Pre-conference research seminar on TOLERATION
THE NORDIC SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
Pre-conference research seminar on
TOLERATION
Malmo, 10 - 11 March 2010
Room D222 at 'Orkanen', Nordenskioldsgatan 10
The Nordic Society for Philosophy of Education will host a pre-conference research seminar on Toleration in Malmo Wednesday 10 March to Thursday 11 March 2010 (from lunch to lunch). We are glad to invite all members of the society at no extra costs. Please, e-mail torill.strand@ped.uio.no if you want to attend (as the room has a maximum capacity of 40 persons, we regret that we have to follow the first-come-first-serve principle).
The new world order - characterised by a decline of the nation states, new patterns of migration, transnational identities, multiple citizenships, and the materialization of a global virtual network society - carries a new design for social and political norms that contest long-established ideals, beliefs and practices of citizenship education. Thus, vital questions of moral, ethical, political and social concerns are being evoked, - such as equal respect, mutual recognition, and toleration. Toleration can be seen as the social virtue and the political principle that allows for peaceful coexistence of individuals and groups who hold different beliefs and practice different ways of life within the same society.
The aim of this research seminar is to invite an in-depth philosophical discussion and debate, exploring the many faces - pretty and ugly - of toleration and its predicaments.
Invited speakers are
· Professor Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, University of Eastern Piedmonte, Italy
· Associate Professor Ylva Bergström, University of Orebro, Sweden
· Associate professor Kirsten Hyldgaard, Danish School of Education, Denmark
Jørgen Huggler, Danish School of Education (Denmark) and Torill Strand, University of Oslo (Norway) will provide brief introductions and chair the seminar.
In order to partake in the discussion, all attendants are requested to read the literature beforehand (see a list below).
PROGRAM
Wednesday 10th March 2010
13:15 Welcome and introduction:
Jørgen Huggler
13:30 - 15:00 Session 1:
Professor Anna Elisabetta Galeotti: Equal Respect and the politics of recognition
What general normative guidelines should inform policies on the most controversial multicultural claims of a liberal democracy? Instead of focusing on the issue of compatibility, the adequate viewpoint should be justice and the principle of equal respect. But is equal respect about persons and their dignity or about the cultures/religions/identities and their members? I argue for an interpretation that considers persons as they are, given their identities and differences. Next, I will provide a typology of multicultural claims, ranked on a scale of different levels of disrespect that again require different kinds of response. As a result, we are invited to reflect on the how beside the what; on the procedures and attitudes beside the benefits and measures; - not only for the pragmatic reasons of finding a relatively easy way out, but also for principled reasons of justice.
15:00 Coffee
15:30 - 17:00 Session 2:
Ylva Bergström: Moral consideration - When (not) to speak about tolerance in education
What does it mean to be morally thoughtful and considerate in education? The recent controversy about burqa is here a starting point for examining Habermas discourse ethics in relation to the post-modern challenge to this question. I outline three ways of understanding moral consideration: (1) an extended form of equal treatment; (2) an increased ethical sensitivity; and (3) an asymmetrical obligation between human beings.
19:00 Evening meal (optional)
Thursday 11th March 2010
09:15 Introduction: Torill Strand
09:30 - 11:00 Session 3:
Kirsten Hyldgaard: To become indifferent towards differences
According to Alain Badiou the pressing question is not how we should deal with differences - celebrate, respect, tolerate, fight them - but how an event can render differences, which up to now have seemed natural or self-evident , inconsequential.
11.00 Coffee, followed by closing remarks
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Ylva Bergström and Kirsten Hyldgaard
12:00 Close
PRESENTERS
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli. Her research interests range from the methodology of the social science, to toleration, multiculturalism, equal respect and self-deception. Some recent publications are Toleration as Recognition, Cambridge University Press 2002; Toleration, Identity and Difference, in The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (2006); Relativism, Universalism, and Applied Ethics: The Case of Female Circumcision, "Constellations" 2007; Toleration as recognition: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in Toleration on Trial (2008); and Eguale Rispetto (Equal Respect), with Ian Carter and Valeria Ottonelli (2008).
Ylva Bergström is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education at the University of Orebro, Sweden. Her recent work addresses ethics and education, focusing in particular on questions related to democracy and citizenship. Among her recent publications are A discussion with Martha Nussbaum on Education for citizenship in an era of global connection with Bernt Gustavsson, "Studies in Philosophy and Education" 2002; The struggle between conflicting beliefs. On the promise of education, "Journal of Curriculum Studies" 2006; and The universal right to education - freedom, equality and fraternity, "Studies in Philosophy and Education" 2010.
Kirsten Hyldgaard is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. Her key competences are modern philosophy, educational philosophy, psychoanalysis, and epistemology. Selected publications are Pædagogiske umuligheder. Psykoanalyse og pædagogik, Aarhus Universitetsforlag (forthcoming); Videnskabsteori - en grundbog til de pædagogiske fag, Roskilde Universitetsforlag (2006); Det utidige subjekt. Lacan, Freud, Heidegger, Sartre, Badiou, Zizek m.fl., Roskilde Universitetsforlag (2003); Fantasien til afmagten. 7 kapitler om Lacan og filosofien, Museum Tusculanums Forlag (1998); and Heidegger og teknikkens tidsalder, Aarhus Universitetsforlag (1990).
Jørgen Huggler is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. His key competences are history of modern philosophy, German Idealism, history of philosophical problems, and the history of 'Bildung'. His recent publications include
Cosmopolitanism and Peace in Kant's essay on 'Perpetual Peace', Studies in Philosophy and Education (1/2010); Hegel's phenomenology of rationality, NSU press (2009); State, religion and toleration, ARSP (2009); and 'Om tolerance [On Toleration], Danmarks pedagogiske universitetsforlag (2007).
Torill Strand is the president of the society and a Post Doc at University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests range from meta-theory to social epistemologies, educational theory, philosophy of education and semiotics. Her current research work concerns education, globalization and social change. She has just guest-edited a special issue on Cosmopolitanism in the Making (Studies in Philosophy and Education) and is now guest-editing a special issue on Peirce's Rhetorical Turn: Prospects for Educational Theory and Research (Educational Philosophy and Theory). Some of her recent titles are The Making of a New Cosmopolitanism (2010); Beyond Education: Metaphors on Creativity and Workplace Learning (2009); and Reconceptualizing Educational Processes: The role of Peirce's New Rhetoric (forthcoming).
LITERATURE
These texts will be e-mailed each registered participant early February 2010.
Badiou, A. (2001). Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Preface, Intro & Chap. 1, pp. liii - 29). London: Verso
Badiou, A. (1999). Manifesto for Philosophy (Chap. 1, pp 27 - 32). New York: SUNY
Boman, Y. (2007). Moral Consideration. When (not) to speak about tolerance. Nordisk Pedagogik 27 (3): 236 - 252
Derrida, J. (2006). Hospitality. In: Thomassen (ed.). The Derrida-Habermas reader. London: Allen & Unwin
Galeotti, A. E. (2009). Multicultural claims and equal respect. Research paper
Galeotti, A. E. (2009). Respect and democracy. Research paper
Galeotti, A. E. (2009). Respect as recognition. Research paper
Habermas, J. (2006). Religious tolerance. The pacemaker for cultural rights. In: Thomassen (ed.). The Derrida-Habermas reader. London: Allen & Unwin
Hyldgaard, K. (2009). At blive ligeglad med forskelle. Kulturo 15(28)