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.