Schedule
Day 1
June 15, 2022
Morning session
9:30–9:50
Kick-off for the Ontology of the Present
Speaker: NCKU Vice-president
9:50–11:00
Our times scanned from Immanuel Kant's lighthouse
Prof. Alain Brossat
11:00–11:50
Individual freedom as a fortress
Prof. Alain Naze
Lunch 12:00–13:00
Afternoon session
13:00–13:50
Despite all: epoch, gesture and destiny in times of digital protocol
Prof. Román Domínguez Jiménez
14:00–14:50
The challenges of Peace in the face of the new global armed bipolarity
Prof. José Ángel Ruiz Jiménez
15:00–15:50
Montage of techniques of power and "History of the present"
Prof. Tang Ming-jie
16:00–16:50
The Flood: a very ancient and current representation of catastrophe
Prof. Luca Salza
17:00–17:50
The world with no name
Prof. Julian Bejko
Day 2
June 16, 2022
Morning session
9:00–9:45
Ontology of the present, the presents and the common fast present
Prof. Humerto Góes
Panel: "Populism as a symptom of the present: the intersection of populism with nationalism and colonialism in Asia"
10:00–10:25
Articulating Populism in India
Dr. Fiza Vasudeva (co-author: Prof. Lin Shu-fen)
10:25–10:50
Populist and nationalist discourse in the dark social: A Philippine Case Study
Dr. Fernan Talamayan
10:50–11:15
Analyzing the present through the lens of populism and world hegemony
Dr. Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado
11:25–12:30
Panel Discussion
Lunch 12:30–14:00
Afternoon session
14:00–14:50
Borrowing from the Past to Describe (or to Satirize) the Present in Alluding to the Upcoming Event: A Genre Analysis in Ontology of the Present
Prof. Chu Yuan-Horng
15:00–15:50
The Other Struggle: towards a new world schema
Prof. Jon Solomon
16:00–16:50
Running Out of Time, Now
Prof. Diane Morgan
16:50–17:10
Closure
Alain Brossat and Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado