MONDAY 09 MAY
PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – SALA CHANDLER
09:15-09:30
COFFEE
09:30-10:30
David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago
“The Moloch and the Arts: Habermas and Feenberg on Technology, Modernity, and Aesthetic Rationality.”
Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi
10:30-11:30
Deborah Cook, University of Windsor, Canada
“Notes on Species Being in Adorno.”
11:30-12:30
Hugh Miller, Loyola University Chicago
“Critical Responsibility: Levinas, Adorno, and Waldenfels on Ethics after the Shoah.”
12:30-14:00
LUNCH
MONDAY 09 MAY
PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON)
Chairs:
14:30-15:10
Session 1 – Sala Chandler
Stefan Gandler
Julio Boltvinik, Colegio de México
“Intolerance of difference: Isaac Deutscher,
Critical Theory and Antisemitism.”
Session 2 – Room 117
Hugh Miller
Darrow Schecter, University of Sussex
“Mediated Unity, Mediated Identity, and
Mediated Non-Identity: From the Critique of
Instrumental Reason to the Critique of
Instrumental Legitimacy.”
Chris Okane, University of Sussex
“Beneath Facts and Norms: Adorno, Objective
Conceptuality, Fetishism and Emancipation.”
15:10-15:50
Robert Zwarg, Universität Leipzig, Institute
for Jewish History and Culture
“The concept of resentment in the Frankfurt
School's theory of anti-Semitism.”
15:50-16:30
Björn Milbradt, Philipps-Universität Marburg
“Critical Theory of Antisemitism and the
Philosophy of Language”
Simon Mussell, University of Sussex
“Adorno and the Dialectic of Bourgeois Coldness.”
Robert Fine, Warwick University
“Antisemitism and the modernity
hypothesis: contrasting tropes of critical
theory.”
Claudia Leeb, Roanoke College
“Rethinking Socio-Political Transformation:
Negative Dialectics and Deconstruction.”
Karin Stögner, Central European University,
Budapest
“Horkheimer and Adorno on the
Connections of Nationalism and
Antisemitism.”
Daniel Steuer, University of Sussex
“Adorno's Freud: Revenge and Reconciliation.”
16:30-17:00
Break
17:00-17:40
17:40-18:20
Session 3 – Room 118
Verena Erlenbusch
Miriam M. S. Madureira, Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Mexico City
“Recognition, modern pathologies and social
justice.”
Ariel Macaspac Penetrante, University of Cologne
“Understanding the Entanglement of the
Climate Change Negotiations in North-South
Relations – An Experiment with Systems
Analysis and Critical Theory.”
Daniel B. Gallagher, Pontifical Gregorian
University
“The Dialogue between Benedict XVI and the
Frankfurt School on the Notion of Justice.”
CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago
TUESDAY 10 MAY
PLENARY SESSION (MORNING) – SALA CHANDLER
09:15-09:30
COFFEE
09:30-10:30
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Vanderbilt University
“Justice and Judgment Day in Benjamin and Adorno.”
Chair: David Ingram
10:30-11:30
Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza
“Remarks on Axel Honneth's recognition-theoretical concept of justice.”
11:30-12:30
Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome, Tor Vergata
“Democracy and the Passion for Openness.”
12:30-14:00
LUNCH
CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago
TUESDAY 10 MAY
PARALLEL SESSIONS (AFTERNOON)
Chairs:
14:30-15:10
15:10-15:50
15:50-16:30
16:30-17:00
Break
17:00-17:40
17:40-18:20
Session 1 – Sala Chandler
Karin Stögner
Günther Jikeli, International Institute for
Education and Research on Antisemitism,
London
“Antisemitism as the Driving Ideology and
Threat of Turning Civilization into
Barbarism.”
Philip Spencer, Kingston University, London
“’The focal point of injustice’? Adorno and
Horkheimer’s rethinking of anti-Semitism
after the Holocaust”
Eva-Maria Ziege, Centre for the Study of
Jewish-Christian Relations, Woolf Institute,
Cambridge
"Adorno and the theory of modern
antisemitism in 'The Authoritarian
Personality' ."
Session 2 – Room 117
Hugh Miller
Colin McQuillan, Oglethorpe University
“Walter Benjamin's micrological criticism.”
Session 3 – Room 118
Simon Susen
Jennifer Holt, Vanderbilt University
“Adorno on Resignation.”
Verena Erlenbusch, University of Sussex
“Profane theology as social criticism: from
punitive justice to the promise of happiness.”
Terence Holden, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales
“Adorno and Guilt.”
Tom Akehurst, University of Sussex
“Benjamin and Legal Violence: Students, protests
and 'kettling'.”
Michael Walschots, University of Windsor
“Revisiting Adorno’s Critique of Moral
Philosophy.”
Peter Staudenmaier, University of Montana /
Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont
“Distorted Modernity: The Frankfurt School
on Antisemitism and Capitalism”
Stefan Gandler, Universidad Autónoma de
Querétaro/Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México
“Anti-Semitism and Epistemology in
Critical Theory”
Phillip Homburg, University of Sussex
“Fate and Mechanism in Walter Benjamin.”
Mathijs Peters, University of Essex
“Existence Rejecting Existence; Schopenhauer
and Adorno on the Suffering Body.”
Elise Derroitte, University of Louvain
“(How) can art be politicized? On the question of
the engagement in Benjamin's philosophy.”
Anders Johansson, Umeå University, Sweden
“The Subjectivity of Autofiction. Lukács,
Adorno, Zizek.”
CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago
WEDNESDAY 11 MAY
PARALLEL SESSIONS (MORNING)
Chairs:
09:30-10:10
10:10-10:50
10:50-11:20
Break
11:20-11:50
11:50-12:20
Session 1 – Sala Chandler
Hugh Miller
Duston Moore, Indiana University-Purdue
University Fort Wayne
“Marcuse and External Mediation.”
Dagmar Wilhelm, Keele University
“Truth and violence in Marcuse’s Repressive
Tolerance.”
Christopher Holman, Stony Brook University
“Towards a Politics of NonIdentity: Rethinking the Political
Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse.”
Jacob Rump, Emory University
“What the People Hear: Marcuse's Social
Theory of Language and the Logic of
Framing.”
Session 2 – Room 117
Verena Erlenbusch
Marcos Nobre, State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP), Brazil
“Does the Distinction Between Traditional and
Critical Theory Still Hold?”
Todd Hedrick, Michigan State University
“‘Latent’ Class Structures and Democratic Theory”
Session 3 – Room 118
Colin McQuillan
Timothy O'Leary, University of Hong Kong
“Transformations in Experience: Foucault with
Benjamin.”
Federica Gregoratto, Ca' Foscari University of
Venice
“Critical Praxis in Transnational Public Sphere(s).”
Fotini Vaki, Ionian University Corfu
“Negative Dialectics as a claim of Justice:
Adorno's Metacritique of Practical Reason.”
Simon Susen, Birkbeck College, University of
London
“Bourdieu’s Critical Theory of Language.”
Achilleas Fotakis, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
“‘Let us not exaggerate!’ One Note on the
Uniqueness of the Holocaust in Adorno.”
Cèlia Nadal Pasqual, Pompeu Fabra University,
Barcelona
“An application of Benjamin's theory to
temporal translations: the case of Ausias
March.”
CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago