Program 2024

4th International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture May 31 (Fri) – June 02 (Sun), 2024 The University of Nagano

Venue: The University of Nagano, Miwa Campus, Learning Hall (8-49-7 Miwa, Nagano City. 7mn of walk from Hongo StationNagano Dentetsu Line, 4th station, 7mn. From Nagano station).

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Link to the whole brochure with abstracts

Registration to participate as listener (ONLINE and IN PERSON)

https://forms.gle/ryp8FVD6z7HE4B3E8 

【Deadline】 28th May 2024.

We will send you Zoom Link by May 29th 2024.

Registration Fee: Free of charge 

Colloquium Program

Time Table

May 31, 2024

Introduction 9:15am-9:30am

Tomokazu Baba (Colloquium Chair)

Friday Panel, Ⅰ　9:30am-11:15am

  • Ionut Untea (Southeast University, Nanjing), “Topological Existential Engagements: Modern Local Identity and Postmodern Performativity”
  • Sikong Zhao (Institute of Philosophy, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), “The Metaphor of Messiah’s Chair from the Perspective of Modernity”
  • Felix S. H. Yeung (University of Essex), “Enlightenment’s ‘Good Mourning’: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment”
  • Discussion15min, Chair Rossen Roussev

Break　11:15am-11:30am

Art Session【ONLINE】11:30am-12:15pm

Antoine de Mena, “Life is savage”, Chair Tomokazu Baba

Lunch 12:15pm-1:15pm

Friday Panel, Ⅱ　1:15pm-3:00pm

  • 【ONLINE】 Fernando Gerheim (Federal University of Rio De Janeiro), ” Reflections on Art-Research Group Poéticas em Campo Experimental – PAX (Poetics in Experimental Field) in dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language regarding the articulation between Nature, Spirituality, and Culture”
  • Motohiro Kumasaka (Tokushima University), “Creating Little Deities To Be a Prayer to Nature and to Be a Player with Nature”
  • Ryo KIKUCHI (Sophia University), “Can We Love an Extraterrestrial? ‒ A Reflection on Love and Human Nature”
  • Discussion 15min,Chair Nicolaas Buitendag

Break　3:00pm-3:15pm

Art Session【ONLINE】3:15pm-3:45pm

Akiko Nakayama, “Hemispherical Portrait”, Chair Tomokazu Baba

Friday Panel Ⅲ 4:15pm-6:00pm

  • Kunimasa SATO (Ibaraki University), “Doxastic Transformation and Transformative Experiences That Cause Epistemic Conversions”
  • Stavroula Tsirogianni (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Slowing Down in the Age of Involution: A Case Study of the Black Box Space”
  • Ryan Adams (University of Memphis), “Association Comes Before Assent: Reconsidering Religious Epistemology in Social Terms”
  • Discussion15min, Chair Ve-Yin Tee

June 1st, 2024

Saturday Panel, Ⅰ 9:15am-11:00am

  • Songqi Han (the University of Tokyo),  Haoguang Li (Keio University), “Body as Line of Flight: A Deleuzian Account on Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology”
  • Ve-Yin Tee (Nanzan University), “Home Away from Home: Migrant Culture and Allochthonous Nature”
  • Huang Lu (TOHOKU University), “Speculative Realism, Phenomenology and the Truth in Empirical Science: A Defence of Husserlian Phenomenology against the Critique from Ancestrality in Meillassoux”
  • Discussion15min, , Chair Zhao Sikong

Break　11:00am-11:15am

Art Session【ONLINE】11:15pm-12:00pm

Aly Roshdy Aly Shalby (Helwan university – Cairo – Egypt), “Calm Canvas: A Visual Odyssey of Tranquility”, Chair Rossen Roussev

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

Saturday Panel, Ⅱ 1:00pm-2:45pm

  • Lucas Scripter (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), “Environmentalism and the Sublime”
  • Nicolaas Buitendag (North-West University, South Africa), “Between Nature and Society: The Anthropocene’s Challenge to Environmental Law”
  • Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė (Vilnius University), “(An)Aesthetics of the Anthropocene and the Problem of Landscape”
  • Discussion15min, Chair Fiona Tomkinson

Break 2:45pm-3:00pm

Art Session【ONLINE】3:00pm-3:45pm

Hannes Schumacher (Chaosmos ∞) “Strange Visitors”, Chair Rossen Roussev

Break 3:45pm-4:00pm

Saturday Panel, Ⅲ 4:00pm-5:45pm

  • Beth Harper (The University of Hong Kong) , “Delightful leisure and spiritual freedom: the gardener in comparative perspective”
  • Christian Krägeloh (Auckland University of Technology), “Unitlessness and Pure Experience: Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Psychology in Mindfulness Studies”
  • 【ONLINE】Narcisa Paredes-Canilao (University of the Philippines Baguio), “Mind-less dancing: The no-mind principle and indigenous epistemology of performance”
  • Discussion15min, Chair Stavroula Tsirogianni

Colloquium Dinner 7:00 p.m.

Location TBA

June 2nd, 2024

Sunday Panel, Ⅰ 9:15am-11:00am

  • Joff BRADLEY (Teikyo University), “Fūdo, technical milieu and the fourth ecology”
  • Keiko Ueda (Tokyo Metropolitan University), “Nature as ‘The Holy’ in Heidegger’s　Interpretation of a Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘As if it is a Day of Festival…’ ――An Approach to the Fundamental Eco-logy Based on the Holiness of Nature”
  • Rossen Roussev (St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo), “Nature, Culture, and Deconstruction: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Derrida”
  • Discussion15min , Chair Tomokazu Baba

Break 11:00am-11:15am

Art Session【ONLINE】11:15pm-12:00pm

Eugenia Gianno  (Chaosmos ∞)  “undergrass”

Lunch12:00pm-1:00pm

Sunday Panel, II 1:00pm-2:45pm

  • Tomokazu Baba (The University of Nagano), “Kaii Higashiyama and sympathy with landscape”
  • Roman PAȘCA (Akita University), “The Heart-mind as a Field: Cultivation, Spirituality and Nature in Japanese Philosophy”
  • Fiona Tomkinson (Nagoya University), “Ted Hughes and Nature: the Goddess of Complete Being and the Remains of Elmet”
  • Discussion15min, Chair Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė

Break 2:45pm-3:00pm

Closing discussion 3:00pm-3:30pm

Excursion 3:30p.m.~5:00 p.m.

Zenkoji Temple or Nagano Prefectural Art Museum Higasiyama Kaii Gallery

Closing Party 7:00 p.m.

Chair: You, International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture

June 3rd, 2024

Excursion:Togakushi Area 

Taking bus from Nagano Station