Conference “Emmanuel Levinas: A Radical Thinker in the Time of Crisis”programme [13-05-02]
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
* Studentams ir klausytojams iš Lietuvos įėjimas laisvas.
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Gruodžio 21 d., penktadienį 18 val. Šiuolaikinio meno centre (Vokiečių g. 2) prof. habil. dr. (hp) Rita Šerpytytė skaitys paskaitą „Nihilizmas ir tikrovės sugrįžimas“*
(*Paskaita parengta vykdant projektą „Religija ir kultūra - šiuolaikinio pasaulio iššūkiai tapatumui“. (Projekto vadovė prof. Rita Šerpytytė), (sut. Nr. VAT-13/2010).)