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Conference Announcement Theme: Political Identity on the Threshold Type: International Symposium Institution: Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon Location: Lisbon (Portugal) Date: 10.–11.9.2018 __________________________________________________ Political identity is historically related to social identity, that is, to how people recognize themselves as members of some larger aggregate grouping. In this sense, it involves an exclusion process whereby ‘we’ are distinguished from ‘them’ and an inclusion process whereby who or what one is can be defined in terms of where one has come from and where one is going. However, the ground for the development of collective identities is ebbing under the pressure of processes contributing to the transformation of contemporary societies. For instance, the transition from industrialized economies to service economies, where new forms of intellectual labour favour mobility and the end of the job-for-life paradigm, helped to erode the sense of class identity. Also, the transnational flows and the deterritorialization inherent in a growing global interconnectedness made social identities less clear and certain, giving rise to powerful phenomena such as economic migration, fluid citizenship and multiculturalism. This conference gathers scholars who intend to assess the meaning and the normativity of political identity in contemporary times. Namely, debates will focus on the extent to which political identity is mostly a matter of binding values or if, on the contrary, it requires thicker historical and natural components. Programme 10 September 9:15 Welcome Panel: Personal vs collective identity 9:30 Eldar Sarajlic (City University of New York): What is an Authentic Identity? 10:00 Hili Razinsky (University of Lisbon): Ambivalent Interactive Political Identities and Grouping. 10:30 Kristina Khutsishvili (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna): Bringing Together Political and Personal Identities: Links of Narrative and Imagination. 11:15 Coffee break Panel: The status of immigrants and refugees 11:30 Alzbeta Hajkova (Purdue University): Refugees and The Human Condition: Reentering Plurality Versus Reentering Society. 12:00 Paul Neiman (St. Cloud State University): Community Identity and Immigration: A New Communitarian Approach. 13:00 Lunch Break Panel: Populism and epistemic labour 14:30 Maxime Chervaux (University Paris 8-Vincennes): Populism and identity-making in the United States. 15:00 Yuval Eylon (Open University of Israel): Identity and the Political Division of Epistemic Labor. 15:45 Coffee break Panel: State, constitution and political identity 16:00 Perica Jovchevski (Central European University): Transforming Political Identities: From Constitutional Patriotism to Post-Patriotism 16:30 Ben Van de Wall (KU Leuven): The Paradoxical Relation Between State Neutrality and Political Identity 17:15 Closure 11 September Keynote Speaker 10:30 Richard Bellamy (UCL/EUI): EU citizenship – Supra-national, Trans-national or Inter-national? 11:30 Coffee break Panel: Identitarian secessionism and fluidity 11:45 Dmitry Shlapentokh (Indiana University): The Fluidity of National Identities: the Case of Post-Soviet Russia. 12:15 Hsin-Wen Lee (University of Delaware): Cultural Nationalism—A Survey of Four Strategies. 13:00 Lunch break Panel: Liberalism and the challenge of identity 14:30 Anthony Gambrell (University of Otago): Nationhood in Locke’s Original Compact, Rebutted. 15:00 Paula Zoido-Oses (Warwick University): Beyond Irony: Using Hermeneutics to Make Sense of Rorty’s Liberal Project in the Age of Value-Pluralism. 15:30 Deven Burks (Université du Luxembourg): Rawls, Theorist of Standpoints and Identities? Assessing the Strong and Weak Cases For. 16:15 Coffee break Panel: Spaces of identity 16:30 Mosè Cometta (Université de Lausanne): Bringing Space Into Account. 17:00 Eva-Maria Aigner (University of Vienna): Crossing the Threshold. Border-Identities. 17:45 Closure Venue: Nova University of Lisbon Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities I&D Building Floor 4, Room Multiusos 3 Organizing Committee: Filipe Nobre Faria, Andre Santos Campos (Ifilnova, Nova University of Lisbon) Conference website: https://politicalidentityonthethreshold.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
