Vaasa

Tiede ja maailmankatsomus -seminaari
ti 23.11.2010 klo 15.15-18.00
Vaasan yliopiston päärakennus Tervahovi, Wolff-auditorio

Ohjelma

15.15 Seminaarin avaus, rehtori Matti Jakobsson, Vaasan yliopisto
15.20 Pohjalaisen tervehdys, päätoimittaja Kalle Heiskanen, Pohjalainen
15.30 Filosofian merkitys maailmankatsomukselle, professori Ilkka Niiniluoto, Helsingin yliopiston kansleri
16.15 Kahvit tarjoaa sanomalehti Pohjalainen
16.45 Fysiikan merkitys maailmankatsomukselle, akatemiaprofessori Kari Enqvist, Helsingin yliopisto
18.00 Päätössanat, yliopistonlehtori Tommi Lehtonen, Vaasan yliopisto

Seminaari liittyy Vaasan yliopiston filosofian oppiaineen, avoimen yliopiston ja Pohjalaisen järjestämään sanomalehtiyliopistoon. Pohjalainen julkaisee loka-marraskuussa 2010 kirjoituksia, joissa tarkastellaan eurooppalaisen ihmisen maailmankatsomukseen ja ihmiskuvaan liittyviä filosofisia kysymyksiä.
 

PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE
An international congress on philosophical questions related to literature and the study of literature, at the University of Vaasa, Finland, 27–28 May 2010.

Venue: The Auditorium Nissi in the Tritonia building

Program:
[updated 5.5.2010]

May 27, 2010
Coffee & Registration 8:30–9:20 am
Welcome Address 9:20
Professor Merja Koskela, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Vaasa

   Session 1
9:30–11:00
Chair: Tommi Lehtonen, University of Vaasa

Poetry Clarifies Meaning – Seneca on Tragedy and Moral Developments, Malin Grahn, University of Helsinki

Arguing Against Dummies – Hypothetical Simple-minded Opponents in Philosophical Dialogue, Sami Jansson, University of Vaasa

Possible Worlds in Literary Theory, Jenni Tyynelä, University of Tampere

Idealization and Exemplification as Tools of Philosophy – A Panel Discussion with Malin Grahn, Sami Jansson, and Jenni Tyynelä, chaired by Tommi Lehtonen

   Session 2
11:00–12:00
Chair: Charles Norman Todd, University of Chicago
Keynote Address
Poetic Meaning, Kisor K. Chakrabarti, Davis & Elkins College

Lunch Break 12:00–1:00 pm
                                
   Session 3
1:00–2:30
Chair: Tiina Mäntymäki, University of Vaasa

Heidegger and Aesthetic Knowledge: On the Construction of Literary Hermeneutics and Phenomenological Ontology, Evan Smith, University of St. Andrews

Romantic Exteriority: On the Construction of Literature in Jean Paul and P.B. Shelley, William Coker, Bilkent University

Ethics, Literature, the Emotional Link, Lykke Guanio-Uluru, University of Oslo

   Session 4
2:30–4:00
Chair: Robert Hughes, Ohio State University

Literary Metaphysics: The Case of Sufism, Ezgi Ulusoy Aranyosi, Bilkent University

Poetizing Nonduality, Kimiyo Murata-Soraci, Tama University

Beating the Ground at the Yi River: Philosophical Aspects of Shao Yong, 1012–1077, Martin Doesch, University of Erlangen

   Session 5
4:00–5:30
Chair: David Bartholomae, University of Pittsburgh

Philosophical Thought in Ancient Greek Tragedy, Christopher Vasillopulos, Eastern Connecticut State University

The Path of Passion in Seneca’s Phaedra, Panos Eliopoulos, Olympic Center, Athens

George Bataille’s Politics of Unreason and His Position between Philosophy and Literature, Angelos Evangelou, University of Kent

   Session 6
5:30–7:30 pm
Chair: Panos Eliopoulos, Olympic Center, Athens

Benjamin and Scholem Interpreting Kafka, Enrico Lucca, University of Milan

Thought Experiments in Philosophy of Fiction, Iskra Fileva, University of Nevada
    
Thesis, Antitheses, Godot: Adorno, Beckett, and the Impossibility of Sublation, Markku Nivalainen, University of Jyväskylä

Literature in Philosophy, or How the “True Friedrich Nietzsche” Finally Became a Fable? – The Story of an Error”, Kristóf Fenyvesi, University of Jyväskylä


May 28, 2010
Coffee & Registration 8:00–8:30 am

   Session 1
8:30–12:00
Chair: Janice Schuetz, University of New Mexico

Language of Mystics, Chandana Chakrabarti, Davis & Elkins College

The Traumatized Hero Story: Representations of Magical Recovery, Melissa Burchard, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Sharing Expectations, Humberto Brito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Lacanian Aesthetics and the Uncanny, Robert Hughes, Ohio State University

The Body as a Place of Resistance in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, Tiina Mäntymäki, University of Vaasa

Genre and Voice in Kierkegaard’s Concept of Anxiety, Andrew J. Burgress, University of New Mexico

Harry Potter & Company - Friendship Incorporated, Diana Abad, University of Dortmund

Lunch Break 12:00–1:00 pm

   Session 2
1:00–2:30
Chair: Carsten Fogh Nielsen, University of Copenhagen

The Conception of Life in Works of Boris Patternak and Mr. Henry, Tatiana Guschina, Research Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Okot p’Bitek and Richard Rorty’s Critique of Universalism, Gerald Porter, University of Vaasa

Readings of Galileo, Gereon Wolters, Universität Konstanz
 
   Session 3
2:30–4:00
Chair: Kimiyo Murata-Soraci, Tama University

Personal and Literary Apocalypse – The Impossible Heap, Diana Adela Martin, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin

Modernism’s Romantic Roots, Irina Ruvinsky, University of Chicago

Philosophy as Literature: Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Mette Blok, University of Roskilde

   Session 4
4:00–5.30
Chair: Gerald Porter, University of Vaasa

Cultivating Vice: Taking Pleasure in the Bad in Dorian Gray, Charles Norman Todd, University of Chicago

Virtue as Disease, Ana Almeida, University of Lisbon

Breathing a Different Air of Life: The Ethical Demand on Wittgenstein’s Reader, Jonathan Beale, University of Reading

   Session 5
5:30–7:30 pm
Chair: Diana Abad, Dortmund University

Other Weapons: Fragmentation, Configuration, and the Ethical Life, Minerva Ahumada Tores, Northeastern Illinois University

Philosophical Approach of John Neumeier to Othello by William Shakespeare, phenomenological perspective, Elizabeth Koldzak, University of Lodz

Homesick for the Chains: The Burden of Freedom in Russian Literature and Thought, Alicja Gescinska, Ghent University

Beyond the Myth/Philosophy Dichotomy: Foundations for an Interdependent Perspective, Omid Tofighian, Leiden University

The Best and the Law: Kantian Thesis in Terry Prattchet’s, Carsten Fogh Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
 

Call for Papers

PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE
An international congress on philosophical questions related to literature and the study of literature, at the University of Vaasa, Finland, 27-28 May 2010.

Plato, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are classical examples of the philosophers who discuss philosophical ideas with literary style. Writers of world literature such as Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and Beauvoir, for their part, are known as novelists whose books discuss philosophical questions or are otherwise considered to be philosophical or profound. These and many other examples from different countries and continents show that literature can enrich and stimulate the discussion on philosophical themes. Again, philosophical concepts and thematizations may offer tools for literary research of literature. The goal of this conference is to bring together philosophers and scholars of the study of literature to discuss the aptness of literature in the discussion of philosophical questions and the suitability of philosophical concepts and theories in literary research.

The papers to be proposed can be case studies in which examples of literature are discussed. The papers can also be theoretical studies that aim to contribute to the theory of the study of literature or philosophy.

Some suggested questions and subtopics are the following:

- Examples of the philosophical themes or questions discussed in world literature by different authors from different periods

- Examples of the approaches to philosophical themes or questions in literature

- Which philosophical themes, fields (e.g., metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics) or questions are or have been especially apt to be discussed in the forum of world literature? Why?

- Which philosophical themes or questions are difficult to be discussed by means of fiction? Why?

- Which literary genres or types of novels are especially suitable to be forums of philosophical discussion?

- In what ways does philosophical imagination differ from fiction? In what sense is imagination similar in philosophy and in fiction?

- What special tools are available in literature to deal with philosophical questions - tools that are lacking from standard academic philosophical prose?

- In what ways can philosophical tools (concepts, views, theories) be used for the analysis of literature of different countries and cultures? In what ways should philosophical tools not be used in literary research?

- What philosophically interesting differences and similarities can be found in the literature of different cultures and continents? Are the differences related to philosophical themes and questions, or rather to approaches or the ways of discussing?

- What gender differences are there in male and female novelists' approaches to philosophical questions? How do philosophically oriented novelists discuss gender?

- How have feminist philosophers treated issues relating to gender, sexuality and embodiment in literary works? What kinds of philosophical concepts or theoretical approaches can be productive from the feminist perspective when studying the above mentioned questions in li-terature?

Advisory Board: Thom Brook (UK), Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Sanjukta Dasgupta (India), Gordon Haist (USA), John Herold (USA), Linda B. Elder (USA), Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Sandra Fair-banks (USA), Tiina Mäntymäki (Finland), Keya Maitra (USA), Ming Shao (China), Joel Wilcox (USA)

Conference Directors: Chandana Chakrabarti, Davis and Elkins College (USA), Tommi Lehtonen, University of Vaasa (Finland)

Please send 150 words abstract by email to chandanachak(at)gmail.com by February 15, 2010.

Selected papers from the conference will be published subject to editorial review.


Accommodation: Hotel Astor Vaasa

Single room 90 euros/night
Double room 109 euros/night
All rates include breakfastbuffet and value added tax.

Room reservations can be made by phone or by e-mail. When making the reservation, please mention the quota name "Yliopisto".

Hotel Astor Vaasa
Address: Asemakatu 4, 65100 Vaasa, Finland
Phone: +35863269111
Fax: +35863269484
E-mail: astor(at)astorvaasa.fi
http://www.astorvaasa.fi/main.php?l=e&pid=1
 

Oiva Ketonen -luento
Ke 30.9.2009 klo 18.15

Syksyn 2009 Oiva Ketonen -luento järjestetään keskiviikkona 30. syyskuuta klo 18.15 alkaen Vaasan yliopiston Wolff-auditoriossa (Tervahovi, Wolffintie 34). Luennon aiheena on Filosofia, kulttuuri ja yhteiskunta. Aiheesta ovat puhumassa professori Simo Knuuttila ja yliopistonlehtori Thomas Wallgren Helsingin yliopistosta.

Ennen luentoa, klo 16.00 alkaen, ohjelmassa on Etelä-Pohjanmaan Kulttuurirahaston 50-vuotishistoriateoksen julkistaminen.

Linkki tapahtuman ohjelmaan:
http://www.uwasa.fi/ajankohtaista/tapahtumia/etusivu/oivaketonen09.html

Teuvalaissyntyinen akateemikko Oiva Ketonen (1913-2000) oli merkittävä suomalainen filosofi ja korkeakoulupoliittinen vaikuttaja. Ketosen laaja-alaisen ajattelun perinteen vaalimiseksi Etelä-Pohjanmaan Kulttuurirahasto ja Vaasan yliopisto järjestävät joka vuosi Oiva Ketonen -luennon.