Thomas Sturm: Rationality, irrationality, and the war in Ukraine
Les émissions radiophoniques de Thomas Mann "Auditeurs allemands ! (1940-1945) et son débat avec les "émigrés intérieurs" à la lumière de l'expérience actuelle
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Séminaires précédents:
- 16 septembre — Watch on YouTube
- 30 septembre — Watch on YouTube
- 7 octobre — Watch on YouTube
- 14 octobre — Watch on YouTube
- 21 octobre — Watch on YouTube
- 28 octobre 17:00–19:00
Séminaire de l'Institut de Philosophie Indépendant Les outils philosophiques dans l’analyse des défis contemporains au Centre d’histoire des philosophies modernes de la Sorbonne ( HIPHIMO )
Séminaire organisé par Dr. Prof. Yulia Sineokaya
Les outils philosophiques dans l’analyse des défis contemporains
Depuis le siècle des Lumières et le célèbre débat sur la philosophia popularis, la philosophie a été confrontée à plusieurs reprises à la question de son utilité auprès d’un large public et de sa capacité à fournir des réponses aux défis contemporains. Cette philosophie « populaire » peut-elle conserver son caractère systématique ou doit-elle se réinventer méthodologiquement pour résoudre des problèmes spécifiques ? Au regard de la perspective d’aujourd’hui, cette question semble plus pertinente que jamais, étant donné la complexité des problèmes posés par les crises politiques, économiques et existentielles qui menacent la stabilité des structures démocratiques et provoquent des changements sociaux rapides.
Notre séminaire vise, d’une part, à appliquer les outils philosophiques pour analyser une diversité de problèmes interdisciplinaires contemporains. Cela englobe les évolutions récentes et en cours dans les domaines sociaux et politiques, ainsi que les découvertes scientifiques et les tendances culturelles. D’autre part, il s’agit étudier les phénomènes du monde moderne en les replaçant dans le contexte de l’histoire de la philosophie. Cet objectif est également une tentative de répondre à la critique croissante selon laquelle la philosophie contemporaine s’intéresse principalement à des problèmes abstraits détachés des questions de la vie réelle. Nombre de nos sujets sont associés à la Russie, car les événements survenus depuis février 2022 ont considérablement influencé le paysage politique et intellectuel international.
2024
29 janvier, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Igor Ebanoidze (University of Bochum)
An unlearned lesson: Thomas Mann's radio addresses "German listeners!" in the light of today's experience
12 février, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Daniela Steila (University of Turin)
The image of Russia as an exception in European history and culture: from embracing a destiny to claiming a mission.
25 mars, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Nikolaj Plotnikov (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Les conflits de justice. Sur l’histoire conceptuelle de la „justice“ à l’exemple de l’histoire intellectuelle russe.
22 avril, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Sergei Medvedev (Charles University, Prague)
From biopolitics of care to necropolitics of war: Uses of Biopower in Putin’s Russia
27 mai, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Vladimir Gel’man (University of Helsinki; Yerevan Center for International Education)
The Politics of Bad Governance: Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective
17 juin, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Randall A. Poole (College of St. Scholastica, co-director of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought, USA)
Nicolas Berdyaev and the Twentieth-Century History of Human Rights
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2023
25 septembre, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Dr. Alexey Zhavoronkov (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Russia’s ‘New conservatism’ as Pseudo-Conservatism
23 octobre, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Evert van der Zweerde (Radboud University)
Political Philosophy in Russia – Incurable Imperial Mindset?
20 novembre, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky (Collège des Bernardins)
Avec le retour de la guerre en Europe le nécessaire dépassement de l’amnésie occidentale et les voies possibles de jugement des crimes du communisme
Dr. Yurii Latysh (European Humanities University of Vilnius)
Ukraine's Memory Politics during the War
11 décembre, 18:00–20:00
Dr. Prof. Thomas Sturm (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Rationality, irrationality, and the war in Ukraine
Seminar de Antoine Arjakovsky: Avec le retour de la guerre en Europe le nécessaire dépassement de l’amnésie occidentale et les voies possibles de jugement des crimes du communisme et de l’impérialisme
Nous savons que le non jugement des crimes du passé communiste conduit à leur justification puis à leur répétition. Le kholodomor, le génocide par le froid pratiqué par la Russie contre l’Ukraine au cours de l’hiver 2022-2023, une population de plus de 40 millions d’habitants, est la répétition tragique du Kholodomor, le génocide par la faim auquel s’est livré, sur ordre de Staline, l’Union soviétique pour écraser l’Ukraine indépendante, un crime contre l’humanité qui fit plus de 5 millions de morts. De même alors qu’au début du XXIe siècle on croyait la Chine respectait le droit international, en 2013, le président Xi Jinping appela à « méthodiquement mener le travail de propagande externe » et à « mieux raconter l’histoire de la Chine et faire entendre la voix de la Chine ». Dix ans plus tard, le 21 novembre 2023, Lu Shaye, ambassadeur de Chine en France, nia sur LCI la souveraineté des pays issus de l'Union soviétique. Les pays de l'ex-URSS "n'ont pas le statut effectif dans le droit international parce qu'il n'y a pas d'accord international pour concrétiser leur statut de pays souverain", a-t-il notamment déclaré. L’ambassadeur chinois a également questionné l'appartenance de la Crimée à l'Ukraine, un territoire que la Russie occupe depuis 2014. "Cela dépend de comment on perçoit ce problème", a-t-il indiqué. "Il y a l'Histoire. La Crimée était, tout au début, à la Russie. C'est Khrouchtchev qui a offert la Crimée à l'Ukraine dans l'époque de l'Union soviétique." Pour le diplomate chinois, il faut arrêter de "chicaner" sur la question des frontières post-soviétiques.
Pour sortir de l’amnésie d’un côté, et de la propagande de l’autre, il convient de réhabiliter l’histoire authentique, fondée en métaphysique, capable de montrer la vérité, de faire émerger un récit thérapeutique, capable de guérir en profondeur les mémoires blessées, les ressentiments et les volontés de vengeance. On se propose au cours de cette brève intervention premièrement de mettre à jour la réalité du conflit mémoriel à la base de la guerre actuelle entre la Russie et l’Ukraine. Puis on rappellera certaines tentatives de jugement des crimes du communisme, notamment celle de Vladimir Boukovski, et on présentera brièvement la proposition de l’historien russe Nikolai Epplee de démocratisation du travail de justice historique. Enfin on insistera sur le fait que, comme l’avait déjà remarqué Nicolas Berdiaev qui comparait la 3e internationale communiste à la Troisième Rome impériale, la mythologie communiste est elle-même liée à la mythologie impérialiste sur un plan historique mais aussi à un niveau métaphysique. Ce n’est qu’en procédant à la purification de la théologie politique impériale qu’on parviendra à se libérer des démons qui hantent la conscience russe et, au-delà, la conscience européenne.
Seminar de Evert van der Zweerde: Political Philosophy in Russia – Incurable Imperial Mindset?
Against the background of these questions, I will address three further notions that seem to set the stakes of the discussion: anarchy, authority, autocracy. This “triple A” suggests a specificity (rather than a uniqueness) of political-philosophical thought in Russia and in Russian (with the additional, far from obvious question: where to find it? partly in odd places…). The latter part of this sentence, however, raised new questions, that have become, arguably, more pressing than they ever were as a result of the current military conflict in Ukraine that some will describe as “Russia’s War” while others persist in calling it “Special Military Operation” - turning contemporary Russian society into a “special operation” in the process. Is a neutral, distanced approach possible in this case? While we always should seek nuance and perspective, we cannot, nor should we abstain from judging, nor can we avoid the question how to assess the current conflict, which can be described, alternatively but not mutually exclusively, as a clash between civilizations, as a geopolitical conflict between two of several large blocks -Schmittian Großräume [large spaces]- in a multipolar world, or as part of the yet-not-processed Russian as well as Soviet past – the total absence of Vergangenheitsbewältigung [coming to terms with the past], which not accidentally is a German word.
Presupposing, despite all differences, continuity rather than rupture when it comes to the Tsarist Russian Empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the present-day Russian Federation, we need to address the question if and how the current situation is nourished and / or legitimized by important strands and concepts in the tradition of political-philosophical thinking in Russia / Soviet Union. While, again, simplification must be avoided, we can identity, I will suggest, a specific dynamics of, on the one hand, an imperial and, by implication, Russo-Centric logic that comes in two variants, a belligerent and a benevolent (and paternalistic) one, and, on the other hand, an anti-colonial and, by implication, plural logic than emphasizes national identity and, politically, sovereignty and self-determination. This dynamics can then, finally, be tied back to the concepts of “empire” and “nation-state” as the two main alternative models of political modernity, both standing in opposition to alternatives that challenge the very notion of “statehood”. The specificity, albeit not uniqueness, of the Russian case would then be the historical fact of an expanding empire that incorporates, by whatever means, its blizhnеe zarubezh’e rather than establishing a colonial empire with overseas colonies.
One of the very few good things about the current military conflict in Ukraine is that it forces us to readdress, reassess and reinvestigate the anyway complicated reality of Russian political philosophy.
30 Septembre [événement passé]
Organized by RASA and SEET
Moderator: Marina F. Bykova, North Carolina State University, USA
Management: Marina Bykova, Vitaliy Pronskikh, Yuliya Sineokaya, Sergey Chasovskikh
Liisa Bourgeot, University of Helsinki, Finland
Shpet and Berdyaev: Opposing Views on the Fate of Russian Philosophy.
Abstract: The phenomenologist Gustav Shpet was also supposed to emigrate on a philosophical ship, but he managed to stay in Russia. 1922 became a turning point in Shpet's personal career for another reason: it was then that his Sketch on the Development of Russian Philosophy was published. The lecture discusses Shpet's work and his highly critical attitude towards the history of Russian thought. Shpet claims that, on the whole, Russian philosophy was based on the idea of Russian national exceptionalism. In his opinion, such an approach effectively hindered the emergence of a "pure" and "rational" philosophy in Russia. Shpet holds a particular contempt for Nikolai Berdyaev, or "Beliberyaev," as Shpet calls him in his book.
Contrary to this, Berdyaev perhaps became the most famous of thinkers from Russian abroad. His popular Russian Idea, published in Paris in 1946, became a model for Western attitudes towards Russian thought: Russian philosophy - or even Russian culture as a whole - was considered an antipode to Western rationalism. In my presentation, I will compare the views of these two philosophers. How were they received by readers, and what role could they play in contemporary discussions?
Yulia Sineokaya, Sorbonne University & Independent Institute of Philosophy, France
Lev Shestov: overcoming existential anxiety
Abstract: The ongoing military aggression of Russia in Ukraine for the second year has intensified existential questions about faith and disbelief, duty and guilt, tragic meaningfulness and total absurdity of human existence, self-destruction, and violence. The texts of Lev Shestov (1866-1938) help counterpose careful philosophical analysis to the emotions of existential anxiety. Shestov's work is aimed at liberating people from the power of the "otherworldly" anonymous objective order, which condemns them to earthly, "otherworldly" suffering. The presentation will be devoted to the logic of the worldview search, which ultimately enables Lev Shestov to overcome existential anxiety by turning to mythical plots drawn from biblical texts, as well as the reception of his ideas in the works of his French interlocutors Boris Schlösse, Georges Bataille, and Benjamin Fondane. The worldview context within which Shestov's work will be considered is set by the creative works of authors such as Nietzsche, Unamuno, Camus, and Tillich.
Olga Lyanda-Geller, Purdue University, USA
The Multifaceted "Philosophical Steamboat": The Case of the Brutskus Brothers.
Abstract: Among the passengers of the "Philosophical Steamship" were not only philosophers, but also representatives of other disciplines. This report examines a relatively little-known case of the Brutskus brothers. Of the two brothers, the younger, Boris, was sent on the actual philosophical steamship. In the list of deportees prepared by the Cheka, Boris was listed as the fourth. The elder, Yuliy, was arrested and imprisoned in 1920. In 1922, he was deported by train to Lithuania.
Boris (Ber) Davidovich Brutskus (1874-1938) was an outstanding economist and agronomist whose views on the free market and planned economy contradicted Bolshevik ideology. After his exile, Ber Brutskus became a professor at the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin and later a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His book on economic planning in Soviet Russia was published in English translation in 1935, with a preface by future Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek.
Yuliy (Yudel, Julius) Davidovich Brutskus (1870-1951), a physician, journalist, historian, public figure, and deputy of the Constituent Assembly, was arrested primarily as one of the leaders of the Zionist movement. After his expulsion, he became a deputy of the Lithuanian Republic Seimas and Minister of Jewish Affairs. He was also one of the creators and leaders of the Society for Jewish Healthcare, of which Albert Einstein was the honorary chairman. Alexander Solzhenitsyn refers to Julius Bruckus's historical works on the history of the Khazars in his writings. While in Vichy France during World War II, Brutskus saved thousands of Jews from concentration camps by organizing the issuance of Lithuanian passports to them.
Such is the fate and contribution to the development of world civilization of just two passengers of the "philosophical steamboat".
Vladimir Marchenkov, Ohio University, USA
The Problem of Integrity in Russian Philosophy and the Integrative Trends in Global Thought of the 20th Century.
Abstract: My brief message is an overview and an attempt to position Russian philosophy of the idealistic direction among the efforts made by philosophers of different countries to develop integrating models of knowledge, culture, and history. Starting from Vl. Solovyov's teachings on holistic knowledge to contemporary international (if not to say global) Hegelianism, these attempts permeate the entire history of Russian and global thought in various fields. Alongside this continuity, the main theme in these tendencies has been and remains resistance to and the desire to overcome fragmenting, diffusive directions in philosophy, humanities, and social sciences. Not being an expert in the history of science, I will only briefly try to connect some scientific doctrines with these integration tendencies, among which theories of the noosphere, biosphere, and others occupy a particularly significant place and connect Russian thought with the global context.
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Dear colleagues and participants of the mini-conference!
We would like to draw your attention to the recently formed and registered Independent Institute of Philosophy (IIPh) in Paris. It is a professional association that brings together Russian-speaking researchers in the field of philosophy and other disciplines outside of Russia.
Seminar de Alexey Zhavoronkov: Le « nouveau conservatisme » russe comme pseudo-conservatisme
Depuis longtemps, il est devenu courant chez les universitaires et les non-spécialistes de parler d'un tournant conservateur en Russie au cours des 10 à 15 dernières années. Dans mon article, j'adopterai une approche différente, en affirmant que ce tournant est en fait anti-conservateur, car ses caractéristiques essentielles sont directement opposées à celles du conservatisme dominant. Dans la première partie, je donnerai six raisons pour lesquelles il est contre-productif d'utiliser le terme "conservatisme" pour décrire les développements sociaux et politiques en Russie avant et après le début de l'invasion de l'Ukraine. Dans la deuxième partie, je réintroduirai la notion de pseudo-conservatisme (empruntée à Adorno et Hofstadter) et j'expliquerai ses principaux éléments à partir des exemples spécifiques de la politique russe contemporaine, avec son instrumentalisation de divers discours (religieux, éthiques, juridiques et sociaux) dans le but de justifier son orientation situationnelle et anti-intellectuelle. Pour conclure, j'expliquerai comment la notion de pseudo-conservatisme peut nous aider à comprendre les développements sociaux et politiques en Russie non pas comme un cas isolé, mais comme faisant partie d'une perspective plus large de la crise mondiale du conservatisme.
15 June [Institut d'études slaves, Paris]
Institut d’études slaves, 9 rue Michelet 75006 Paris
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ПРОГРАММА / PROGRAMME
10:00
Вступительное слово / Introduction Юлия Подорога (Eur’Orbem, CERCEC/EHESS, Institut de philosophie indépendant)
10:10 – 10:40
Юлия Синеокая (HIPHIMO/INALCO, Institut de philosophie indépendant): Будущее Института философии в эмиграции
10:40 – 11:10
Екатерина Розова (Eur'Orbem, Institut de philosophie indépendant): Вопросы самоидентификации и проекты написания истории русской философии в эмиграции
11:10 – 11:30
кофе-брейк / pause-café
КРУГЛЫЙ СТОЛ / TABLE RONDE
11:30 – 12:45
модератор Дарья Синичкина (Eur'Orbem), Juliette Faure (Sciences Po de Paris), Françoise Lesourd (Université de Lyon), Константин Морозов (Мемориал,CERCEC/EHESS), Наталия Пашкеева (CERCEC/EHESS), Ilya Platov (INALCO)
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Organisation: Eur’Orbem, Sorbonne Université, Institut de Philosophie Indépendant
5 October, 19:00 CEST
Watch Live on YouTube:
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The war against Ukraine unleashed by Putin’s regime divided Russian society and triggered a “mobilisation” of history. The desire to understand the present by looking to the past and the attempt to explain the unknown through the analogy of the known is common, both for those who seek to justify this war and those who strongly condemn it. But do they equally understand their place in history and their responsibility to it? How much of the ‘historical’ can be found in our modernity and what is Russia’s place in it all? These proposed questions are to be discussed at the round table, which will bring together specialists in political thought and intellectual history.
Moderator – Andrey Oleinikov, Bielefeld University
Please note: the round table will be in Russian without translation.
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3882261746?pwd=SkErMzJxN1R0RjhvNW9XQlYvUHVkZz09
At the same time, (pseudo)conservative rhetoric often masks the problem of forced abortion. Gynecologists and psychiatrists repeatedly promote abortion among women with psychiatric diagnoses in order to avoid ‘transmitting the disease to their offspring’. In some cases, pregnant women in psychiatric hospitals are physically abused to induce a miscarriage. In Belarus, the current political situation has made it virtually impossible to monitor cases of violations of women's reproductive rights, including those held in closed security institutions (hospitals, maternity hospitals, neuropsychiatric dispensaries, and prisons).
Our goal is to draw attention to both sides of reproductive coercion – pregnancy promoting (including the use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies) and pregnancy avoiding - in relation to the violence and control produced by society and the state. Our main presentation will highlight the situation in Russia and Belarus. We kindly invite all participants to take part in the discussion following the main presentation, either (1) by giving their feedback on Russia and Belarus or (2) by making a comparison to other countries. The discussion will touch upon the following questions:
- What is the impact of domestic violence on reproductive coercion?
- How do the neoliberal logic of ‘bio-responsible parenthood’ and the statist biopolitical control coexist and influence each other?
- Do pro-life/pro-choice social movements and academic debates somehow shape this coexistence?
- What tactics do women use to avoid biopolitical control?
- What are the mechanisms of silencing violations of reproductive rights?
Authors of the main presentation:
- Sergei Shevchenko - Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (Belgrade, Serbia)
- Volha Davydzik - DFG Research training group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany)
- Anna Ozhiganova - DFG Research Center for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices in Global Perspective,” Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
- Olga Vinogradova - The Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel (IBMB), project: “Decision making in times of scarce resources: A mixed-method study” (Basel, Switzerland).
- Nadzeya Iliushenka - PhD student at European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).
- Alexey Zhavoronkov - Institute of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany).
For further information, please, contact: Sergei Shevchenko shevchenko_sergei@yahoo.com
Online event: Zoom
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La Bibliothèque Tourguenev à Paris a pris son nom quelque temps après la mort de l'écrivain, qui a soutenu l'initiative d'étudiantes nihilistes proches de narodniki et de la revue révolutionnaire Vpered! (« En avant ! »), publiée clandestinement à Paris. Ce n'est pas la seule entreprise de ce type en Europe, lancée par des jeunes radicaux et soutenue par le libéral Tourgueniev. Au fil du temps, la salle de lecture parisienne prend cependant une orientation de plus en plus bourgeoise, voire conservatrice ; la Révolution d'octobre, qui modifie radicalement la composition de la diaspora russe à Paris, ne fait que consolider cette tendance.
La Seconde Guerre mondiale met fin à l'existence de la bibliothèque : ses fonds sont transportés à Berlin, avec les collections des bibliothèques polonaise et ukrainienne de Paris. Après la guerre, les trois bibliothèques ont réussi à renaître de leurs cendres, les membres des loges maçonniques de Paris ayant joué un rôle essentiel dans la restauration de la Bibliothèque Tourguenev.
Les livres de l'actuelle Bibliothèque Tourguenev - dont certains se trouvaient encore sur les étagères de l'ancienne Tourgenevka - portent le tampon d'une grande variété d'institutions et d'associations d'émigrés. Aujourd'hui, la Bibliothèque Tourguenev n'est pas seulement une collection de livres au service de la population russophone de Paris, mais aussi un témoignage vivant de l'histoire complexe de la diaspora russe à Paris.
Ces deux histoires étroitement liées - la vie des Parisiens russes et le travail de la Bibliothèque publique russe - seront discutées lors de la conférence.
Conference: Rethinking the Rule of Law
Collège des Bernardins, Paris
Entrance tickets:
Day rate: 10 euros
Half-day rate: 5 euros
What political theologies and general metaphysics are possible in a secularized world? The return of war in Europe has led to the need for rethinking the philosophical and theological foundations of democracy in Europe. Some states, such as Russia and Hungary, today reject any authority to the traditions of political liberalism. In Western Europe, postmodern thinking increasingly questions the proper functioning of the rule of law.
In collaboration with the Association of Christian Philosophers, the Independent Institute of Philosophy, and the Russian Democratic Club.
The conference will address the following questions:
- Can positive law be correlated with metaphysical notions of justice?
- Can republican principles be applied outside of any metaphysical system capable of justifying and connecting them together?
- Is it possible to give a consistent character to political action and restore its meaning in multicultural and multireligious societies?
- Does Christian democracy have a future in the postmodern era?
- Can we reconsider the forms of political engagement within the European Union in the context of multiculturalism and multireligiosity?
- Do independent philosophers in Russia have resources to offer an alternative to the current political system? Is it possible to establish the institutions of the rule of law in Russia, while many of its citizens are deprived of rights and have endured the burden of antidemocratic propaganda for decades?
- Ultimately, what theological and metaphysical resources are available for rethinking the foundations and practice of political systems in Europe?
You can join the conference remotely via Zoom - for researchers accredited by the organizers, or purchase a ticket on-site (cash desk opposite).
PROGRAM
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM REGISTRATION
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PAPERS
WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION, HOW DO WE MOVE BEYOND ANTI-DEMOCRATIC POST-MODERNITY?
Moderator: Antoine Arjakovsky, historian, co-director of the Politics and Religions Department at the Collège des Bernardins
With the contributions of:
INTRODUCTION FOR EMANCIPATORY AND FRATERNAL INTERMEDIARY BODIES
Thérèse du Sartel, philosophy professor, co-founder of Café Dorothy, Paris
THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE: TOWARDS A POLICY OF TRANSMISSION
Théophile de Muizon, parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament
10:55 AM - 11:10 AM DISCUSSION
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM COFFEE BREAK
OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Rémi Brague, philosopher, member of the Institut de France
FROM THE WAR OF IDENTITIES TO PERPETUAL PEACE: REFOUNDING THE UNIVERSAL AND THE COMMON GOOD WITHOUT RATIONALISM OR ABSTRACTION. THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE
Emmanuel Tourpe, philosopher, member of the Catholic Academy
HOW TO BREAK FREE FROM POST-MODERN DIPLOMACY?
Book presentation: To overcome war: defeating Russian aggression against Ukraine and democracy, (Desclée de Brouwer, 2023)
Antoine Arjakovsky, historian, co-director of the Politics and Religion Department at the Collège des Bernardins 12:35 - 12:50 DISCUSSION
12:50 BOOK SIGNINGS
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
WHAT RESOURCES ARE NEEDED TO ESTABLISH A FAIR RULE OF LAW IN RUSSIA?
Session in English and French with no translation. English and French.
Featuring the following speakers:
RUSSIA: FROM "NATIONAL CIVILIZATION" TO THE RULE OF LAW
Yulia Sineokaya, PhD in Philosophy, President of IPI (Independent Philosophy Institute), Associate Researcher at HIPHIMO of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Associate Teacher-Researcher at CREE INALCO
WHO ARE THE IDEOLOGUES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE?
Juliette Faure, PhD in Political Science, Associate at CERI (Sciences Po, CNRS), Temporary Teaching and Research Attaché (ATER) at Paris Panthéon-Assas University
THE LIMITS OF LAW IN RUSSIAN PSEUDO-CONSERVATISM. THE CASE OF VALERY ZORKIN
Alexey Zhavoronkov, PhD in Philosophy, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
CHURCH AND STATE: NIKOLAI BERDYAEV'S VIEW OF THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
Ekaterina Rozova, PhD in Philosophy, Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Letters, Sorbonne University
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM DISCUSSION
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM BREAK
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CONCLUSIONS
Guennadi Gudkov, Russian politician, founder of the Russian Democratic Club in Paris
Igor Gran, writer