Being we

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

Program

Thursday 13 November

10:00

Opening remarks

10:15

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

11:15

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

12:15

Lunch

13:15

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

14:15

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

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)

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)

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”

11:00

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

12:00

Lunch

13:00

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

14:00 – 16.45

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

Naomi Eilan (University of Warwick)

Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)

Bernard Yack (Brandeis University)

Arto Laitinen (Tampere University)

Dan Zahavi (CFS)