PROGRAM OF AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN VALUES VII

International Conference on George Herbert Mead

Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of His Death

PROGRAM

Tuesday, June 21 

ALL THE SESSIONS ON JUNE 21 IN VILLA ACADEMICA

Session One (9.15-11.00) 

OFFICIAL WELCOME

Anna Bokszczanin, Dean, Opole University

Adam Grobler, Director, Institute of Philosophy, Opole University

Session:

Chair, Adam Grobler, PhD, Chair of the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland.

PRESENTATIONS:

James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, The University of Toledo, USA “Mead’s Understanding of Movements of Thought ”

 John Ryder, PhD, President,  Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan, "Mead on Nature: The Relationality of Perspectives" 

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00)

Chair, Judith M. Green, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of Women's Studies, Fordham University, New York City, USA

PRESENTATIONS:

Ignacio Sanchez de la Yncera, PhD, Dean and Professor of Sociology, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain, “The G. H. Mead’s Genius and Hans Joas’s Sociology of Creativity of the Action”

Gary Cook, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Beloit College, USA, “Resolving Two Key Problems in Mead’s Mind, Self and Society”

Lunch (13.00-13.30)

Session Three (16.30-18.00) 

Chair, Jacquelyn Kegley, PhD, President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP), Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, USA

PRESENTATIONS:

Leszek Koczanowicz, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław Faculty, Poland, "George Herbert Mead and the Idea of Non-consensual Democracy"

Erkki Kilpinen, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Academy Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland, “Mead as an Empirically Responsible Philosopher”

Dinner on your own. (For those who wish to dine together, I will suggest a restaurant. Actually, I have booked the Mercury Hotel Restaurant Room for us from 18.30 till c. 22.00; the dinner costs around 25 US dollars.)

Wednesday, June 22 

 ALL THE SESSIONS ON JUNE 22 IN COLLEGIUM CIVITAS, UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Session One (9.00-11.00) LIBRARY, GROUND FLOOR

Chair, Gary Cook, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Beloit College, USA

PRESENTATIONS:

Joseph Betz, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, USA, “George Herbert Mead on Social and Economic Human Rights”

Judith M. Green, PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of Women's Studies, Fordham University, New York City, USA, “G. H. Mead’s Contributions to Pragmatist Political Economy”

Marek Hetmański, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland, "Mead's Theory of the Universe of Discourse and Recent Theories of Mass Communication”

Coffee break (Room 106, First Floor)

Session Two (11.30-13.00) ROOM 104, First Floor

Chair, Marek Hetmański, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Maria Curie Skłodowska University (UMCS), Lublin, Poland

PRESENTATIONS:

Jacquelyn Kegley, PhD, President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP), Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies California State University, Bakersfield, USA, “A Social but Creative Self: Royce and Mead” 

Ari Sutinen, PhD, Academy Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Oulu, Finland / Ari Kivela, PhD, Senior Assistant, Faculty of Education, The University of Oulu, Finland, “Royce and G. H. Mead: From Absolute Idealism to Social Pragmatism”

Lunch (13.00-13.30; Polish traditional food — for free, Room 106, first floor)

OPEN LECTURE (17.00-18.30)

Collegium Civitas (University Campus), Room 20 (Ground Floor)

James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, The University of Toledo, USA "George Herbert Mead and The Chicago School of Pragmatism"

Dining on your own  

Thursday, June, 23

ALL THE SESSION ON JUNE 23 IN VILLA ACADEMICA

Session One (9.00-11.00)

Chair, Joseph Betz, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, USA

PRESENTATIONS:

Kelvin J. Booth, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, History and Politics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada, "G. H. Mead, Embodied Cognition, and the Mimetic Basis for taking the Role of the Other"

Alicia Garcia Ruiz, PhD, University of Barcelona, Spain, “Mead, Present and Historical Experience”

Stanislaw Kijaczko, PhD, Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland, “Mead’s Ethics and the Problem of Social Evil”

Coffee break 

Session Two (11.30-13.00)

Chair, Tom Burke, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA

PRESENTATIONS:

David W. Woods, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, USA, “G. H. Mead on the Social Bases of Democracy”

Nuria Sara Miras Boronat, PhD, Philosophy Department, University of Barcelona/Institute of Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany, "Games People Play. Mead's Concept of Game and Play in the Context of the Contemporary Philosophy"

Lunch (Polish traditional food — for free)

Session Three (16.30-18.00)

Chair, John Ryder, PhD, President of Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan  

PRESENTATIONS: 

Tom Burke, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA, "Social Externalism and the Coupling/Constitution Fallacy" 

Eldar Shahgaldiyev, PhD, Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan, "Mead's Introspective 'Self' as a Process of Interaction of Object and Subject Relations and its Implications in Evaluating the Moral-Psychological Climate of Organized Community Units" 

Free time; dining on your own

Friday, June, 24

ALL THE SESSIONS ON JUNE 24 IN VILLA ACADEMICA

Session One (9.00-11.00)

Chair, Leszek Koczanowicz, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław Faculty, Poland

PRESENTATIONS:

Matteo Santarelli, PhD Candidate, Philosophy Department, University Roma Tre, Italy, “From the others to the Other: a Psychoanalytic Reading of George Herbert Mead”

Søren Willert, PhD, Institute for Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark, “Mead's Bio-ontological World-view”

Grzegorz Francuz, PhD, Vice-Director, Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland, “Self-identity in Light of G. H. Mead’s Social Philosophy”

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00)

Chair, Eldar Shahgaldiyev, PhD, Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan

PRESENTATIONS:

Aleksander Sulejewicz, PhD, Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, [Title TBA]

Roman Madzia, PhD Candidate, Philosophy Department, Brno University, Czech Republic, “What Can Mead Teach Us About the Private Language Problem?”

Lunch (13.00-13.30; Polish traditional food — for free)

Session Three (16.30-18.00) 

Chair, David W. Woods, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, USA

PRESENTATIONS: 

Guido Baggio, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University Roma Tre, Italy, “Deuxième moi, Me and I: Mead and Bergson on Inner States, Self-Knowledge and Expression”  

Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński, PhD, Institute of Philosophy, Opole, Poland, “Constitutive Role of  Social /Political Values and Powers in George Herbert Mead’s Reflection on Aesthetic Experience”

James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, The University of Toledo, USA: Summing up and Conclusion 

The end of the conference; dining together possible.