3rd Balkan Gateway
Interdisciplinary Conference
Cultural Difference and Identification
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Daily programme |
4-7 November 2009, Pécs, Hungary
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Pécs Cultural Centre – Sensus-Advanced Studies (University of Pécs)
"With the Balkans about the Balkans"
This is the third time now that the gates to the Balkans will open in Pécs and offer the best opportunity to you to find the most interesting cultural and academic events of the year, to enjoy concerts, exhibitions and talks and to enrich your knowledge at the sessions of our interdisciplinary conference.
Year after year, the East-West Passage aims to provide an ever-broadening perspective of the many-colored culture of the Balkans. The combination of the two main pillars that make up the events of the East-West Passage, the Balkan World Music Festival and the Balkan Gateway Interdisciplinary Conference, provides both enjoyment and information, ensuring that the Balkans is constructed in public awareness as a cultural, literary, philosophical, political and artistic space, a space for cultural osmosis and unbroken interaction among the various communities.
This intercultural patchwork, a unique initiative from a European perspective, which is made up of concerts, contemporary art exhibitions and activities, lectures delivered at the conference, philosophical, literary and theoretical workshops and open dialogues between artists and intellectuals, can create an opportunity for an exceptional meeting, a long overdue forum for cultural and artistic discourse.
The Capital of Culture is the capital of hospitality, democracy, justice, cosmopolitism and equal opportunities. The historical, social and religious differences between Pécs, Essen and Istanbul, the European Capitals of Culture in 2010, call upon us to reinvestigate these concepts and their political, poetic and cultural impact.
The multidisciplinary and international conference "Cultural Difference and Identification - Religion, Nation and Ideology" welcomes philosophers, literary critics, cultural critics, anthropologists, artists, poets and writers from East and West, North and South to discuss these topics, encouraging innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues and reinforcing the role of Pécs, the "Borderless City" of unconditional hospitality, as a passage between Europe and the Balkans, between North and South, between East and West.
/Dr. Jolán Orbán (University of Pécs, Hungary) and Kristóf Fenyvesi (Jyväskylä University, Finland)/
Day 1 - 4 November
Location: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, 7621 Pécs, Széchenyi tér 7-8.
18.00-19.00
Literary Studies Workshops
Presentation of Nikoletta Házas's book entitled The Thought Locked Up in a Box - Marcel Duchamp (Budapest, L'Harmattan Publishing House, 2009)
The analysis of the complex oeuvre of Marcel Duchamp requires an examination of the issue of linguistic expression and conceptuality. By highlighting this complex problem, Nikoletta Házas's book analyses Marcel Duchamp's works from the early experiments through The Large Glass up to the ready-mades, also pointing out how in the life-work of Duchamp, who represents "the new paradigm", the concepts of work, art and artist are re-interpreted.
Nikoletta Házas is aesthetician and critic, professor at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University. József Havasréti (University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Media Studies) and Zsolt Bagi (University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy) will converse with the author.
Joint program of the Pécs Cultural Center, the Linguistics and Literary Studies Section I of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs, and the House of Arts and Literature.
19.00-20.00
Exhibition
ANNO 1968
The exhibition "Anno 1968" presents some works relevant to the artistic career of students having graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1968. Today, the former members of the class of 1968 are key personalities of contemporary Hungarian and international fine arts.
The exhibition will be opened by Júlia Fabényi, director of the Museums of Baranya County and András Kisfaludy, film director and founding member of the former pop band Kex.
Curator: Xavér László Horváth
Day 2 - 5 November
Location: Pécs Cultural Centre, Dominican House, 7621 Pécs, Színház tér 2.
10.30-11.00
Opening ceremony
11.00-13.00
In memoriam Jacques Derrida
Chair: Jolán Orbán (University of Pécs)
>> 11.00-12.00 -- Maurizio Ferraris (Univeristy of Turin, Italy): Spettri di Derrida - Derrida's Ghosts
>> 12.00-12.30 -- Luigi Tassoni (University of Pécs): Intrecci di Derrida - Derrida's Turn
>> 12.30-13.00 -- Debate
>> 13.00-14.00 -- Lunch Break
14.00-18.00
The Philosophy of Cultural Differences and Identifications – Religion, Nation and Ideology
Chair: Jolán Orbán (University of Pécs)
>> 14.00-14.30 -- Ugo Vlajsavljevic (Sarajevo University, Bosnia-Hercegovina): Ethnic Identity and the Culture of Survival
>> 14.30-15.00 -- Alpár Losoncz (University of Novi Sad, Serbia – University of Seged): How is it possible the decentralized collective subjectivity?
>> 15.00-15.30 -- János Boros (University of Pécs): Is there such thing as Eastern European Democracy?
>> 15.30-16.00 -- Debate
>> 16.00-16.20 -- Coffee break
>> 16.20-16.50 -- Gábor Csordás (Jelenkor Publishing House): Language and Identification in 16th century's France
>> 16.50-17.10 -- Zsolt Bagi (University of Pécs): Models of determination. Untimely remarks to the problem of the philosophy of identification.
>> 17.10-17.30 -- Jolán Bogdán (Goldsmiths, University of London, Great Britain): The uncertainty of the mother: Derrida and the deconstruction of genealogy
>> 17.30-18.00 -- Debate
Day 3 - 6 November
Location: Pécs Cultural Centre, Dominican House, 7621 Pécs, Színház tér 2.
09.00-13.00
The Poetics of Cultural Memories – Religion, Nation and Literature
Chair: Jolán Orbán (University of Pécs)
>> 09.00-09.20 -- Daša Drndić (University of Rijeka, Horvátország): Crossing over: Trespassing in Language and Memory
>> 09.20-09.40 -- Vladislava Gordić Petković (University of Novi Sad, Szerbia): A Gothic Female Gospel: Female Christ Figures in Serbian Fiction
>> 09.40-10.00 -- Zoltán Medve (Eötvös József College): Identity, autobiographism, nostalgia in the works of Dubravka Ugrešić and Ottó Tolnai
>> 10.00-10.20 -- Radics Viktória (Sombor, Serbia): Transformation in Montenegro
>> 10.20-10.50 -- Debate
>> 10.50-11.10 -- Coffee break
>> 11.10-11.30 -- Levente T. Szabó (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania): Imagining the West in the 1870s: the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum
>> 11.30-11.50 -- Zsófia Szilágyi (ELTE-Pannon University): „Oriental cell living in the West” (Zsigmond Móricz between East and West)
>> 11.50-12.10 -- Sándor Mészáros (Kalligram): Memory, Nation and Contemporary Hungarian Prose
>> 12.10-12.30 -- János D. Mekis (University of Pécs): East by Eastwest. Travels and understanding in László Krasznahorkai’s oeuvre
>> 12.30-13.00 -- Debate
>> 13.00-14.00 -- Lunch Break
14.00-16.00
East-West Passages I
Presentations by the special issues of the journals Kalligram, Jelenkor, DNS, ECHO - Moderator: Keresztesi József (Jelenkor)
The issues are presented by Ottó Beke and Samu János Vilmos (DNS), Sándor Mészáros and Zsófia Szilágyi (Kalligram), P. Müller Péter (University of Pécs, Echo), Dávid Szolláth (Jelenkor)
16.00-18.00
East-West Passages II
Literary Coffee-House (Performing literature at the Gateway to the Balkans)
Host: Gábor Csordás, poet, translator and director of Jelenkor publishing house
Invited writers: Daša Drndić, Nedjeljko Fabrio, Radoslav Petković, György Dragomán, Viktor Horváth, Anna T. Szabó
19.00
Exhibition
The Archaeology of Modernism
Location: Közelítés Művészeti Egyesület (Approach Art Association), 7621 Pécs, Mátyás kir. u. 2.
The city is a marvelous achievement of modernism, adored and praised. It is a document because it bears history in its architecture. Numerous artists' works deal with the critique of the belief in utopia, modern forms of life and cityscapes; many exhibitions question the utopia of modern urbanization.
Our exhibition has been inspired by a similar theme. The works of three artists are on display, which penetrate into the texture of the city by scrutinizing the environment constructed in it as well as the presence of material culture and the issue of the contrast between the artificial and the natural.
The exhibition invites us to participate in a game based on discovery and preservation, where the archaeologists of the modern era attempt to excavate new strata of our environment.
Exhibiting artists: Zsolt Ferenczy, Katharina Roters, Hassan Shandor.
Curator: Zita Sárvári
Day 4 - 7 November
Location: Pécs Cultural Centre, Dominican House, 7621 Pécs, Színház tér 2.
09.00-11.00
The Cultural Poetics of Social Memories – Religion, Nation and Politics
Local Elites in Multicultural and Intercultural Context
Chair: János Boros (Univeristy of Pécs)
>> 09.00-09.20 -- Gábor Biczó (Univerisity of Miskolc): Elites and the critical turn in anthropology
>> 09.20-09.40 -- Éva Judit Kovács (University of Pécs): Don't Laugh At Us! "The Fall of Public Man" in the Village Communities of Late Modernity
>> 09.40-10.00 -- Mária Bogdán (University of Pécs): Constructing elite identities: the Roma after the democratic changes in Hungary
>> 10.00-10.30 -- Debate
>> 10.30-11.00 -- Coffee break
11.00-13.00
The Cultural Politics of Historical Memories – Religion, Nation and Politics
Comparative National and Minority Studies
Chair: János Boros (Univeristy of Pécs)
>> 11.00-11.30 -- Éva Cs. Gyimesi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania): Link in the Chain - Introduction to the Hermeneutics of Securitate Dossiers
>> 11.30-11.50 -- Erika Törzsök (ECMSF/European Comparative Minority Studies Foundation): Something Different Here - New Types of Integration in the European Union
>> 11.50-12.10 -- Stephan Teichgräber (Universität Wien, Ausztria): Herta Müller - a writer of Central Europe
>> 12.10-12.30 -- Blazsetin István (University of Pécs): The Literature of National and Ethnic Minority/ies - Example of Croatians Living in Hungary
>> 12.30-13.00 -- Debate
>> 13.00-15.00 -- Lunch Break
15.00-20.00
The Lake Balaton as an East-West Passage before the German Unification
Organized by Lettre and the European Culture Foundation
>> 15.00
Screening of video art, Discussion
Location: Pécs Cultural Centre, Dominican House, 7621 Pécs, Színház tér 2.
Romanticism – my grandparents, the Germans and the Lake Balaton (Movie by Ádám Ulbert, video artist)
Discussion of the papers Observed freedom by Kriszta Slachta and Trabant de luxe on the Golden Beach by János Deme (“Modernity” Doctoral School of Pécs, Lettre)
Jointly organized with the Pécs Cultural Center
>> 18.00
Exhibition
Agitprop city dreams - by Csaba Szentesi
Location: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, 7621 Pécs, Széchenyi tér 7-8.
Curator of the exhibition: Ákos Szilágyi / Opening by: Ákos Szilágyi, poet
The exhibition can be visited until 23 November.
Jointly organized with the Pécs Cultural Center
>> 18.30
Literary evening organized by Lettre
Location: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, 7621 Pécs, Széchenyi tér 7-8.
Participants: Lajos Jánossy, Noémi Kiss, Gábor Németh, Ákos Szilágyi and the editor, Éva Karádi
Jointly organized with the Pécs Cultural Center
>> 20.00
“Oh, Balaton, those old summers” – solo concert by Mihály Víg's (Balaton Band)
Location: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, 7621 Pécs, Széchenyi tér 7-8.
Jointly organized with the Pécs Cultural Center
Lecturers of the conference in 2007-2008:
ÁGOSTON Zoltán (Hungary) / Gabriela BABNIK (Slovenia, Mali) / BALÁZS Attila (Hungary) / BÉNYEI Tamás (Debrecen University, Hungary) / Carol L. BERNSTEIN (Bryn Mawr College, USA) / Richard J. BERNSTEIN (New School of Social Research, New York, USA) / BERSZÁN István (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) / BICZÓ Gábor (Miskolc University, Hungary) / BÍRÓ Eszter (Hungary) / BÓKAY Antal (Pécs University, Hungary) / BOGDÁN Mária (Pécs University, Hungary) / BOROS János (Pécs University, Hungary) / Igor BRLEK (Slovenia) / Mitja ČANDER (Slovenia) / CSORDÁS Gábor (Hungary) / Aleš DEBELJAK (CCRS, University of Ljubljana - Slovenia) / Erica JOHNSON DEBELJAK (USA - Slovenia) / DUPCSIK Csaba (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) / DURST György (Hungary) / FABÉNYI Júlia (Hungary) / FEISCHMIDT Margit (Pécs University, Hungary) / FENYVESI Kristóf (Pécs University, Hungary - Jyväskylä University, Finland) / GÁLLOS Orsolya (Hungary) / GYÖRGY Péter (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) / HAÁSZ Katalin (Hungary) / HADAS Miklós (Corvinus University, Hungary) / HALMAI Tamás (Hungary) / HASANOVIĆ-KOLUTÁCZ Andrea (Pécs University, Hungary) / HAVASRÉTI József (Pécs University, Hungary) / HELLER Ágnes (Hungarian Academy of Sciences - New School of Social Research, New York - USA) / HETESI Ildikó (Belgium, Hungary, Germany) / KÁLMÁN C. György (Institute for Literary Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences) / KARÁDI Éva (Lettre International, Hungary) / KISFALUDY András (Hungary) / KISS Attila (Szeged University, Hungary) / KORODI Luca (Hungary) / KOVÁCS Balázs (Pécs University, Hungary) / LÁNGH Júlia (Hungary) / LÓRÁND Zsófia (Central European University, Hungary) / LOVAS Ildikó (Hungary, Serbia) / Jasmina LUKIĆ (Central European University, Hungary) / M. CSÁSZÁR Zsuzsa (Pécs University, Hungary) / MEDVE A. Zoltán (Eötvös József College, Hungary) / NÉMETH Gábor (Hungary) / Irina NOVIKOVA (Center for Gender Studies, Latvia) / Mirja OKSANEN (Jyväskylä University, Finland) / ORBÁN Jolán (Pécs University, Hungary) / ORCSIK Roland (Hungary) / Dramaneo OUTTARA (Slovenia, Mali) / P. MÜLLER Péter (Pécs University, Hungary) / PAP Norbert (Pécs University, Hungary) / PÓLYA Tamás (Pécs University, Hungary) / Nenad POPOVIC (Croatia) / RADÁK Eszter (Hungary) / RADICS Viktória (Hungary) / Veera RAUTAVUOMA (Jyväskylä University, Finland) / RUDAS Jutka (Slovenia) / Ivana SAJKO (Croatia) / SÁNDORFI Edina (Hungary) / SÁRVÁRI Zita (Hungary) / SELYEM Zsuzsa (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) / SIPOS Júlia (Hungary) / Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK (Columbia University, USA) / Aleš STEGER (Slovenia) / TAKÁCS Judit (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) / TARNAY László (Pécs University, Hungary) / TOLNAI Szabolcs (Hungary) / TÓTH Krisztina (Hungary) / V. GILBERT Edit (Pécs University, Hungary) / VAJDA Mihály (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) / VIRÁG Zoltán (Szeged University, Hungary) / VÖŐ Gabriella (Pécs University, Hungary) / ZALÁN Vince (Pécs University, Hungary) / ZSIGMOND Dezső (Hungary)
Partners
Sensus-Advanced Studies (University of Pécs), Doctoral School of Literary Studies (University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Modern Literary History and Literary Theory), Doctoral School of Philosophy (University of Pécs Faculty of Humanities, Dept. Of Philosophy), Linguistics and Literary Studies Section I of the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs, Jelenkor Publishing House, Jelenkor Journal, Magyar Lettre Internationale, Echo Critical Review, Kalligram Journal, DNS Journal.
Tickets
Lectures of the conference are open and free!
Tickets for the concerts available at:
Price:
- Daily: 1500 HUF
- Saturday extra: 600 HUF
- For 4 days: 3500 HUF
Pécs Cultural Centre
Information Office
7621 Pécs, 1 Széchenyi tér
Tel.: +36 72-510-644
info@pecsikult.hu
Information & contact
FENYVESI Kristóf, coordinator
fenyvesi.kristof@pecsikult.hu
Pécs Cultural Centre
Dominican House
7621 Pécs, 2 Színház tér
Tel.: +36 72-510-644
Fax: +36 72-510-645
Mobile: +36 20-582-1362
East-West Passage is an official programme of the Creativity and Innovation European Year 2009.
Organised as the official event of Pécs2010 – European Capital of Culture program, supported by the National Cultural Fund.
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