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II BRAGA COLLOQUIUM IN THE HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY “Lying and Hypocrisy in Politics and Morality” University of Minho, 12-13 January 2017 PROGRAMME
II BRAGA COLLOQUIUM IN THE HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“Lying and Hypocrisy in Politics and Morality”
University of Minho, 12-13 January 2017
PROGRAMME
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TIME
12 JANUARY, THURSDAY
9:00 – 10:15
REGISTRATION
ROOM Auditorium ILCH
10:15 – 10:30
Opening Remarks
João Cardoso Rosas
(Dean of the Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, University of Minho) Pedro Martins
(University of Minho)
10:30 – 12:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1. Lessons from the History of Moral and Political Philosophy (1/4) - Marios Fils (University of Exeter) “Morality and Politics as One: Plato’s Philosophical Experiment and its Paradoxes” - Sungwoo Park (Seoul National University) “Platonic Irony as a New Rhetoric: Lying and Hypocrisy for Democratic Deliberation in Athens” - Rachelle Bascara (Birkbeck College - University of London) “In Defense of Unintentional Hypocrisy”
2. Lessons from the History of Moral and Political Philosophy (2/4) - Albano Pina (Universidade da Beira Interior) “The Contingency of Politics and the Necessity of Hypocrisy in Machiavelli’s The Prince” - Arina Zaytseva (Central European University) “Lies and Deceit in «Processus Satanae contra genus humanum» of Bartolo da Sassoferrato” - Shreya Bhattacharya and Kankana Saikia (University of Dehli)
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- Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of East Anglia) “Experts or ‘Scaremongers’? True Discourse from Plato’s Parrhesia to Climate Change Deniers” Chair: Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)
“Political Pragmatism and Ethics: Contradiction or Complementarity? Exploring the Dynamics through Kautilya’s Arthashastra” Chair: Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH Sala investigadores CEHUM
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 16:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
3. Lessons from the History of Moral and Political Philosophy (3/4) - Diego Rubio (Oxford University) “Post-Truth Politics: The Invisible Decline from St Augustine to Mr Trump” - Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho) “Hume’s Virtuous Hypocrisy” - Benjamin Bourcier (Université catholique de Lille) “Truth and Utility: The Value of Lying and Political Hypocrisy?” Chair: Roberto Merrill (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH
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16:00 – 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 18:30
PARALLEL SESSIONS
4. Lessons from the History of Moral and Political Philosophy (4/4) - Eleonora Travanti (Philipps-Universität, Marbourg) “Should a Philosopher Really Believe in Eternal Punishments? Lessing’s Vindication of Leibniz’s Moral Hypocrisy” - Laura Herrero Oliveira (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) “Hypocrisy and Lies from the Point of View of the Kantian Use of Reason” - Cristiano Gianolla (University of Coimbra and Sapienza University of Rome) “Truth, Non-Violence and Purusharthas in Gandhi’s Democratic view. A current debate through the «epistemologies of the south»” Chair: Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho)
5. Lying and Hypocrisy, Political Dissatisfaction and Activism - Paulo Alexandre e Castro (Universidade do Minho) “The Big Bluff Phenomenon or How the Austerity Can Kill Your Dreams” - Gines Santiago Perles (Universidad católica de Valencia) “Trust and Loyalty as Antidotes to Political Disaffection” - Javier Gil and Mar Moro (Universidad de Oviedo) “Clearing Out the Squares: Some Difficulties for Getting Rid of Hypocrisy in the Political Activism” Chair: Bruno Pinheiro (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH Sala investigadores CEHUM
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TIME
13 JANUARY, FRIDAY
9:00 -11:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
6. Lying and Hypocrisy in the International Context - Michelle Bentley (Royal Holloway - University of London) “International Hypocrisy: Political Behaviour in the Absence of Morality” - Noemi Rocca (Universidade de Coimbra) “The Politicization of the Intelligence as Foreign Policy’s Practice in the US” - Benjamin Boudou (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religions and Ethnic Diversity) “Cosmopolitan Hypocrisy: Hospitality between Right, Beneficence and Conquest in the Modern Law Tradition” Chair: Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)
7. Lying and Hypocrisy, Theories and Cases (1/2) - Zeynep Gambetti (Bogazici University) “From Augustine to Austin: Politicizing the Definition of Lying” - Valentin Beck (Freie Universität Berlin) “Evaluating Corporate Hypocrisy” - Orlando Coutinho (Universidade do Minho) “The Truth is not for Everyone” Chair: João Ribeiro Mendes (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH Sala investigadores CEHUM 11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Auditorium ILCH Sala investigadores CEHUM
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11:30 – 13:30
8. Lying and Hypocrisy, Theories and Cases (2/2) - Giovanni Damele (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) “Argumentative Hypocrisy and Constituent Debates” - Martin Glick (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) “Expressive Theories of Law and Ethical Standards” Chair: Daniele Santoro (University of Minho)
9. Lying and Hypocrisy, Storytelling and Rhetoric
- Daniel Blanch (Saint Louis University, Madrid) “Transparency or Opacity in Ancient & Modern Political Life: Are Citizens to Be Truly Informed?” - Kathrin Bouvot (Universität Wien) “Lying as a Competence?” - Olivia Leboyer (I.E.P. Paris and Laboratoire Pacte, Grenoble) “The Role of Lies in the Construction of a National Identity” Chair: Giuseppe Ballacci (University of Minho)
13:30 – 15:00
LUNCH BREAK
15:00 – 17:00
PARALLEL SESSIONS
10. Lying and Hypocrisy in Democracy - Russel K. Bentley (University of Southampton) “Democratic Responses to Dirty Hands: Beyond Aristotle and Arendt” - Stephen M. Cooke (University of Leicester) “Democracy and Deterrence”
11. Lying and Hypocrisy in Moments of Crisis: Populism and Totalitarianism - Alexandru Manoli (Internacional Agency for Source Country Information) “The Battle of Evermore: Post-totalitarian Rituals and the Ethics of Antipolitics or about the Lessons Learnt from the Closed Societies of Eastern European Communism, Seen through
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- Daniele Santoro (University of Minho) “Lying, Secrecy and Democratic Accountability”
Chair: David Alvarez (University of Minho)
Vaclav Havel’s Lenses” - Zeynep Gambetti (Bogazici University) “Lying in Broad Daylight: Executive Performativity Unbound” - José Luis Ventura-Medina (Universidad Central de Venezuela) “Lies and Populism: What Europe can Learn from the Venezuelan Revolution” Chair: Pedro Martins (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH Sala investigadores CEHUM
17:00 – 17:15
COFFEE BREAK
17:15 – 18:45
PLENARY SESSION
Keynote Speech:
RUTH W. GRANT (Duke University) “Lying and Hypocrisy in Politics and Morality”
Chair: Pedro Martins (University of Minho)
Auditorium ILCH
