The European Citizen from the Perspectives of the Humanities Workshop Program 16, 19-20 Nov, 2012 Part I. Reconceptualising the European Citizen: Identity, Culture, Religion 16 Nov 2012, Friday Budapest, PPCU, Sophianum, Mikszáth Kálmán Square 1. Workshop Program (Papers are requested to be max. 20 minutes long, followed by min. 10 minutes long discussions) Sesssion 1. The identity of the European citizen. The internal point of view Chair: Almási, Zsolt (Pázmány Péter Catholic University) 9:00-9:30 9:30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11:00-11:30 Bekemans, Léonce Citizenship building in the European Union: an educational perspective Hörcher, Ferenc The Aesthetics of Democracy. How to foster responsible citizenship through the arts? Földváry, Kinga Shades of Colour Multiracial European Identities in Contemporary Novels Kántor, Zoltán Institutionalizing national/european identity
11:30-12:00 12:00-12:30 12:30-13:00 13:00-14:00 Bognár, Bulcsu Desecularisation in modern society. The individual and the new religious movements Ötvös, István The Hungarian Brotherhood. Middle class resistance to Communist and Nazi rule in Hungary, 1940-1947 Pócza, Kálmán The British and Hungarian tradition of Parliamentarism: The Construction of a Common Identity Lunch break Session 2. The European citizen and the Other. The external point of view Chair: Bekemans, Léonce (University of Padua) 14:00-14:30 14.30-15.00 15.00-15:30 15.30-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:00 Környei, Ágnes Cultural Diversity One Image of Europe Abroad? Almási, Zsolt The European Citizen from a sixteenth-seventeenth-century Perspective: Europeans versus Turks in Rene de Lucinge s The Beginning, Continuance and Decay of Estates (1605) Tüske, László To be a European Muslim". Tariq Ramadan and the European citizenship Kozjek-Gulyás, Anett On the dilemma of the European identity of the Chinese Pintér, Károly The concept of civil religion in an American and European Context
Part II. Aristotle s Politics the Birth and Contemporary Relevance of the Concept of the Citizen 19-20 Nov 2012 Budapest, PPCU, Sophianum, Mikszáth Kálmán Square 1. 19 Nov 2012, Monday Session 1. Aristotle s Politics Chair: Catherine Zuckert (Notre Dame University) 14:00-15.00 15.00-16.00 16.00-16.20 16.20-17.20 17.20-18.20 19.00 Simon, Attila (University of Debrecen) Synesis as political concept in Aristotle Respondent: Németh, Attila Lautner, Péter (PPCU) Political phronesis Respondent: Könczöl, Miklós (PPCU) Nicgorski, Walter (University of Notre Dame) Cicero on Aristotle and Aristotelians (or Cicero's Aristotle) Respondent: Mohay, Gergely (PPCU) Jirsa, Jakub (Charles University) To ergon tou anthropou Respondent: Bárány, István (Eötvös University Budapest) Dinner At Thomas Hotel
20 Nov 2012, Tuesday Session 2. Aristotle s Politics in the Contemporary Context Chair: Walter Nicgorski (Notre Dame University) 09.00-10.00 Knight, Kelvin (London, Metropolitan University) An Argument within Aristotelianism: Maritain and MacIntyre on Human Rights and History Respondent: Nyirkos, Tamás (PPCU) 10.00-11.00 Mezei, Balázs (PPCU) Yves Simon's Understanding of Aristotle Respondent: (Balázs,Zoltán Corvinus University, Budapest) 11.00-11.20 11.20-12.20 Barwicka-Tylek, Iwona (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) The power of Aristotelian memes and the contemporary revival of Aristotelianism: the Polish example 12.20-13.30 13.30-14.30 Respondent: Hörcher, Ferenc (PPCU) Lunch break Zuckert, Catherine (University of Notre Dame) Do Virtue Ethics Require Virtue Politics? Respondent: (Mándi,Tibor Faculty of Law, ELTE) 14.30-15.30 Hörcher, Ferenc (PPCU) Is a contemporary Conservative political philosophy based on the Aristotelian concept of phronesis possible? Respondent: Pogonyi, Szabolcs (ELTE, CEU)
15.30-16.00 Session 3. Aristotelian Perspectives on the Citizen 16.00-17.30 18.30- Roundtable Moderator: Zsigmond Ritoók (ELTE) Participants: all the speakers Dinner At Thomas Hotel