Aboagora 14 – 16. August 2012 (preliminary programme)
May 8th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Tuesday 14. August
Sibelius Museum:
9:30–10:00 Introduction
10:00–11:30 Agora, Gianni Vattimo: Christianity as Secularisation
11:30–13:00 Lunch at Hus Lindman
13.00–14.30 Workshop 1: The Sacred and the Human (Kari Enqvist, Tomi Kokkonen, Sabrina Maniscalco, Ilkka Pyysiäinen)
14:30–15:00 Coffee
15.00-16.30 Workshop 2: Religion and Power: Challenges of Our Time (Peter Nynäs, Elina Pirjatanniemi, Andrew Yip)
Concert:
19:00 Sigyn Hall: At the Orient Gates (Fazil Say, piano)
Wednesday 15. August
Sibelius Museum:
09:00–10:30 Agora, Juhani Pallasmaa: The Aura of the Sacred: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness
10:30–12:00 Workshop 3: Spirituality Outside Traditional Religious Spaces (Marion Bowman, Juhani Pallasmaa, Terhi Utriainen, Benjamin Zeller)
12.00–13.30 Lunch at Hus Lindman
13:30–15:00 Workshop 4: The Cinema and the Sacred
15:00–15:30 Coffee
15:30–17:30 Agora, Marion Bowman: Sacred Spaces in Secular Places – From Airports to Agoratopias
Concert:
19:00 Concert Hall: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Rolando Villazón & Topi Lehtipuu, tenor; Sandrine Piau, soprano; Le Concert d’Astrée, cond. Emmanuelle Haïm)
Thursday 16. August
Sibelius Museum:
9:00–10:30 Workshop 5: Sacred and Profane Love (Virpi Hämeen-Anttila, Tom Linkinen, Miri Rubin, Erik Steinskog)
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–12:30 Workshop 6: Inquisition Revisited (Pekka Tolonen, Reima Välimäki and working group)
12:30–14:00 Lunch at Hus Lindman
14:00–16:00 Agora, Miri Rubin: Learning to Love: the Virgin Mary in European Culture
16:00–16:30 Coffee
16:30–17:30 Conclusion
18:00–20:00 Reception (E. Ekblom Restaurant)
Night of the Arts
Concert:
23:00 Turku Cathedral: Gamba in Candle Light (Atsushi Sakaï & Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba)
Agora Lecture – Ruth Behar: The Death of the Angel
November 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Professor Ruth Behar (University of Michigan) gave her agora lecture at the Turku Academy Hall on 18 August 2011. The lecture ends with a Finnish tango ”Siks’ oon mä suruinen”, danced by Ruth Behar and Lassi Sairela, sung by Topi Lehtipuu and accompanied by Marko Autio.
Ruth Behar is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she is also affiliated with programs in Women’s Studies, Latina/o Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Jewish Studies. Besides her academic work she is a poet, essayist and filmmaker. Her newest book is An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba (Rutgers University Press 2007). She has also written, directed, and produced a video documentary called Adio Kerida/Goodbye Dear Love: A Cuban Sephardic Journey.
Agora Lecture – Dan Sperber: Culture and Minds
November 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Professor Dan Sperber (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) gave his agora lecture on 17 August 2011 at the Sibelius Museum, Turku. The lecture included a musical performance, a chain improvisation by Se Ensemble.
Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. He holds an emeritus research professorship at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, a recurrent visiting professorship at the Department of Philosophy of the Central European University in Budapest, and is the director of the International Cognition and Culture Institute. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics. He is the author numerous articles in anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and psychology and of three books: Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge UP 1975), On Anthropological Knowledge (Cambridge UP 1985), and Explaining Culture (Blackwell 1996). Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson have developed a cognitive approach to communication known as ‘Relevance Theory’. Both the epidemiology of representations and relevance theory have been influential and also controversial.
Agora Lecture – Ilkka Niiniluoto: Progress by Enlightenment
November 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Professor Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki) held the first agora lecture, entitled Progress by Enlightenment: Fact or Fiction?, at the Sibelius Museum on 16 August 2011. The lecture included an essay by Hanna Talikka, a history student from the University of Turku, and two musical performances by Se Ensemble.
Ilkka Niiniluoto is a Finnish philosopher and mathematician. He has worked as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki since 1981. He is currently on leave from his position, serving as a Chancellor of the University of Helsinki. Niiniluoto has published widely on philosophy of science, for example on the foundations of scientific knowledge, epistemology and logic. He is the author of Critical Scientific Realism (Oxford UP 2002). He has also actively participated in the discussion on the future of Finnish university system.
Programme of the first Aboagora 15-18 August 2011
August 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
| Monday 15.8.201112:00– Registration at Donner Institute 19:00 Reception at Hus Lindman 22:00 Concert: Photography Concert Tuesday 16.8.2011 9:00–9:30 Introductory statement byYehuda Elkana: Rethinking Enlightenment 11:30–12:30 Lunch at Hus Lindman 12:30–14:30 Workshop 2 (Helga Nowotny with François Taddeï, Ariel Lindner): The Power of Ideas and Their Limitations 18:00 Concert: Sleepless night Wednesday 17.8.2011 5:47–6:30 Concert in Samppalinna swimming stadium: At sunrise 9:30–10:00 Coffee 11:30–13:00 Lunch at Hus Lindman 13:00–14:30 Workshop 4 (Janne Tunturi with Asko Nivala, Heli Rantala and Charlotta Wolff): Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment and Its Heritage: Young Historians’ Perspective 18:00 Quantum circus Thursday 18.8.2011 9:00–11:00 Workshop 5 (Ruth Behar with Måns Broo, Giovanni Frazzetto and Tage Kurtén): Between Art and Research: Rethinking Professional Borderlands 13:30–14:30 Lunch at Hus Lindman 14:30–16:30 Agora: Ruth Behar: The Death of the Angel. Reflections on the relationship between enlightenment and enchantment 23:00 Concert: Bach in Candle Light / Karina Gauvin, Topi Lehtipuu, Riku Pelo |
