BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:04a9e7e9ccb1b553347047db7e96b622 CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20170216T073020 SUMMARY:V Kant-Bakhtin International Science and Practice Seminar “Human Being In A ‘Between’ ” LOCATION:Murmansk\, Russia DESCRIPTION:

Murmansk Arctic Starte University (M urmansk) and Nord University (Norway) are hosting V Kant-Bakhtin Internati onal Science and Practice Seminar “Human Being In A ‘Between’ ” from 15-1 6 March 2017 in Murmansk, Russia.

The tradition to hold annual Kant and Bakhtin international seminars ori ginally developed in the field of reflections on the borders and those cons equences that flow out of the fundamental liminal character of human existe nce. This area of research got the name ‘borderology’. Man is existent, evo lving on the borders, moreover, man is the creator of all possible borders and fearless researcher of the limits. Man is always “between” and always c onnects these or those extremes. Man combines the biological and social in oneself, he unwraps oneself between bodily cravings and spiritual impulses, his deeds are performed in-between the necessity, imposed by the laws of n ature and society, and freedom which is given to him as a priceless gift an d damnation.
According to the Russian philosopher Nikolay Berdyaev, “m an is intersecting point of two worlds... Inherently man is already disrupt ion in the natural world, he does not fit in it” (“Sense of creativity”).As such, Kant-Bakhtin seminar itself is “between” – in the intellectual space between cultural worlds and thinking traditions, between vital deman ds of concrete timepoint and the need to comprehend “eternal issues”. Both the geography of seminar participants and problematics have broadened durin g the five years. The fifth seminar, maintaining focus on borderology issue s, presupposes extension of concrete topics for discussion, among which rel ations between Man and Nature come to the fore in their ethic, politic and ecosophical aspects, and also the problem of sustainability and social deve lopment changeability.
Modern world is extremely changeable. This chan geability found its reflection in a big amount of actual philosophic concep ts: in the ideas of “runaway world” of A. Giddens, “liquid Modernity” of Z. Bauman, “modernity at large” of A. Appadurai and others. Nevertheless, thi s liquidity, border dissolution bring new challenges for humanity, and Kant -Bakhtin seminar defines the combination of efforts of philosophers and res earchers from different countries in order to comprehend these challenges i n attempt to find adequate answers as one of the main goals. In the long ru n, man is (self)consciousness which only can take place BETWEEN question-ch allenge and dignified reply.

Mai n topics for discussion:

M an on the border: ethical and philosophical implications.
Sustainab ility and changes: “liquid Modernity” and its ecosophical, political,econom ic, demographic,igratory,etc. challenges.
Characteristics and analy sis of sustainable variants of relationship between man and nature in diffe rent real-life practices and in cultural pattern.
The issue of maki ng connections and differentiations between man and nature in the history o f ideas.
Different ideas, concepts and mental impact to the underst anding of man and nature relationship.
The process and procedure of symbolization of different ways of making connections between man and natu re in culture and arts.
Philosophical aspects of ecology.
E cology, ethics and economics.

A call for abstracts and for application is now open, with a submission deadline of March 5th 2017.

Fo r more information about the rules for abstract, go to this link

CONTACT:Alexander Sautkin, PhD in Philosophy, Assoc. Prof. of Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Murmansk Arctic Stat DTSTAMP:20260509T194355Z DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20170315 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20170317 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR