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Lectures by prof. Gintautas Mažeikis (Nov. 6 and 9, 2023)

Marcin Trepczyński

The Department of Philosophy of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw invites you to a series of lectures by prof. Gintautas Mažeikis from Vytautas the Great University in Kaunas. They will cover such issues as: cultural archetypes in critical iconology, epistemology of cultural diplomacy, critical theory and phenomenology, and Adorno’s assessment of Husserl and Heidegger.

All lectures will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw: 3 Krakowskie Przedmieście, 00-927 Warsaw.

Here is the detailed schedule of prof. Mažeikis’s lectures:

  • Cultural Archetypes in Critical Iconology – November 6, 1:15 p.m., room 208;
  • Epistemology of Cultural Diplomacy – November 6, 3:00 p.m., room 208;
  • Critical Theory and Phenomenology – November 9, 1:15 p.m., room 4;
  • Theodor Adorno pro et contra Husserl and Heidegger – November 9, 3:00 p.m., room 102.

Gintautas Mažeikis defended his doctoral thesis “Renaissance Symbolic Thinking” at the Vilnius University. In 1991-1992, he worked at the Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University, and in 1992-2008, he was a Lecturer at the Humanities Faculty of Šiauliai University, in 1998-2008. as a head of the Department of Philosophy. He was founder and director (2000-2008) of the first cultural anthropology center in Lithuania at Šiauliai University. Since 2005 professor of philosophy. In 2008, he defended the habilitation procedure at Vilnius University at the Faculty of Philosophy on the topic “Construction of social participation: philosophical anthropological analysis and criticism”. Since 2008 he is a head of the Department of Social and Political Theory at Vytautas the Great University. He is also a founder and curator of the master’s program “Social and Political Criticism”, chairman of the Joint Doctorate in Philosophy Committee of Vytautas the Great University, Lithuanian Cultural Research Institute, European Humanitarian University (since 2011), and a visiting professor at many universities around the world and in Lithuania. (after: https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gintautas_Ma%C5%BEeikis)

For detailed information, please contact Dr. Przemysław Bursztyka (pbursztyka@uw.edu.pl).

Photo: Augustas Didžgalvis, from Wiki Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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