Conference at the Department of Philosophy
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

October 27-28, 2006

Organizing Committee:
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Ph.D.
Prof. Plamen Makariev, Ph. D.

 

Departmеnt of Philosophy
Sofia University
15 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd.
Sofia 1504
Bulgaria
Tel./Fax: 00 359 2 8777 108
Tel.: 00 359 2 9308 414
E-mail: mgungov@abv.bg
E-mail: vitanova_t@abv.bg
Mobile phone: 359 899 55 8778

 

 

27 of October

 

9: 30 Official Opening

 

10: 00 - 10: 30
Prof. Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Université de Picardie, France.
Emmanuel Levinas and Ernst Cassirer:
a hidden affinity

 

 

10: 30 - 11: 00
Prof. Ivanka Rainova, University of Vienna and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Sofia , Bulgaria
Figures of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur

 

11: 00 - 11: 30
Prof. Maria Dimitrova, Department of Philosophy,
Sofia University, Bulgaria
Intersubjectivity and Intertemporality

 

11: 30 - 12: 00
Prof. Vladimir Gradev, Cultural Studies Department,
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Silence of the Face

12: 00 - 13: 00 Discussion

 

13: 00 - 14: 00 Lunch break

 

14: 00 - 14:30
Prof. Andrey Rozhdestvensky, University
of Mining Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria
Levinas and the Stranger Lady

 

14: 30 - 15: 00
Prof. Graham Harman, American University of
Egypt.

Bread, Tobacco, and Silk: Levinas on Individual Substance

 

15:00 - 15: 30
Prof. Sylvia Mineva, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Identity, Otherness and Their Postmodern
Ethical Discourse

 

15: 30 - 16: 30 Discussion

 

16: 30 - 17: 00 Coffee Break

 

 

17: 00 - 17: 30
Prof. Robert Manning. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Quincy University, Quincy, IL, USA.
Getting Right to the Point of Levinas's Politics.

 

17: 30 - 18: 00
Prof. Nadia Nedjalkova, French Language School and Cultural Studies Department, Sofia University
Jewish Apocalyptic and the Principle of the Otherness according to Levinas.

 

18: 00 - 18: 30
Prof. Raicho Pozharliev. Department of Philosophy, Sofia University.
Phenomenology of the Nourishment.

 

18: 30 - 18:45 Discussion

 

 

Round Table

 

19: 00 - 19: 15
Suzanne Metselaar, M. A., Dept. of Philosophy,Vrije
University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Neglected Side of Logos. Levinas' Revaluation
of Descartes

 

19: 15 - 19: 30
Ákos Krassóy, Researcher, Catholic University,
Leuven; Doctoral Student at ELTE Budapest
Levinas, Representation, and Art

 

19: 30 - 19: 45
Ivelina Ivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Philosophy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Todor Christov, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Naked Life of the Otherness

 

19: 45 - 20:00 Oleg Mukhutdinov, Ural State University,
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Ethics or ontology?

 

20: 00 Discussion

 

 

28 of October

 

10: 00 - 10: 30
Prof. Denise Egéa-Kuehne, College of Education, Louisiana State University, USA
Levinas's "Idea of a Possibility"

10: 30 - 11: 00
Prof. Lyubomir Christov, University of Plovdiv and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Face as a Reference Topos

 

11: 30 - 12: 30 Discussion

 

12: 30 - 14: 00 Lunch break

 

14: 00 - 14:30
Dr. Vasiliki Tsakiri, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Patras, Greece.
The Persecuted Other: Levinas Perception of
Kierkegaard

 

14: 30 - 15: 00
Prof. Krasimir Delchev, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
Some Questions to Levinas

 

15:00 - 15: 30
Prof. Angelos Mouzakitis, University of Crete and
Hellenic Open University.
Beyond the Realm of Death: From Dasein to
Infinity

 

15: 30 - 16: 30 Discussion

 

 

16: 30 - 17: 00 Coffee Break

 

 

Round Table

 

17: 00 - 17: 15
Prof. Ivailo Lazarov, Varna Open University, Bulgaria
Is the Hyperbola of Exteriority Acceptable from the
Point of View of Phenomenology?

 

17: 15 - 17: 30
Dr. Sarah Allen, Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University, Leuven.
Being or Otherwise than Being? Heidegger, Levinas, and the God of Metaphysics

 

17: 30 - 17 : 45
Will Buckingham, Staffordshire University, UK
Otherwise than Levinas: Crossing Over from Transcendence to Traversal

17: 45 - 18:00
Dr. Ernst Wolff, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria. The Quest for Justice versus the Rights of the Other?

 

18:00 - 19:00 Discussion

 

19: 15 - 19: 45 Closing lecture
Prof. Luc Anckaert, Chair of Jewish Philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain
The Problem of the "Nichts"(Rozenzweig) and of the "Il y a"(Levinas) as Condition of Ethical Freedom.

 

20: 00 Closing dinner for the participants: Celebration of Levinas' Centennial