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The Notion of Interdisciplinarity in The Postmodern Condition
A session led by Edita Wolf
While grand narratives constructed by the means of metaphysical philosophy legitimate the modern condition of knowledge, incredulity toward metanarratives characterizes the postmodern condition. In his seminal text, Jean-François Lyotard explores the process of de-legitimation of knowledge claims vis-à-vis the end of grand narratives and the parallel emergence of a new legitimation secured in terms of performance and efficiency in the field of knowledge production. The system of disciplines rooted in speculative discourse is thereby replaced by practice justifiable only by the principles of performance and efficiency. On the basis of Lyotard’s text a revision is needed in relation to contemporary debates on theory of interdisciplinarity, where interdisciplinarity becomes either a political exigency or a notion that should yield a deeper meaning to the present status of knowledge production. Thus interdisciplinarity seems to work as a substitute for the old philosophical notions that is detached from the actual workings of today’s science. A re-reading of The Postmodern Condition, that is of an announcement of the end of the discipline of philosophy by a philosopher, will bring us to a reflection on interdisciplinarity as a particular practice that would not necessarily entail construction of a discourse of legitimation.
Readings:
Jean-François Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984 [1979].
Read the book or alternatively the introduction and pp. 31-70.
Violence and Democracy
Lecture by Michel Wieviorka within the frame of the cycle “Socio-Historical Confrontations” of the Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University).
Topic: Violence and Democracy.
Language: English.
Where: U Kříže 8, Praha 5 – Jinonice, auditorium 1034.
See the invitation in Czech.
Visegrad Forum: Michel Wieviorka, between Prague and Warsaw
Program
Thursday 25 February – Prague
11:00-12:30 AM
Lecture by Michel Wieviorka within the frame of the cycle “Socio-Historical Confrontations” of the Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University).
Topic: Violence and Democracy.
Language: English.
Where: U Kříže 8, Praha 5 – Jinonice, auditorium 1034.
5-7 PM
Lecture and debate organized by CEFRES in partnership with the French Institute in Prague.
Topic: Are European Intellectuals Afraid of the Decline of the West? Around Michel Wieviorka’s book Retour au sens. Pour en finir avec le déclinisme [Back to Meaning. Getting over with declinism].
Discussant: Pavel Barša (FF UK).
Language: French with Czech translation.
Where: at Kino in the French Institute, Štěpánská 35.
Friday 26 February – Warsaw
2 PM
Lecture and debate organized by the French Center of Warsaw University (CCFEF).
Topic: Terrorrism and Migration in Europe.
Language: French with Polish translation.
Moderator: Gregorz Dobiecki.
The Popularization of Entertainment, from the Enlightenment to Modernism: from West to East?
An international conference organized by CEFRES and EUR’ORBEM research center (Paris-Sorbonne University & CNRS).
Where: conference room – Na Florenci 3, building C, 4th floor.
Languages: English, French.
Program
9:30 – Welcome.
Panel 1: From Genres to Practices of Entertainment
Moderator: Stanislaw Fiszer (Lorraine University/ CERCLE)
9:45-10:10 – Olga Granasztói (Debrecen University) – Languages and Genres of Entertainment According to the Hungarian Library’s Sources.
10:10-10:35 – Diana Grgurić & Svjetlana Janković-Paus (Rijeka University) – Mediterranean Culture in Processes of Cultural Mobility – Rijeka’s Canzonette fiuman.
10:35-11 – Discussions.
– Coffee Break –
11-11:25 – Myriam Truel (Lille 3 University/ CECILLE) – Le Sonneur de la cathédrale and Les Marins, or How Russian Lubok Seizes Victor Hugo.
11:25-11:50 – Blanka Hemeliková (Academy of sciences in the Czech Republic) – On Cultural Transfer and Circulation in the Field of Popular Humour and their Limits: on the Material of Czech Satirical Magazines of the 19th century.
11:50-12:15 – Discussions.
– Lunch break –
Panel 2: Popularizing Entertainment in Practice
Moderator: Markéta Theinhardt (Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM)
2-2:25 – Claire Madl (CEFRES): Reading rooms and Lending Libraries: How They Fostered Reading As an Entertainment Practice.
2:25-2:50 – Veronika Čapská (Charles University) – Whose Laughter? What Subjects? Diversion and Entertainment in the Circles of Silesian Nobility Between Enlightenment and Romanticism.
2h50-3h10 : Discussions.
– Coffee Break –
3:30-3h55 – Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė (Vilnius University) – Melodramatic Reading and Promises of Serial Fiction at the End of 19th Century Lithuania.
3:55-4:20 – Jakub Machek (Charles University) – Adapting Global Patterns of Sensational Press to Local Audiences: The Examples of Illustrirtes Prager Extrablatt (1879-1882) and Pražský Illustrovaný Kurýr (1893-1918).
4:20-4:40 : Discussions.
– Coffee Break –
5-5:30 – Xavier Galmiche et Clara Royer – A Few Conclusions and a Discussion about the Future.
CEFRES library will be closed
From Wednesday 23 December 2015 to Sunday 3 January 2016, the library will be closed to the public. You can mail us to the following address: Claire@cefres.cz.