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Please circulate widely and pologies for cross-posting Miami University - The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies http://casnov1.cas.muohio.edu/havighurstcenter 5th Annual International Young Researchers Conference, 27-29 October, 2005 Theme: "Thinking in/after Utopia. East-European and Russian Philosophy before and after the Collapse of Communism" Thursday, October 27 5:30-7:00pm (Public Lecture) - "The End of Leninism and the Future of Liberal Values" Vladimir TISMANEANU, University of Maryland Introduction of Conference: Jeffrey HERBST, Provost of Miami University Introduction of Speaker: Karen DAWISHA, Director of Havighurst Center, Miami University Harrison Hall 304 Friday, October 28-Miami Inn, A/B Room 9:00-11:00 Welcome and Introduction to Sessions, Costica BRADATAN First Session: "Saints, Workers, and Philosophers" Chair: Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University Clementa ANTONOVA, Oxford University: "The Reception of Florensky's Works in Russian and Soviet Scholarship" Serguei OUSHAKINE, Columbia University/Princeton University: "From Russian Tragedy to Vital Forces: Theorizing Post-Soviet Ethnicity" Discussant: Stephen NORRIS, Miami University 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-1:00 Second Session: "The Secret Charm of Eastern Europe" Chair: Michael ROULAND, Miami University Letitia GURAN, College of William & Mary: "Aesthetics: a Modus Vivendi in East Central Europe?" Aurelian CRAIUTU, Indiana University: "Democracy and Philosophy in Eastern Europe: A Tocquevillian Perspective" Discussant: Brian DANOFF, Miami University 1:00-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-4:00 Third Session: "Forms of Dissent - Ideology, Poetry, Religion" Chair: Zara TORLONE, Miami University Jeffrey STEVENSON MURER, Swarthmore College: "A Rereading of the Critical Sociology of the Budapest and Frankfurt Schools" Natasa KOVACEVIC, University of Florida: "Orientalizing Communism: The Shifting Boundaries of Europe in Brodsky and Milosz" Eva CERMANOVA, Indiana University: "The Radical Catholicism of Vaclav Benda: An Enfant Terrible of Czech Dissidence" Discussant: Zachary WEIR 4:00-5:30 Break 5:30-7:00 (Public Lecture)- "The Platonic Drama of Russian Thought: Ideas against Ideocracy" Mikhail EPSTEIN, Emory University Introduction of Speaker: Steven DELUE, Dean of College of Arts & Sciences, Miami University Harrison Hall 111 Saturday, October 29-MacMillan Hall, Great Room 9:00-10:30 Fourth Session: "Dissidence and the Art of Dying" Chair: Benjamin SUTCLIFFE, Miami University Veronika TUCKEROVA, Columbia University: "Totalitarian Language: Fidelius vs. Havel vs. Rorty" Costica BRADATAN, Miami University: "Jan Patocka's Socratic Art of Dying" Discussant: Nick NESBITT, Miami University 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-12:15 Fifth Session: "The Politics of Hope" Chair: William MCKENNA Ivars IJABS, University of Latvia: "Politics of Authenticity" and/or Civil Society" Jonathan LARSON, University of Michigan: "Critiques of Impure Reason? Contextualizing Postsocialist Slovak Intellectual Conflict" Discussant: Venelin GANEV, Miami University 12:15-1:30 Lunch Break 1:30-2:45 (Public Lecture)-- "20th Century Russian Utopian and Dystopian Fiction as a Mode of Philosophical Discourse" Catharine NEPOMNYASHCHY, Columbia University Introduction of Speaker: Margaret ZIOLKOWSKI, Miami University MacMillan Hall Great Room Conference is free and open to the public. Dr. Costica Bradatan Havighurst Conference Coordinator ********************************* Costica Bradatan, PhD Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Hall Auditorium, 221 Oxford, OH 45056 USA http://www.users.muohio.edu/bradatc/ ********************************* * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **