SYMPOSIUM POSTPONED BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. NEW DATE TO FOLLOW SOON.
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Keynote speaker: David Bakhurst, Queen’s University, Canada/UCL, Institute of Education
Human society is at a crossroads. We face the breakdown of representative democracy and the rise of populism, an eco-systems emergency that has reached tipping point, alongside gross and growing social inequality. What is the role of philosophy in theorising these challenges in ways that point towards solution-oriented practices and activities? We welcome papers that take forward Evald Ilyenkov’s concept of the Ideal, the renewed interest in dialectics and the work of other Marxist theorists.
Suggested themes:
* The role of education in social transformation
* Understanding the present, neo-liberal period of history
* Social alienation and our relation to nature
* Theorising the state and democracy
* Social emancipation and the subject in the 21st century
Deadline for 500 word abstracts: extended to 30 March 2020. Mini abstracts and micro-presentations also accepted. Diverse views welcomed! Send to conference organising committee: ilyenkov2020@gmail.com
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Everyone is invited to a pre-symposium social evening on Thursday, 11 June. Details to be announced.
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The call for the symposium is supported by:
Bill Bowring Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London; Illesh Ilyenkov, Ilyenkov’s daughter, co-editor of Ilyenkov’s collected works; Alex Levant, Ilyenkov translator & assistant professor Wilfred Laurier University, Canada; Andrey Maidansky co-editor of Ilyenkov’s Collected Works, Professor of Philosophy Belgorod State University, Russia; Elena Mareeva Professor of Philosophy at Moscow State Institute of Culture; #eTownHalls The Great Mandate for Real Democracy USA, Real Democracy Movement UK
Previously……
Deconstructing Neoliberal Hegemony
Report
The Copenhagen interpretation of Ilyenkov’s relevance – ifi.2018 symposium report
Papers
Corinna Lotz & Penny Cole
Deconstructing Neoliberal Hegemony
Signe Juhl Møller
The Pedagogy of daring (Powerpoint show)
Seth Chaiklin
Teaching thinking – abstract and background reading
Morten Nissen, Thomas Gylling Andersen, Sebastian Tobias-Renstrøm
The dialectics of concepts, aesthetics and politics in social work
Marcelo José de Souza e Silva
State and health
Mikhail B. Konashev
Ecological crisis, evolutionary theory, “market” economy and alienation
+ Powerpoint show
Program
2014 Helsinki
Evald Ilyenkov – Prospects and Retrospects in Philosophy and Psychology: An international symposium arranged by the Aleksanteri Institute and the Centre of Research on Activity, Development and Learning (CRADLE), University of Helsinki 15-16 April 2014
Contradictions within the Ideal, mediation and transformation in global capitalist society – paper given by Corinna Lotz, Paul Feldman, Penny Cole and Gerry Gold
2012 Helsinki
SPINOZA IN SOVIET THOUGHT, An International Symposium
at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki 18-19 May 2012
Spinoza, Ilyenkov & Western Marxism – meeting the challenges of the global crisis – paper given by Corinna Lotz and Penny Cole
