Thursday May 14th 2015

Location: Vadiana-Bibliothek, Notkerstrasse 23, St. Gallen

14.-14.30 Welcome and Introduction
14.30-15.30 Manfred SCHNEIDER (Bochum)
The Dream of Transparency. Aquinas, Rousseau, Sartre
15.30-16.30 Thomas DOCHERTY (Warwick)
On private life and the scrutiny of responsibility
16.30-17.00 Break
17.00-18.45 KEYNOTE
Amitai ETZIONI (Washington)
Is Transparency the Best of all Disinfectants? A Communitarian Approach

Friday May 15th 2015

Location: Universität St. Gallen, Campus, Building 23
[Room 23-101]

8.45 Opening words
9.00-10.00 Sandrine BAUME (Lausanne)
Transparency. The Birth of a Successful Political Metaphor
10.00-11.00 Miran BOŽOVIČ (Ljubljana)
Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon: Transparency and Opacity
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-12.15 Martin HARTMANN (Luzern)
Transparency and Trust
12.15-13.30 Lunch

[Room 23-203]

13.30-14.30 Dieter MERSCH (Zurich)
Obfuscating Transparency. The Paradoxes of Participation
14.30-14.45 Break
14.45-15.45 Vincent KAUFMANN (HSG)
From Jenny to North West. The Invention of Reality TV
15.45-16.30 Concluding Discussion