Language, Identity and Politics

Human and Social Studies Foundation – Sofia Is pleased to INVITE you  at the Theoretical Seminar „Challenges to Representative Democracy Today”

 

Programme

 

03 May (Thursday) 2012, 06.00 p.m.

Red Hall,

Red House Centre for Culture and Debate

Criteria for Collective Identity
public lecture by Prof. Vincent Descombes (School of Social Sciences, Paris)

 

Moderator: Prof. Boyan Znepolski (HSSF/Sofia University)

Language: English

 

Annotation:

The lecture is focused on the problem of collective identity discussed in the context of the history of philosophy and in particular the prospects of Montesquieu, Hegel and Searle. The issue is directly related to the way people build their institutions such as how to establish a constitution? Who really has the power to create institutions and how do they come? Could we successfully make use of this power if it had not already been institutionalized?

 

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04 May (Friday) 2012, 10.00 – 16.00 h.

2^nd Hall, Sofia University,

 

Seminar

Language, Identity and Politics

with the special participation of Vincent Descombes

 

First session (10.00 – 12.00 h.)

(moderator: Boyan Znepolski)

 

10.00 – 10.40 h. – Ruzha Smilova (Sofia University)

“The General Will Constitution: Rousseau as a Constitutionalist”

 

10.40 – 11.20 h. – Darin Tenev (Sofia University)

“Collective Identities and Possible Worlds”

 

11.20 – 12.00 h. – Christo Gyoshev (New Bulgarian University)

“Collective Identity and the Language of Morals”

 

 

12.00 – 14.00 h. – lunch break

 

Second session (14.00 – 16.00 h.)

moderator: Ruzha Smilova

 

14.00 – 14.40 h. – Boyan Znepolski (Sofia University)

“The Affective Conditions of Autonomy”

 

14.40 – 15.20 h. – Milena Iakimova (Sofia University)

“The Identity of the Ordinary”

 

15.20 – 16.00 h. – Dimita Vatsov (New Bulgarian University)

“Identity and Performativity: the Affirmation-Reaffirmation Game”

 

16.00 – Vincent Descombes (School of Social Sciences, Paris)

Concluding observations