Symposium
Education and the Digital Forms of Life:
Questions of Risks, Necessities, and Potentialities
Gdynia, 14-16 September 2023

DRAFT PROGRAM

Thursday 14th of September 2023

09:00-14:30 – arrival of the participants to Gdańsk and Gdynia
16:00 – 16:15 meeting at the Main Entrance of the Polish Naval Academy (Śmidowicza street)
16:30 – 16:45 Welcome, housekeeping issues, and introduction to the Symposium
16:45 – 17:00 Welcome in the Polish Naval Academy and a few remarks on Polish philosophy: prof. Jerzy Kojkoł, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Naval Academy
17:00 – 18:00 Bianca Thoilliez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Preserving Analog Practices in the Digital Age of University Education: Compelling Arguments for a Continuing Struggle
18:00-18:15 Comfort break
18:15-19:15 Karsten Kenklies, University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom), Educating Automatons. Pedagogical Tact in the Age of the Script

Free time in the Gdynia Centre

Friday 15th of September 2023

Venue: Museum of the Polish Navy (Gdynia, Zawiszy Czarnego Street) = nearby the City Beach of Gdynia in the walking distance from the Hotel
10:00 – 11:00 Pia Rojahn, University of Wuppertal (Germany) Natality at Risk? On Hannah Arendt’s Educational Importance in a Digital Age
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Yotam Hotam, University of Haifa, (Israel) Youth, Technology and Education: Between Benjamin and Agamben
12:30 – 12:45 Comfort break
12:45 – 13:45 Joris Vlieghe, KULeuven, (Belgium) The demise of youth as intergenerational anomaly
13:45 – 16:00 Lunch break
16:00 – 17:00 Jesse Torenbosch, KULeuven, (Belgium) Youth Houses and Cinematic Education: Pla(y)ces of lingering distraction
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 19:45 Watching and discussing a film together
20:00 – 22:00 Invited dinner

Saturday 16th of September 2023

Venue: Kaschubian-Pomerania Society (Gdańsk: Straganiarska Street) = Gdańsk Old Town
09:00-09:15 Check out from the Hotel
09:15 – 10:00 AMW Bus takes the participants to the Venue
10:00 – 11:00 Marc Fabian Buck, University of Hagen (Germany) and Carlos Willatt, Universidad Autónoma de Chile (Chile), New wine into old wineskins? On the recurrence of anti-pedagogical ideas in digital education
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 Stefano Oliverio, Università di Napoli Federico II (Italy) and Piotr Zamojski, Polish Naval Academy (Poland), Towards an (im)mature response to the Digital. The democratic potentiality of (im)maturity revisited with Dewey and Gombrowicz
12:30 – 12:45 Comfort break
12:45 – 14:00 Closing of the Symposium
14:15 – 15:30 Lunch