American and European Values V :
John Dewey at 150: Art, Culture, Society
Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland

Schedule

June 23 (Tue) – Arrival Day (No Sessions)

Wednesday, June 24

Session One (9.00-11.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Krystyna Wilkoszewska, PhD, Director of Dewey Research Center and Head of Dept of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Presentations:

Larry Hickman, PhD, Director of Dewey Center at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA: Genuine Concepts in Dewey's Pedagogy

Ignas Skrupskelis, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at South Carolina University, USA: Dewey, Pragmatism, and the Naturalization of Freedom

Jacquelyn Kegley, PhD, Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
California State University, Bakersfield, USA: Redefining Individuals and Creating Communities: Dewey and Royce in Dialogue

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Larry Hickman, PhD, Director of Dewey Center at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

Presentations:

Krystyna Wilkoszewska, PhD, Director of Dewey Research Center and Head of Dept of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland: Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Art in the Pragmatist Aesthetics

Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, PhD, Institute of Philosophy at Opole University, Poland: Social and Political Powers in John Dewey’s Aesthetics

Lunch (13.00-13.30)

Session Three (15.30-17.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Jacquelyn Kegley, PhD, Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
California State University, Bakersfield, USA

Presentations:

Robert Innis, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Philosophy Dept at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA: The ‘Quality’ of Philosophy: On the Aesthetic Matrix of Dewey’s Pragmatism

Walter Feinberg, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Education at Dept of Educational Policy Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana, USA: Teaching Religion in Public Schools: A Critical Appraisal of Dewey's Ideas on Religion and Education

Thursday, June 25

Session One (9.00-11.00), Villa Academica

Chair, John Ryder, PhD, Director, Office of International Programs, State University of New York, USA

Presentations:

James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor at Philosophy Dept at The University of Toledo, USA: Aesthetics as Social Philosophy

Kersten Reich, PhD, Dewey Center Cologne and Professor at Dept of Pedagogy at University of Cologne, Germany: Deweyan Pragmatism and the Cologne Program of Interactive Constructivism

Stefan Neubert, PhD, Dewey Center Cologne and Dept of Pedagogy at University of Cologne, Germany: Deweyan Pragmatism and the Cologne Program of Interactive Constructivism

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00), Villa Academica

Chair, James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor at Philosophy Dept at The University of Toledo, USA

Presentations:

Piotr Gutowski, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Philosophy, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland: Dewey in the Context of Monism-Dualism Ontological Controversy

Ahti Pietrarinen, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Philosophy Dept at Helsinki University, Finland: A Hedgehog who Thought to be a Fox: Dewey betwixt the One and Many-World Philosophies

Lunch (13.00-13.30)

Session Three (15.30-17.00), Collegium Civitas

Chair,  Ignas Skrupskelis, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at South Carolina University, USA

Presentations:

Dorota Koczanowicz, PhD, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Lower Silesia University, Wrocław, Poland: Art of Experience. The Role of Spectator in Contemporary Art

Leszek Koczanowicz, PhD, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Lower Silesia University, Wrocław, Poland: Ethics of Democracy

Friday, June 26

Session One (9.00-11.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Leszek Koczanowicz, PhD, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Lower Silesia University, Wrocław, Poland

Presentations:

Ramon del Castillo, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Dept at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain: Whose Experience? The Political Relevance of John Dewey

Angel Faerna, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Humanities at Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain: Dewey on Experience: Ethics, Politics, and Value Theory

Gregory Pappas, PhD, Philosophy Dept at AM Texas University, USA: Dewey’s Ethical-Political Philosophy as Resource in Today’s Economic Crisis and as a Guide to a Post-Ideological Politics for the 21st Century

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Piotr Gutowski, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Philosophy, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Presentations:

John Ryder, PhD, Director, Office of International Programs, State University of New York, USA: Experience, Knowledge and Art

Ludwig Nagl, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Dept at Vienna University, Austria: 'The religious': Dewey´s Post-Feuerbachian ´Sublation´ of Religion – and Some Critical, Roycean Considerations

Lunch (13.00-13.30)

OPEN LECTURE (17.00-18.30), Collegium Maius

Larry Hickman, PhD, Director of Dewey Center at SIU (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), USA: John Dewey in the Context of American and European Values

Saturday, June 27

Session One (9.30-11.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Richard Hall, PhD Professor of Philosophy at Department of Government and History, Fayetteville State University, NC, USA

Presentations:

Philipp Dorstewitz, PhD, Lecturer at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Maastricht, Holland: Social Planning after the Image of Dewey’s Science

Matthew Flamm, PhD, Rockford College, USA: Deweyan Pragmatism and the Politicization of Philosophy

Stanisław Kijaczko, PhD, Institute of Philosophy at Opole University, Poland:  Man as a Problem-Solver: What about Problem-Makers? John Dewey's Inclusive Philosophical Idea

Coffee break

Session Two (11.30-13.00), Villa Academica

Chair, Ludwig Nagl, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Dept at Vienna University, Austria

Presentations:

Richard Hall, PhD Professor of Philosophy at Department of Government and History, Fayetteville State University, NC, USA: The Deweyan Aesthetic of Charles Ives

Hugh McDonald, PhD, New York City College of Technology, USA: Dewey’s Theory of Values

Lunch (13.00-13.30)

Session Three (15.30-17.00), Collegium Civitas

Chair,  Hugh McDonald, PhD, New York City College of Technology, USA

Presentations:

Wojciech Malecki, PhD, Dept of Polish Philology, Wrocław University, Poland: Against Formulaic Criticism (and Other Occultist Monomanias): A Deweyan Approach to Contemporary Literary Studies

Sebastian Stankiewicz, PhD Candidate at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland: Qualitative Thought, Thinking through Body, and Embodied Thinking: Dewey and his Successors

The end of the conference

Speakers:

updated April 15, 2009 by K.P. Skowronski

James Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor at Philosophy Dept at The University of Toledo, USA

Ramon del Castillo, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Dept at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain

Philipp Dorstewitz, Lecturer at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Maastricht, Holland

Angel Faerna, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Humanities at Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.

Walter Feinberg, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Education at Dept of Educational Policy Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana, USA

Matthew Flamm, PhD, Rockford College, USA

Richard Hall, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Dept of Government and History, Fayetteville State University, NC, USA

Larry Hickman, PhD, Director of The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

Robert Innis, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Philosophy Dept at University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA,

Jacquelyn Kegley, PhD, Chair, Dept of Philosophy & Religious Studies
California State University, Bakersfield, USA

Stanisław Kijaczko, PhD, Institute of Philosophy at Opole University, Poland

Dorota Koczanowicz, PhD, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Lower Silesia University, Wrocław, Poland

Leszek Koczanowicz, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Dept of Cultural Anthropology, Lower Silesia University, Wrocław, Poland

Aleksander Kremer, PhD, Director of the Hungarian Dewey Center at the University of Sheged, Hungary

Wojciech Malecki, PhD, Dept of Polish Philology, Wrocław University, Poland

Hugh McDonald, PhD, New York City College of Technology, USA

Ludwig Nagl, PhD, Professor at Philosophy Dept at Vienna University, Austria

Stefan Neubert, PhD, Dewey Center Cologne and Dept of Pedagogy at University of Cologne, Germany

Gregory Pappas, PhD, Philosophy Dept at AM Texas University, USA

Ahti Pietrarinen, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Philosophy Dept at Helsinki University, Finland

Kersten Reich, PhD, Dewey Center Cologne and Professor at Dept of Pedagogy at University of Cologne, Germany

John Ryder, PhD, Director, Office of International Programs, State University of New York, USA

Ignas Skrupskelis, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at South Carolina University, USA 

Sebastian Stankiewicz, PhD Candidate at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, PhD, Institute of Philosophy at Opole University, Poland

Krystyna Wilkoszewska, PhD, Director of Dewey Research Center and Head of Dept of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

                             Other Participants