JDS2024: JOHN DEWEY SOCIETY 2024 CONFERENCE AT CIEP, UNIVERSIDADE DE ÉVORA
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, June 5th Thursday, June 6th Friday, June 7th

Wednesday, June 5th

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14:00-15:15 Session 2A: Growth, morality and education
Discussant:
Andrea English (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Location: Room 115
Leonard Waks (Temple University, United States)
John Dewey on Moral Education Through Growth (abstract)
John Machielsen (Fontys Academy for the Creative Economy, Netherlands)
Habit Based Reconstruction of Intuitive Judgments in Social Psychology. Dewey and Haidt on the Role of Intuition in Morality (abstract)
14:00-15:15 Session 2B: Possibilities for democratic social change
Location: Room 124
Joshua Forstenzer (University of Sheffield, UK)
Democracy as a Way of Life in Practice: or Why Deweyan Democrats Should Be Pluralists About Tactics and Strategies (abstract)
Luis S. Villacañas-de-Castro (University of Valencia, Spain, Spain)
Democracy, Community, and Non-Violence: Reading the Sixties Movement Through the Public and Its Problems (abstract)
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 3A: Meanings and prospects of critical democratic citizenship
Discussant:
Kathleen Knight-Abowitz (Miami University, United States)
Location: Room 115
Dave Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States)
Dewey, American Hegelianism, and the Philosophical Break from the Old Country (abstract)
Silvério Rocha-Cunha (Full Professor at the Universidade of Évora, Portugal)
The Relevance of John Dewey's Political Thought for Critical Citizenship in Our Time (abstract)
Deron Boyles (Georgia State University, United States)
Dewey’s Critical Ethics Applied to Economics and Education (abstract)
15:45-17:00 Session 3B: Dewey as a critical social Theorist
Discussant:
Leyla Anna Abbasi (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Location: Room 124
Just Serrano-Zamora (University of Barcelona - JDS member - panel organizer, Spain)
Núria Sara Miras Boronat (University of Barcelona - interested in joining JDS, Spain)
Arvi Särkelä (ETH Zürich- interested in joining JDS, Switzerland)
Katrin Wille (University of Hildesheim - interested in joining JDS, Germany)
Matteo Santarelli (University of Bologna - interested in joining JDS, Italy)
John Dewey as a Critical Social Theorist (abstract)
15:45-17:00 Session 3C: Possible pathways to Democracy
Discussant:
Kathy Hytten (UNC Greensboro, United States)
Kathleen Knight-Abowitz (Miami University, United States)
Dustin Hornbeck (University of Memphis, United States)
Keeping the Democratic Faith in a Cynical Age? (abstract)
Leyla Abbasi (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Unveiling Dewey’s Wisdom: a Journey Toward a Systematic Understanding of Public Philosophy (abstract)
Maura Striano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
John Dewey, Jane Addams and the Pragmatist Road to Democracy (abstract)
17:00-17:30Coffee Break
17:30-18:45 Session 4: John Dewey Memorial Lecture
Discussant:
Barbara Stengel (Vanderbilt University, United States)
17:30
Professor Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent, UK)
TBA
Thursday, June 6th

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09:00-10:45 Session 5A: The social relevance of Dewey's aesthetics
Location: Room 115
Andrea Fiore (Pontifical Salesian University, Italy)
Is Dewey’s Aesthetics Critical? a Reflection on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Art from a Deweyan Perspective (abstract)
Daniel Herbert (University of Sheffield, UK)
“Anaesthetic Experience” as an Instrument of Social Critique: Dewey’s Aesthetics and Its Political Significance (abstract)
Joshua Fischel (Millersville University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Setting John Lennon’s Vocals Free?: Generative AI in Light of Dewey’s Aesthetics (abstract)
09:00-10:45 Session 5B: Prospects of democratic teaching in the age of measurement
Discussant:
Kurt Stemhagen (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
Location: Room 124
Jay Bradley (George Mason University, United States)
Unlocking the "Iron Cage" of Quantification: Black Mathematics Teachers, Deweyan Classroom Practice, and Pragmatic Lessons (abstract)
Ninni Wahlström (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Teaching Quality as Speculative Habits (abstract)
Andrea English (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Uncertainty and Teaching (abstract)
09:00-10:45 Session 5C: Contexts and Possibilities for democratic Experiences
Discussant:
Nora Schaffer (Columbia University, United States)
William Cumming-Bruce (University College London, UK)
Dewey and Full Inclusion (abstract)
Dustin Hornbeck (University of Memphis, United States)
Kathleen Knight Abowitz (Miami University of Ohio, United States)
Dual Enrollment Education in the USA: Critical Pragmatist Analysis (abstract)
Kathy Hytten (UNC Greensboro, United States)
Kurt Stemhagen (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
Critical Pragmatism, Democratic Education, and Youth Sports (abstract)
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 6: Presidential Symposium: Critical Pragmatism
Clara Fischer (Queens University Belfast, UK)
TBA
Lee McBride (College of Wooster, United States)
TBA
Scott Pratt (University of Oregon, United States)
TBA
Mark Tschaepe (Prarie View A&M University, United States)
TBA
12:45-14:00Conference Luncheon
14:00-15:15 Session 7A: Play and Growth in Learning
Discussant:
Leonard Waks (Temple University, Portugal)
Location: Room 115
John Lean (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Playful Experimentation and Experience Curation: How Dewey Might Design Games for Learning (abstract)
Manpreet Kaur Rai (Western University, Canada)
Jonathan Bowen (Western University, Canada)
Growth and Unrevisable Aspects of Self (abstract)
14:00-15:15 Session 7B: What does critical mean?
Discussant:
Susan Mayer (independent scholar, United States)
Location: Room 124
Armando Manchisi (University of Innsbruck, Italy)
Dewey’s Critical Perfectionism (abstract)
Randall Auxier (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Uganda)
Critical When Critical Wasn'T Cool: Dewey'S Constructive Critique of Critical Criticism (abstract)
14:00-15:15 Session 7C: Pragmatism and Teaching
Discussant:
Joshua Forstenzer (University of Sheffield, UK)
Aaron Stoller (Colorado College, United States)
Chris Schacht (Colorado College, United States)
Composition Naturalized (abstract)
Gerry Dunne (Mie, Ireland)
Ameliorating the Vice of Spectator Approaches to Knowledge (abstract)
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 8A: Taking Dewey beyond the ivory tower: learning with communities
Discussant:
Luis Sebastian Villacañas de Castro (University of Valencia, Spain)
Location: Room 115
Gregory Pappas (Texas A & M, United States)
Beyond Making Deweyan Pragmatism Critical: What Academics Should Be Doing in Regard to 21st Century Injustices. (abstract)
Roudy Hildreth (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
Re-Thinking John Dewey and the Critical Turn in Service-Learning (abstract)
15:45-17:00 Session 8B: Pragmatism and pathways to cultural pluralism
Discussant:
Maria Luísa Branco (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
Location: Room 124
Qijia Zou (Beihang University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, China)
Lingyun Gao (Beihang University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, China)
Fostering Cultural Pluralism Through Critical Pragmatism: a Whole-School Approach to Counteract Western-Centrism. (abstract)
Susan Mayer (independent scholar, United States)
Alain Locke, Eddie Glaude, and the Promises and Challenges of (Sub)Cultural Pluralism (abstract)
Friday, June 7th

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09:00-10:45 Session 10A: Inquiry, Truth and Political Theory
Mathieu Gagnon (Cégep Limoilou, Canada)
Truth, Justness and Accuracy, Falsehood, and Lie in the Sense (abstract)
Sarah Stitzlein (University of Cincinnati, United States)
Combatting Polarization with Deweyan Truth and Inquiry (abstract)
Julian Tobias Klar (Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany)
Political Theory – What Is It Good for?! – Hannah Arendt’S and John Dewey’S Proposals for Harmonizing Inquiry and Ethics in Their Reconstruction of Political Theory (abstract)
09:00-10:45 Session 10B: Meaning and significance of Dewey’s notion of critical, reflective thinking today
Discussant:
Veli-Mikko Kauppi (University of Oulu, Finland)
Location: Room 115
Veli-Mikko Kauppi (University of Oulu, Finland)
Henri Pettersson (University of Oulu, Finland)
John Dewey'S Notion of Reflective Thinking and the Modern Educational Goal of Critical Thinking (abstract)
Dina Mendonça (IFILNOVA, NOVA FCSH. UNL, Portugal)
Freedom of Intelligence and the Logical Force of Tertiary Qualities (abstract)
Amambo Essien (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Can Dewey’S Notion of Critical Thinking Support Decolonising the Mind? Towards a Framework to Support Teacher Educators in Nigeria (abstract)
09:00-10:45 Session 10C: Critical issues in schools and the democratic aims of education
Discussant:
Maria Assunção Folque (University of Evora, Portugal)
Location: Room 124
Kathleen Sellers (Duke University, United States)
Religious School Choice in America: a Critical Pragmatist Response to a Democratic Dilemma (abstract)
Terri Wilson (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
Interests, Not Rights: Reframing Parent Activism in Public Education (abstract)
Maria Miraglia (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Philosophy for Children: Can It Be Considered a Deweyan Way to Combat Hate Speech? (abstract)
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 Session 11A: Dewey and the Anthropocene
Discussant:
Mathieu Gagnon (Cégep Limoilou, Canada)
Location: Room 115
Agnieszka Hensoldt (University of Opole, Poland)
Dewey, anti-Anthropocentrism, and Education (abstract)
Sevket Benhur Oral (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Can Deweyan Democracy Still Be Relevant in the Anthropocene? (abstract)
11:15-12:30 Session 11B: Roundtables/ works-in-progress: Considering Dewey-inspired changes to educational practice and policy around the world
Discussant:
Leonard Waks (Temple University, Portugal)
Location: Room 124
Mathew Banlanjo Ngoran (University of Bamenda, Cameroon)
John Dewey’S Experiential Learning: Pragmatic Implications for Educational Programming in Emerging Economies (abstract)
Nikhil Sanjay Adsule (Indian institute of technology, Delhi, India)
Theorising a New Social : Dewey-Ambedkar-Hooks a Radical Praxis for Education and Democracy. (abstract)
Xing Liu (Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China)
Nan Zhang (Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, China)
John Dewey and the Rise of Marxism in China: How Did John Dewey Inspire the Educational Ideas of Chinese Communist Party (abstract)
Valentine Ngalim (THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA, Cameroon)
Dewey'S Democratic Conception of Education: Advocacy for Inclusive Education? (abstract)