International workshop:
Inverted Mythologies: The Role of Political myths and populism from a bottom-up cross-disciplinary perspective

ワークショップ概要

Nippon Ishin no Kai in Japan, Bolsonaro in Brazil, AFD in Germany, the advance of so-called populist political movements is usually studied on the basis of how leaders construct manipulative rhetorics, which are normally called “political myths”. This workshop attempts to rethink this problem from the interdisciplinary perspective of philosophy, political science, sociology, and religion in order to understand how the “masses” or the “people” also construct their own narratives. That is to say, not how the political rhetorics are constructed on the side of the political marketing, but how the people also is active constructing their own “political myths”.

プログラム

Moderator: Nobuyuki MATSUI

9:45-10:00 　　Welcome words, presentation
10:00-11:00 　Panel 1: Masataka OKI, “Toward an Introspective Analysis of the Need for a Myth. Revisiting the Theories of
　　　　　　　 Imagination in Early Modern Political Thought”
11:00-12:00 　Panel 2: Dennis STROMBACK, “Populism ≠ Not Populism = Populism: Asserting Populism through Negating Populism from the Standpoint of El Pueblo”
12:00-13:00　 Lunch
13:00-14:00 　Panel 3: Nathaniel M. SMITH, “Martyrdom and Lionization of Activists on the Right in Japan”
14:00-15:00 　Panel 4: Lisa TORIO, “The Spirit of Abstraction and the ‘Mass Man’: Exploring the Possibilities and Limits of
　　　　　　　 Collective Movements Through Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy”
15:15-15:30 　Break
15:30-16:30 　Panel 5: Pedro ERBER, “Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Neoliberalism as Political Mythology”
16:30:17:30 　Panel 6: Hizumi KOMINE, 「お笑いとポピュリズム―TVディレクター・吉村誠の場合―」
17:30-18:30 　General Discussion

連絡先

https://sites.google.com/view/everydaynessresearchgroup/inicio
japanesephilosophy@outlook.com