Pour la première fois en Europe centrale, la nuit de la philosophie France-Visegrad a rassemblé dans la nuit du 16 au 17 juin 2016 une soixantaine de philosophes et penseurs des quatre pays de Visegrad et de France autour du thème « Images, science et politique ». Entre 19h et 3h du matin, dans la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université Charles et au Palác Veletržní de la Galerie nationale de Prague, vous pourrez choisir entre conférences, débats, concerts, visites guidées, lectures et films et prendre part à ce tout premier festival de la philosophie aux questions essentielles : Faut-il améliorer l’homme ? Comment raconte-t-on la fin du monde ? Quels sont les enjeux contemporains de la biopolitique ? Comment le politique emprunte-t-il aux images du corps ? Pourquoi penser l’environnement ? Que dit l’animal à l’homme ? Qu’est-ce que la bioéthique ? Quels pouvoirs les images ont-elles sur nous ? Et quelles sont ces images que nous montre le cerveau ? Un programme préparé par Anne Gléonec (Université Paris VII) et Ondřej Švec (faculté des lettres de l’université Charles de Prague).
An introduction to the screening "War at a Distance" and "Serious Games" by Kristin Gissberg What role do images have in the production, documentation, and understanding of war? How have we become accustomed to war images, and indeed images of war, and to what extent does this familiarity shape our...
Dear visitors of the Night, as in any events of such scale, a few of our confirmed speakers won’t be able to join us! Toni Negri, Judith Revel and Frédéric Keck are unfortunately withheld in France. Be assured that you’ll still have the difficult task to choose between many enticing debates, lecture...
Tip no. 1: Make plans! Download the programme of the Night of Philosophy in advance (here) and plan your night according to your interests. You can choose between political philosophy, bioethics, philosophical reflection of art, commented film screenings, “Power of Images”, “Animal” or “The End of M...
Screened at the Malá Dvorana and at the Studio Hrdinů Derrida : on the Train back from Prague (1982), 7:30-7:37 PM/11:00-11:07 PM. Derrida explains how he was detained while going back to France from Prague. Right to Hope or Right to Lose Hope? (1977), 7:38-7:58 PM/11:08-11:28 PM. With Michel Foucau...
A. Mihulová a E. Matalová The Night of Philosophy is proud to host a very special debate between film director Slávek Horák and philosopher Jaromír Matějek around the 2015 feature film Homecare, Czech submission for 2015 Academy Awards. They will discuss about ethics, care and compassion. The debate...
An introduction to the debate "Should Humans Be Enhanced?" by Tomáš Hříbek (Filosofický ústav AV ČR) In the last few years, more and more philosophers have concerned themselves with a set of questions that are suggested by the new possibilities of biomedicine and technology. So far we have been able...
Kristin is an independent scholar based in Berlin, specialized in Hegel, gender & feminist thought, and 20th Century Philosophy. After completing two years with Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophie, she went on to finish her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. She is passionate about q...
Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Monika received scholarships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, ERSTE Stiftung and WUS Austria (in the frames of...
(c) Národní galerie v Praze The series of twelve bronze Zodiac Heads was created in 2010 as public sculptures. Ai Weiwei first exhibited them around the Pulitzer Fountain in New York's Central Park and since then one of the series is touring around the world. The other one was generously lent by the...
Petr Koťátko, Distorted History, Stolen Images and Faked Memory (reading & performance) Acting: Vojtěch Vondráček (Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts) Petr Koťátko (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) N (= Narrator) in an ordinary dress freely walks about the sta...
Adam Budak is the Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Prague. He acted as International Curator for Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2012-14). He worked with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, John Baldessari, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Cerith Wyn Evans and Monika Sosnowsk...
Distinguished Professor at the Paris Ouest Nanterre University and at the University of California, Irvine, Étienne Balibar is a prominent figure of contemporary philosophy. His works mainly deal with political philosophy (as in Politics and the Other Scene, published in English in 2012, or Equalibe...
Anne Gléonec is a doctor and professor agrégée of philosophy. After teaching for five years in France, she continued to pursue research and teaching activities in Prague at the CEFRES, the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, and at the Institute of philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science...
Ondřej Švec spent almost eight years of his youth in France, where he became passionate about philosophy, its application to everyday problems and its critical presence in public debates. From 2009 to 2015, he directed the Center for the Study of Language, Mind and Society at the University of Hrade...
Trained at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest and at the EHESS in Paris, Ádám Takács seeks to understand the relationship between history and ideologies in European—and Hungarian— 20th century (as in "Totalitarianism as an Atmosphere. Morality and Mentality in Hungary under the Kádár regime",...
As an art historian and a curator, Tomáš Winter looks into modern art in the 20th century, with special focus on caricatures on the one hand, and on primitivism and non-European art on the other hand, as in his 2013 book investigating the relationship between Czech fine art and non-European cultures...
Trained in literature, philosophy and sociology in Warsaw and Paris, Jan Sowa focuses his work on (Western) modernity, with special emphasis on the relationship between European and other cultures. He published many articles and books on current issues related to colonialism (as in his 2007 book Cie...
A specialist of 20th century European philosophy, on which he edited a volume with T. Ullman (Kontinentális filozófia a XX. században, 2011), and the author of a book on Arendt's political existentialism (Hannah Arendt politikai egzisztencializmusa, 2008), Csaba Olay investigates the relationships b...
Polish sociologist Michał Szymon Łuczewski has been focusing on the relationship between Polish identity and catholicism, on which he published his 2012 book Odwieczny naród. Polak i katolik w Żmiącej. A member of the "apocalyptical" magazine 44 / Czterdzieści i Cztery, he is a regular contributor t...
Monika Rogowska-Stangret is a theorist and researcher in the fields of philosophy, gender studies and animal studies. She collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. Monika received scholarships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, ERSTE Stiftung and WUS Austria (in the frames of...
Born in Cluj, Romania, Gáspár Miklós Tamás—also known as TGM—emigrated to Hungary after encountering political difficulties with the authorities as an assistant editor of a literary weekly in Transylvania. He taught at the University of Budapest (ELTE) until he was sacked for political reasons once...
Working in the field of political philosophy, Carole Widmaier confronted Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss's approach to the modern crisis in Fin de la philosophie politique ? Hannah Arendt contre Leo Strauss, 2012. She has lately edited and translated Hannah Arendt's essay on politics (Qu’est-ce que l...
Interested in evolution and ecology of organisms’ external appearances, theoretical morphology, biosemiotics, and cross-cultural and cross-species perception. There is a simple question behind all that: How it is come about that organisms evolved opaque patterned surfaces and for what reasons differ...
Petr Urban is a philosopher and translator based at the Czech Academy of Sciences where he leads the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy). His expertise lies in the areas of phenomenological philosophy and care ethics. He is author or editor of The Birth of Phe...