Event and Becoming
Online conference: Friday, June 11, 2021
All times CET (Warsaw)
Time
Content
08h45
Welcome
Dr. Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts
09h00
Keynote
Prof. Jørgen Veisland, University of Gdańsk: “The appropriation of being. Dismantling totalitarianism in Unto Madness, Unto Death by Kirsten Thorup” Abstract
10h00
Session 1
Dror Pimentel, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem: “The event of art: an aesth-ethic reading of Rilke”
Julio Alcántara, European Graduate School: “The symbol of the mask”
Simon Smith, British Personalist Forum: “The scent of lemon soap: social subjectivity in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld.
11h30
Workshop
Prof. Sharif Abdunnur, Yeditepe University: “Think existentially, act on your personal mythology: an interactive workshop” Read more
12h30
Break
13h30
Keynote
Dr. Mehdi Parsa, University of Bonn: “Ethics of Psychosynthesis: Desiring the Event” Abstract
14h30
Session 2
Dominique Sellier, University of Reims-Champagne: “Event and becoming in the city: the contribution of Guattari’s ecosophy”
Avron Kulak, York University, Toronto: “Love in the smooth flow of Becoming”
Moderator: Jørgen Veisland.
15h30
Keynote
Prof. James Bahoh, University of Memphis: “Event, Alienation, and Ground in Heidegger’s Ontology” Abstract
16h30
Session 3
Daniel Neumann, University of Klagenfurt: “‘Being tied to experience’: towards a subjective account of the phenomenology of the event”
Nikolaus Schneider: “Translation as becoming”
Moderator: Mehdi Parsa.
17h30
Concluding words
Professor and poet Chris Norris reads his poem “The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alan Badiou”
Dr. Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts closes the conference.
18h00