Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
1:10pm – 2:05pm Presentation by Alexandra Colligs on Critical Theory and the Redemptive Critique of Reason
2:10pm – 3:05pm Presentation by Niklas Lämmel on Unleashed Thinking, Alienated Non-Thinking: Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism
3:05pm – 3:25pm Coffee Break
3:30pm – 4:25pm Presentation by Sebastian Tränkle on Aesthetic Self-Formation. Towards a Materialist Theory of Decadence
4:30pm – 5:25pm Presentation by Isolda Mac Liam on Possibility Gets a Slap in the Face: Removing the ‘Stepchild Among the Categories’ from the Custody of Hegel with Adorno and Bloch
5:35pm – 5:55pm Final comments from speakers
5:55pm – 6:00pm Concluding Remarks by Peter E. Gordon