Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas - 20222023-06-26T22:21:20+02:00Davidurn:md5:70663f77674f6dcfd9352b33e15ae9b0DotclearA unique occasion to visit Emmanuel Levinas hometown| "Levinas in Kaunas", 4-8 July 2022urn:md5:4b57ff23140ae719f0c92dad1a86d8292022-06-13T21:38:00+02:00David2022<p><br /><img src="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/public/.poster-only-june29_m.jpg" alt="" title="poster-only-june29.jpg, juil. 2022" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/public/poster-program-june-29-2022.pdf" style="text-align: justify;">Download the program </a></p>
<p style="text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/public/DH-levinas-in-kaunas-5-juillet-2022-final.pdf" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">David Hansel's speech at the opening of "Levinas in Kaunas" on July 5, 2022</a></p>
<p style="text-align: start;">Contact: levinocentras@lsmu.lt</p>
<p style="text-align: start;">Dedicated website: www.levinasinkaunas.com</p>
<p style="text-align: start;"><strong style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;">"Levinas in Kaunas" will be in hybrid. Participation is free. </strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: start;"><a target="_blank" href="https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpce-qrzsoH9fOPw12KEWEEg589xpwAVHC" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(14, 113, 235); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><strong>https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpce-qrzsoH9fOPw12KEWEEg589xpwAVHC</strong></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Born in Kaunas in 1906, Emmanuel Levinas, the Litvak, went to France, in 1923, as a young Lithuanian student in Strasbourg, in France. Introducer of phenomenology in France, commentator of Husserl and Heidegger and author of one of the most original philosophies of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Levinas and his work radiate far beyond the circles of specialists.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">Levinas is the author of 30 books and over 400 articles. He has been translated into over 20 languages. He is cited 2 500 000 times on Google. Levinas is, without a doubt, one of the most important thinkers of his time.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“Levinas in Kaunas” is a five-day international event which will celebrate the work and the person of Emmanuel Levinas. It will take place at the LSMU Emmanuel Levinas Center* in Kaunas, Levinas' hometown. It will bring together French, Lithuanian, Belgium, Polish, Ukrainian, Canadian, American, Japanese, and Israeli invited speakers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">From July 4 to July 7 (morning), 2022: The international conference </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">“The “young Levinas”: from solitude to alterity”</span></em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> will be dedicated to the youth of Emmanuel Levinas in Lithuania (1906-1923) and the elaboration of his philosophy between 1923 and 1960. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">This will be the first time ever that an international Levinas’ conference is <em>specifically</em> dedicated to this period of Levinas philosophy.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">July 7 (afternoon) and July 8, 2022: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;">The infinite responsibility for the Other, which is at the center of Levinas' ethics elaborated after 1960 has direct implications in bio and medical ethics. The international workshop, <em>“Ethical perspectives of health care practices”</em>, will address the concrete implications of Levinas’ thought for the philosophy of care.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white;">*The LSMU Emmanuel Levinas Centre was inaugurated on December 6, 2022, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">on the eighth day of the celebration of Hannuka, twenty-six years to the day after the death of Levinas. It is <span style="background: white;">the realization of a shared Franco-Lithuanian vision that united back in 2018 ambassador Philippe Jeantaud, LSMU rector and French honorary consul Pr. Remigijus Žali</span></span><span lang="LT" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white;">ū</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; background: white;">nas, Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and Prime minister Saulius Skvernelis, who made everything possible.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Garamond, serif;">It celebrates the life and work of Emmanuel Levinas. As such, it celebrates the Jewish community of Kaunas and all the Litvak. It is a memorial to the victims of antisemitism and National Socialism in Lithuania. It honors the 915 "Righteous among the Nations" from Lithuania who realized, in the more concrete way, Levinas’ philosophy. They were ready for the ultimate sacrifice, to support, hide, and save Jews with determination and courage. Thanks to the tremendous generosity of the Kaunas municipality and of the Lithuanian University of Health Science (LSMU), the center is located in a building historically associated with France. The French consulate and the chancellery of the French Embassy operated here during the interwar period.</span></p>
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</div></div>Two talks at the Emmanuel Levinas Center in Kaunas, Lithuania: March 1, 2022 & March 3, 2022urn:md5:98a1e4dbe99daeb7649be638b2c2749b2022-02-19T22:47:00+01:00David2022 Every year, the month of March is celebrated as the month of Francophonie around the world. <div>This year, the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania, will celebrate the occasion together with lecturers from France. </div><div>We invite everyone who speaks English and some French to celebrate with us on March 1 and 3 at 17:00 at the LSMU Levinas Center.
Assoc. Prof. Flora Bastiani from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse, and philosopher Dr. Joelle Hansel, Collège international de Philosophie, Paris, will deliver lectures in English, but questions and discussions are welcome both in French and English. There will be a translator. </div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> We kindly ask all those who would like to attend either lecture to fill in the registration form:<a href="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/index.php?post/2022/02/19/ https://shortest.link/31Pe"> https://shortest.link/31Pe</a></div><div><img src="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/public/.conf-flora-bastiani-march-1-2022-kaunas_m.jpg" alt="" title="conf-flora-bastiani-march-1-2022-kaunas.png, fév. 2022" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></div><div><img src="http://www.sirel-levinas.org/dotclear/public/.conf-joelle-hansel-march-3-2022-kaunas_m.jpg" alt="" title="conf-joelle-hansel-march-3-2022-kaunas.png, fév. 2022" style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" /></div>