International conference “Emmanuel Levinas: a Radical Thinker in the Time of Crisis”
Vilnius University
International Conference
Emmanuel Levinas: a Radical Thinker in the Time of Crisis
Vilnius, October 27-29, 2015
October 27
Senate Hall | Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.00 Official Opening
Welcome address by Vice-Rector of Vilnius University prof. Rimantas Jankauskas
Welcome speech by directress of the CRSR, Vilnius University prof. Rita Šerpytytė
PLENARY SESSION
Moderator – Danutė Bacevičiūtė
10.00-12.00 Keynote lecture. Roger Burggraeve (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
“Ethics as Crisis. Levinas’ Contribution to a Humane Society”
12.00-12.30 Coffee Break
12.30-13.30 Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Levinas and the Negativity of Thought: from Hegel to Malabou”
13.30-15.00 Lunch
PLENARY SESSION
Moderator – Nerijus Milerius
15.00-15.45 Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics and Ontology”
15.45-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-18.00 Keynote lecture. Isy Morgensztern (Paris VIII University, France)
“Levinas' Complex Relationship with the Media”
18.00-19.00 "Levinas" by David Hansel and Isy Morgensztern
Documentary film screening
20.00 Reception
October 28
Senate Hall | Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
PLENARY SESSION
Moderator – Mintautas Gutauskas
10.00-12.00 Keynote lecture. Richard A. Cohen (University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, USA) “Crisis, Anarchy and Responsibility”
12.00-13.00 Lunch
WORKSHOP I
Faculty of Philosophy | Universiteto str. 9/1, Room 201
I Session
Moderator – Kristupas Sabolius
13.00-13.30 Iddo Dickmann (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
“Alterity and Affirmation”
13.30-14.00 Jolanta Saldukaitytė (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)
“Is Alterity Strange?”
14.00-14.30 Wing-Keung Chik (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
“Life, Infinity and Exaltation: Alterity as Exaltation of Life”
14.30-15.00 Irina Poleshchuk (University of Helsinki, Finland)
“Diachrony and Affectivity: One-for-the-Other and Disrupted Subjectivity”
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
II Session
Moderator – Danutė Bacevičiūtė
15.30-16.00 Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Face-to-Face with the Facelessness"
16.00-16.30 Lina Vidauskytė (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
“Guilt, Nude Face and Bare Life“
16.30-17.00 Flora Bastiani (University of Toulouse II, France)
“Trauma and Crisis in Emmanuel Levinas and Henri Maldiney”
17.00-17.30 Estevan de Negreiros Ketzer (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and Université de Strasbourg, France)
“Subjectivity after Trauma: a Critical Standpoint from Oneself as Another”
WORKSHOP II
Faculty of Philosophy | Universiteto str. 9/1, Room 107
I Session
Moderator – Jūratė Baranova
13.00-13.30 Dalius Jonkus (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania “The Destruction of Representation and the Problem of Intentionality (Levinas and Husserl)“
13.30-14.00 Mintautas Gutauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) “The Question of Experience
in Phenomenology after Emmanuel Levinas: Bernhard Waldenfels”
14.00-14.30 Max Schaefer (University of Limerick, Ireland) “Ethical Beginnings:
Rethinking Levinas and Heidegger”
14.30-15.00 Alena Rettová (University of London, UK) “Lévinas and Intercultural Ethics:
distance métaphysique as the Basis of a Multicultural Society?”
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
II Session
Moderator – Dalius Jonkus
15.30-16.00 Tomas Sodeika (Vilnius University, Lithuania) “Some Remarks on
Spoken Language in Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas”
16.00-16.30 Jūratė Baranova (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Lithuania)
“Literary Metaphor and Philosophical Concept: Levinas and Deleuze“
16.30-17.00 Hakan Karahasan (Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus) “Levinas, the Other
and Its Relation with National Identity: The Example of Mehmet Yashin’s Poetry”
17.00-17.30 Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“The Artwork as the Event of (not) Understanding: Levinas and Gadamer”
WORKSHOP III
Faculty of Philosophy | Universiteto str. 9/1, Room 208
I Session
Moderator – Danutė Bacevičiūtė
13.00-13.30 Walker Trimble (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
“Radical Ethics under the Aegis of Neurology”
13.30-14.00 Marija Oniščik (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)
“The Precept of Infinity: Do Not Participate in the Concept“
14.00-14.30 Regiany Gomes Melo (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande
do Sul , Brasil and Université de Strasbourg, France) “Responsibility for a Justice of the Future”
14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
II Session
Moderator – Aušra Pažėraitė
15.00-15.30 Jojo Joseph Varakukalayil (Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and
Continental Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium) “Emmanuel Levinas on Racism and the Crisis
of very Humanity of the (hu)man!”
15.30-16.00 David Martinez Rojas (University of Sussex, UK)
“Ethics, Politics and the Possibility of a Levinasian Critical Theory”
16.00-16.30 Viktoras Bachmetjevas (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
“The Radicality of Forgiveness: the Perspectives of Levinas and Jankélevitch”
Faculty of Philosophy | Universiteto str. 9/1, Room 201
18.00-18.30 Aušra Pažėraitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Emmanuel Levinas and his Family in Kaunas: Newly Discovered Archival Sources”
October 29
Senate Hall | Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
PLENARY SESSION
Moderator – Rita Šerpytytė
10.00-11.30 Keynote lecture. Marie-Anne Lescourret (University of Strasbourg, France)
“The Ethical Challenges of a Life”
11.30-13.00 Lunch
13.00-19.00 Guided Tour (Kaunas)
20.00 Closing Evening
Organized by: Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University
Organizing Committee: Chair - assoc. prof. Danutė Bacevičiūtė (CRSR, Vilnius University), Co-Chair - prof. Rita Šerpytytė (CRSR, Vilnius University), assoc. prof. Aušra Pažėraitė (CRSR, Vilnius University), dr. Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė (CRSR, Vilnius University), administrator – Kristina Rinkevičienė – (CRSR, Vilnius University)
Scientific Committee: Chair - prof. Rita Šerpytytė (CRSR, Vilnius University), prof. Tomas Sodeika (CRSR, Vilnius University), assoc. prof. Kristupas Sabolius (Department of Philosophy, Vilnius University), assoc. prof. Danutė Bacevičiūtė (CRSR, Vilnius University)
Supported by: Vilnius University, Good Will Foundation, Research Council of Lithuania
Convegno internazionale "Nichilismo, secolarizzazione, postmodernità"
Università di Vilnius Centro per gli studi e ricerche religiosi
Convegno internazionale
Nichilismo, secolarizzazione, postmodernità
Vilnius, 19-20 maggio, 2011
Università di Vilnius, Universiteto 9/1, 201
2011 maggio 19
9.45 Apertura del convegno. Prof. Rita Šerpytytė
Presiede prof. Rita Šerpytytė
10.00-11.00 Mintautas Gutauskas (Università di Vilnius, Lituania)
Il cinismo quotidiano oscuro
11.00-11.15 Pausa
11.15-12.15 Luis Uribe Miranda (Santiago del Cile; Università di Torino, Italia)
Ermeneutica e Nichilismo: per un pensiero del conflitto in Gianni Vartimo
12.15-13.00 Discussione
13.00-15.00 Pausa
Presiede prof. assoc. Mintautas Gutauskas
15.00-16.00 Gaetano Chiurazzi (Università di Torino, Italia)
Il senso dell‘assenza: per una postmodernità non nichilista
16.00-17.00 Rita Šerpytytė (Università di Vilnius, Lituania)
Il realismo speculativo: per una radicalizzazione e banalizzazione del nichilismo
17.00-17.15 Pausa
17.15-18.00 Discussione
2011 maggio 20
Presiede prof. Tomas Sodeika
9.00-10.00 Maurizio Pagano (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italia)
Secolarizzazione, spirito, libertà
10.00-11.00 Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Università di Vilnius, Lituania)
La secolarizzazione ed il senso sociale della religione
11.00-11.15 Pausa
11.15-12.15 Teresa Maria Oñate y Zubia (UNED, Madrid, Spagna)
La Teologia Politica de la Era Hermenéutica
12.15-13.00 Discussione
13.00-15.00 Pausa
Presiede prof. assoc. Danutė Bacevičiūtė
15.00-16.00 Gianluca Cuozzo (Università di Torino, Italia)
Il mondo saturo e la strategia della penuria
16.00-17.00 Tomas Sodeika (Università di Vilnius, Lituania)
Il sacro nell‘epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica
17.00-17.15 Pausa
17.15-18.00 Discussione
International Interdisciplinary Conference "Religion and Culture: Horizons of Everyday Life"
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Religion and Culture: Horizons of Everyday Life
May 20-21, 2009
Universiteto 9/1, 201 Vilnius
May 20, 2009, Wednesday
09:4510:00 Registration
10:0010:15 Welcome address by Director of Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Prof. Rita Šerpytytė
Moderator dr. Kristupas Sabolius
10:1511:00 Assoc. Prof. Mintautas Gutauskas (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Paradigms of Dialogue: Religious Experience and Communication of Everydayness (LT)
11:0012:15 Prof. Gianluca Cuozzo (Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies "Luigi Pareyson", Turin, Italy)
Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben: Meditations about Naked Life in the Light of the Category of the: “politico” (IT)
12:15-12:45 Coffee break
12:45-13:30 Prof. Rita Šerpytytė (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
The Nihilism and Ontology of Everyday Life (LT)
13:3015:00 Lunch
Moderator Prof. Rita Šerpytytė
15:0015:45 Assoc. Prof. Mara Kiope (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Latvia University, Riga)
“Experience” in the Context of Value-Orientated Education (EN)
15:4516:30 Dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė (Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Bartleby, or the Potentiality of Everyday Life (EN)
16:3017:00 Coffee break
17:0017:45 Prof. Tomas Sodeika (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Seeding of Silence: Thomas Merton (LT)
17:45-18:30 Discussion
May 21, 2009, Thursday
Moderator Assoc. Prof. Dalius Jonkus
09:0009:45 Dr. Aušra Pažėraitė (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Recovery of Imagination: Configurations of Mythic Thinking (EN)
09:4511:00 Prof. Giuseppe Riconda (Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies "Luigi Pareyson", Turin, Italy)
Revoliution. “Technical Thinking”. Person. (IT)
11:0011:45 Dr. Nerijus Čepulis (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Philosophy, Mataphysics, Faith: Pure Theory or Everyday Practice? (LT)
11:45-12:15 Coffee break
Moderator dr. Danutė Bacevičiūtė
12:15-13:45 Prof. Jean-Michel Salanskis (University Paris X-Nanterre, France)
Judaism as Observance Coupled with Study: an Anti-Theological Reading (FR)
13:4514:30 Prof. Richard A. Cohen (Department of Philosophy, Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
Art, Sacred Space and Utopia (EN)
14:30-16:00 Lunch
16:00-17:15 Discussion and closing of the conference
19:00 Dinner
*Presentation is 30 min plus 15 min discussion.
*Presentations will be translated from Italian and French to Lithuanian (plus 30 min)
*There will be thesis in English for papers given in Lithuanian.
International Conference “A Century with Levinas: on the Ruins of Totality”
International Conference
A CENTURY WITH LEVINAS: ON THE RUINS OF TOTALITY
Vilnius - Kaunas
Program
Monday, April 3, 2006
LEVINAS: CRISIS OF THOUGHT AND THOUGHT OF CRISIS
Morning Session (Vilnius University)
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Greetings
Prof. Juozas Vidmantis Vaitkus, Vice-rector of Vilnius University
Prof. Rita Šerpytytė, Director of Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University
Dr. David Hansel, CNRS, Paris, France
10:00-11:30 Prof. David Patterson (The University of Memphis, USA)
What Makes Levinas a Jewish Thinker?
Prof. David Banon (University Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)
Levinas, Penseur Juif ou Juif Qui Pense?
Dr. Hanoch ben Pazi (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
Beyond Forgiveness & the Impossibility Of Forgiveness
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Prof. Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Nihilism and the Problem of Sense: Levinas
Dr. Tomas Sodeika (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
On the Non-theoretical Source of Meaning
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session (Vilnius University)
14:30-16:00 Dr. Anna Yampolskaja (Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia)
Reinventing Humanism: Sartre, Heidegger, Levinas
Dr. Dalius Jonkus (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)
The Parallels of Sleep and Death in the Phenomenology of Levinas
Prof. Bernhard Waldenfels (Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany)
Hyperbolic Justice
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Dr. Ilya Dvorkin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Farewell to Parmenides: Argue Between Emmanuele Levinas and Herman Cohen Ethics and Methodics
Dr. Mintautas Gutauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Levinas’ Conception of Dialogue: the Continuation and critics of the philosophy of Dialogue
Prof. Alexei G. Chernyakov (St.-Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, Russia)
Language Beyond Essence: a Return of Sophistic
18:00-19:00 Dinner
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
9:00 Departure to Kaunas
10:30-13:00 Excursion in Kaunas, Levinas native town
13:00-14:30 Lunch
LEVINAS AND EXPERIENCE OF SHOAH
Afternoon Session (Kaunas University of Technology)
14:30-15:00 Greetings.
15:00-17:00 Dr. Joëlle Hansel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Levinas and the Presentment of the Shoah
Dr. Shmuel Wygoda (Herzog College and The Hebrew University, Israel)
Between Kovno and Slabodka: Levinas and the Lithuanian Tradition
Dr. Aušra Pažėraitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Levinas: Shoah, violent Discource and Identity
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 Prof. Jean-Michel Salanskis (Université Paris X-Nanterre, France)
Levinas and Pessimism
Prof. Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Detotalization and Finitude
Dr. Igor Zaitsev (High School of Religious Philosophy, Russia)
Estheticism of Pasiv Subject. Levinas and Dostojevsky
MA Nerijus Čepulis (Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
Totality. Light. Goodness.
19:00-21:30 Dinner
21:30 Returning to Vilnius
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
LEVINAS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ETHICS AFTER AUSCHWITZ
Morning Session (Vilnius University)
10:00-11:30 Dr. Nerijus Milerius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
The Nostalgy of the Other: Levinas and Tarkovskij
Dr. Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Mortality: muder or justice? An Interpretation of Humane Finitude in Ethical and Ontological Discourses
Prof. Algis Mickūnas (Ohio University, USA)
Equi-valent
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Dr. Martin Gak (New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
A first Sketch of non-cognitive ethical Realism
Prof. Richard Cohen (The University of North Carolina at Charlote, USA)
Ethics and covenant Democracy
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session (Vilnius University)
14:30-16:00 Prof. James E. Faulconer (Philosophy Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA)
„Akedah“: a levinasian reading of the binding of Isaak (Genesis 22)
Prof. Jūratė Baranova (Vilnius Pedagogical University, Lithuania)
A Fourth Anthinomy of Kant and Levinas‘ Odiseya of Subject
Dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė (Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Culture, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Is Ethics Always Impossible: Levinas with (against) Lacan
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Tomáš Tatransky (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Am I Other for the Other? Levinas‘s Conception of Asymmetry Revisited
Benjamin Radelet (The Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Justice as Optics? The „always already“ of Levinas‘ third party
Georges Hansel ('Université de Rouen University)
Levinas and the Question of Technique
18:00-18:30 Conclusions
18:00-19:00 Dinner
International Conference ‘After Ontology?’
International Conference ‘After Ontology?’ 2014
International Conference ‘After Ontology?’
Vilnius University, 27-29 April, 2014
Programme
*Lietuvos mokslo tarybos remiamas projektas „Ontologijos transformacijos: nihilizmas, etika, medijos“ (sutarties Nr. MIP-011/2013)
Balandžio 27 d., sekmadienis / April 27, Sunday
11.00 -13.00 Projekto “Ontologijos transformacijos: nihilizmas, etika, medijos” (VU RSTC) ir projekto OnLenHer (UNED, Madridas, Ispanija) dalyvių susitikimas – teorinis seminaras. Viešbutis „Neringa“. Meeting – Seminar of the Projects „Transformations of Ontology: Nihilism, Media, Ethics“ (Vilnius University) and OnLenHer (UNED, Madrid, Spain). Hotel „Neringa“.
19.00 Konferencijos atidarymo vakarienė / Welcome Reception
Balandžio 28 d., pirmadienis / April 28, Monday
Faculty of Philology, Universiteto str. 5 (Room 92)
9.30 -10.00 Konferencijos atidarymas. Prof. Ritos Šerpytytės sveikinimo žodis
I sesija
Moderuoja Danutė Bacevičiūtė
- 00-10.45 Tomas Sodeika (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Heideggeris ir Vokiečių idealizmas” /
“Heidegger and German Idealism”
- 45-11.30Maurizio Pagano (University of ‘Piemonte Orientale A. Avogadro’, Vercelli, Italy)
"'Il vero è l'intero': Hegel e la questione dell'ontologia"
11.30-11.45 Kavos pertrauka / Coffee Break
11.45-12.30 Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
„Ontologijos transformacijos: forma ir negatyvumas“/
„Transformations of Ontology: Form and Negativity“
12.30 -15.00 Pietūs / Lunch
II sesija
Moderuoja Rita Šerpytytė
15.00 – 15.45 Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Virtualumas ir medijavimas”/
“Virtuality and Mediation”
- 45-16.30Gianluca Cuozzo (University of Turin, Italy)
"Per una ontologia dei resti: realismo, natura e utopia"
16.30-16.45 Kavos pertrauka / Coffee Break
16.45-17.30 Ezio Gamba (Center of Luigi Pareyson, Turin, Italy)
"Ontologia e fenomenologia nel pensiero di Michel Henry”
18.00 Ekskursija po Vilnių / Vilnius Sightseeing
Balandžio 29 d., antradienis / April 29, Tuesday
Faculty of Philology, Universiteto str. 5 (Room 92)
III sesija
Moderuoja Kristupas Sabolius
10.00 -10.45 María Teresa Oñate y Zubía (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
“Noética y Hermenéutica: la dimensión teológica de la ontología”
10.45-11.30 Gaetano Chiurazzi (University of Turin, Italy)
"La necessità del non essere. Sul 'Sofista' di Platone"
11.30-11.45 Kavos pertrauka / Coffee Break
11.45-12.30 Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
"Ontologija ir etika: tikroviškos atsakomybės klausimas"/
"Ontology and Ethics: the Question of Genuine Responsibility"
12.30 -15.00 Pietūs / Lunch
IV sesija
Moderuoja Tomas Sodeika
15.00-15.45 Ángela Sierra González. (University of Laguna in Tenerife, Spain)
“¿Esencialismos transculturales después de la Metafísica?”
15.45-16.30 Mintautas Gutauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
"Pasaulio problema: Heideggeris ir gyvūnas" /
“The Problem of the World: Heidegger and an Animal”
16.30-16.45 Kavos pertrauka / Coffee Break
16.45-17.30 Francisco José Martínez (UNED, Madrid, Spain)
“Tras la Ontología: La Imagen del Pensamiento”
18.00 Konferencijos dalyvių išvyka į Trakus. Uždarymo vakarienė Trakuose /
Tour of the participants to Trakai and closing Dinner in Trakai
International conference "Nihilism and imagination"
International Conference
Nihilism and Imagination
1-5 July 2013
Center for Religious Studies and Research
Vilnius University
Lithuania
The conference addresses a wide range of topics, related to the problem of nihilism and imagination, with particular focus on their link to the challenges of contemporary world.
Program
Monday, July 1
Aula, Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
16.00-19.00 Registration
19.00 Official Opening. Welcome speeches by prof. Jūras Banys (Rector of Vilnius University) and prof. Rita Šerpytytė (Directress of Center for Religious Studies and Research)
20.00 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, July 2
Morning Session
Senate Hall, Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
Moderator: Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
10.00-10.30 Dalius Jonkus (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
“Psychologism, Naturalism and Nihilism”
10.30-11.00 Mintautas Gutauskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Cynicism and Nihilism”
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.00 Algirdas Degutis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
“Liberal Nihilism”
12.00-13.00 Tomas Sodeika (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“On Kitsch as a Cultural Form in the Age of Nihilism”
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Plenary Session
Theatre Hall, Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
Moderator: Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
15.00 -17.00 Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France)
“Exubérance ou Anémie de l’Imaginaire”
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.00 Federico Vercellone (University of Turin, Italy)
“Nihilism and the New Forms of Late-Modern Imaginary”
18.00-18.30 Jūratė Baranova (University of Educational Sciences, Lithuania)
“Kant and Deleuze: What is the Deepest Secret of Imagination?”
Wednesday, July 3
Morning Session
Senate Hall, Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
Moderator: Nerijus Milerius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
10.00-10.30 Aušrelė Pažėraitė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Historical Imagination”
10.30-11.00 Naglis Kardelis (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Rethinking the Ancient Greek Concept of Imagination”
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.00 Audronė Žukauskaitė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuania)
“Imagining Social Change: Fabulation and Minor Cinema”
12.00-12.30 Iddo Dickmann (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
“The “Generative Fiction” and the “Rhizomatic Book”: Crude Reality as a Work’s Diegetic Level”
12.30-15.00 Lunch
Plenary Session
Theatre Hall, Vilnius University, Universiteto str. 3
Moderator: Gaetano Chiurazzi (University of Turin, Italy)
15.00-17.00 Bernard Stiegler (Goldsmiths, University of London / Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France)
“Cerveau, Technique et Imagination”
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.00 Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Intermedial Imagination”
18.00-18.30 Nerijus Milerius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Why Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than It Is to Imagine the End of Capitalism?”: A Cinematic Perspective”
Thursday, July 4
Morning Session
V. Krėvė Lecture Hall (118), Vilnius University,
Faculty of Philology, Universiteto str. 5
Moderator: Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
10.00-10.30 Gintautas Mažeikis (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
“Towards a Negative Humanism: the Apophatic Theory of Metamorphosis of Morphology”
10.30-11.00 Gaetano Chiurazzi (University of Turin, Italy)
“The Critical Import of the Image. From Negativity to (Per)formativity”
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.00 Xavier Escribano (International University of Catalonia, Spain)
“Between “Nothing” and “All”. Body, Movement and Imagination”
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Plenary Session
V. Krėvė Lecture Hall (118), Vilnius University,
Faculty of Philology, Universiteto str. 5
Moderator: Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
15.00-17.00 Richard Kearney (Boston College, Ireland /USA)
“Narrative Imagination: the Power of Catharsis”
17.00-17.30 Coffee Break
17.30-18.30 Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Nihilism and Repetition”
18.30-19.00 Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
“Discourse of secularization: Reason and Imagination“
21.00 Conference Dinner
Friday, July 5
10.00-12.00 Guided Tour (Vilnius Old Town)
Final and Plenary Session
Great Hall, Vilnius University,
Faculty of Medicine, M. K. Čiurlionio str. 21
Moderator: Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
15.00-17.00 Gianni Vattimo (University of Turin, Italy)
“Hermeneutics, Nihilism and Philosophy of Praxis”