Programme
Conference programme.
Thursday, August 26th
18.30–19.15 Arrivals, registration.
Venue: Central hall ground floor Lipsius
19.15–19.30 Opening address
Welcome by Madeleine Kasten
19.30–21.00 Plenary session (Lipsius 003. Chair: Rico Sneller)
Jochen Hörisch, “Das Verstehen verstehen: Überlegungen zu Gadamers Hermeneutik”
Friday, August 27th
09.00–10.15 Plenary session (Lipsius 011. Chair: Herman Paul)
Günther Figal, “Gadamer und die Möglichkeit hermeneutischer Philosophie”
10.15–10.30 Coffee break (Lipsius 148)
10.30–12.30
Parallel sessions
1. Hermeneutics and Criticism I (Lipsius 147. Chair: Ernst van Alphen)
- Gert-Jan van der Heiden, “The Absolute Presupposition of Language: Gadamer According to Agamben”
- Rico Sneller, “Should We Understand? Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Prejudice”
- Johannes Müller, “Understanding Understanding or Cybernetics of Cybernetics? Gadamer in Systems Theory and Constructivism”
2. Intellectual History (Lipsius 148. Chair: Herman Paul)
- Reidar Maliks, “Intellectual History and Hermeneutics”
- Jef Jacobs, “Die Rezeption von Gadamers Sprach- und Geschichtsbegriff in der Benjamin-Forschung”
- Martin Wiklund, “History as Practical Philosophy”
12.30–13.30 Lunch break
13.30–15.30 Parallel sessions
1. Art in Translation (Lipsius 147. Chair: Rico Sneller)
- Eddo Evink, “Gadamer and the End of Art”
- Madeleine Kasten, “Wor(l)ds at Play: Gadamer and the Dynamics of Literary Translation”
- Lisa Romano-Dwyer, “A Hermeneutic of Vichian ‘Sensus Communis’ in Gadamer’s Truth and Method: Re-awakening Poetic Wisdom and its Possibilities for the Human Sciences”
2. Art and Interpretation: Three Case-Studies (Lipsius 148. Chair: Gerard Visser)
- Jochen Schäfers, “Konsequenzen der Berücksichtigung der Hermeneutik Gadamers für die Werkinterpretation anhand der Deutung von Rudolf Thomes Rote Sonne”
- Jessica Jakubiak, “Das literaturtheoretische Potenzial von Hans-Georg Gadamer: Untersuchungen zum Leser und Autor in Wahrheit und Methode”
- Julian Hanebeck, “Die Negativität der hermeneutischen Erfahrung: Metaleptische Brüche in Laurance Sternes Roman Tristram Shandy (1759-1766)”
15.30–16.00 Coffee break (Lipsius 148)
16.00–18.00 Parallel sessions
1. Humanities and Liberal Arts (Lipsius 147. Chair: Madeleine Kasten)
- John Arthos, Hermeneutics as Esoterica in Liberal Arts Education
- Marc-Antoine Vallée, “The Humanities as Conversation and Edification: On Rorty’s Idea of a Gadamerian Culture”
2. Intercultural Philosophy (Lipsius 148. Chair: Yasco Horsman)
- Suzanne Metselaar, “Gadamer’s Truth and Method and Kimmerle’s Methodology of Intercultural Understanding”
- Mark Lleshi, Fusion of Horizons in Conversation: A Gadamerian Approach to Intercultural Dialogue
18.15–19.30 Presentation of published work on Gadamer, a presentation of photographs by Ohad Ben Shimon entitled Tableaux Vivants, and drinks in the University Library
21.00 Conference dinner at the Faculty Club (situated in the Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73)
Saturday, August 28th
09.00
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10.15 Plenary session (Lipsius 028. Chair: Madeleine Kasten)
Guy Widdershoven, “Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: Bringing Humanities into Medicine”
10.15
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10.30 Coffee break (Lipsius 148)
10.30
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12.30 Parallel sessions
1. Analytical Philosophy (Lipsius 147. Chair: Rico Sneller)
- Joshua Wretzel, “Speaking With the Dead: Brandom and Gadamer on the Dialogical Tension Between Past and Present”
- Filip Buekens, “Horizontverschmelzung and Charity: Gadamer and Davidson on the Explanatory Role of the Concept of Truth”
- Herman Paul, “Gadamer and Historiography: A Conversation Waiting to Begin”
2. Hermeneutics and Criticism II (Lipsius 148. Chair: Gerard Visser)
- Ulrike Weichert, “Vorgriff auf die Unvollkommenheit des Lesers: Die Auseinandersetzung Hans-Georg Gadamers mit Leo Strauss”
- Stefan Deines, “Tradition im Wandel: Gadamer und die Kritische Theorie”
12.30–14.00 Lunch break(Restaurant De Grote Beer, 27 Rembrandtstraat very close to Lipsius)
14.00–16.00 Parallel sessions
1. Religion and Law (Lipsius 147. Chair: Madeleine Kasten)
- Mathieu Scraire, “Faith as a Fusion of Horizons?”
- Tore Langholz, “Vertagter Dialog: Fortschreibung eines fiktiven philosophischen Gesprächs zwischen Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida und Vilém Flusser”
- Chris Walshaw, “Gadamer and Law: Common Law and Continental Developments”
2. Social Sciences (Lipsius 148. Chair: Eddo Evink)
- Merel Visse, Tineke A. Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven, “How the Researcher’s Being Comes Into Play: Gadamer’s Insights and Responsive Research”
- Knut Martin Stünkel, “Die ‘Philosophie des Gesprächs‘ und die Soziologie: Gadamer und das Neue Denken”
- David Vessey, “The Pedagogical Implications of Gadamer’s ‘Logic of Question and Answer’”
16.00 Closing address by the organizers