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Conferences
Along with our sister organizations; the PPA and the Dutch Network of Socratic Facilitators; we organize regular International Conferences where we address and explore key current ethical debates.
Our next conference will be on the
27th - 31st JULY 2009
at the University of Chichester (with an optional Socratic Dialogue weekend 24th-26th)
on the topic of
LIVING TOGETHER IN OUR MODERN WORLD: Reason and the Role of Dialogue
Speakers
· Professor Jonathan Glover - Director Centre Medical Ethics Kings College London UK
· Dr. Dieter Krohn - PPA Germany
· Dr. Jos Kessels - The New Trivium Netherlands
· Professor Fernando Leal - University Guadalajara Mexico
· Dr. Beate Littig - Vienna Austria
· Professor Richard Norman - Emeritas Professor University of Kent
- Professor Petra von Morstein - Emeritas Professor Philosophy University Calgary Canada
For details on the last 5th International Conference click here.
Participants for our conferences come from all over the world: USA, Mexico, Norway, Demark, Finland, Sweden, Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Israel, Ukraine, Bosnia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Iran, Democratic Republic of Congo, Japan, South Korea, Australia
Map of the world showing the countries from which people have attended our conferences marked in purple
International Conferences 1996 - 2005
2005 Germany
The Challenge of Dialogue – Socratic Dialogue and Other Forms of Dialogue_in Different Political Systems and Cultures – a Global Perspective
This conference attracted a grant from the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)
120 participants from 22 countries worldwide
- Keynote Speakers: Dieter Birnbacher (Ge); Lou Marinoff (USA); Thomas Meyer (Ge); Petra von Morstein (Canada); Narahari Rao (Ge/France/India); Ugo Vlaisavljevic (Bosnia-Herzogovina); Anatoliy Yermolenko and Oksana Kisselyova (Ukraine)
- Panel discussion: ‘Prison Dialogues’ Jens Peter Brune (Ge), Peter Garrett (UK), Horst Gronke (Ge), Kristof van Rossem (Be)
- Panel Discussion: ‘Dialogue in different political and cultural contexts’ Stan van Hooft (Aus), Dieter Krohn (Ge), Narahari Rao, Toshiro Terada (Japan) and Ugo Vlaisavljevic
- 5 SD groups, 22 Members’ Papers, 12 Workshops
The Conference Proceedings are in preparation.
2002 UK
Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Civic Society
100 participants from 20 countries
- Keynote speakers from Germany, the UK, Mexico and Bosnia
- Interview of a historian of the German Labour Movement
- Paper sessions, a poster session on Post-Communist Countries
- 20 workshops and participative groups.
- 5 SD groups with facilitators from 4 countries, two groups dealing with Socratic facilitation and SD Methodology
Published Conference Proceedings: Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Civil Society (2004), ed. Patricia Shipley and Heidi Mason, LIT Verlag, Münster, Germany.
2000 Germany
Dialogue and Ethics
100 participants from 20 countries
- Seven SD groups with facilitators from Germany, UK, Belgium and The Netherlands.
- A variety of lecturettes, workshops, symposia and a poster session.
Published Conference Proceedings: Socratic Dialogue and Ethics (2005) ed. Jens Peter Brune and Dieter Krohn , LIT Verlag, Münster, Germany.
1998 The Netherlands
Socratic Dialogue at Work – The Dutch Experience
50 participants from 6 countries
- Part One: Socratic groups with facilitators from different countries
- Part Two: Workshops on the application of the Socratic Method to organisations and business including a Forum about SD
- Keynote Paper: Fernando Leal ‘The relation between Value Conflicts and Dialogue’ published in Occasional Working Papers in Ethics and the Critical Philosophy (OWPECP), Vol 2, April 2000, ed. Patricia Shipley, SFCP, London.
1996 UK
First International Conference on the Critical Philosophy
25 participants from 4 European countries.
- Keynote Speaker: Fernando Leal, Professor of Philosophy and Social Science, University of Guadalajara, Mexico. ‘The Future of the Critical Philosophy’ and
‘What is the Link between the Critical Philosophy and the Socratic Dialogue?’
- Socratic Dialogue Groups:
‘Are equality and liberty competing values?’ (German facilitator)
‘Are there unselfish acts?’ (Dutch facilitator)
‘In what circumstances have teachers the right and/or the duty to discipline their
students?’. (English facilitator)
Leal’s two papers were published in OWPECP, Vol 1, April 1998.
The Sixth International Conference will be hosted by SFCP in the summer of 2009