Tapahtumat huhtikuulle 2010

Guest lectures by Ole Hjortland in Helsinki:

Ole Hjortland from St Andrews (Department of Logic and Metaphysics) will be visiting the department [department of philosophy, Helsinki] next week. Three lectures and a more informal discussion are scheduled, hosted by the persons on whose regular teaching hours Ole's guest lectures take place:

Wednesday April 28: Proof-theoretic harmony.
This lecture takes place in the Main Building (new side, Fabianinkatu) at 14-16, lecture room 21, and is chaired by Michael von Boguslawski.

Thursday April 29: Paradox and truth-preservation.
Main Building, Senate square side, at 10-12, lecture room I, chaired by Jan von Plato.

Friday April 30: Proof-theoretic semantics and categoricity.
Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40A), basement floor of the south wing, at 10-12, seminar room A 110. Chaired by Sara Negri.

There will after the last talk on Friday a possibility to discuss more informally with
Ole, with traditional First-of-May snacks and drinks by Dr. BYOD. This is at the department, room A633 (Metsätalo south wing, 6th floor).
 

Lecturer Michael Halewood (University of Essex, UK) vierailee huhtikuun lopulla Turun yliopistossa (sosiologian oppiaine) sekä Tampereen yliopistossa (UTACAS). Dr.

Halewood pitää Turun yliopistossa kaksi luentoa (Publicum --rakennus, Assistentinkatu 7):

*What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 12 -- 14, tiistai 27. 4. 2010

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 14 -- 16, torstai 29. 4. 2010

Tampereen yliopistossa Lecturer Halewood pitää luennon:

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
UTACAS (Pinni B -rakennus, Kanslerinrinne 1)
klo 16 -- 18, keskiviikko 28. 4. 2010


Allekirjoittaneelta voi tiedustella kaikesta mahdollisesta Dr. Halewoodin vierailuun liittyvästä.

Seppo Poutanen
Dr.Soc.Sc., Docent
Department of Social Research, Sociology
University of Turku
Assistentinkatu 7
FIN-20014 University of Turku
Finland
email: seppou(at)utu.fi


Lisätietoja luennoista:

Lecturer, Dr. Michael Halewood
University of Essex, UK

see http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=132

Lectures in Turku and Tampere, 27. 4. – 29. 4. 2010

What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?

The introductory chapter of most sociology textbooks start with the question ‘What is Sociology?’  By the time we get to university such questions are usually forgotten or dismissed as too simplistic.  In this lecture I will suggest that the occasional return to such basic questions can be very provocative and yet helpful. Looking at such a question can make us stop and think as to what exactly it is we are doing, how we are doing it, and why.

In this lecture I will start by introducing some of the common assumptions that would seem to define sociology (study of the social, interactions between humans, etc.).  I will locate these within a specific version of modernity and will point up some of the problems inherent in such accounts (as discussed by Latour, for example) for example, the distinction between the natural and the social, and the difficulty that sociology has in accounting for or describing material objects.  I will then introduce the work of the philosopher A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) as a way of moving beyond some of the limitations identified.  In doing so, the lecture will try to introduce notions of process, becoming, and the extension of relations to non-humans so as to produce a novel yet more effective version of sociology. 

‘A Culture of Thought’:  A. N. Whitehead’s challenge to modernity.

Social science and social theory is a creature of modernity and is deeply implicated in the process of its development and its modes of thought.  This lecture will use the work of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) to investigate the extent to which social research today relies upon certain problematic assumptions and concepts which are a legacy of out-dated view of the world.  In doing so, it will outline what might be termed modernity’s ‘culture of thought’.  Whitehead argues that one major element of the conceptual apparatus of modernity is what he terms the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’ which splits the world into the really real realm of inert matter which science studies and the realm of human experience and life which social science studies.  This, he argues, produces various logical inconsistencies and limits the development of critical thought and research.  

In this lecture I will outline Whitehead’s critique and also the manner in which he attempts to develop a new ‘culture of thought’ which enables a more inclusive and robust approach to social theory.  The main element of his philosophy will be introduced in terms of the social character of all existence and the reconfiguration of subjectivity.  This lecture will also explain the importance of the role of the body within Whitehead’s thought and will relate this to contemporary discussions of gender and sexual difference.  In this way, the lecture will outline some of the opportunities that Whitehead’s work offers social research. 
 
 

Guest lectures by Ole Hjortland in Helsinki:

Ole Hjortland from St Andrews (Department of Logic and Metaphysics) will be visiting the department [department of philosophy, Helsinki] next week. Three lectures and a more informal discussion are scheduled, hosted by the persons on whose regular teaching hours Ole's guest lectures take place:

Wednesday April 28: Proof-theoretic harmony.
This lecture takes place in the Main Building (new side, Fabianinkatu) at 14-16, lecture room 21, and is chaired by Michael von Boguslawski.

Thursday April 29: Paradox and truth-preservation.
Main Building, Senate square side, at 10-12, lecture room I, chaired by Jan von Plato.

Friday April 30: Proof-theoretic semantics and categoricity.
Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40A), basement floor of the south wing, at 10-12, seminar room A 110. Chaired by Sara Negri.

There will after the last talk on Friday a possibility to discuss more informally with
Ole, with traditional First-of-May snacks and drinks by Dr. BYOD. This is at the department, room A633 (Metsätalo south wing, 6th floor).
 

Suomen Filosofinen Yhdistys
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sfy/

Yhdistys kokoontuu seuraavan kerran keskiviikkona 28.4. klo 18 Tieteiden talon salissa
505 (Kirkkokatu 6). Kokouksessa esitelmöi VTT Floora Ruokonen (Helsingin yliopisto)
otsikolla “Luottamus ja vastuullisuus”.
 

Sokrates-kahvila
http://sokrateskahvila.wordpress.com/

Mikä on Sokrates-kahvila?

Oulun Sokrates-kahvila on ohjattuun filosofiseen keskusteluun omistautunut tapahtuma, joka järjestetään Oulun Kulttuuritalo Valveen tiloissa pääsääntöisesti joka toinen keskiviikko klo 17.30 alkaen. Kahvila aloitti toimintansa Kari Utoslahden ja Anne Hulkon aloitteesta tammikuussa 2010. Keskustelua ohjaavat Markku Veteläinen ja Hannu Juuso. Keskustelujen aiheet tulevat osallistujilta joko ohjaajien kanssa etukäteen sovittujen “ensipuheenvuorojen” muodossa tai spontaaneina ehdotuksina itse tilaisuuksissa. Tilaisuuksiin on kaikilla vapaa pääsy. Oulun Sokrates-kahvila perustuu kaikilta osin vapaaehtoisuuteen eikä sen puitteissa ole rahaliikennettä.


Seuraava Sokrates-kahvila 28.4.

Oulun Sokrates-kahvila avaa ovensa keskiviikkona 28.4. klo 17.30 Kulttuuritalo Valveen galleriatiloissa.

Filosofisen porinan voi kernaasti aloittaa jo tätä aiemmin – esimerkiksi 15-30 minuuttia ennen tilaisuuden alkamista – Kahvila Mintun puolella.

Tervetuloa!
 

Lecturer Michael Halewood (University of Essex, UK) vierailee huhtikuun lopulla Turun yliopistossa (sosiologian oppiaine) sekä Tampereen yliopistossa (UTACAS). Dr.

Halewood pitää Turun yliopistossa kaksi luentoa (Publicum --rakennus, Assistentinkatu 7):

*What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 12 -- 14, tiistai 27. 4. 2010

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 14 -- 16, torstai 29. 4. 2010

Tampereen yliopistossa Lecturer Halewood pitää luennon:

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
UTACAS (Pinni B -rakennus, Kanslerinrinne 1)
klo 16 -- 18, keskiviikko 28. 4. 2010


Allekirjoittaneelta voi tiedustella kaikesta mahdollisesta Dr. Halewoodin vierailuun liittyvästä.

Seppo Poutanen
Dr.Soc.Sc., Docent
Department of Social Research, Sociology
University of Turku
Assistentinkatu 7
FIN-20014 University of Turku
Finland
email: seppou(at)utu.fi


Lisätietoja luennoista:

Lecturer, Dr. Michael Halewood
University of Essex, UK

see http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=132

Lectures in Turku and Tampere, 27. 4. – 29. 4. 2010

What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?

The introductory chapter of most sociology textbooks start with the question ‘What is Sociology?’  By the time we get to university such questions are usually forgotten or dismissed as too simplistic.  In this lecture I will suggest that the occasional return to such basic questions can be very provocative and yet helpful. Looking at such a question can make us stop and think as to what exactly it is we are doing, how we are doing it, and why.

In this lecture I will start by introducing some of the common assumptions that would seem to define sociology (study of the social, interactions between humans, etc.).  I will locate these within a specific version of modernity and will point up some of the problems inherent in such accounts (as discussed by Latour, for example) for example, the distinction between the natural and the social, and the difficulty that sociology has in accounting for or describing material objects.  I will then introduce the work of the philosopher A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) as a way of moving beyond some of the limitations identified.  In doing so, the lecture will try to introduce notions of process, becoming, and the extension of relations to non-humans so as to produce a novel yet more effective version of sociology. 

‘A Culture of Thought’:  A. N. Whitehead’s challenge to modernity.

Social science and social theory is a creature of modernity and is deeply implicated in the process of its development and its modes of thought.  This lecture will use the work of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) to investigate the extent to which social research today relies upon certain problematic assumptions and concepts which are a legacy of out-dated view of the world.  In doing so, it will outline what might be termed modernity’s ‘culture of thought’.  Whitehead argues that one major element of the conceptual apparatus of modernity is what he terms the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’ which splits the world into the really real realm of inert matter which science studies and the realm of human experience and life which social science studies.  This, he argues, produces various logical inconsistencies and limits the development of critical thought and research.  

In this lecture I will outline Whitehead’s critique and also the manner in which he attempts to develop a new ‘culture of thought’ which enables a more inclusive and robust approach to social theory.  The main element of his philosophy will be introduced in terms of the social character of all existence and the reconfiguration of subjectivity.  This lecture will also explain the importance of the role of the body within Whitehead’s thought and will relate this to contemporary discussions of gender and sexual difference.  In this way, the lecture will outline some of the opportunities that Whitehead’s work offers social research. 
 
 

FROM ANALOGY:
The Appeal to Animals and Slaves in Wollstonecraft's Defense of Women's Rights

Penelope Deutscher, Professor, Department of
Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago III, USA

Christina Research Seminar
Tuesday 28 April 2010 at 4--6 pm
Topelia D112 (Unioninkatu 38, Helsinki)

**

When Mary Wollstonecraft decried women's trivial values, feeble education, low aspirations, and subordinate role in marriage, she worried these factors made animals of women. Or perhaps women were being made childish (impious, comic, and useless) and if not that, perhaps (in her imaginary) Islamic.

"And this desire making mere animals of them, when they marry, they act as such children may be expected to act: they dress; they paint, and nickname God's creatures. Surely these weak beings are only fit for the seraglio!" (/Vindication of the Rights of Woman, /1792)

Wollstonecraft appealed to multiple arguments and rhetorical devices in defense of
women's claims. In the light of the complex circulation of argument, analogy and metaphor intertwined with Wollstonecraft's politics and morality of perfectibility, the paper considers the role of a feminist imaginary of slavery, animality and the brutish. Interrogating Wollstonecraft's literal appeal to biological facts, and her sense of their qualified mutability, I look at the interaction of such references with a more flexible metaphorical level of reference to animals, metaphorical animality, brutishness and different races. 

Christina research seminar is chaired by prof. Tuija Pulkkinen. It pays tribute to Gender Studies, and the history of Queen Christina's name connected to this field of studies at the University of Helsinki. The seminar is open to everybody with an interest in research questions related to gender studies.
 

Guest lectures by Ole Hjortland in Helsinki:

Ole Hjortland from St Andrews (Department of Logic and Metaphysics) will be visiting the department [department of philosophy, Helsinki] next week. Three lectures and a more informal discussion are scheduled, hosted by the persons on whose regular teaching hours Ole's guest lectures take place:

Wednesday April 28: Proof-theoretic harmony.
This lecture takes place in the Main Building (new side, Fabianinkatu) at 14-16, lecture room 21, and is chaired by Michael von Boguslawski.

Thursday April 29: Paradox and truth-preservation.
Main Building, Senate square side, at 10-12, lecture room I, chaired by Jan von Plato.

Friday April 30: Proof-theoretic semantics and categoricity.
Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40A), basement floor of the south wing, at 10-12, seminar room A 110. Chaired by Sara Negri.

There will after the last talk on Friday a possibility to discuss more informally with
Ole, with traditional First-of-May snacks and drinks by Dr. BYOD. This is at the department, room A633 (Metsätalo south wing, 6th floor).
 

European Artistic Research Network in Helsinki
Tables of Thought
-Exhibition and Seminar 28.-29.4.2010

Auditorium and Gallery
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
Kaikukatu 4, 00530 Helsinki
www.kuva.fi

Tables of Thought is an exhibition and symposium organised by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (FAFA) and the European Artistic Research Network (EARN). The exhibition takes place in the gallery of the FAFA. Participating artists include: Maria Finn, Daniel Jewesbury, Susan Pui San Lok, Katrin von Maltzahn, Lauren O'Neal, Michael Stevenson, Nina Stuhldreher and Lars Wallsten.

Keynote speaker Denise Robinson will start the seminar by screening and discussing Susan Hiller's work The Last Silent Movie. The program continues with both theoretical and performative inputs.  Tim Stott, Janine Marchessault and Keynote speaker Ekateria Degot will provide critical and contextual presentations, and artists Jeremiah Day and Johan Thom will make performative interventions during the symposium.

Tables of Thought has been developed by Jan Kaila and Henk Slager, and focuses on the paradoxical tension within current debates on artistic research between the urge for disciplinary knowledge and the constant subversion of this by artistic thinking. The exhibition and symposium programme of Tables of Thought plays both with the taxonomic impulse integral to disciplinary practices and with the mercurial and destabilising flows of artistic thinking and research.

Tables of Thought is part of an ongoing and unique trans-European experiment in arts research organised by EARN in association with Centrifugal and led by GradCAM, Ireland. This second phase of the project builds upon, and extends, the examination and critical contestation of the archival paradigm in artistic research and curatorial practice initiated at the exhibitions Critique of Archival Reason  (curated by Henk Slager, RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2010) and Re: Public (curated by Daniel Jewesbury, TBG, Dublin, 2010) which were held in conjunction with the conference Arts Research: Publics and Purposes  (www.gradcam.ie, Dublin, February 2010).

The Helsinki phase of the Artist as Citizen project is co-organised by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with EARN (European Artistic Research Network). Further phases of the project will take place in Brussels (Sint-Lukas) and Zagreb (Centrifugal) in summer 2010.

EARN (European Artistic Research Network) was established in 2004 and exists to share and exchange knowledge and experience in artistic research; foster mobility, exchange and dialogue among art researchers; promote wider dissemination of artistic research; and enable global connectivity and exchange for artistic research. Tables of Thought will also see the launch of EARN's new website resource for artistic research www.artresearch.eu

This project is in part funded by the EC-EACEA Culture 2000–2007: Artist as Citizen project coordinated by Mick Wilson (GradCam, Dublin).

Program:

Wednesday 28th of April

10.00- Jan Kaila, Professor at Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (FAFA) and Mick Wilson, Dean of Graduate School in Creative Arts and Media: (GradCAM), Dublin: Opening Words

10.30-12.00 Keynote Speaker Denise Robinson, Curator, Writer and Lecturer and Visiting Fellow,Tate Britain, London: On Susan Hiller Including the Screening of The Last Silent Movie –moderator Jan Kaila

12.00-13.00 Janine Marchessault, Research Chair at York University, Toronto: Archiving the Human: Erkki Kureniemi’s Post-Humanist Vision - moderator Sami van Ingen, Doctoral Student at FAFA

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30 Susan Pui San Lok, Artist and Writer, London: Archives, Tactics, Gestures -moderator Mick Wilson

14.30-15.00 Johan Thom, Doctoral Student at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London: Decoy –moderator Henk Slager, Dean at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design)

15.00-15.30 Nina Stuhldreher, Artist, Germany: Counter-Intuitive, Pre-Visual, Extra-Territorial: Why Artistic Research Needs (Natural) Sciences to get the Whole Picture -moderator Gertrud Sandqvist, professor at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University

15.30-16.00 Lars Wallsten, Doctoral Student at Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg: Lack of Evidence -moderator Tuula Närhinen, Doctoral Student at FAFA

16.30- Jeremiah Day, Doctoral Student at the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design: MAQUI, slide-show Performance at the opening of the exhibition

16.30- Opening, Gallery Kaiku at Fafa


Thursday 29th of April

10.00-10.30 Tim Stott, Associate Researcher at GradCAM : And What if We Too See Nothing? Thoughts towards a Generic Archive -moderator Terike Haapoja, Doctoral Student at FAFA

10.30-11.00  Lauren O`Neil, Doctoral Student at FAFA: Sensorial Archives: Subjectivity beyond Visuality – Counter-Choreographic Practices in the Work of Xavier Le Roy, Nell Breyer, and Anna Schuleit -moderator Roger Palmer, Professor, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds

11.30-12.00 Coffee

12.00-12.30  Michael Stevenson, Artist, New-Zealand/Germany: The Library of Man -moderator Mika Hannula, Professor at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg

12.30-13.00  Maria Finn, Doctoral Student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen: Images between the Word and Film -moderator Annette Arlander, Professor at the Theatre Academy, Helsinki

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30 Daniel Jewesbury, Visiting Fellow at the GradCAM,: Approaches to Narrative and Place in Experimental Film Practice -moderator Mika Elo, Researcher, Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Department Art and Media, Pori

14.30-15.00 Katrin van Maltzahn, Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig: Drawing as Data-Collection -moderator Päivikki Kallio, Professor at FAFA

15.00-16.00 Keynote Speaker Ekateria Degot, Curator at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow: Speaking in Archives -moderator Kimmo Sarje, Research Coordinator FAFA, Helsinki

16.00-16.30  Henk Slager and Jan Kaila: Closing Words
 

Kriittinen piste on kaikille avoin keskustelutilaisuus, joka kokoontuu kevään aikana neljä kertaa ravintola Milenkassa. Kriittisen pisteen vieraina nähdään tänä keväänä Tuomas Nevanlinna, Raimo Blom, Kalevi Suomela, Jyrki Kasvi ja Teppo Eskelinen. Kevään teemoja ovat luokka, individualismi, sosialismi sekä tieto ja omistaminen. Puhekoneiden lisäksi luvassa on myös musiikkia. Mikko Perkoila, Eki Suomaa, Leevi Launis ja Vanaja huolehtivat sielun ravinnosta.

Milenka sijaitsee Hakaniemessä (Haapaniemenkatu 3-5, Helsinki), Teatterikorkeakoulun vieressä hyvien liikenneyhteyksien päässä.

Kriittinen piste on Helsingin Yhteiskunnallisen Opiston, Kansan Sivistystyön Liiton ja Kulttuurivihkojen yhdessä järjestämä kaikille avoin keskustelutilaisuuksien sarja.

Tutustu päivitettyyn ohjelmaan tapahtuman kotisivuilla: http://kriittinenpiste.wordpress.com

 
Ohjelma
Tilaisuudet alkavat aina klo 18.00!

16.3. Tuomas Nevanlinna: Vasemmisto ja yksilö
Musiikista vastaa Eki Suomaa

13.4. Kalevi Suomela: Sosialismista
Musiikki: Leevi Launis

27.4. Raimo Blom: Luokista (ajankohta varmistuu myöhemmin)
Musiikki: Mikko Perkoila

25.5. Jyrki Kasvi & Teppo Eskelinen: Tieto ja omistaminen
Musiikki: Vanaja

Paikka
Kriittinen piste kokoontuu ravintola Milenkassa, osoitteessa Haapaniemenkatu 3-5. Milenka sijaitsee Teatterikorkeakoulun vieressä hyvien liikenneyhteyksien päässä.

Tapahtuman yhteyshenkilö
janne.hernesniemi(at)ksl.fi
 

KLUBI
filosofia - politiikka - taide
http://filosofiklubi.blogspot.com/

Tiistaina 27.4. klo 17.00 tähtitieteilijä, FK Seppo Linnaluoto: "Johdatus maailmankaikkeuteen".

Tiistaina 4.5. klo 17.00 Aleksanteri-instituutin johtaja, VTT Markku Kivinen: "Venäjä tänään ja huomenna".

Klubin kevään päätösavaus tiistaina 11.5. klo 17.00 sotatieteiden tohtori, kapteeni Jarno Limnéll: Sota ja rauha (alustava)
 

Lecturer Michael Halewood (University of Essex, UK) vierailee huhtikuun lopulla Turun yliopistossa (sosiologian oppiaine) sekä Tampereen yliopistossa (UTACAS). Dr.

Halewood pitää Turun yliopistossa kaksi luentoa (Publicum --rakennus, Assistentinkatu 7):

*What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 12 -- 14, tiistai 27. 4. 2010

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
Publicum ls. 3, klo 14 -- 16, torstai 29. 4. 2010

Tampereen yliopistossa Lecturer Halewood pitää luennon:

*'A Culture of Thought':  A. N. Whitehead's challenge to modernity.*
UTACAS (Pinni B -rakennus, Kanslerinrinne 1)
klo 16 -- 18, keskiviikko 28. 4. 2010


Allekirjoittaneelta voi tiedustella kaikesta mahdollisesta Dr. Halewoodin vierailuun liittyvästä.

Seppo Poutanen
Dr.Soc.Sc., Docent
Department of Social Research, Sociology
University of Turku
Assistentinkatu 7
FIN-20014 University of Turku
Finland
email: seppou(at)utu.fi


Lisätietoja luennoista:

Lecturer, Dr. Michael Halewood
University of Essex, UK

see http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=132

Lectures in Turku and Tampere, 27. 4. – 29. 4. 2010

What is Sociology?  What does A. N Whitehead offer Sociology today?

The introductory chapter of most sociology textbooks start with the question ‘What is Sociology?’  By the time we get to university such questions are usually forgotten or dismissed as too simplistic.  In this lecture I will suggest that the occasional return to such basic questions can be very provocative and yet helpful. Looking at such a question can make us stop and think as to what exactly it is we are doing, how we are doing it, and why.

In this lecture I will start by introducing some of the common assumptions that would seem to define sociology (study of the social, interactions between humans, etc.).  I will locate these within a specific version of modernity and will point up some of the problems inherent in such accounts (as discussed by Latour, for example) for example, the distinction between the natural and the social, and the difficulty that sociology has in accounting for or describing material objects.  I will then introduce the work of the philosopher A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) as a way of moving beyond some of the limitations identified.  In doing so, the lecture will try to introduce notions of process, becoming, and the extension of relations to non-humans so as to produce a novel yet more effective version of sociology. 

‘A Culture of Thought’:  A. N. Whitehead’s challenge to modernity.

Social science and social theory is a creature of modernity and is deeply implicated in the process of its development and its modes of thought.  This lecture will use the work of A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) to investigate the extent to which social research today relies upon certain problematic assumptions and concepts which are a legacy of out-dated view of the world.  In doing so, it will outline what might be termed modernity’s ‘culture of thought’.  Whitehead argues that one major element of the conceptual apparatus of modernity is what he terms the ‘Bifurcation of Nature’ which splits the world into the really real realm of inert matter which science studies and the realm of human experience and life which social science studies.  This, he argues, produces various logical inconsistencies and limits the development of critical thought and research.  

In this lecture I will outline Whitehead’s critique and also the manner in which he attempts to develop a new ‘culture of thought’ which enables a more inclusive and robust approach to social theory.  The main element of his philosophy will be introduced in terms of the social character of all existence and the reconfiguration of subjectivity.  This lecture will also explain the importance of the role of the body within Whitehead’s thought and will relate this to contemporary discussions of gender and sexual difference.  In this way, the lecture will outline some of the opportunities that Whitehead’s work offers social research. 
 
 

Åbo Akademi

FORSKARSEMINARIET VÅRTERMINEN 2010/ RESEARCH SEMINARS IN SPRING 2010.
https://www.abo.fi/student/forskarseminariumfilosofi

Tid/Time: Måndagar/Mo 18-20
Plats/Venue: Aud. Westermarck, Åbo Akademi/HF/Arken (Fabriksgatan 2, 20500 Åbo).

29.3 Hannes Nykänen (om Wittgenstein & Freud)
 

Väitös:

FM Johan Strang väittelee 24.4.2010 kello 10 Helsingin yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa aiheesta "History, Transfer, Politics – Five studies on the legacy of Uppsala philosophy". Väitöstilaisuus järjestetään osoitteessa Auditorium XIV, Päärakennus, Unioninkatu 34.

Vastaväittäjänä on Professor Friedrich Stadler, University of Vienna, ja kustoksena on professori Jan von Plato.

Väitöskirja julkaistaan sarjassa Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki.

Väitöskirja on myös elektroninen julkaisu ja luettavissa
E-thesis-palvelussa:
https://oa.doria.fi/handle/10024/59515
 

The Nordic Society for Phenomenology
http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/nosp/index.htm

The Nordic Society for Phenomenology / Nordisk Selskab for Fænomenologi (NoSP)
was founded in May 2001 in Copenhagen. Its aim is to further dialogue and cooperation between phenomenologists in the Nordic countries, and to promote scholarship, teaching, research,and publication affiliated with phenomenology.

The executive committee of the society consists of five members, one from each of the five Nordic countries.

Membership of the Society is free and open to all persons interested in furthering its purposes and in participating in its activities.

The eighth annual meeting of the Society will take place at Södertörn University College in Stockholm, April 22-24, 2010.

POSTER: http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/nosp/NOSP%20affisch.pdf

PROGRAM:

Thursday 22/4
17.00 MB 416, Registration
17.30 Words of welcome from the University: Rector Ingela Josefson. Music: Jörgen Petterson.
18.00 Ronald Bruzina “Phenomenology’s recovery of nature antecedent to naturalism”
19.30 Reception with buffet at Södertörn University
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Friday 23/4
9.30 -11.00 MB 416, Camilla Serck-Hanssen "Critique conceived as Fundamental Ontology; Heidegger's Reading of Kant"
Chair: Hans Ruin
11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions Section I
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Parallel Sessions Section II
16.30-18.00 MB 416 Jeff Malpas “Nihilism and the Thinking of Place”
18.00-18.30 Board meeting
Chair: Sara Heinämaa

Saturday 24/4
9.30-11.00 MB 416, Panel on Eugen Fink’s Phenomenology
Chair: Sven-Olov Wallenstein
11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions Section III
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel Sessions Section IV
16.00-17.30 MB 416, Claudia Baracchi “The End of Philosophy and Another Beginning”
Chair: Hans Ruin
20.00 Conference dinner at Restaurant Rival


Parallel Sessions Section I
1a) MC 238, Phenomenology and Ancient Philosophy
Jussi Backman “The Unthought Distinction: Heidegger’s Notion of the First Onset of Western Philosophy”
Charlotta Weigelt: “The hermeneutic significance of Aristotle’s concept of chance”
Antonio Cimino: “Performativity and Philosophy as a Form of Life. New Perspectives on Heidegger’s Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist”
Chair: Hans Ruin

1b) MC235, Merleau-Ponty, Speech, Space, Gender
Anna Petronella Fredlund: “A phenomenology of speech: Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Saussure”
Petri Berndtson: “The Respiratory Constitution of Space and its connection to the Origin of Space”
Linda Fisher: “Gendering Body Memory in Merleau-Ponty”
Chair: Lisa Käll

1c) M243, Space and Orientations
Friederike Rese: “Places, Human Beings and Things”
Denisa Butnaru: “‘Distorted‘ Body, ‘Distorted’ Space”
David Connolly: “Space not spaces: Spatial unities in experiences of pathological synaesthesia”
Chair: Fredrika Spindler

1d) MC 544, Finitude and Responsivity
Anna-Karin Selberg: “Achtung versus wakefulness – Heidegger’s approach to Kant’s practical philosophy”
Thomas Schwarz-Wentzer: “Being responsive – an existentialist reading of the late Heidegger”
Eddo Evink: “A Phenomenology of Surrender”
Chair: Christian Nilsson

1e) MC546, Husserl, Eidetics and Life World
Mirja Hartimo “Husserl and algebra of logic”
Rosa-Maria Lupo: “The eidetic constitution of objectivity between Husserl and Aristotle”
Simo Pulkkinen: “On the Pregivenness of the Lifeworld”
Chair: Jonna Bornemark

1f) MC219, Phenomenology and Aesthetics
Trevor Perri: “The Imaginary and the Work of Art”
Mitha Firth: “Phenomenology and Anonymous Architecture”
Cecilia Sjöholm: “The Aestheticization of public space; art, phenomenology and the feminist revolt”
Chair: Sven-Olof Wallenstein

Parallel Sessions Section II
2a) MC 238, Phenomenology and psychoanalysis
Andrzej Leder: “Can Husserl’s concept of consciousness’ structure serve as a starting point for the development of a theory of not-conscious?”
Johan Eriksson: “Freud the reluctant philosopher – on psychoanalysis and its relation to science and philosophy”
Jagna Brudzińska: “In-depth Phenomenology and the dynamic of the unconscious experiences in the Psychoanalysis”
Nicholas Smith: “Husserl’s late philosophy of science and the Freudian contribution”
Chair: Christian Nilsson

2b) MC 235, Self and Other
Dan Zahavi: ”Shame and the exposed self”
Joel Backström: ”The phenomenology of conscience: turning ethics inside out”
Vivian Bohl & Bruno Mölder: “The directness of the other”
Chair: Jonna Lappalainen

2c) MC 243, Phenomenology of Affectivity
Hanne Jacobs: “Affection and Distance”
Irina Poleshchuk: “Affected intentionality in Levinas’ philosophy”
Christophe Perrin: “Useful but incertain: Heidegger’s critique of Pascal”
Chair: Carl Cederberg

2d) MC 544, Eugen Fink’s Critical Elaboration of Phenomenology
Daniele de Santis: “Fink’s Criticism of the Concept of Evidence”
Peter A. Varga: “Distinguishing between Fink’s and Husserl’s Notion of Phenomenological Philosophy”
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

2e) MC 546, Agency and Action
Ulrika Björk: “World and worldlessness. Romantic cosmopolitanism in the Varnhagen salon”
Hans Pedersen: “Heidegger’s Critique of Causal Theories of Action”
Martina Reuter: ”Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Personal Responsibility”
Chair: Charlotta Weigelt

2f) MC219, Community and Politics
Lisa Folkmarson Käll: “Community as Space of Sharing and Exposure”
Kristian Klockars: “Political Ontology, its Possibilities and Role”
Timo Miettinen: “Husserl and body politic”
Ramona Rat: “Singular and Multiple”
Chair: Anna-Karin Selberg

Parallel Sessions Section III
3a) MC 238, Intentionality and Hyletic Content
Ingvar Johansson: "How to Situate Fictions in the Spatiotemporal World – Developing Thoughts from Ingarden"
Dalius Jonkus: “Transformation of the Notion of Sensibility in Contemporary Phenomenology”
Helena de Preester: “Hylè and imagination: Sartre’s critique of Husserl”
Luis Niel: “The Fundamental Problem of the Phenomenology of Time: The Phenomenologizing of Primal Phenomenality in Husserl’s C-Manuscripts”
Chair: Johan Eriksson

3b) MC 235, The Spatiality of the Body
Dermot Moran: “Pain takes Place at a Distance from the Ego: The Experience of Inner Spatiality in Husserl and Stein”
Timothy Mooney: “On the Intelligence in Concrete Movement: Merleau-Ponty’s Proper Conclusion”
Rasmus Thybo Jensen: “Is spatial awareness in action conceptual?”
Chair: Carl Cederberg

3c) MC 243, Roundtable on Feminist Phenomenology
Lisa Folkmarsson Käll, Beata Strawarska and Lanei Rodemeyer
Chair: Sara Heinämaa

3d) MC 544, Bodily Reflection
Johan Eckart Hansen:  “Bodily reflection”
Wenjing  Cai: “Phenomenological Reflection and the Possibility of a ‘Phenomenological Language’”
Erika Ruonakoski: “Embodied Situation As the Object of Empathy”
Chair: Nicholas Smith

3e) MC 546, History and Death
Paul John Ennis: “Phenomenology and the Problem of the Ancestral”
Gabriel Malenfant: "'We Do Not Have a Present' Levinas, Wyschogrod, and the Dead Other"
Søren Gosvig Olesen: “The History of Reason”
Chair: Hans Ruin

3f) MC516, Intentionality
Jonna Bornemark: “Beyond naming and non-naming”
Anne Granberg: “Phenomenology of anonymity”
Māra Grīnfelde: “From Erlebnis to Erfahrung: The Quest for a New Understanding of Experience in Contemporary Phenomenology”
Chair: Karl Weigelt

Parallel Sessions Section IV
4a) MC 238, Phenomenology of the Unapparent
Andreea Parapuf: “Phenomenology and Tautological Thinking in the Later Heidegger”
Sinead Hogan: “Shifting grounds… ‘…der satz vom grund klingt an…’”
Fredrik Westerlund: “The Epiphany of the World: Heidegger’s late phenomenology of origins”
Chair: Fredrika Spindler

4b) MC 235, Phenomenology and Music
Peter Hanly:  “Dark Celebration: Heidegger and the Song”
Erik Wallrup: “The phenomenon musical space”
Jessica Wiskus: “Listening: On Phenomenological and Musical Form”
Chair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

4c) MC 243, Indexicality and Intentional Content
James McGuirk: “Indexicality and the First Person Perspective”
Karl Weigelt: “What is in your mind? Phenomenology and theory of content”
Tõnu Viik: “Cultural constituents of intentional objects: towards reading noema as a cultural form”
Chair: Johan Eriksson

4d) MC 544, Technology, Nature and Subjectivity
Sven-Olov Wallenstein: “Husserl, the Earth, and Technology”
Björn Thorsteinsson: “Responsively entangled: Merleau-Ponty meets Niels Bohr”
Joona Taipale: “Husserl and Freud on the Origins of Otherness”
Chair: Anna-Karin Selberg

4e) MC 546, Phenomenology of Body and Organ
Lanei M. Rodemeyer: “Beyond Time: Considering Ecstatic Time through the Living Present and the Body”
Line Ryberg Ingerslev: “Bodily awareness and self-distance”
Fredrik Svenaeus: “What is an organ? Towards a phenomenology of organ transplantation”
Chair: Jonna Bornemark