The 12th International Conference of

 

ISSEI

 

In cooperation

With

International Society for the Study of European Ideas

 

Thought in Science and Fiction

August 2 – August 6, 2010

 

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

 

I: History, Geography, Science

                       

 

v   GOD, JEWS AND GENTILES: CREATING THE UNIVERSE, WRITING SCIENCE

Chair: Ranjit Chatterjee

 

v   HANNAH ARENDT ON SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Chair: Chris Irwin

 

v   MAPS OF DIALOGUE—SPACES AND DIMENSIONS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF REGIONAL CULTURES

Chair: Fernando Kuhn

 

v   SCIENCE AND FICTION: PRODUCTS OF INVENTIVENESS

      Chair: Mildred Schachinger

 

v   SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, MEDICINE, SOCIOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE, AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

Chair: Ronald Schleifer

 

 

II: Economics, Politics, Law

 

 

 

v   THE THRESHOLD OF EUROPEAN CULTURE:  IDENTITY, UNIFICATION, AND TRANSNATIONALISM

                        Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v   POLITICAL CHANGE IN A SOCIETY: EAST GERMANY 1989

Chair: Horst Jesse

 

v   DREAMING ECONOMISTS—ECONOMIC DREAMS

Chair:  Gyorgy Kerekgyarto

 

v   TURKEY AND HER NEIGHBOURS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Chairs: David W. Lovell and Jonathan Warner

 

v   DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION

Chair: Maria Marczewska-Rytko

 

v   THE EMERGING ECONOMIES OF AFRICA: LESSONS FROM PRE-INDUSTRIAL EUROPE

Chair: Austin Monday

 

v   CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Rodica Melina Zaharia

 

 

 

III: Education, Women's Studies, Sociology

 

v   GENDER AND THOUGHT IN FICTION AND SCIENCE

Chair: Beatrice Puja

 

 

IV: Art, Theatre, Literature, Music, Culture

 

 

v   ARTISTIC THOUGHT—POSITIVISM AND/ OR FICTION (CRISIS OR EVOLUTION?)

Chair: Mihaela Albu

 

v   CONSCIOUSNESS, THOUGHT, AND ART

Chair: Stephen Barker

 

v   HUMANS AND NONHUMANS ENTANGLED: RISKY ATTACHMENTS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE

Chair: Calin Mihailescu

 

v   PAINTING THE SCIENCE AND THE FICTION

Chair: Jeremy Diggle

 

v   MIMESIS

                        Chair: Joachim Duyndam

 

v   THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL THOUGHT: SCIENCE, FICTION AND REALITY

Chair: Yolanda Espina

 

v   THE STRANGE ROLE OF THE ANIMAL IN WESTERN THOUGHT AND FICTION

Chair: Richard Findler

 

v   THINKING AND NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN FICTION AND IN THE HUMANITIES

            Chair: Boris Gubman

 

v   FASCISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Chair: Marja Härmänmaa

 

v   POETRY, RELIGION AND DIVERSITY:  CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

Chair: Heinz-Uwe Haus

 

v   “SHOULDN’T WE ABOLISH AESTHETICS?”—BRECHT’S USE OF SOCIOLOGY

Chairs: Heinz-Uwe Haus and Peter Zazzali

 

v   MAPS OF DIALOGUE—SPACES AND DIMENSIONS FOR THE INTEGRATION OF REGIONAL CULTURES

Chair: Fernando Kuhn

 

v   SCIENCE, NATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY IN WESTERN FICTION AND AESTHETICS

Chairs: Ingrid Makus and Douglas Moggach

 

v   PHILOSOPHY AND KAFKA

Chair: Brendan Moran

 

v   THEATRE AND UTOPIA

Chair: Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk

 

v   THE TRUTH OF MYTH AND THE MYTH OF TRUTH

Chairs: Brayton Polka and Edna Rosenthal

 

v   SCIENTIFIC RIGOR AND UNBOUND IMAGINATION IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Chair: Aurelia Roman

 

v   SCIENCE AND FICTION: PRODUCTS OF INVENTIVENESS

      Chair: Mildred Schachinger

 

v   MIND THE GAP: HYBRIDITY, REMEDIATION AND DISCONTINUITY IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Chair: Hans-Peter Söder

 

v   NARRATIVE AS THE IDIOM OF TRUTH

Chair: K. L. Verma

 

v   GENETIC HISTORICISM AND THE SEMIOTIC FICTION OF NATIONALISM: THEORIES OF LANGUAGE AND RACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN ART AND LITERATURE

Chair: Sharon Worley

 

 

V: Language, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Religion

 

v   BROADENING THE SCOPE OF ARCHITECTURAL CREATIVITY—BSAC 2009

                        Chair: Greg Andonian

 

v   CONSCIOUSNESS, THOUGHT, AND ART

Chair: Stephen Barker

 

v   RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Chair: Ramazan Bicer

 

v   SCEPTICISM BETWEEN SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY

                        Chair:  Sébastien Charles

 

v   GOD, JEWS AND GENTILES: CREATING THE UNIVERSE, WRITING SCIENCE

                        Chair: Ranjit Chatterjee

                 

v   HUMANS AND NONHUMANS ENTANGLED: RISKY ATTACHMENTS BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE

Chair: Calin Mihailescu

 

                  v   PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: THE POWER OF THE WORD AND THE WORLDS BORN OF IT

                        Chair: Theodor Damian

 

v   MIMESIS

                        Chair: Joachim Duyndam

 

v   THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL THOUGHT: SCIENCE, FICTION AND REALITY

Chair: Yolanda Espina

 

v   TOOLS OF TRANSFORMATIONS’ SOUND: ON THE ROAD TO AUTHENTIC SELF

Chair: Liv Evensen

 

v   THE STRANGE ROLE OF THE ANIMAL IN WESTERN THOUGHT AND FICTION

Chair: Richard Findler

 

v   FASCISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Chair: Marja Härmänmaa

 

v   BIBLICAL TEXT AND SECULAR THOUGHT: HERMENEUTICS BEYOND THE FAITH-REASON DICHOTOMY

Chair: Chris Irwin

 

v   HANNAH ARENDT ON SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION

Chair: Chris Irwin

 

v   THE DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN THOUGHT

Chair: Filip Ivanovic

 

v   THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Chair: Syliane Malinowski-Charles

 

v   PHILOSOPHY AND KAFKA

Chair: Brendan Moran

 

v   SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, MEDICINE, SOCIOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE, AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

Chair: Ronald Schleifer

 

v   THE LANGUAGE OF SIGNS: BETWEEN FACTS AND FICTION

Chair: Inna Semetsky

 

v   NIETZSCHEAN THINKING: BEYOND THE “TWO CULTURES”

Chair: Saul Tobias

 

v   HOW GOD DISAPPEARED FROM EUROPE: VISIONS OF A UNITED EUROPE FROM ERASMUS TO KANT

Chair: Annemarie van Heerikhuizen

 

v   THINKING MONSTROSITY (IN PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND LITERATURE)

Chair: Erik Vogt

 

v   LITERARY PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHIC LITERATURE

Chair:  Ann Ward       

 

 

             

                              

 

 

 

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