Program

Cash refund (for participants that arrived Oslo by other transport than Airport Express train etc.)

For the students: Students sign up at the info stand for 2 out of 5 different seminars Friday afternoon. One A-seminar (16.00 – 17.20) and one   B-seminar (17.40-19.00). (See student program: Friday, 15.30 – 19.00)                                                                                        

Welcome by the Organizing Committee

Buffet dinner.

Jazz music by Foss High School musicians

Plenum photo session in front of OHG

Presentation of all the  delegations

NB: Last opportunity for cash refund (for participants that arrived Oslo by other transport than Airport Express train etc.)

09.00 – 09.30 Thor Grødal: Questions and answers : Limits of Freedom; personal philosophical reflections.                              

09.30 – 09.40 Info on May 17th incl. parade + questions regarding seminars May 18th  

09.40 – 10.10 Student groups: Sharing experiences and thoughts regarding philosophy and national identity 

10.1 0 – 10.30 Plenum discussion. Moderator: Kristine Næss, Youth committee

09.00 – 09.20 Ricardo Pozzo (FISP committee) On teaching philosophy in schools.                                                              

09.20 – 09.50 Groups: Sharing experiences from teaching philosophy/ IPO selections.                                                      

09.50 – 10.20 Plenum discussion.                                              

10.20 – 10.30 Olav and Thor: 17th of May in Norway

a) For everybody: Follow Olav&Thor to Stortorget (in front of the main church in Oslo):12.00 Joining Foss High School  in the parade   – Participating  in the 17th of May Paradefrom Stortorvet, through Karl Johan Street, in front of the King’s family at the castle, to Rådhusplassen (City Hall).

b) Teachers only: Watching the parade in front of the King’s Palace  (We have 25 tickets. Hand-out: Olav 10.30. Guide: Eli Engløk)         

c) For the rest: Watching the celebration and parade by walking around in the city center on your own.

                                                                                             15:00 OHG, Hall/ Aula, ground floor. Olav: Info on where you will be seated during the essay writing.                                                

15.30-19:30 Essay writing at OHG                                           

16.00 -16.30 Lecture by prof. University of Oslo Nina Witoszek: The Limits of Freedom: 17th of May, Norwegian National Identity and Multiculturalism.                                                                       

16.30 – 16.50 Questions/ discussions regarding national identity and multiculturalism.                                                                         

17.10 – 19.30 Meeting in the Int. Committee + Steering Board.  International Jury welcome to attend (at OHG Aud 3)Click here to see the Agenda

NB: Last chance for students to sign up for 2 out of the 5 different seminars given in the afternoon, one A-seminar (16.00 -17.20) and one B-seminar (17.40 – 19.00) . (See student program: Friday, 15.30 – 19.00)

09.00 – 09.30 Joakim Hammerlin (Nansen-school): Terrorism and state surveillance.                                                                

09.30 – 10.00 Group discussion.                                             

10.15 – 10.45 Olav Elgvin (FAFO) :Religion within the bounds of (tolerant/ intolerant?) secular society.                                    

10.50 – 11.20 Group discussion.                                            

11.30 – 12.00 John Crowley (UNESCO): Multiculturalism and universal rights; between right-wing monocultural nostalgia and left-wing naive relativism.                                                     

12.10 – 12.40 Group discussions.                                            

12.40 – 13.15 Plenum debate on all three talks (Chair: Ida Olsen & Kristine Næss: Youth Committee)

09.00-10.20 Org. Com/IPO veterans:  Info on essay evaluation  

09.20 – 10.20 Essay evaluation workshop: Case essays (OHG, Aud 3 or at the hotel)                                                                

10.30 -13.15  (OHG auditorium 3 + hotel rooms)                

Evaluation of IPO – round 1 Int. jury works in groups of four people, each group grading 5-6 essays. Grades/marks to be given to org.com/Thomas Brehlin at Aud. 3 individually, with signature.  

16.00 – 17.20  and 17.40 – 19.00: Seminar/workshops  at 5 different class rooms on the ground floor OHG.                 

Each student attends 2 out of  5 parallel seminars which each last max 80 min. All seminars are repeated once, which is why you can choose two. (Student-groups are set up in advance at Hotel IPO Info desk in the morning 17th or 18th.) Max 16 pr. group.                            

A1/ B1 (Room 104, ground floor):Øyvind Olsholt (BUF): Limits of Freedom: Doing a philosophical dialogue on freedom here and now.                                                                                     

A2/ B2 (Room 105, ground floor):Camilla Serch-Hanssen (UiO) : Limits of Freedom: (In)justice, right and wrong: How to know? 

A3/ B3 (Room 106, ground floor): Jakob Elster (UiO): Limits of Freedom: Did my neurons make me do it?

A4/B4 (Room 107, ground floor): Lars Fr. Svendsen (UiB/Civita): Limits of Freedom: Evil

A5/ B5 (Room 108, ground floor): John Crowley (UNESCO): Limits of freedom: The (mis)use of science.

Structure of the A and B seminars: 30 minutes lecture + 20 minutes of student group work related to the lecture. then 30 minutes questions/ discussion chaired by lecturer

International Jury: Continuation of essay evaluation  

Lecture by Morten Zondag: Munch and existentialist philosophy

Media Students, Ullern High School: Pictures from IPO Oslo 2012.

Henrik Syse (PRIO): The Limits of Freedom.

Cultural performance by music students from Foss High School: 6 guys and a black 1.

Vice chancellor University of Oslo Inga Bostad + FISP: Diplomas, medals.

15 minutes walk back to the hotel

(IC: urgent matters?)