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
John Dewey on Moral Education Through Growth (abstract) |
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
Democracy as a Way of Life in Practice: or Why Deweyan Democrats Should Be Pluralists About Tactics and Strategies (abstract) |
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
Dewey, American Hegelianism, and the Philosophical Break from the Old Country (abstract) |
The Relevance of John Dewey's Political Thought for Critical Citizenship in Our Time (abstract) |
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
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)
Location: Small Auditorium
Keeping the Democratic Faith in a Cynical Age? (abstract) |
Unveiling Dewey’s Wisdom: a Journey Toward a Systematic Understanding of Public Philosophy (abstract) |
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 | TBA |
Thursday, June 6th
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09:00-10:45 Session 5A: The social relevance of Dewey's aesthetics
Location: Room 115
Is Dewey’s Aesthetics Critical? a Reflection on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Art from a Deweyan Perspective (abstract) |
“Anaesthetic Experience” as an Instrument of Social Critique: Dewey’s Aesthetics and Its Political Significance (abstract) |
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
Unlocking the "Iron Cage" of Quantification: Black Mathematics Teachers, Deweyan Classroom Practice, and Pragmatic Lessons (abstract) |
Teaching Quality as Speculative Habits (abstract) |
Uncertainty and Teaching (abstract) |
09:00-10:45 Session 5C: Contexts and Possibilities for democratic Experiences
Discussant:
Nora Schaffer (Columbia University, United States)
Location: Small Auditorium
Dewey and Full Inclusion (abstract) |
Dual Enrollment Education in the USA: Critical Pragmatist Analysis (abstract) |
Critical Pragmatism, Democratic Education, and Youth Sports (abstract) |
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
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
Playful Experimentation and Experience Curation: How Dewey Might Design Games for Learning (abstract) |
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
Dewey’s Critical Perfectionism (abstract) |
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)
Location: Small Auditorium
Composition Naturalized (abstract) |
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
Beyond Making Deweyan Pragmatism Critical: What Academics Should Be Doing in Regard to 21st Century Injustices. (abstract) |
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
Fostering Cultural Pluralism Through Critical Pragmatism: a Whole-School Approach to Counteract Western-Centrism. (abstract) |
Alain Locke, Eddie Glaude, and the Promises and Challenges of (Sub)Cultural Pluralism (abstract) |
17:15-18:15 Session 9: A Life in Pragmatism with Professor Vincent Colapietro (University of Rhode Island)
Graduate Student Session - All Welcome
Location: Small Auditorium
Friday, June 7th
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09:00-10:45 Session 10A: Inquiry, Truth and Political Theory
Location: Small Auditorium
Truth, Justness and Accuracy, Falsehood, and Lie in the Sense (abstract) |
Combatting Polarization with Deweyan Truth and Inquiry (abstract) |
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
John Dewey'S Notion of Reflective Thinking and the Modern Educational Goal of Critical Thinking (abstract) |
Freedom of Intelligence and the Logical Force of Tertiary Qualities (abstract) |
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
Religious School Choice in America: a Critical Pragmatist Response to a Democratic Dilemma (abstract) |
Interests, Not Rights: Reframing Parent Activism in Public Education (abstract) |
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
Dewey, anti-Anthropocentrism, and Education (abstract) |
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
John Dewey’S Experiential Learning: Pragmatic Implications for Educational Programming in Emerging Economies (abstract) |
Theorising a New Social : Dewey-Ambedkar-Hooks a Radical Praxis for Education and Democracy. (abstract) |
John Dewey and the Rise of Marxism in China: How Did John Dewey Inspire the Educational Ideas of Chinese Communist Party (abstract) |
Dewey'S Democratic Conception of Education: Advocacy for Inclusive Education? (abstract) |