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Conference Announcement Theme: Place/s of Thinking Subtitle: On the Claims of Inter "Cultural" Philosophy Type: International Conference Institution: Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna Institute for Arts and Sciences (IWK) Wiener Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie (WiGiP) Location: Vienna (Austria) Date: 26.–28.9.2013 __________________________________________________ Thinking happens at/in a place. Obviously, there always needs to be a site or a point of view where thinking occurs — a place at which a thought manifests, arrives, changes itself and proceeds along in new ways. At first, this statement sounds trivial and obvious. Of course, thinking in any manner presumes a place, just as every statement, every action, every sensation, and so forth does. It appears then that it would be nearly impossible for thinking to take place without actually taking place; thinking would simply have no impression or expression. Certainly, "place" can refer to a manifold of things — the body (lived and physical), political class, social status, (socialized) gender, language, cultural networks, lifeworlds, and last but not least (geographical) landscapes as well as (historical) time periods. All of these are, within each constellation, not only the places that condition thought, rather each appears to allow only a determined, bordered, and restricted type of thinking according to each sense of place. And yet, deeply penetrating experiences of thinking in both the past and present always again raise the claim of being universal and in this sense of being inter- and/or trans-cultural, which always means between bodies and beyond the body, between and beyond the strata and settings of geography, time, language, gender, skin color, and so on. The breadth of this problem prompts a question, namely, what are the theoretical approaches that can help us explore and understand the complexities of where thinking takes place? How can we comprehend this unfathomable concept of "a place", and why does it seem that thinking presupposes it — or rather, if anything, does place shape thinking? Can one speak at all of a "pure" place, unaffected by thinking, without running into problems? Or, on the contrary, does thinking have to be bound to a certain place? Might "universal" thinking be possible, in a way that thinks between and beyond places and that occurs always from elsewhere? Does a plurality of places change or resituate the apparent tension between thinking and place? Opening Speech: Georg Stenger (Vienna): Ort/e – Ortungen – Orientierungen Closing Speech: Franz Martin Wimmer (Vienna) Lectures: Oliver Bruns (Bremen/Oldenburg): Der politische Raum als verborgener Grund des metaphysischen Denkens. Hannah Arendts Deutung des ursprünglichen Verhältnisses von Politik und Philosophie bei den Griechen (The political realm as hidden ground of metaphysical thinking. The original relation of politics and philosophy according to Hannah Arendt) Choong-Su Han (Seoul/Freiburg): Heideggers Denken und sein Ort (Heidegger's Thinking and its locale) Christoph Dittrich (Cologne): Exteriorität und Grenze. Der locus enunciationis bei Enrique Dussel und Walter Mignolo (Exteriority and Border. The locus enunciationis of Enrique Dussel and Walter Mignolo) Jessica Dömötör (Berlin): Dominanz als Kategorie in der interkulturellen Philosophie (Dominance as a category of intercultural philosophy) Madeleine Elfenbein (Chicago): Trees of Liberty and Asiatic Germs: Rethinking Metaphors of Transmission in 19th-Century European and Ottoman Political Thought Eveline Cioflec (Durban): Weltentwurf' und die Verortung des Denkens (Projecting the World' or the Place of Thought) Anke Graneß (Bonn): Interkulturelle Weisheitsforschung (Wisdom research in an intercultural perspective) Patrick Hedfeld / Bernd Ulmann (Darmstadt): Programming languages as ideal languages Reyhaneh Heydari / Ahmadali Heydari (Tehran): Der Ort als menschliche Errungenschaft und Ausdruck der Verbindung des Himmels und der Erde am Beispiel iranisch-islamischer Architektur (Space as human achievement and result of the bond between earth and heaven on the example of iranian-islamic architecture) Hannah Holme (Berlin): Orte des Denkens und (Wahr-)Sprechens. Das Verhältnis von Wahrheit und Selbst bei Martin Heidegger und Michel Foucault (The place of thought and truth telling. The relation between truth and the self according to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault) Sophie Voegele / Karin Hostettler (Toronto / Basel): Gender and Sexuality as Place/s of Imperial Thinking. Approximations from a (post)colonial theory's perspective Christoph Hubatschke (Vienna): Territorien des Widerstandes. Von Ver-ortung und Ent-grenzung der Demokratie (Territories of resistance. The smooth places of democracy) Karin Hutflötz (Munich): Philosophieren im öffentlichen Raum – ein Ort des Denkens? Philosophize in Public Space – A Place for Thinking? Takashi Ikeda (Tokyo): "Wohnstätte" als übersehener Ort des Denkens: Eine feministische Perspektive zum Thema (Home as a lost place of thinking: A feminist perspective on the theme) Bruce B. Janz (Orlando, FL): Elements of Philosophy-in-Place: Learning from African Philosophy Lukas Kaelin (Stanford / Vienna): Das politische Denken unter den Bedingungen der medialen Öffentlichkeit (Political Thinking under the Conditions of the media public) Karin Kuchler (Vienna): A Genealogy of European Philosophy in the Context of the Darker Side of Enlightenment Kyoo Lee (New York): A Zeroing in on a Point Again: Placing Descartes' Chaogito in the Age of Instantaneous Global-Material Portability Peter Libbey (Pittsburgh): Shadow of the Other: Māyā/Avidyā and the Family of Hindu 'Visions' Kevin Liggieri (Bochum): "Am Ende hängen wir doch ab, von Wissen, das wir machten" – Das Labor als Ort der epistemischen Produktion und Konstruktion ("In the end we all depend on the knowledge that we made ourselves" – Laboratory as a place of episemic production and construction Giuseppe Menditto (Naples): Nishidas Basho im Gespräch mit dem griechischen und phänomenologischen Denken (Discussing Nishida's Basho in relation to greek and phenomenological thought) Ali Asghar Mosleh (Tehran): Kann die sufistische Tradition im Islam ein "Ort" für die Genese des interkulturelle Denkens sein? (Can Sufism in Islam be a "place" for originating the intercultural thought?) Krzysztof Nawratek (Plymouth): Place, Autonomy and Revolution: territorial conditions of untimely thinking Pritika Nehra (Delhi): Located in the World by Default: Perspectives on Hannah Arendt and Indian Philosophical thought on Temporality Barbara Reisinger (Vienna): Ausdehnung und Milieu. Überlegungen zum Raum in der niederländischen Interieurmalerei (Extension and Milieu. Thinking about Space in Nederlandish Interior Scenes) Britta Saal (Düsseldorf): Der Ort des interkulturellen Denkens als Raum in Bewegung (The place of intercultural thinking as space in motion) Martin Savransky (London): Casting Off From Modernity: Speculative Thinking and Potential Spaces Annika Schlitte (Eichstätt): Brücke, Tür und Tempelschwelle – Denkorte bei Simmel, Cassirer und Heidegger (Bridges, Doors and the Threshold of the Temple – Places of Thought in Simmel, Cassirer and Heidegger) Ulrich Seeberg (Halle) Ästhetische Erfahrung und die Orte des Denkens (Aesthetic experience and the views of thinking) Fabian Steinschaden (Vienna): Das Denken der Nicht-Orte (The Thinking of Non-Places) Ben Yagi Tsutomu (Berkeley / Freiburg): Exiled in the Mother Tongue: Gadamer's Contribution to the Question of Heimat and Fremde Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi (Abuja): Understanding the Contestation of Place in Critical Thinking through an Insight from African Philosophy Location: Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG) 3rd floor Universitätsstr. 7 1010 Vienna Conference participation is free of charge, but we would appreciate if you registered via e-mail. Conference website: http://ortedesdenkens.univie.ac.at Contact: Murat Ates and James Garrison University of Vienna Department of Philosophy (NIG, D0302) Universitätsstr. 7 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: murat.a...@univie.at or james.garri...@univie.ac.at Web: http://ortedesdenkens.univie.ac.at __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________