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Европейский гуманитарный университет приглашает преподавателей философии принять участие в семинаре в рамках проекта Ре-СЕТ.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Challenge Seminar “‘The
Practical Turn’: Con-temporary Philosophy In and Beyond University”
funded by OSI Higher Education Support Program.
The Seminar’s profile is development of a model of reflexive and
innovative undergraduate teaching of philosophy, which is based on the
current international scholarship. “The practical turn” within the
post-metaphysical philosophical thinking implies the multidimensional
“practi-cization” of philosophy; as a result, the field of
“contemporary practical philosophy” extends far beyond its traditional
domains of ethics and political philosophy and includes, in particular,
structures of pre-reflective consciousness, intersubjective
communication, and social-historical world; philosophical thinking
transcends the boundaries of an academic discipline and becomes
reactive to its cultural and social environments. Exploring of these
fruitful implications of the “practical turn” interconnected with
critical analysis of the present state of philosophy at the post-Soviet
universities opens up a promising outlook on modernization of the
undergraduate teaching of philosophy in the region.
The Seminar aims at: (a) increase of participants’ scholarly and
teaching competencies; (b) co-operative development of the strategies
of scholarly teaching in the areas of contemporary prac-tical
philosophy; (c) dissemination of the Seminar’s experiences at the
regional universities; (d) building of the regional network of advanced
studies in contemporary practical philosophy.
Seminar’s duration – 2 years. In the first year (June 2008 – June
2009), the Seminar will concen-trate on the transformations of subject
fields and modes of philosophical thinking which are en-gendered by the
“practical turn” in the post-metaphysical philosophy, and on their
implications for university teaching. In the second year (July 2009 –
July 2010), the focus will be the issues related to the institutional
implications of the “practical turn”; course and curricular development
related to the areas of contemporary practical philosophy; interaction
with the participants’ local academic environments.
Activities within the Seminar include: contact sessions (in Vilnius;
the first session is planned to the period of August 17 – September 03,
2008), workshops at the participants’ home universities, and on-line
communication. Working languages: English, Russian.
The Seminar’s host institution is European Humanities University,
Belarus/Lithuania. The Semi-nar will interact with the Baltic
Philosophy Network, which joins the universities from the Nor-dic and
Baltic countries, and with the East-European Philosophic Initiative
(Poland). The Semi-nar is a development of the previous HESP-ReSET
Project in Communicative Philosophy (2003-2006).
The Seminar’s group will include resource faculty and regular participants (15 to 17 persons).
Resource faculty of the Seminar are:
Prof. Timo Airaksinen, University of Helsinki (core resource person)
Prof. Jurate Baranova, Vilnius Pedagogical University (core resource person)
Prof. Vladimir Fours, European Humanities University (academic director)
Dr. Ilya Inishev, European Humanities University (core resource person)
Prof. Hans Joas, University of Erfurt/University of Chicago (core resource person)
Prof. Tatiana Shchyttsova, European Humanities University (core resource person)
Interested university teachers of philosophy (in position of assistant
or associate profes-sor/docent) from Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the
European part of Russia are invited to participate in the Seminar. The
application documents include:
(a) Application form (in English; please provide the following
information: name and sur-name, date of birth, citizenship/country of
residence, highest academic degree, home uni-versity and your position
in it, courses taught in philosophy, a short description of your
prospective participation in the Seminar (appr. 300 words), command of
the English lan-guage, contact information (e-mail, phone number,
mailing address));
(b) CV (including a list of scholarly publications; in English);
(c) Statement of Purpose outlining your prospective participation in
the Seminar (appr. 1000 words, in English or in Russian; in particular:
describe your professional interests and state their relevance to the
Seminar; identify your expectations from the collaborative work in the
Seminar’s team and your personal contribution to it; proceeding from
the problem situation at your home university, describe your own
proposal aimed at the de-velopment of scholarly and innovative teaching
in the field of contemporary practical philosophy);
(d) Sample writing relevant to the Seminar’s profile (scholarly
article, essay, original course syllabus; in English or in Russian).
Submit application via e-mail to Yuliya Biedash, administrative director of the Seminar (
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Application deadline is May 15, 2008. Incomplete applications are not considered.
The criteria of participants’ selection are:
(a) high level of professional skills;
(b) relevance of professional competencies and interests to the Seminar’s profile and aims;
(c) well-founded and promising proposal;
(d) good command of English.
The applicants will be informed about the results by June 15, 2008.
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