University of Helsinki
The Future of Political Community: Beyond Universalism and Particularism
Friday December 10
Place: Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki (address: Arkadiankatu 7)
13.15 Opening remarks
13.30 Keynote talk:
- Veronique Pin-Fat: “In Defence of Universality.”
15.00 Break
15.15 Panel 1:
- Sergei Prozorov: “Politics of the Void: Rethinking the World Community.”
- Susanna Lindberg: “Lacking a Future World.”
- Ari Hirvonen: “Europe: A Universal Community?”
16.45 Break
17.00 Panel 2:
- Mika Ojakangas: “A Political Community of Whosoever.”
- Paul-Erik Korvela: “What’s so international in International Relations”
- Markku Koivusalo: “Michel Foucault and the Singular Political Experience of the Universal Man.”
19:30 Dinner
Saturday December 11
Place: University Main Building, University of Helsinki, seminar room XIII (address: Unioninkatu 34)
09.15 Keynote talk:
- Louiza Odysseos: “Community, Tradition and Critical Belonging in Heidegger’s early Thought: Inspiration from an unlikely Source?”
10.45 Panel 3:
- Jussi Backman: “The Dangers and Possibilities of a Politics of Singularity: Heidegger and Arendt.”
- Timo Miettinen: “Universalism as an Infinite Task.”
- Sofia Anna Näsström: “Justifying Who ‘We, the People’ Are.”
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Round table discussion