THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

  ISSEI
International Society for the Study of European Ideas

in cooperation with

 

  

 

July 2 – 6, 2012

 

 

The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity:

Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy

 

WORKSHOPS

 

I: History, Geography, Science

II: Economics, Politics, Law

III: Education, Women's Studies, Sociology

IV: Art, Theatre, Literature, Music, Culture

V: Language, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology,

Religion

 

If you are interested in participating in one or more of the following workshops please contact the Chair of the workshop directly.  If you are not sure for which Workshop your paper would be most suited please send a short abstract of your paper to Prof. Ezra Talmor (issei@nachshonim.org.il).  He will then suggest a workshop Chair for you to contact.

To see the description of the workshop and the contact information for the workshop Chair please click on the title of the workshop.

 

 

 

v     Environmental Humanities and the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity

         Chairs: Janet Fiskio and Ted Toadvine

 

v     Man and Machine: The Relationship between Humans and Technology in Philosophy and the Arts

         Chair: Marja Härmänmaa

 

v    Cyprus: History and Politics or Why Context is Decisive

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v     Ethics and Biotechnology

         Chair: Horst Jesse

 

v     Maps of Dialogue - Spaces and Dimensions for the Integration of Regional Cultures

         Chair: Fernando Kuhn

 

v     Thinking Critically about Technology from an Educational Perspective: Implications

         for Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Chairs: Nicos Valanides and Charoula Angeli

 

v     Cyprus and Her Neighbours: A Long History

         Chairs: Jonathan Warner and David Lovell

 

 

v     Technology, Transcendence and Subjectivity

         Chair: Arianne Conty

 

v     The Situation of the European National, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities:

         Politic, Social, Cultural, Human Aspects

         Chair: Swetlana Czerwonnaja

 

v    “Agreeing to disagree”—Cultural Identity and Cultural Policy in the EU

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v    Cyprus: History and Politics or Why Context is Decisive

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v     Europeanisation and Social Transformation: Legal vs. Cognitive Aspects of Change

Chairs: Christina Ioannou and Giorgos Kentas

 

v     Great Power Politics in Cyprus, 1878–2004

         Chair: Michalis Kontos

 

v     Democracy and Religion in the Treshold of the XX and XXI Centuries

         Chair: Maria Marczewska-Rytko

 

v     Diversity in Economics

         Chair: Dietmar Meyer

 

v     Legal Language

         Chair: Francis J. Mootz, III

 

v     Religious Cultures, Diversity and Pluralism in Cyprus      

         Chair: Victor Roudometof

 

v     The Emergence of the “e-books” Market: Legal and Cultural Perspectives

         Chair: Tatiana Synodinou

 

v     Promoting Gender Equality

         Chair: Sofia Agathangelou

 

v     Teaching and Teacher’s Education

Chairs: Sofia Agathangelou and Lefkios Neophytou

 

v     The Challenge of Ancient 'Feminism': Untraditional Women in Greek Drama

         Chair:  Ioanna Hadjicosti

 

v    Sport and Olympic Education: Ethical and Scientific Challenges

       Chair: Clea Hadjistephanou

 

v     The Monstrosity of Tolerance Talk: Subjection, Racialization and

         Control in Educational Policies of Integration and Multiculturalism

Chairs: Alexandra Halkias and Zelia Gregoriou

 

v     Female Beauty in Art: History, Feminism, Women Artists

         Chair: Maria Ioannou

 

v     Risk-Taking in Thought and in Deed: Towards a New Conception

of the Development of Professional Knowledge and Practice

         Chair: Alison Iredale

 

v     Education and Open Access Repositories: Policies, Law and Future prospects

         Chairs: Nikos Koutras and Elisa Makridou

 

v     Women in Educational Leadership:  Overcoming the Barriers

Chairs: Maria Eliophotou Menon and Anastasia Athanasoula-Reppa

 

v     Electromediative Art Education

         Chair: Tarkko Oksala

 

v    Curriculum as an Ideological and Political Mega-Field Text for Targeting

         Religious Education (in Greek)                                         

         Chair: Iliana Papadopoulou

 

v     The Aims and Purposes of History Education

         Chair: Lukas Perikleous

 

v     Multiple Profiles of Educational Philosophies: Implications for Children, Peace and Hope (in Greek)

Chairs: Alexios Petrou, Michalinos Zembylas, and Agni Stylianou Georgiou

 

v     A Matter of ‘Discipline’? Revisiting Curriculum as pedagogic Text

Chair: Stavrpoula Philippou

 

v     Teaching Students to Become Cosmopolitan Citizens? Prospects and Challenges for

         Teacher Education

         Chairs: Klas Roth and Marianna Papastephanou

 

v     Thinking Critically about Technology from an Educational Perspective: Implications

         for Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

         Chairs: Nicos Valanides and Charoula Angeli

 

 

v     Reconciling Narratives of Time and Self             

Chairs: Valtteri Arstila and Kalle Pihlainen

 

v     Academic Skepticism: Philosophical Reflections on Knowledge and Rhetoric

         Chairs: Sébastien Charles and Luiz Eva

 

v     Literature and the Other Disciplines: Boundaries and Interfaces

         Chair: Mark Gelber

 

v     Man and Machine: The Relationship between Humans

         and Technology in Philosophy and the Arts

         Chair: Marja Härmänmaa

 

v     Brecht in Cyprus and Greece:  Attempts to Bring the Present-Day-World on Stage

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v     Brecht's Model: Not an Answer but an Opening

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v     Homer and Ancient Greek Drama, or Why are Actions More Reliable than Words

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v     The Aesthetic of Old Age or what, if anything, do the Many Examples of Great Old-Art

         Have in Common?

         Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus  

 

v     Concentrationary Imagery in Archives, Museums and Literature

         Chair: Banu Helvacioglu

 

v     Maps of Dialogue - Spaces and Dimensions for the Integration of Regional Cultures

         Chair: Fernando Kuhn

 

v     Electromediative Art Education

         Chair: Tarkko Oskala

 

v     Narrativity and Ethics: The Relationship of Truth and Subjectivity

         Chairs: Brayton Polka and Edna Rosenthal

 

v     Recognition, Reconciliation and Representation in Literature and the Arts

         Chair: Aurelia Roman

 

v     Philosophy, Literature, Psychoanalysis: the “Uneasy” Trinity

         Chair: Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

 

v     Memory and Truth in Art, Literature and Historical Science: Ethical and

         Epistemological Challenges

         Chairs: Barbara Törnquist-Plews and Johanna Lindbladh

 

v     The Challenging Response and the Combating Reconciliation of

Literature and Language as Narrative: An Ethical Discourse

Chair: K. L. Verma

 

v     Experience at the Limit(s) of Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

         Chair: Erik Vogt

 

v     Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue

         Chair: Ann Ward

 

v     Commodifying Aesthetics in the Era of Facebook and Twitter:

An Exploration of the Triangular Relationship between Art,

Commerce, and Technology in a Global World

Chair: Peter Zazzali

 

           

 

v     European Nihilism: Concept, Philosophy, Critique of Science and Contemporary Relevance

         Chair: Mats Andren

 

v     Reconciling Narratives of Time and Self             

         Chairs: Valtteri Arstila and Kalle Pihlainen

 

v     Religion and Science

         Chair: Ramazan Bicer

 

v     Letters by Early Modern Philosophers

         Chair: Filip Buyse

 

v     Academic Skepticism: Philosophical Reflections on Knowledge and Rhetoric

         Chairs: Sébastien Charles and Luiz Eva

 

v     Universalism to the Test of History and Geography

         Chair: Frank Chouraqui

 

v     Technology, Transcendence and Subjectivity

         Chair: Arianne Conty

 

v     From Hic et Nunc to the Apocalypse: How Do We Transfer Ourselves into the Future?

         Absolute versus Relative Values

         Chair: Theodor Damian

 

v     Philosophy, Action Research, and the Emerging Socially Distributed Mode of

         Knowledge Production

         Chair: Olav Eikeland

 

v     Rationality and Religion: A Perspective from Human Action              

         Chair: Yolanda Espiña

 

v     Environmental Humanities and the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity

         Chairs: Janet Fiskio and Ted Toadvine

 

v     Phenomenology towards the Crisis: Philosophy, Science, and the Call for a New Epoch

         Chairs: Tziovanis Georgakis and Christos Hadjioannou

 

v     Philosophy before Biopolitical Frontiers: Precarious Humanity, Impossible Witnessing?

         Chair: Zelia Gregoriou and Alaxandra Zavos

 

v     Philosophical Narrative Confronted with the Challenge of Postmetaphysical Thinking

       Chair: Boris Gubman

 

v     Man and Machine: The Relationship between Humans

         and Technology in Philosophy and the Arts

         Chair: Marja Härmänmaa

 

v     Europeanisation and Social Transformation: Legal vs. Cognitive Aspects of Change

Chairs: Christina Ioannou and Giorgos Kentas

 

v     Understanding Perspectivism and Nietzsche (Perspectivism in Art,

         Science, and Philosophy)

Chairs: Endre Kiss and Uschi Nussbaumer-Benz

 

v     Science in the 17th Century and the Principle of Individuation

         Chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles

 

v     Democracy and Religion in the Treshold of the XX and XXI Centuries

         Chair: Maria Marczewska-Rytko

 

v     Language as a Form of Lying

Chair: Constantinos Maritsas

 

v    Curriculum as an Ideological and Political Mega-Field Text for Targeting

         Religious Education (in Greek)                                         

Chair: Iliana Papadopoulou

 

v     Philosophical Echoes from the Prison Cell: From Socrates

and Boethius to Antonio Gramsci and Toni Negri

Chair: Marianna Papastephanou

 

v     Multiple Profiles of Educational Philosophies: Implications for Children, Peace and Hope

Chairs: Alexios Petrou, Michalinos Zembylas, and Agni Stylianou Georgiou

 

v     Narrativity and Ethics: The Relationship of Truth and Subjectivity

         Chairs: Brayton Polka and Edna Rosenthal

 

v     Religious Cultures, Diversity and Pluralism in Cyprus      

Chair: Victor Roudometof

 

v     The Seventeenth-Century Origins of the Modern Academic Disciplines

Chair: Benjamin Sax

 

v     Image / text / medium

Chairs: Hans-Peter Soeder and Lia Yoka

 

v     Philosophy, Literature, Psychoanalysis: the “Uneasy” Trinity

Chair: Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis

 

v     Memory and Truth in Art, Literature and Historical Science: Ethical and

         Epistemological Challenges

         Chairs: Barbara Törnquist-Plews and Johanna Lindbladh

 

v     The Challenging Response and the Combating Reconciliation of

Literature and Language as Narrative: An Ethical Discourse

Chair: K. L. Verma

 

v     Reconsidering the Divide between Analytic and Continental Philosophy

         Chair: Andreas Vrahimis

 

v     Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue

         Chair: Ann Ward

 

v     Narratives of Public Space: The Depth Dimension of Sociality

Chairs: Barbara Weber and James Mensch

 

 

Conference Co-Chairs:

 

Marianna Papastephanou

Dept. of Education

University of Cyprus

61, Kallipoleos St.

P.O. Box 537 Nicosia

Cyprus

edmari@ucy.ac.cy

Ezra Talmor
Kibbutz Nachshonim
D.N. Merkaz, 73190
ISRAEL

Tel: +972-3-938-6445
Fax: +972-3-938-6588

Email: ISSEI@nachshonim.org.il

 
 
 

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