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”

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