Being we

Conference showcasing results from the two large ERC and Carlsberg Foundation funded projects on the we that CFS has conducted since 2020.

The conference will be in the hybrid format. We hope to see many people in the audience, but the talks will also be live streamed (the link can be found in the box to the right).

Programme

Thursday 13 November

10:00

 Opening remarks

10:15

Dan Zahavi (CFS): “We-relationships: Their subjective and intersubjective preconditions”. Chair: Jelle Bruineberg.

11:15

Daniel Gyollai (CFS) & Line Ryberg Ingeslev (CFS): “Collective forgetting, memory work, and scales of identification”. Chair: Andrij Wachtel.

12:15

Lunch

13:15

Christopher Stephan (University of Texas at San Antonio) & Julia Zaenker: “Between Speaker and Listener”. Chair: Kasper Møller Nielsen.

14:15

Sarah Pawlett Jackson (University of London): “Reciprocal address beyond intersubjectivity proper?” with comments by Patrizio Lo Presti. Chair: Odysseus Stone. 

15:00

Break

15:15

Alessandro Salice (University College Cork): “Reinach on Social Acts and Uptake: A Defense” with comments by Felipe León (University of Lisbon). Chair: Søren Overgaard. 

16:00

Sabrina de Biasio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): “Gender Atmospheres: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Gender Collectives, Affectivity, and Constraint” with comments by Tris Hedges (University of Copenhagen). Chair: Laura Oppi. 

Friday 14 November

10:00

Mikko Salmela (University of Helsinki): “Emotional Dynamics of Anti- and Pro-Democratic Political Movements: An Empirically Informed Theory and Some New Empirical Evidence”. Chair: Lorenzo Posocco. 

11:00

Dominik Zelinsky (Slovak Academy of Sciences): "Looking Like a Leader: Charisma, Imitation, and We-ness". Chair: Sara Hainämaa.

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Thomas Szanto (Europa-Universität Flensburg): "Feelings of Belonging. An Asymmetric Reciprocity Account". Chair: Sophie Loidolt. 

14:00-16.45

Book Panel Session on Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology (OUP 2025). Chair: Patricia Meindl

Naomi Eilan (University of Warwick)

Bernard Yack (Brandeis University)

Arto Laitinen (Tampere University)

Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)

Dan Zahavi (CFS)

(15:00-15:15: Coffee break).

16.45-18.00

Reception