Conference Program
Wednesday, February 6
Meeting in The Three Barista, Shaheed Park, at 6 pm
Thursday, February 7
The whole conference, except the last day, takes place in the Conference Center of GUST (W6-200).
A philosophy day exhibition can be admired in the same hall.
9h00: Registration starts in W6
10h00: Welcome speech by Prof. Ali Ansari, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Acting Vice President of GUST.
Plenary Session I
10h45-12h00
Elisabeth S. Kassab (Doha): “Abdelkebir el Khatibi against Unity”
Lunch
12h00-13h00
Session 1: 13h00-15h30
Cosmos and Unity
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (GUST): “The Return of Organic Unity in Contemporary Philosophy”
Andrei Zavaliy (AUK): “The Search for the Original Unity by the Early Greek Cosmologists: The Case of Anaxagoras”
Macro Zuccato (GUST): “Philosophy and Cosmology in Ninth to Twelfth Century Islam”
Coffee break around: 14h30
Evert Zweerde (Radbout U): “Limits of Metaphor – Vladimir Soloyov’s Organic Conception of Society and State in Comparative Perspective”
Hannes Schumacher (Humboldt U): “Pluralism = Monism: A Study of Deleuzian Dialectics”
Excursion to the Tareq Rajab Museum
Bus leaves at 15h30 from GUST!
Friday, February 8
Plenary Session II:
9h15-10h30
M.A.R. Habib (GUST/Rutgers): “Hegel and the Divine Unity in Islam”
Coffee break: 10h30-10h45
Session 2: 10h45-16h15
Continental/Comparative Philosophy
Dagmar Dotting (Vienna U): “Nothingness (mu 無) as a Place (basho 場所) of Nishida’s Pure Experience in his Process of Self-Imagination”
Ralf Müller (Hildesheim U): “The Becoming of Form and the Formlessness of Form: On Ernst Cassirer’s and Nishida Kitarō’s Concepts of “Organic Unity.”
Nicholas Mowad (Chandler-Gilbert Com. Col.): “Hegel on Unity and Cultural Particularity”
Lunch
12h15-13h15
Plenary Session III:
13h15-14h30
Arianne Conty (AUS): “The Unity of the Anthropocene”
Coffee break: 14h30-14h45
Session 3: 14h45-16h30
Unity and Totality
Ekram Kofiah (U North Dakota): “Exploring the Relationship Between our Bodies and the Environment”
Jean-Etienne Joullié (GUST): “Unity on Management Studies”
Kathleen Marshall Park (Boston University), Frederick H. Wallace (GUST): “Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility When Firms Globalize”
Martha Tryzna (GUST): “Language as a Tool for Totalitarian Control: A Sociolonguistic Perspetive”
Saturday, February 9
Arab Philosophy
Session 4: 9h15-11h15
Room: W1-010
Salah Addine Arkadan (GUST): “Tawhid of Allah and the Unity of People”
Gavin Wilson (GUST): “Immediacy and (dis)unity out of the later life of Abduh: The shifting focus of the filmic ECU”
Catarina Belo (AUC Cairo): “The Arguments for God’s Oneness and Unity in Alfarabi’s The Virtuous City”
Francesco Omar Zamboni (Pisa U): “Avicenna on Unity, Substantiality and Wholeness”
Coffee break: 11h15-11h30
Plenary Session IV
11h30-12h45
Michael J. Sauter: “The Spatial Reformation, 1350-1850.”
End of conference
Meeting in Souk Mubarak at 6h30