3 February 15:00-17:00, Porcelænshaven 20, PHR120

Professor Simonetta Carbonaro

The Design of Prosperity; on aesthetics and welfare leadership

Simonetta Carbonaro is professor of humanistic marketing and design management at the department for textiles technology and fashion design at the Borås University College in Sweden. Apart from lecturing and supervising research she is a distinguished expert on strategic design and a senior brand management advisor to companies such as Alessi, Fiorucci and Patagonia, retailers as IKEA, Migros, La Rinascente or COOP Italia, and Walmart USA. For more than 15 years she has been a member of DARC, the research center of the postgraduate design school Domus Academy in Milan. Professor Carbonaro's notion of design stretches far beyond the traditional boundaries of industrial design. Because of her provocative and critical approach towards marketing, she has been recently defined as the "Cassandra of modern and post-modern marketing failures". She actually carries out research in the area of consumer ethos and behavior, forecasting the directions consumer culture is moving in. Her current interest is focused on how creativity and a new aesthetics of ethics can generate social change, new entrepreneurship besides challenging corporations to redefine their role towards society. In her lecture she will address such issues and introduce her most recent programme: "The Design of Prosperity", a "think‐and-act-tank" focused on socio-cultural forces influencing new cultural movements, driving economic changes, fostering new ways of life and styles of thought.

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25 February 15:00-17:00, Solbjerg Plads 3, SP201, Danske Bank aud.

Professor Daniel Birnbaum

Managing Vision - towards a Curating Paradigm in Philosophy

Professor Daniel Birnbaum is a writer, philosopher and curator. He is the director of the Städelschule Art Academy and its Portikus Gallery, both in Frankfurt am Main. He is the founder (with Isabelle Graw) of the Insitut für Kunstkritik, and a member of the board of Frankfurt’s Institut für Sozialforschung. He has published numerous books on art and philosophy. Together with Christine Macel he organized ‘Airs de Paris’ at the Centre Pompidou that celebrated the institution’s 30th anniversary in 2007. He was a co-curator of the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and Director of the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. All his undertakings have a managerial dimension be it as the fundraising head of an Art School or the director of big temporal projects as Biennales. But to what extent can the curating enterprise be a more general model of action?

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11 March 15:00-17:00, Porcelænshaven, PH407

Professor Bengt Kristensson Uggla

Managerial Action and Interpretation - Hermeneutics revisited

Bengt Kristensson Uggla is holding the Amos Anderson chair in philosophy, culture and management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. A series of essays on the actual status of hermeneutics has just been published by Contiuum Books "Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization." In his doctoral dissertation from 1994, "Communication at the bursting-point," Bengt presented a reading of the oeuvre of Paul Ricoeur from the 30s to the 90s from a communicative perspective. Since his best-selling book "The Battle on the Real" (Slaget om verkligheten: filosofi, omvärldsanalys, tolkning) in 2002, he has published numerous of articles aiming to bringing hermeneutics into the realm of global management and economy. Before taking up his current academic position Bengt was dean of one of the most established executive education in Northern Europe, Swedish Institute of Management, among other things he is also the head of the Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe ( www.nurope.eu ). How is the struggle for defining “reality” and the managerial consequences of such an undertaking to be understood in terms of hermeneutics?

22 April 15:00-17:00, Porcelænshaven, PHR120

Professor Francois Dosse

Philosophie et Société en France aujourd’hui Philosophy and Society in France today)

Francois Dosse is one of leading historians of contemporary French philosophy. Amongst his first contribution is a two volume work on the French structuralist and poststructuralist philosophers. He then published several philosophical biographies of e.g. Michel de Certeau, Paul Ricoeur and, most recently, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. In the book “The Empire of Meaning” he poses the much relevant question; what comes after post-structuralism? In this volume Dosse offers a challenging overview of actual tendencies in social philosophy that indicate how studies of organizations, technology and management ( of kind practiced e.g. at CBS) have turned into sources of inspiration for innovative attempts to break out of the theoretical anti-humanism of the end of last century. How could management research influence philosophy? The lecture will be given in French with simultaneous translation.

11 May15:00-17:00, Porcelænshaven, PHRs20

Professor Hans Ruin

Past´s Present; on the history in contemporary consciousness

Hans Ruin gained his PhD in theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University 1994, with a dissertation on Heidegger, Enigmatic Origins. Tracing the Theme of Historicity through Heidegger’s Works. Since 1999 connected to Södertörns Högskola, with responsibility for shaping its Continental Philosophy program. Main research interests are Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Nietzsche, Modern French Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy. Has published the anthology Fenomenologiska perspektiv (with Aleksander Orlowski, 1997), and a commented edition of Herakleitos Fragment (with Håkan Rehnberg, 1997), and Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation (with Dan Zahavi and Sara Heinämaa, 2003). Coeditor for the Swedish edition of Nietzsche’s Collected Writings. Hans is a member of the editorial board of the journals Sats, Hermeneutische Jahrbuch, Yearbook for Phenomenology, and coeditor of the series Södertörn Philosophical Studies. Swedish board member of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology . He has translated to Swedish Derrida’s Origin of Geometry and Schibboleth (with Aris Fioretos). He recently received a national grant for exploring “past´s presence” the transformation of historical consciousness in our times. As MPP has an important group doing business history and as, in consequence, the topic of links between narration and action are actual we look forward to this encounter.