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International Interdisciplinary Conference "Religion and Culture: Horizons of Everyday Life" 2009
International Interdisciplinary Conference
RELIGION AND CULTURE:
HORIZONS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
May 20-21, 2009
Universiteto str. 9/1, room 201, Vilnius
May 20, 2009, Wednesday
09:45-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:15 Welcome address by Director of Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Prof. Rita Šerpytytė
Moderator dr. Kristupas Sabolius
10:15-11:00 Assoc. Prof. Mintautas
Gutauskas (Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Paradigms of Dialogue: Religious Experience and Communication of Everydayness (LT**)
11:00-12:15 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 on 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)
Nihilism and Ontology of Everyday Life (LT**)
13:30-15:00 Lunch
Moderator Prof. Rita Šerpytytė
15:00-15:45 Assoc. Prof. Mara Kiope
(Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Latvia University, Riga)
“Experience” in the Context of Value-Orientated Education (EN)
15:45-16:30 Dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė
(Culture, PhilosophyandArts Research Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Bartleby, or the Potentiality of Everyday Life (EN)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-17:45 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
09:00-09:45 Dr. Aušra Pažėraitė
(Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Recovery of Imagination: Configurations of Mythic Thinking (EN)
09:45-11:00 Prof. Giuseppe Riconda
(Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies "Luigi Pareyson", Turin, Italy)
Revolution. “Technical Thinking”. Person. (IT*)
11:00-11:45 Dr. Nerijus Čepulis
(Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Philosophy, Metaphysics, 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*)
13:45-14:30 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
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.
Organizing committee:
Chair:
Prof. Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, LT)
Members:
Prof. Tomas Sodeika (Vilnius University, LT)
Dr. Aušra Pažėraitė (Vilnius University, LT)
Dr. Sigita Maslauskaitė (Vilnius University, LT)
Dr. Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University, LT)
Jolanta Saldukaitytė (Vilnius University, LT)
Scientific committee:
Chair:
Prof. Rita Šerpytytė (Vilnius University, LT)
Members:
Prof. Richard Cohen (Buffalo (SUNY), USA)
Prof. Tomas Sodeika (Vilnius University, LT)
Assoc. prof. Mintautas Gutauskas (Vilnius University, LT)
Dr. Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University, LT)
Center for Religious Studies and Research Vilnius University