Programme: The Ethics of Home: Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism and Alienation
June 1-3, 2022
The Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice
Day 1, Wednesday 1st of June
13:00–13:30 Registration and welcome address / Coffee
13:30–14:30 Keynote 1: Gerry Simpson: Home and Away: Some Thoughts on Internationalism
Coffee
14:45–15:30 Alfred Archer: Consigning to History
15:30–16:15 Vladimir Lukic/Patrick Keenan: Imagining the past and the present
Coffee
16:30–17:15 Laura Candiotto: Becoming Native
17:15-18:00 Swain Daniel Rosenhaft: John Berger on migrant workers and the mystification of (not) belonging
18:00 Wine reception
19:00 Dinner:
Day 2, Thursday 2nd of June
9:30–11:00 Keynote 2, Raimond Gaita: “We will decide who comes to this country” (Australian PM 2001)
Coffee
11:15–12:00 Kamila Pacovská: Home as a place of evil
12:00–12:45 Joel Backström: Love and Capital
12:45–14:15 Lunch
14:15–15:00 John Min/Marián Sekerák: Patriotism(s) as a response to current populism(s): A critical investigation
15:00–15:45 Rhianwen Daniel: Consolidating National Culture’s Objectivity by means of Linguistic Relativity
Coffee
16:00–16:45 Olli Lagerspetz: Waste: the Ethics and the Form of Life
19:00 Dinner
Day 3, Friday 3rd of June
10:00-11:00 Keynote 3, Désirée Lim: Non-citizens and the demands of social equality
Coffee
11:15–12:00 Amy Sepinwall: Citizen Responsibility, Reparations, and Protest
12:00–12:45 Antony Fredriksson: Walking in the same tracks: Being guided in an alien place
12:45–14:15 Lunch
14:15–15:00 Pilar Lopez Cantero: Travel and cosmopolitan motivation
Coffee
15:15–16:15 Keynote 4, Naomi Scheman: The Politics of Homemaking: Leaving, Staying, and Starting Anew