5th 24hr Transcontinental Popper Meet ‘n Greet – Sat, Jan 11 – Sun, Jan 12 2025 – How Karl Popper Has Made a Difference in Our Lives

ZOOM rooms open at 2:30 pm GMT on Sat, Jan 11 2025.

ZOOM link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/84533751569?pwd=SstrsW2NlA0IN0JDynaHeiVT3TkAib.1

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You are cordially invited to join and participate in 5th Transcontinental Meet-‘n-Greet to celebrate and promote the philosophy of Karl Popper and critical rationalism.

It will take place on Saturday, January 11th, 2025, starting at 3pm GMT (London, UK). The ZOOM room will open at 2:30pm GMT, and the facilitated discussion and conversations will begin at 3pm GMT. It is a free event, and everyone is welcome. The entire event will be recorded. If you would like to opt-out, turn off your camera and change your ZOOM name.

CLOSE CAPTION IS AVAILABLE.

FINAL PROGRAM (PRINTABLE VERSION):

The Meet ‘n Greet consists of 17 facilitated conversations/discussions. All times are GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). To convert GMT into your timezone, go to www.timeanddate.com/. All presentations take place in the breakout room, labeled, ALL EVENTS.

Saturday, January 11, 2025:
3-4pm: Welcome and introductions to Part I – with Elyse Hargreaves.
4-6pm: William Berkson in conversation with Luc Castelein. William studied under both Joseph Agassi and Karl Popper.
6-7pm: Karl Popper and the Philosophy of the Middle Way – with Yechiel Gilboa, a student of the late Joseph Agassi.
7-7:30pm: Update from the Karl Popper Archives and the Karl Popper Foundation Klagenfurt – with Thomas Hainscho.
7:30-8pm: The Conimbricenses.org Project – with Iuliia Nikitenko, Coimbra University, Portugal.
8:00-9:00pm: How to use the Philosophy of Karl Popper to raise resilient children – with Phil Wood, Tom Nassis, Luc Castelein, Aaron Stupple & Logan Chipkin.
9-10pm: Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend on incommensurability – with Matteo Collodel.
10-10:30pm: Karl Popper and World Logic Day, January 14.
10:30pm-00:30am: A Critical Rationalist’s look at the events of October 7 – with Chen Yehezkely, a student of of the late Joseph Agassi.
0:30-2:30am: Remembering Rafe Champion and his the-Rathouse blog while Rafe is still with us – with Margaretha Hendrickx.

ZOOM room will be closed from 2:30 am until 9:30 am.

Sunday, January 12, 2025:
9:30-10:30am: Welcome and introductions to Part II – with Elyse Hargreaves.
10:30-11am: A test to check whether your friends understand the method of falsification – with Harry Fearnley.
11am-noon: “The Open Society and Its Enemies.” A dusty classic or highly relevant to the current crisis of democracy? – with Ulrich Arnswald.
noon-2pm: Remembering David Miller (1942-2024) and Geoffrey Stokes (1949-2023) – with Jeremy Shearmur.
2-4pm: Remembering Mark Notturno (1953-2024) – with Philip Benesch.
4-6pm: Karl Popper and problem-solving in politics – with Thomas Walker & Jeremy Shearmur.
6-7pm: Closing comments and preparations for next year’s Meet ‘n Greet (second week-end of January 2026).

Format:

All conversations/discussions will take place in a breakout room, labeled, ALL EVENTS. Additional breakout rooms are available for further small group and/or one-on-one conversations.

**Have you joined the ourkarlpopper Google group yet:**

The OurKarlPopper Google group was launched during the Jan 2023 Meet ‘n Greet. It exists for the purpose of sharing skills and expertise to advance the philosophy of Karl Popper and the practical attitude of critical rationalism. That is, to request and offer skills and expertise — web design, database programming, social media etc. — to help one another with one’s individual critical rationalism projects. Further details can be found in the Google-group description itself.

Other details:

The Annual Transcontinental Karl-Popper Meet ‘n Greets are organized by the Friends of ourkarlpopper.net and they are intended as informal gatherings to say hello to new and old friends & colleagues. There is no need to prepare anything. The only thing that is expected from you is to click on the ZOOM link and be ready to join the conversation.

People can drop by any time at their convenience. It is not necessary to RSVP, but it is strongly encouraged to help the organizing team plan better. Current ZOOM capacity is 100 and can be increased as needed. For those with a Facebook account, there is an event page where one can RSVP. Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone that you believe might be interested in attending this event.

If that works better for you, there is an option to call in. The phone numbers are listed on the Facebook event page. Or send email to ourkarlpopper[at]gmail[dot]com to get the list.