18 Jun 2023

International conference “RESPIRATORY PHILOSOPHY: A PARADIGM SHIFT”

ABOUT EVENT

 

 

 

Science and Research Centre KoperInstitute for Philosophical and Religious Studies

&

Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), Kobe University

are cordially inviting to the

International conference

Respiratory Philosophy

A Paradigm Shift

 

 

to be held at the Grand Hotel Bernardin Convention center, in Portorož, Slovenia

June 18–21, 2023

 

 

The respiratory philosophy as presented and articulated at this conference deals with our relationships with the atmospheres of breathing and air. “Breath” might seem like a peculiar project, or at the very least disconnected from the way in which most European philosophy has understood itself and its goals. But the “forgetting of air and breathing” (Irigaray) in European philosophical discourse is by itself one of the deepest, unacknowledged tensions, shaping its unfortunate outlook on the world. A new respiratory philosophy has the double merit of decolonizing the philosophical curriculum through an inclusion of non-European sources and insights, and of revealing how such “breathing” is a fundamental (even if erased) element of its own history. The potential of such a paradigm shift bears far-reaching consequences for the areas of ontology, ethics, poetics, politics, environment, spirituality, and health – as fields being in the forefront of this new respiratory paradigm.

 

Conference programme

Book of Abstracts

Call for papers

Write to respiratoryphilosophy@gmail.com for more information.

 

The conference is financially supported by Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS research project J7-1824: Surviving the Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial Philosophical Literacy and research program P6-0279: Liminal Spaces: Areas of Cultural and Societal Cohabitation in the Age of Risk and Vulnerability), as well as by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number: 17K02255, 19K12967, 23H00574) and Shimadzu Cooperation (Kyoto, Japan).

 

Conference convenors

Lenart Škof, Yuho Hisayama and Petri Berndtson

 

Programme and organizing committee

Prof Dr Lenart Škof, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, AMEU, Slovenia

Assoc Prof Dr Dr Yuho Hisayama, Graduate School of Humanities and Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University, Japan

Ass Prof Dr Magdalena Górska, Graduate Gender Studies Programme and Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Assoc Prof Dr Lorenzo Marinucci, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University and Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Japan

Dr Petri Berndtson, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia

Dr Maja Bjelica, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia

Dr Luka Trebežnik, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Science and Research Centre Koper, and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, AMEU, Slovenia

EVENT SPEAKERS

  • Agnieszka Rostalska

  • Ana Laura Funes M.

  • Ayako Ikeno

  • Bart H. M. Vandeput

  • Boyu Xie

  • Cirila Toplak

  • David Abram

  • Fabian Heubel

  • Geoff Ashton

  • Kantaro Ohashi

  • Lenart Škof

  • Lorenzo Marinucci

  • Magdalena Górska & Nasima Selim

  • Maja Bjelica

  • Mao Matsuyama

  • Marijn Nieuwenhuis

  • Michael Marder

  • Natasha Lushetich

  • Petri Berndtson

  • Pier Francesco Corvino

  • Purushottama Bilimoria

  • Raquel Ferrández Formoso

  • Reza Akbari

  • Saara-Maija Strandman

  • Sozita Goudouna

  • Takuya Niikawa

  • Tomoyo Arisawa

  • Yuho Hisayama

  • Yuna Yoshimizu

  • Zahra Rashid