Colloquium
Listening to the Silence: Martin Heidegger 120 years
Monday, November 16, 2009, 13.00-18.30
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136 (1st floor)
The colloquium commemorates the 120th anniversary of the birth of Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) by highlighting several topics from his earlier and later thought, such as language, historicity, phenomenology, and the debate with ancient philosophy. 120 years after his birth and more than 30 years after his death, the influence of Heidegger's work in the heterogeneous field of contemporary Continental philosophy is overwhelming. The papers and discussions of this one-day colloquium will disclose aspects of this influence and of the ongoing debates concerning Heideggerian themes.
The keynote speaker, Walter Brogan, is professor of philosophy and director of graduate studies in philosophy at Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA. He is the editor of Epoché: Journal in the History of Philosophy. Prof. Brogan is also the co-founder and former co-director of the Ancient Philosophy Society (until 2006), former member of the executive committee of the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association (2002-2005), former co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (1998-2001), and a past director and current member of the board of directors of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Città di Castello, Italy. His main research interests are ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary Continental philosophy, with a
particular focus on Heidegger and his relationship to ancient thought. Brogan's key publications include Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being (SUNY, 2005) and American Continental Philosophy: A Reader (co-edited with James Risser, Indiana University Press, 2000). He is also the co-translator (with Peter Warnek) of Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics IX, 1-3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force.
The other speakers, Susanna Lindberg, Miika Luoto, Pajari Räsänen, and Fredrik Westerlund, are researchers at the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Art Research at the University of Helsinki. Their research is either focused on or decisively influenced by Heidegger's thinking.
Program
13.00-13.15
Sara Heinämaa (University of Helsinki / Uppsala University):
Opening words
13.15-14.45
Walter Brogan (Villanova University):
Listening to the Silence: Reticence and the Call of Conscience in Heidegger's Philosophy
14.45-15.00
Coffee break
15.00-15.45
Miika Luoto (University of Helsinki):
Being in Exigency: Notes on the Problem of Historicity in Heidegger
15.45-16.30
Fredrik Westerlund (University of Helsinki):
The Epiphany of the World: Heidegger's Transformation of Phenomenology in
Introduction to Metaphysics
16.30-16.45
Break
16.45-17.30
Pajari Räsänen (University of Helsinki):
"Completion" and Its Metaphors: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Metaphysics V, 16 and "Being-towards-the-end" in Being and Time
17.30-18.30
Susanna Lindberg (University of Helsinki):
Elemental Tonalities
Open to all, students are warmly welcome.
Organized by the research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity (Emil Aaltonen Foundation / Academy of Finland). For more information, please contact Jussi Backman (jussi.backman(at)helsinki.fi).