Thursday, June 14
9.30-10.00 Otto Heim (Head of the School)
Christopher M. Hutton & Markus Messling & Adrian Pablé
Welcome
Introduction & opening discussion
10.00-10.45 Philipp Krämer (University of Potsdam)
The universal exception. Creoleness and creolization in language, culture, and text
11.15-12.00 Adrian Pablé (Hong Kong University)
Deconstructing Rortian constructivism: against the ubiquity of language
12.00-12.45 Jérémie Wenger (University of Oxford)
Destitution of language: Alain Badiou on Wittgenstein
12.45-13.30 Zhou Feifei (Hong Kong University)
Garfinkel’s take on sociology: how is ‘social order’ produced and repaired?
15.00 Professor Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
Lecture-cum-seminar: “Of Other Worlds to Come”
Friday, June 15
9.15-10.00 Christopher M. Hutton & Markus Messling
Bruno Latour’s modernity. On (a)symmetrical anthropology and the language paradigm / Latour hanging out with the law and its objects
10.00-10.45 Zhuang Ruihan (Hong Kong University)
When Evolution Theory Meets Marxism: Vygotsky's Psychology of Abstraction in Postwar Russia
11.15-12.00 Noel Christe (Hong Kong University)
Discrepant norms: culture, ecology and indeterminacy in Victor Turner's anthropology of meaning
12.45-13.30 Markus Lenz (University of Potsdam)
Umberto Eco’s epistemological paradox: Cultural references between bias and universal knowledge
14.30-15.15 Kimberly Tao Wei Yi (Hong Kong University) Structuring Foucault's Monstrousness in Transgendered People through Legal Classification
15.15-16.00 Wayne Cristaudo (Hong Kong University)
Religion, Redemption, and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking of Franz Rosenweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
16.30-17.30 Concluding discussion