Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

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Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Veranstalter
Rice University, USA
Veranstaltungsort
Ort
Houston, TX
Land
United States
Vom - Bis
15.12.2005 - 16.12.2005
Website
http://lang.rice.edu/pubsphere/home.htm
Von
Christian Emden

CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE

“Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere” is a two-year research collaboration between Rice University (USA), represented by the School of Humanities and the Center for European Studies, and the University of Cambridge (UK), represented by the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and the Department of German. The research project seeks to examine the changes the “public sphere” has undergone as a conceptual model and as a discursive formation of actual political culture.

Given the new geographies of power that have emerged over the last twenty years or so in the context of globalization, it is more than timely to investigate the public sphere from an interdisciplinary perspective that brings together scholars from a range of different fields, such as history, literary studies, international relations, philosophy, and cultural geography. These scholars will meet at two conferences, one to be held at Rice University, December 15-16, 2005, the other at Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, England, July 10-12, 2006.

For further information, see http://lang.rice.edu/pubsphere/home.htm.

Programm

Thursday, December 15

9:30-10:00
Registration & Coffee

10:00-10:30
Introductory Addresses by Gary Wihl (Dean, School of Humanities) and Caroline Levander (Director, Center for the Study of Cultures)

10:30-12:30 Early Modern Public Spheres (Chair: John Zammito)
Joachim Whaley, A Public Sphere before Kant? Habermas and the Historians of Early Modern Germany

Sarah Westphal, Public Family, Private Lives: Kunegunde of Bavaria and Habsburg Historiography, 1520-1721

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Eighteenth-Century Publics (Chair: Rachel Zuckert)
John Zammito, What is the Current Status of the "Public Sphere" Thesis in Enlightenment Historiography?

Nicholas Boyle, Private, Public, and Structural Change: The German Problem

16:00-16:30 Coffee & Tea

16:30-18:00 The Formation of Publics (Chair: Peter C. Caldwell)
Steven Crowell, Norms, Consensus, and the Public Sphere

James Faubion, Foresight: Notes on Policy-Formation and the Formation of Publics in the Contemporary European Union

Friday, December 16

9:00-10:30 Public Intellectuals (Chair: Julie Fette)
Lora Wildenthal, Human Rights and the Public Sphere in the Early Federal Republic

Daniel Cohen, Refugee Envy: French Intellectuals and Political Asylum after 1945

10:30-11:00 Coffee & Tea

11:00-12:30 Social Imaginaries (Chair: Sarah Westphal)
David Midgley, Probing the Limits: The Contribution of Literary Writing to Defining the Public Sphere

Steven Lewis, Public Spaces and Collective Identity: Advertising and the Transnational Public in Asia

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 The Circulation of Knowledge (Chair: Rachel Zuckert)
Christian Emden, Making Things (Almost) Public: Epistemic Constellations between Science and Society

Christopher Kelty, Geeks, Internets, and Recursive Publics

15:30-16:00 Coffee & Tea

16:00-18:00 Keynote Address (Chair: Christian Emden)
James Tully, On the Question of Global Public Spheres

Kontakt

Christian Emden

Department of German & Slavic Studies, Rice University
Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA

(+1) 713 348 5312
(+1) 713 348 4863
emden@rice.edu

http://lang.rice.edu/pubsphere/home.htm