The Workshop of 
the Organic View of the Society and the Transition of the Liberalism:
from the fin-de-siècle to the interwar period

at Yokohama National University
March 21 – 22, 2012
Organiser: Yasunori Fukagai

Wednesday, 21 March
Room 203, International Graduate School of Social Science Building

13:00 - 13:15
Yasunori Fukagai (YNU)
Opening remarks

13:15 - 14:25
Keynote Lecture
The Organic Moment: the growth and decline of a vision of welfare
Michael Freeden (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Chair: Yasunori Fukagai (YNU)

14:30-15:25
Institutional Designing
Chair: Hiroyasu Uemura (YNU)

title - T.B.A.
Kazuhiko Yago (Waseda University)
(He discusses on the forming of the international institution of the 
monetary issues in focusing to the case of BIS)

15:40 - 17:30
British Context
Chair: Junichi Himeno (Nagasaki University)

British Idealist’s ambiguous Relationships with Organic Social Theories
Colin Tyler (University of Hull)

Variety of the Usage of History among the Organic View: British 
languages of well-being, order and evolution
Yasunori Fukagai (Yokohama National University)


Thursday, 22 March
Satellite of Yokohama National University
Room 1809: the Land Mark Tower at the harbour area of Yokohama

10:30 – 12:20
Eugenics and Culture
Chair: Marco Guidi (University of Pisa)

Between Economic Laws and Natural Laws: the eugenic temptation among 
economists of the 'Progressive Era' - the case of Irving Fisher
Annie L. Cot (Paris I, Sorbonne)

Opera and the Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy
Axel Korner (University College London)

14:00 - 15:50
Corporati(vi)sm
Chair: Daisuke Arie (YNU)

Corporatism and Social Policy in the Interwar Period
Jose Luis Cardoso (University of Lisbon)

From homo oeconomicus to homo corportativus: Hegelian and Catholic in 
corporativism
Marco Guidi (University of Pisa)

16:00 – 16:30
Concluding Discussion: Michael Freeden
Closing Remarks: Yasunori Fukagai