History and Philosophy ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Francesco Porchia ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Inspiration and Creation. The relationship between philosophy and poetry in Schelling’s Ph University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Perugia / Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education Abstract of the contribution: Inspiration, imagination and interpretation are fundamental themes within Schelling’s aest gives unity to though? What unites individuals in society?». Art is the instrument that ca interpretation. In the later Schelling, the importance of art seems to be attenuated: the revelation?». Revelation is God’s weakness, but at the same time it constitutes his power, is a blind force that overcomes the contradiction between the finite and the infinite: thi artistic figure in His attempt to seek the finite, to shape it and redeem it. Contrary to what it would seems in the Philosophy of Revelation, art does not assume a mar relationship between art (poetry above all) and philosophy then changes. Poetry is the nat an authentic way of poetising. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Martino Abbruzzese ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: The spectral foundation of Inspiration: an “hauntological” lecture of Ion University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Perugia / Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education Abstract of the contribution: This contribution questions the source of inspiration. Where intuition reveals itself to b to a mechanism of 'revelation'. The question arises at the moment of identifying such alte 'inspiration'? Such an issue will lead, at first, back to a certain contradiction that ani by the poet, he does not make explicit, except through allegory, who or what originates in identifying this otherness at the origin of artistic inspiration, which in Plato remains, spectral foundation of Inspiration, implementing and elucidating the Platonic vagueness pr other, to what role is the one who is inspired called? To imagine the application of a rev The answer, as we shall see, will not be to close this paradox, but to accept it forcefull Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Simon Francesco Di Rupo ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Imagining the sacred. Limits and potential of Roger Caillois perspective University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Perugia / Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education Abstract of the contribution: Is it possible to "imagine" the sacred? Is it a fantasy operation, or is it an intuition c sociology that studies the sacred according to the Durkheimian lesson, that is, as a pheno If this is true in the case of L'homme et le sacré (1950), in the last Caillois de L'?crit stones, to a "natural aesthetic". The surprising legacy of the signs of the times on the s is traveled backward. The apparently involuntary drawings present in some incredible stones, however, write and Marguerite Yourcenar notes, Caillois opposes a rejection of ephemeral humanity that does n Contemporary art, according to our author, helps and supports this particular speculative interpreting it, educating himself to know how to see beyond mere representation, going to The stone represents the atavistic search for what Caillois defines as an "immortal autogr Caillois emphasizes creaturely beauty without ever openly considering it as such; his asym Soderblom, Otto), accompanied by an esthetology imbued with mysticism. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * David A. De Pablo A. ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: The representations of the main characters of Islam in the Kingdom of Castile in the 13th University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles University / Faculty of Humanities, Department of Anthropology Abstract of the contribution: In the long conflict between Christian and Muslim kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula during focused on the actors of that present but also very notably on historical-mythical charact area, taking into account the critical analysis of Orientalism, in which Edward Said place Ages until the 20th century. From my point of view and taking into account the content of share similar features and symbolic importance. In this sense, these representations are c the dominance over the disputed territory. The study seeks to analyze the representations how those representations linked the past with the present in an imagined world, giving me Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Ediz Hazir ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Religious Belonging and Multinational Encounters in “Infidel Izmir” Past and Present University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles University / Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of International Studies, Russi University of Groningen, The Netherlands / Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Chri Abstract of the contribution: In Turkey, the Roman Catholic Church faces an uncertain future as it lacks official recogn This article focuses on the perseverance of the multicultural Roman Catholic community of Lady of Lourdes resulted from people of different backgrounds (i.e., Europeans, African st transformation throughout the years. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Daria Murzina ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Heinrich Schliemann: «I never forgot Troy». On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Heinr University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty / Institute of Christian Art History Abstract of the contribution: Heinrich Schliemann: self-taught archaeologist, founder of Mycenaean archeology, discovere his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood? There’s no doubt that Heinrich Schliemann lived a bright life, was an extraordinary person Schliemann was not deprived of imagination, possessed a lively mind, amazing purposefulnes A rather difficult youth, according to Autobiography, taught Schliemann to look for altern flair and imagination made Schliemann listen to Frank Calvert and begin excavations on the scientists with whom he worked on the excavations of Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns and also to the Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Jansone Ilze ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Literature as Media for Theological Reflection University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Latvia Abstract of the contribution: In the research “Literature as Media for Theological Reflection:” the author defines diffe reflecting modern religiosity, or religiosity of the time it was written. Also, it gives a texts, but Harry Potter series can be read as text with religious motives; analysis and ap theologies or even challenging to them. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Samuel Vahovský ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Cultural localisation in poetry translation University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Abstract of the contribution: The contribution aims to lay the very fundamentals of cultural localisation and to commenc determined and applied to translation of the selected poems by Oľga Urminská, an author wh specifically in the Hawaiian Islands, where her family emigrated in 1968. The language of cultural background of the Islands, including local realities and epochal particularities; specifics, we shall present the most notable pitfalls of the translation of the selected p of the selected poems by Oľga Urminská shall then be presented, stating the most crucial s significant importance. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Zuzana Wrana ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Evil Mythical Creatures in Maltese Tradition and Folklore; A Collection of Old Maltese Fai University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Masaryk University / Faculty of Arts / Department of Classical Studies Abstract of the contribution: Manwel Magri (1851-1907) was an outstanding Maltese linguist, archaeologist and a devout p Maltese traditions and to collect and record the cultural heritage and fairy tales of the In all, Magri collected 62 tales (some of which have 13 variants) by visiting Maltese citi they shed light not only on the way people lived, but also on the interactions and importa been transmitted by oral tradition, which may to some extent mirror the collective nationa with Arabic ones that creates unique stories in Malta that straddle three religions: Islam While giants, witches and dragons, and other creatures representing evil in stories, appea Imphalla. The traditional Maltese obsession with maintaining spiritual (or ritual) purity violated the strict codes of conduct that characterised 19th century Maltese island pre-in Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Nikolena Nocheva ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Social violence, its functions and what lies in-between: What do Dostoevsky and Süskind ha University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles University / Faculty of Social Sciences Abstract of the contribution: The present article proposes an ontological reconstruction of the concept of social violen brief, the concept entails that the cracking of our habitual perceptions permits us to exp from peace studies and Juri Lotman’s critical geographies are used to bring about social i circulate and transfuse into cultural mechanisms in the literary novels of Patrick Süskind their ways to ‘fracture’ and re-invent the habitual structural explanations of the peace-v peace, provided that conceding violence and its conditions for possibility are approached humanities and security studies scholars. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Klára Madunicka ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Mephisto's motifs in the directorial work of Jozef Bednárik University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Abstract of the contribution: In this thesis, the Mephisto´s motifs using in theatre productions directed by Jozef Bedná productions. The aim is to point out the frequent presence of Mephistopheles motifs in the important phenomenon of directing interpretation practice and a personal artistic memento in the text (for example Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus; Charles Gounod: Faust and Ma Charles Gounod: Romeo and Juliet; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni). The aim of the w interpretive purpose. At the same time, on the basis of these analyses, we characterize Jo opinion of other directors. We will try to name not only the external features of Bednárik will point out the strong internal links between the individual productions, which in Bedn makes Jozef Bednárik one of the most interesting directors of the turn of the 20th and 21s Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Anna Chejnová ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Sacred Mission or Bloodshed Unjustified? Representations of Colonialism in Czechoslovak Tr University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles University / Faculty of Humanities Abstract of the contribution: Czechoslovakia enjoyed a particular position within the post-war colonial discourse, which conceptual framework of Said´s orientalism. The Czech lands do not namely fit into any cat world. All this put Czechoslovakia in a unique, albeit ambivalent position. Even so, the c constructed in Czechoslovak travelogues, and what influence had the representations of the The aim of this talk will be on two different interpretations based on travelogues written travelers of their time, and whose travelogues consist largely of a critique of the coloni Frič visited Egypt together, publishing a travelogue “Pod egyptským půlměsícem” as a resul scholarly and travel literature, of which the “Jeho veličenstva pyramidy”, written about E Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] ****************************************************************************************** * Tomáš Razím ****************************************************************************************** Title of Contribution: Imagining East and West in the 1990s Czech Republic: The Western Expatriate Experience University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles University / Faculty of Humanities Abstract of the contribution: This paper builds on the rich body of literature dealing with the imagology of East and We previous “South vs. North” polarity during the period of Enlightenment and later took on a fringe) would follow the example of the West and would try to “catch up”. The Cold War ide Eastern Europe of the 1990s offers the perfect social context to explore this process of r The dismantling of the Iron Curtain opened up opportunities for travel and exchange of ide of East and West as expressed by Western expatriates who came to the Czech lands in 1990s as “the East”. It also takes into consideration the ideas of “the West” held by the Czech experiences with the tropes which have been repeatedly emerging in images of East and West Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"]