Luhmann Conference 2020 on “Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory”
Venue: Inter University Center, Don Frana Bulića 4 (2nd floor, room 5)
Dates: 15-18 September 2020
Impressions from the Luhmann Conference 2020
Conference programme
TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER
13.30-14.00 Opening Session and Introductory Notes
Chairs: Gorm Harste, Steffen Roth
14.00-16.00 Session 1
- Gorm Harste: Law and Morality. The Luhmann/Habermas controversy and its aftermath. (Paper)
- Leon Conrad: Roots, Shoots, Fruits: The direct influence of J M Robertson’s work on George Spencer-Brown’s work and its indirect influence on Niklas Luhmann’s work. (Paper) (Video)
Chair: Lars Clausen
16.00–16.30 Break
16.30-18.30 Session 2
- Emer Hunt: The problem with values: identifying the values within the observation of problems. (Paper)
- Jacob A. Miller, Matthew R. Sanderson: Reading in sociological evolutionary theory and Peters’ communication’s chasm to Niklas Luhmann’s (1989). Ecological Communication to examine mainstream environmentalism’s moral codes. (Paper)
Chair: Gorm Harste
19.00 Dinner
WEDNESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER
09.00-11.00 Session 3
- Jörg Räwel: An allergy of society. Concerning the question of how a social “lockdown” has become possible. (Paper)
- Jesper Tække: Systems theoretical observations of the media panic debate. (Paper)
Chair: Markus Heidingsfelder
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.30 Session 4
- Lars Clausen: A Moral Cross? (Video)
- Kresimir Zazar: Fighting the Virus, Hunting the Witches. Moralizing within the Public Discourses during the Corona Pandemic in Croatia. (Slides) (Video)
Chair: Jesper Tække
13.30-16.00 Break
16.00-18.00 Session 5
- Nicholas Weaver: Escalating complexity and fragmentation of mental health services: the influence of recovery as a form of moral communication. (Paper)
- Klaus Brønd Laursen: The productive force of moral communication in the functional differentiated society.
Chair: Margit Neisig
19.00 Dinner
THURSDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER
09.00-11.00 Session
Markus Heidingsfelder: Outrage/Exclusion Culture: The Transformation of Morality.- Steffen Roth: The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet. (Slides 80MB) (Slides 9MB) (Paper)
Chair: Ilaria Riccioni
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.30 Session 7
Kristof Van Assche, Gert Verschraegen, Vladislav Valentinov, Monica Gruezmacher: Transparency, opacity and morality in governance.- Ilaria Riccioni, Luca Diotallevi: Radical Modernity and its Casualties. Are art and religion going to end up “missing in action”? (Slides)
Chair: Krešimir Žažar
15.00 Excursion to Konavle (including late lunch/early dinner) A
FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER
09.00-11.00 Session 8
- Kurt Rachlitz, Benjamin Grossmann-Hensel: Moral Communication And Organization.
- Jan Winczorek: Moral communication and legal uncertainty in small and medium enterprises. (Slides)
Chair: Lars Clausen
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-13.30 Session 9
- Margit Neisig: The fragile system-environment relation, moral or ethical heuristics, higher order autopoiesis and sophisticated digital tools: May nature, digital and social systems couple in a circular economy? – Blind spots, paradoxes and deparadoxation. (Paper)
- Ayumi Higuchi: On the symmetry of moral codes. (Paper)
Chair: Klaus Brønd Laursen
13.30-14.00 Break
14.00-15.00 Session 10
- Markus Heidingsfelder: Outrage/Exclusion Culture: The Transformation of Morality.
Chair: Kresimir Zazar
15.00-15.30 Final Discussion / Closing Session
Chairs: Gorm Harste, Steffen Roth