Ethics of Play
International Conference hosted by
the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Philosophy,
and Charles University, Faculty of Humanities
Prague: November 18 - 20, 2014
Address: Karolinum, Charles University.
Ovocny Trh. 3, Praha 1
room : císařský sál (ground floor)
Contact: Annabelle Dufourcq and Alice Koubova, ethicsofplayprague@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 18
9h15 Registration of the participants
9h45 Opening address
10h00-10h30 Florence Caeymaex, University of Liège (Belgium): What Really are the « Games » of Truth? Michel
Foucault and the Philosophical Problem of Truth
10h30-11h00 Franck Chouraqui, Koç University (Turkey): The Seriousness of Play
Break
11h30-12h00 Martin Nitsche, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Phenomenological
Field as a Play-Ground
12h00-12h30 Jan Puc, Charles University (Czech Republic): Play as a symbol of life? Essence and limitation of Fink’s
concept of play
Lunch 12h30-14h30
14h30-15h00 Alice Koubova, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Ludic Ethics in
Benjamin and Brecht
15h00-15h30 Eric P. Morrill, Independent Scholar: Play, Education, and Artistic Experiment
Break
16h00-17h00 Keynote Lecture
Mechthild Nagel, SUNY Cortland / Cornell University (USA): Toward a Ludic Ubuntu: Taking Play Seriously in
Reconciliation Practices.
Wednesday, November 19
10h00-10h30 Catherine Homan, Siena College (USA), Poetic Education: Gadamer on Play, Ethics, and Conversation
10h30-11h00 Annabelle Dufourcq, Charles University, FHS / Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic: Puppets’ Uprising. Passive-Active Ethics Within the Trap of Play
Break
11h30-12h00 Mariana Carrasco, Charles University, FHS (Czech Republic): The Game of the World, or How to Play
after Kostas Axelos' Proposals
12h00-12h30 Ólafur Páll Jónsson, University of Iceland, School of Education: Play, Meaning and Morality
Lunch 12h30-14h30
14h30-15h00 Petr Urban, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Play and Care
15h00-15h30 Zuzanna Rucinska, University of Hertfordshire (UK): Pretend Play as Dialogue
Break
16h00-17h00 Keynote Lecture
Bonnie Mann, University of Oregon (USA): Gendered Play and Gendered Torture: The Paradoxes of Gender in U.S.
Nationalism After 9/11/2001
Thursday, November 20
10h00-11h00 Keynote Lecture
Monica Vilhauer, Roanoke College (USA): Beyond Words: Gadamer, Play and an Ethics of Life
Break
11h30-12h00 Ondřej Beran, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic: Seriousness and play
– ethics and/in Wittgenstein
12h00-12h30 Zornitsa Dimitrova, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Graduate School Practices of Literature
(Germany): The Ideal Game and the Hunger Artist
Lunch 12h30-14h30
14h30-15h00 Dustin Breitling, Charles University (Czech Republic): Play of Promethenism
15h00-15h30 Fred Dalmasso, University of Worcester (UK): Badiou’s ethics of play or how to perform inexist[a]nce
Break
16h00-16h30 Anna Furse, University of London, Department of Theatre and Performance (UK): Being Touched:
Contact Improvisation and its Heritage as a Source for Ethical Communication
16h30-17h00 Elsa Ballanfat, University Paris IV, Sorbonne (France): Human play in the light of Pina Bausch’s
Tanztheater
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Joint Event. Monday, November 17
Being Touched: An Introduction to Contact Improvisation
Workshop run by Anna Furse, University of London, Department of Theatre and Performance
Big Dance Hall, Academy of Performing Arts, Karlova 26, Prague 1, 19h00-22h00
There are a limited number of places, so please register early at ethicsofplayprague@gmail.com