International Conference “A Century with Levinas: on the Ruins of Totality” 2006
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