Good Conversation Centre: Cultural diversity. Is community possible? | Open Oxford Debate

The idea of the Oxford debates is based on a factual, structured discussion (between two teams), but also on an – almost sporting – competition. The aim of the “duel” is to prove or disprove a particular thesis.

“Cultural diversity. Is community possible?” – is a debate that will take up a thesis on one of the major challenges of today: migration. The discussion will address the stereotypes associated with it and how to think about them in the context of a future world full of anxiety.

The very nature of the debates has an educational purpose. Importantly – as the young people say – we value good, substantive conversation. We avoid populism. We want to show how issues of contemporary relevance can be discussed. .

Andrzej Leder is among the invited guests who will be the expert voice accompanying the young people. The jury will include Anna Jurek, Natan Chwalewski and Michał Adamiak.

The event is co-organised by the Stowarzyszenie Dialogu Młodzieży and teenagers from schools in Łódź.

Bio

Andrzej Leder – philosopher, habilitated doctor, professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he is also a psychotherapist. His research interests include the philosophy of culture, including phenomenology, and the philosophical understanding of the category of individual destiny, the psychology of the individual in the perspective of time. He has published a philosophical treatise: “Freud’s Science in the Age of “Sein und Zeit””, a thesis on Polish history: “Sleepwalking the Revolution. An Exercise in Historical Logic”, dissertations on philosophical ideas in 20th century Europe: „Scratch on the Glass”, “Once Upon A Time, Postmodernism”, a book that undertakes a philosophical analysis of the languages of economics: “Economics is a State of Mind. An Exercise in the Semantics of the Language of Economics”. He teaches at the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR) IFiS PAN and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He lives in Warsaw.