Nijmegen 11-12 January 2018
Organized by Pieter Lemmens (Radboud University) and Yoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels)
Made possible by the the Faculty of Science, the Institute for Science in Society, the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, the International Office of Radboud University and the Centre for Ethics and Humanism, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Venue: Villa Oud Heyendael, René Descartesdreef 21, 6525 GL Nijmegen (Campus RU) Time: 11 and 12 January 2018, 10.00h – 17.30h
Program
Thursday 11-1-2018
9:30h – 10:00h: Welcome with coffee and tea
10:00h – 12:00h: Keynote session
10:00h – 10:45h Prof. Dr. Don Ihde: ‘From Heideggerian industrial gigantism to nanoscale technologies’
10:45h – 11:30h Prof. Dr. Bernard Stiegler: ‘L’Épreuve de vérité. Causes et quasi-causes dans l’Entropocène’
11:30h – 12:00h Plenary discussion
12:00h – 13:00h: Lunch
13:00h – 15:00h: Thursday Session I
13:00h – 13:30h Prof. Dr. Peter-Paul Verbeek’: ‘Technological mediation and critical theory: on the factual, the actual, and the possibilities of philosophical engagement’
13:30h – 14:00h Dr. Pieter Lemmens: ‘Technology with a capital ‘T’ and the transcendental against the backdrop of the Anthropocene. A confrontation between postphenomenology and pharmaco-organology’
14:00h – 15:00h Plenary discussion
15:00h – 15.30h: Break
15:30h – 17:30h: Thursday Session II
15:30h – 16:00h Prof. Dr. Hub Zwart: ‘Extimate technologies and the conflict of the faculties during the noocene’
16:00h – 16:30h Dr. Yuk Hui: ‘Erörterung, Ereignis and Cosmotechnics’
16:30h – 17:30h Plenary discussion and closure
Friday 12-1-2018
9:30h – 10:00h: Welcome with coffee and tea 10:00h – 12:00h: Friday session I
10:00h – 10:30h Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh: ‘Earth, technology, language: A contribution to holistic and transcendental revisions after the artefactual turn’
10:30h – 11:00h Dr. Yoni van den Eede: ‘Between a rock and a hard place: navigating the interval of “t”echnology and “T”echnology’
11:00h – 12:00h Plenary discussion
12:00h – 13:00h: Lunch
13:00h – 15:00h: Friday Session II
13:00h – 13:30h Dr. Galit Wellner: ‘Post-imagination in Ihde’s and Stiegler’s philosophies’
13:30h – 14:00h Prof. Dr. Robert C. Scharff: ‘Listening to Ihde and Stiegler: with what ear?’
14:00h – 15:00h Plenary discussion
15:00h – 15.30h: Break
15:30h – 17:30h: Friday Session III
15:30h – 16:00h Dr. Helena de Preester: ‘Is the Anthropocene post-post-historical?’
16:00h – 16:30h Dr. Dominic Smith: ‘Mapping Crossed Roads: Three Key Problems for Philosophy of Technology Today’
16:30h – 17:30h Plenary discussion and closure
