Workshop 

Returning to Ordinary Life.

Normativity, Temporality and the Everyday

12th and 13th October 2023

 International Research Network Norms of Life (NOVI), CNRS

Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne
Centre de philosophie contemporaine

Centre Lourcine, 1 rue de la Glacière, espace Gisèle Halimi, bâtiment 1 

12 October,  2023

10h Opening: Sandra Laugier, Estelle Ferrarese

Session 1 Chair: Sandra Laugier (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

10h15 Anne Gonon (Doshisha University)
The internally displaced woman after Fukushima nuclear plant disaster

11h15 Mona Khneisser (University of Illinois)
Recovering the Ordinary amidst Crisis & Collapse in Lebanon

12h15 Pierre Fasula (ISJPS)
An inevitable but impossible return to ordinary life. Jean Améry and the contradictions of resentment

Session 2 Chair: Estelle Ferrarese (UPJV, IUF)

14h  Anne Lovell (INSERM)
Living the after: end-of-world experiences and the ordinary of madness after disaster

15h Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University)
Making a neighborhood conflict: domestics, police, documents, and injury

13 October,  2023

Session 3 Chair: Sofia Miguens (University of Porto, Visiting Prof. ISJPS)

10h Sandra Laugier (ISJPS) 
The ordinary and the everyday

11h Piergiorgio Donatelli (La Sapienza) 
Rethinking the domestic

12h00 Emmanuel Nardon (UPJV)
The state of love and the transfiguration of ordinary life

Session 4 Chair: Perig Pitrou (CNRS-LAS-Maison française d’Oxford)

14h30 Marie Gaille (CNRS) and Agathe Camus (Université Paris Cité, SPHERE)
How can you mend a broken pace? Chronic condition and the discreet continuous reinvention of life

15h30 Estelle Ferrarese (UPJV, IUF) 
Sobbing. A breach in the flow of time.

16h30 Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Aashi Mehndipara (Johns Hopkins University)
What Makes an Epidemic Real? Public Enactments, and the Desire to Get By

Friday, May 24th, 9h30-13h00
Collège de France, Amphithéâtre Budé
11 place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris 5e

Welcome by the organizers Sandra Laugier and Perig Pitrou

I. 9h45-11h30 Detail as Method
Perig Pitrou, CNRS - Collège de France - Université PSL, When Details Reveal the Presence of Non-
Human Agents
Frédérique Ildefonse, CNRS - ENS, The Patience of the Detail
Marco Motta, Johns Hopkins University, Details in a Minor Key

II. 11h45-13h00 The Politics of Details
Estelle Ferrarese, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, CURAPP, Adorno’s Micrological Gaze
Emily Apter, Micropolitics of Safety/salut public: Thinking and Living with Philosophical Untranslatables

III. 14h00-15h45 Ordinary Details
Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Details of Language and Details of the Mind
Bhrigupati Singh, Brown University, Detail as a Bridge between Everyday and Metaphysical Shores
Albert Ogien, CNRS - EHESS, Awareness of Details

16h00-17h30 Chair : Claude Imbert, ENS
Carlo Severi, CNRS - EHESS, Wittgenstein, Political Discourse and the Anthropology of Communication
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, On Absence: The Mutual Vulnerability of Concepts and Experience

17h30-18h00 Discussion Baptiste Cornardeau, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Yves Erard, Université de Lausanne, Paola Marrati, John Hopkins University

Saturday, May 25th, 9h30-13h30
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris, salle 216, 2e étage

V. 9h30-11h15 Details of Dying – and of Living
Fabien Provost, Université Paris Nanterre, (Anatomic) Details-In-Use:
Obscure Autopsies and the Classification of Deaths in India
Anne M. Lovell, INSERM - CERMES, Endings
Lotte Buch Segal, University of Edinburgh, Details of an Ordinary Grief

VI. 11h30-12h45 Experiencing Details
Andrew Brandel, Harvard University, Detail in our Dreams:
Some Thoughts on Animism from Borges, Le Guin and Cavell
Claire Brunet, ENS Saclay, The Visual Experience of the Details

12h45 General Discussion

Welcome and opening remarks, Piergiorgio Donatelli, Estelle Ferrarese

Sandra Laugier (Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne): Lives and the City: TV Fiction and Urban Forms of Life

AnthonyPecqueux (CNRS, CRESSON, Grenoble):A Sensitive Day in Bed-Stuy: How to Do the Right Thing?

Alexandra Richter (Université de Rouen): Morphology of Urban Forms and Lives: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project

Antonio Valentini (La Sapienza Università di Roma), Sens, vie et métropole: Quelques hypothèses de travail à partir de la lecture de Baudelaire

Piergiorgio Donatelli (La Sapienza Università di Roma):The Moral Experience of the City

Estelle Ferrarese (Université de Picardie Jules-Verne): Urban Form, Rational Lives. Los Angeles in Adorno’s Minima Moralia

MatthieuAmat (Université de Lausanne):In What Sense has a Form of Life a Content? The Case of “Urban Form of Life” in Simmel

Bhrigupati Singh (Brown University): Can a Neighborhood Fall Sick?

Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University): A Commemoration: Intimacy and Estrangement in Neighborhood Life

Sarin Marchetti (La Sapienza Università di Roma): The Uses of the City

Pierre Sauvetre (Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre): The Commune as a Form of Life in Common: from Aristotle to the ZAD

Stefano Velotti (La Sapienza Università di Roma): Urban Forms and Forms of Life: an Ethico-aesthetic Perspective

AVOIDANCE AND APPEARANCE OF CHILDHOOD

Workshop Schedule

Day 1: 26th November, Sunday

Panel 1: Avoidance of the Child 10:00 - 12:00 A.M

Orna Ophir (New York University)
Precocity, Pseudo-Maturity, and the Model-Child: Psychoanalytic Thoughts on the Avoidance of Childhood

Perig Pitrou (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Ritual for Children and The Emergence of a New Center of Activities in some Amerindian Societies

Estelle Ferrarese (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
Forms of life as coagulations in a very material sense - Some thoughts on the polyphony of current uses of the idea of form of life

Lunch Break: 12:00 A.M - 1 P.M

Panel 2: Shadow of the child 1:00 - 2:30 P.M

Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
A Child Comes into View: Fragments of Memory

Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Founding fathers, found children

Coffee Break: 2:30 - 2:45 P.M

Panel 3: Child’s Voice

2:45 - 4:45

Clara Han (Johns Hopkins University)
Learning Korean, Learning Kinship: Betrayal and Belonging in Language

Andrew Brandel (Harvard University) German, Again: Mother tongues, child tongues

Yves Erard (Université de Lausanne)
Children’s claim and the Transmission of Language

Anne Eakin Moss (Johns Hopkins University) Child’s Play and Soviet Wonder

4:45 - 5:00 P.M
Hent De Vries (Johns Hopkins University/New York University) Final Remarks

Day 2: 27th November, Monday

Panel 4: Scenes of Learning 10:00 A.M - 12:00 P.M

Marco Motta (Johns Hopkins University)
The Adjacent World of Adults. Children witnessing parental decay in The Sound and the Fury

Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins University) Learning and Knowing

Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma) Initiation and Education: Wittgenstein, Cavell and Children

Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00 P.M 

From the 1980s on, a number of objections have been leveled against the still-dominant paradigm of moral theory in moral philosophy focusing mainly on the development of prescriptive, universalist theories, often independently of our ordinary social and natural contexts. Such criticism and new perspectives in ethics trod different paths. Representatives of the Wittgensteinian tradition, pragmatism, virtues ethics, care ethics, and critical theory each offered different diagnoses of and suggestions to this dominant tradition. In particular, it has been variously voiced the concern for the feasibility and opportunity of “top down” approaches to moral theory, which in its three components (meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics) has progressively eroded the scope as well as the very relevance of ordinary moral life, exasperating the role and weight of prescriptive theorizing in ethics, according to which the role of philosophy would be that of dictating particular solutions to the various problems afflicting ordinary life.

Against this picture, the centrality of first person moral experience and personal relationships has been vindicated, commencing, in so doing, a new course for moral philosophy altogether. According to these heterodox positions, moral philosophy should assist and ameliorate the moral life by thinking itself anew as one practice among others, rather than as a theoretical device operating from above the thread of human activities and practices as well as from above the yet more comprehensive thread of vital and social coexistences of which non-human animals, environments, and social and economical processes are an integrant part.

The conference aims at articulating these lines of research, showing at the same time the connections and trades between these different alternative contemporary ethical traditions.

The event is organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli and Anne-Marie Christensen.

PROGRAM
Thursday, 14 – The Danish Academy in Rome

9:15-9:45 Registration and coffee
9.45-10.00 Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza) and Anne-

Marie Christensen (USD)

Opening Remarks

10.00-11.00 Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Academi)

Absolutely Personal: Ethics out of Swansea

11.00-12.00 Anne-Marie Christensen (SDU)

How is Moral Philosophy Practical?

12.00-12.30 coffee break 12.30-13.30 Sandra Laugier (Paris 1)

Ethics and the Perception of Importance

13.30-14.30 lunch

14:30-15:30 Silver Bronzo (Moscow)

Moral Perfectionism and the Enlightenment in

Stanley Cavell and Pier Paolo Pasolini

15.30-16.30 Caterina Botti (Sapienza)

Revisiting Care Ethics as an Ethics for Present

Times

16:30-17 coffee break
17.00-18.00 Estelle Ferrarese (Université de Picardie)

Adorno’s Vulnerable Moral Agent

Friday, 15 – Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma

09.30-10.30 Danielle Petherbridge (UCD)

Recognition and Ethical Responsiveness

10.30-11.30 Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza)

Perfectionism and Virtue

11.30-12.00 coffee break
12:00-13.00 Sarin Marchetti (Sapienza)

Therapy and Transformation in Pragmatist Ethics

13.00-14.00 lunch

14.00-15.00 Nora Hämäläinen (Pardubice)

A Case for Moral History – Universality and

Change in Ethics after Wittgenstein

15.00-16.00 Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Academi)

What's So Particular About Morality?

16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.30 Oskari Kuusela (East Anglia)

Wittgenstein and the Unity of Good

17:30- 18:30 James Conant (University of Chicago)

TBA

18:30-19.00 Concluding remarks