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Conference Programme

4^th International Conference, Birmingham, U.K.  28^th July – 3^rd August 2002

Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Civic Society 

 The Conference programme  the conference was presented in two parts. 

Part A (Days 1 to 3) focused on key ethical questions facing our society addressing these through keynote presentations, workshops, paper and poster sessions and participative groups.

Part B (Days 4 to 6) focused on Socratic Dialogue and providing an opportunity to find out more about what Socratic Dialogue is, participate in Socratic Dialogue Groups, look at experiments with Socratic Dialogue and gain a deeper understanding of Socratic facilitation and methodology.

Find out about the 

• Key note speakers ( - Part A of the conference) 

• Workshops (Part A )

• Paper and Poster sessions (Part A)

• Socratic Dialogue Groups (Part B of the conference) One Day or Two Day

• Experiments and Socratic dialogue (Part B)

• Socratic facilitation and methodology (Part B)

Keynote Speakers

• Thomas Meyer (Chair of PPA), Professor of Politics at the University of Dortmund, Germany and Chair of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on “Renewing Democracy in an Era of Globalisation: the Role of Civil Society, Ethics and Citizen’s Dialogue”  

• Peter Rickman  (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, City University, London) Ugo Vlaisavljevic (Professor of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo)on  “Civic Society and Freedom”   Peter Rickman on "Autonomy versus Control:  Problems for a free society" and Ugo Vlaisavljevic on "The end of Scientific Ideologies and the Re-Socialisation of Universities"               

• Fernando Leal (SFCP Fellow, Professor of Social Science, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.): on "Ethics Economics and the Third Sector"

Plus

Video interview of Susie Miller (former Chair of PPA, retired Professor of German Labour History) by Pat Shipley (SFCP Fellow) “Historical and Political Aspects of the PPA”

 

Workshops

Our workshops looked at a wide variety of ethical themes from international issues, to those affecting children or concerned with the public sector or the nature of democracy, to those concerned with the ethics of dialogue itself. The presenters for this conference's workshops are drawn from all over the world from Japan to Bosnia and Herzegovinia.

 

	Dilemmas faced by the media in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina   Celia Hawkesworth (UK) &Senad Kamenica  (Bosnia and Herzegovina )
	Socratic Dialogue and Democratic Development in the Republic of Belarus Dimitri Kletschko (Republic of Belarus) &Ute Siebert (Germany)
	Single Issue Protest – An example from Japan Manae Kubota  (Japan) & Paul Penny (UK)
	Local-Level Strategies for Combating Roma Exclusion  Chris Taylor (UK)  & Jeanette Buirski (UK)
	Ethics in Dialogues with Children  Daniela Cahmy (Austria)
	Medical Ethics and Decision-making: Community Involvement in dealing with handicapped Children Helen Aveyard (UK) & Michael Strassburg (Germany)
	Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Education Emily Peterson (UK) &Karin Murris (UK)
	The Power and Potential of Young People in the Third Sector;Ethical Leadership in Community Programmes Judy Barker (UK) Dorothy Moir (UK) & Jenny Smedley (UK)
	Socratic Dialogue in the education of professionals who deal with offenders and prisoners   JØrg Finzel (Germany) & Horst Gronke (Germany)
	Hospitals in the Community:  Pastoral Care & Neo-Socratic Dialogue Margit Leuthold  (Austria) & Beate Littig (Austria)
	Altruism, Ethics, Reward and Remuneration: Dilemmas of the Third Sector  Dorothy Moir (UK) & Gisela Raupach-Strey (Germany)
	Socratic Dialogue and Medical Ethics Paolo Dordoni (Italy) & Stan Van Hooft  (Australia)
	Adult Education, Social Exclusion and Civics Keith Hammond  (UK) & Robert Hamilton (UK)
	Managing Democratically – from Cradle to Grave Jan Hodann  (Sweden)
	Democratic attitude and Socratic dialogue Dries Boele (Netherlands)
	Socratic Ignorance and the ‘non-intervention dogma’ Hans Bolten (Netherlands) & Kristof Van Rossem (Belgium)
	Philosophy for the Public  : A Critique of Dialogue in Philosophy, using a workshop method Gale Prawda (France) & Peter Rickman (UK)
	How does one deal with feelings in a Socratic Dialogue on feelings? Horst Gronke (Germany) & Lily Sparnaay (Netherlands)
	Islam and Dialogue with others in the Community Kerem Akbas (Turkey)Sabir Yücesoy (Turkey) &Yusef Karabulut (Turkey)
	Dialogue Workshops of Mind – a PUSH Project (Public Understanding of Sciences & Humanities)  Wolfgang Dinges (Germany) & Horst Gronke (Germany)