Death and Afterlife
A three-day workshop at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value
Department of Philosophy, University of Pardubice, CZ.
8 – 10 November, 2021
VENUE
Společenský sál ve 2. patře zámku, The Pardubice Castle, Zámek 1, 530 02 Pardubice
November 8
10:00 – 10:15 Registration
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome Address
10:30 – 12:00 Keynote Lecture: Hans Ruin Social Ontologies of the Dead and the Living
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30 Jan Frei “After Life – and Before: On the Various Contexts of the ‘Phenomenology of the Afterlife’ Within Patočka`s Oeuvre
14:30 – 15:30 Lovisa Andén “Afterlife Between the Testimony and the Archive”
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE
16:00 – 17:00 Niklas Forsberg “Unresting Death, a Whole Day Nearer Now”
17:15 RECEPTION (wine and snacks)
18:30 DINNER
November 9
10:00 – 11:00 Ondřej Beran “The Other Modern Séances”
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 – 12:30 Antony Fredriksson “Drawing a Line or Blurring the Contour Between Animate and Inanimate with Clarice Lispector and Jan Patočka”
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 – 14:45 Tomáš Hejduk “Postmortal Openness to Meaning”
14:45 – 15:00 COFFEE
15:00 – 16:00 Ondřej Krása “The Vulnerability of the Dead”
16:00 – 17:00 Erin Plunkett “What Does it Mean to Love the Dead?”
18:30 DINNER
November 10
09:00 – 10:00 Ondřej Sikora ‘Like a grain of wheat’: Death and Reciprocity in Patočka’s Late Writings”
10:00 – 11:00 Gustav Strandberg “Towards a Community of Death”
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 – 12:30 Hugo Strandberg “Forgiveness and the Dead”
12:30 Closing