if you’re in Provence and like Fichte…

Unfortunately, I can’t tell from the announcement below whether the conference is in Aix or Marseille; the university seems to be located in both places.

It is often the case that European conferences are different from those in North America (with plenty of exceptions, of course). It is much more common in Europe to have conferences consisting of just a few dozen specialists, but with incredibly long daily schedules and unusually intense debate. That’s somewhat more rare in the U.S. A more typical American academic conference is very large, held in a hotel, and you find that you can sort of drift in and out of sessions anonymously, hang out in the lobby and chat with acquaintances you find there, blow off a whole half-day for tourism, and so forth.

By contrast, these small European conferences can be exhausting the first few times if you come from the American system and are shocked to end up in 10 hours of daily debate with intense people in small conference sessions, and then even more at dinner, over a period of half a week or more. (Cerisy is the most intense version of this phenomenon, of course, since there you are actually living with everyone on the same grounds for a whole week. I greatly enjoyed Cerisy, but as a gifted Canadian I know once put it: “Cerisy is part rural idyll, part feudal hell,” and though I wouldn’t go as far as the “feudal hell” part, there is enough truth there to make the remark funny.)

Le Département de philosophie de l’Université de Provence, l’Institut d’histoire de la philosophie de l’Université de Provence (EA 3276), l’ANR « subjectivite et alienation »

organisent :

Colloque Fichte
La Doctrine de la science de 1813.

Salle Noizet, 6ème étage, Université de Provence, Centre Schuman,
29, avenue Robert Schuman

Vendredi 8 octobre 2010

Matin
9 h Accueil
9 h 30 h Mário Jorge de Almeida Carvalho « Sein und Verstandensein de l’image »
10 h 15 Discussion
10 h 30 Alessandro Bertinetto « Die absolute Kraft des Bildens »
11 h 15 Discussion
11 h 30 Marco Ivaldo « L’‘image imageante’ : Sur la doctrine de l’image chez le dernier Fichte »
12 h 15 Discussion
12 h 30 repas

Après midi
14 h Jean-Christophe Goddard « Qu’est-ce qu’une doctrine de la science. La doctrine de la science de 1813 ».
14 h 45 Discussion
15 h M. Jiménez « Une image au-delà de l´existence »
15 h 45 Discussion
16 h Jacinto Rivera de Rosales « L’être du monde »
16 h 45 Discussion
17 h pause café
17 h 30 Discussion générale sur la journée

Samedi 9 octobre 2010

Matin
9 h Alexander Schnell « Savoir, conscience, image dans la WL 1813 »
9 h 45 Discussion
10 h Charles Theret : “L’objet sans objet”
10 h 45 Discussion
11 h Max Marcuzzi « Nous, la Doctrine de la science »
11 h 45 Discussion
12 h Discussion générale sur la matinée
12 h 30 Repas