Conference: Re-writing Cultural Geography
The Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw and „Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture” invite for the international conference: Re-writing Cultural Geography: Toward a New Meaning of Eastern Europe (December 8-10 2023). The conference brings together Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Belarusian philosophers. Details and programme below.
The aim of the conference is a philosophical reconceptualization of the category of Eastern Europe as a particular cultural form, i.e., a specifically determined way of living, experiencing, and self-understanding, localized in a certain space. The existing geographical, political, economic and even culturalist categorizations seem to be incoherent, often mixing criteria brought together from completely different dimensions. It is of the utmost importance to provide/work out a set of philosophical concepts that will allow us to gain a deeper insight into the category in question; and either to maintain and defend it or cross it out from our vocabularies as no longer relevant. Provisionally, what we want to understand as Eastern Europe are the countries which are situated at the outskirts of what is commonly called Western Europe and as such, for centuries and until today, they have been constantly confronted with the paradoxical cultural formation that poses a constant deadly threat to all neighboring states and ethnicities, i.e., Russia.
See the PROGRAMME (HERE).
Date: 8th – 10th of December 2023
Location:
- December 8th – Aula A, Auditorium Maximum, University of Warsaw;
- December 9th -10th Aula Marii Ossowskiej, Faculty of Philosophy, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3
Organizers:
- Przemysław Bursztyka
- Marcin Rychter
- Jan Molina
Contact: pbursztyka@uw.edu.pl