BERLIN WORKSHOP ON SPEECH AND HARM
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
BERLIN WORKSHOP ON SPEECH AND HARM
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023

Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on speech and harm from a wide range of career stages, disciplines, and intellectual traditions.


Free and open to all, but you must register below! 

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Important Note on Workshop Location

Registration & Building Access

  • Sunday we will meet in TU's Main Building H2051 (@ Straße des 17. Juni 135). Pre-registration is required for this day for TU to grant you building access. If you have not received confirmation of registration by Thursday 10 July, then we were not able to clear you for building access. Apologies!
  • Monday we will meet in Fraunhoferstraße FH420 (@Fraunhoferstraße  33–36). Pre-registration is still required so that we do not exceed the seating limitations of our room. 

Schedule :: 13 July, 2025

Location: Technische Universität Berlin

Main Building H2051

Straße des 17. Juni 135

10623 Berlin, DE

Format

Each session will have 45 minutes for presentation,  25 minutes for discussion.

16:00–16:10 Welcome, Quill R Kukla (Georgetown/Leibniz Universität Hannover)

16:10–17:20 Willow Starr (Cornell)

Title: "Connected Strangers:  scripting interactive injustice"

Chair: Quill R Kukla

17:30–18:50 Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin)

Title: "Informational Injustice and the Failure to Speak Up"

Chair: Elin McCready

19:00: Reception & Dinner

Cafe Hardenberg

Hardenbergstraße 10, 10623 Berlin

(Everyone is welcome, and everyone is responsible for their own expenses.)




Schedule :: 14 July, 2025

Location: Technische Universität Berlin

Fraunhoferstraße FH420

Fraunhoferstraße  33–36

10623 Berlin, DE

Format

Each session will have 45 minutes for presentation,  25 minutes for discussion.

9:45–10:00 Coffee & Welcome, Willow Starr (Cornell)

10:00–11:10: Caro Flores (UC Santa Cruz)

Title: "Calling Trauma:  elite capture and hermeneutical injustice"

Chair: Quill R Kukla

11:20–12:30: Eliot Michaelson (Kings College London)

Title: "Lying and Other Crap Moral Concepts"

Chair: Lauren Lyons

12:30–14:00: Lunch

Participants will organize into smaller groups and visit one of the many nearby restaurants. 

14:00–15:10: Heather Burnett (Paris Cité) & Marie Flesch (Paris Cité)

Title: "The Role of Social Meaning in the Online Gender Paradox"

Chair: Nico Orlandi

15:20–16:30: Emil Eva Rosina (Ruhr-Bochum)

Title: “Fearing each other’s meanings: Lexical pluralism and hierarchies of class and neurotype”

Chair: Willow Starr

16:40–17:50: Quill R Kukla (Georgtown/Leibniz Universitat Hannover)

Title: "Placing Speech: the ethics and politics of speaking and space" 

Chair: Elin McCready

17:50–18:00: Wrap Up, Elin McCready (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

About

Who

What

What

This workshop is organized by Quill R Kukla (Georgetown University/Leibniz Universität Hannover), Elin McCready (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), and Willow Starr (Cornell University), in collaboration with Axel Gelfert, and hosted by Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin. 

What

What

What

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on speech and harm from a wide range of career stages, disciplines, and intellectual traditions.

When

Where

Where

13–14 July 2025. See schedule for additional details.

Where

Where

Where

The workshop is hosted by Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, and will be held in Room TBD, Straße des 17. Juni 135

10623 Berlin, DE.

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