CGI Conference 2007

13-14 December 2007
Tilburg University, room CZ114

The theme of the conference is Institutions of Education: then and today. This theme is not only an adequate understanding of adulthood, but also the matter of in what institutional framework education to adulthood can be shaped. The tradition of German Idealism is taken up to reflect this problem. What demands, according this tradition, have to be met to enable a successful education? And what are the lessons of this approach for our time, which is characterized by multiculturality and a variety of educational institutions? Makes it still sense to assume that our society orients itself to one conception of adulthood? Does it still has educational institutions at its disposal that are supported by all?

The morning sessions of the conference are reserved for six inivited speakers, who share the philosophical background of German Idealism. They all try to elaborate a nowadays conception of (the institutions of) education, that is inspired by this tradition.

In the afternoon sessions, short papers will be presented. The duration of these lectures is 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion. A speaker of the Centre for German Idealism will close the day.

This conference is co-funded by:
Instituto Italiano per gli studi Filosfici, Napels
Radboudstichting
KNAW