International Conference "Nihilism and Imagination" 2013
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”