert (Brown) |
Meaning, Norms, and Imagination Inferentialism and the Public Use of Reason |
| Other
than the "Author Meets Critics" session, each speaker will have
45 minutes: 20-25 minutes for speaking and 20-25 minutes for discussion. Directions to 12th Floor Lounge: Enter at corner of Columbus Ave. and 60th St. Take escalator up one level to bank of elevators on Plaza Level. Elevators 5 and 6 go directly to the 12th floor and the other elevators go to the 11th floor and then you have to walk up one flight. Sponsored By: Fordham University Philosophy Department Graduate School of Arts & Sciences |