Calendar | Conference
Titanism: Figures of Social and Political Subjectivity between Superman and Nation-Builder
Fribourg, 23 - 25 May 2024
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“Become an Intellectual to Become a Factory Director?”: Dilemmas of the First Generation Belarusian Intellectuals on the Pages of Viktar Valtar's novel Born under Saturn
Zhyhal Ivan
Friday 24th, 14:45 - 15:30
UNIFR-3024
Dmytro Chyzhevs′kyi, Titanism, and the Modern Critique of Abstraction
Zehnder Christian
Thursday 23rd, 14:30 - 15:15
UNIFR-Guggi
The Figure of the Messiah in Levinas: Overcoming Titanism
Yampolskaya Anna
Friday 24th, 11:45 - 12:30
UNIFR-3024
Between Radical Ambiguity and Dramatic Finitude: Subject and Subjectivity in Jan Patočka's Thought
Toro Lorenzo
Saturday 25th, 09:00 - 09:45
UNIFR-3024
On Jan Patočka's Titanism. From Asubjective Phenomenology to the Solidarity of the Shaken, and Back
Sternad Christian
Saturday 25th, 09:45 - 10:30
UNIFR-3024
„Борец за право народа в искусстве титанов“. The Elements of Populist Terrorism in Avantgarde Practices and Discourses
Mrugalski Michał
Thursday 23rd, 16:00 - 16:45
UNIFR-Guggi
The Poetics of Recognition and the Poison of Resentment: The Case of the “Superman” Raskolnikov
Martin Erik
Friday 24th, 11:00 - 11:45
UNIFR-3024
La critique centre-européenne de l'absolutisme romantique. Étude de l'ironie et de la légèreté métaphysique comme antidote à la « Terreur lyrique »
Manhes Ulysse
Friday 24th, 16:45 - 17:30
UNIFR-3024
"You are no Titans!" The Acute Relevance of a Seemingly Peripheral Motive
Maiatsky Michail
Friday 24th, 09:45 - 10:30
UNIFR-3024
The Titanic Language of Memory (Nabokov, Kundera, Stepanova)
Flack Patrick
Saturday 25th, 11:00 - 11:45
UNIFR-3024
The “Great Man” as a Guiding Idea: The Origins of Tolstoy's and Dostoevsky's Napoleon Narratives and the Novel as the Genre for Negotiating Greatness
Fitzé Eliane, Michel Simon
Friday 24th, 09:00 - 09:45
UNIFR-3024