The Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre for the Humanities cordially invites everyone to the upcoming workshop entitled Shaping Civic Identities in Hungary and Poland. Orientalist Influences in Central and Eastern European Nation-Building.

Time: Wednesday, 30th October, 2024, 12.10h (CET)
Venue: HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, 4 Tóth Kálmán street, Budapest, 7th floor, lecture room B.7.16

Participants can also join the hybrid event online using the following link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84401817549?pwd=xWEuFoqx46SWajL7wMrpdmylu22gUe.1

More details about the event and the lecture summaries are available here.

Programme

12.10
Opening words (Béla MESTER)
1st Section: Hungarian Case Studies
(Chair: Rafał SMOCZYŃSKI)
12.20
László Gergely SZÜCS (Budapest City Archives, onsite)
Western Leftists in the Grip of the East. Ágnes Heller’s and Ferenc Fehér’s Criticism on the European Peace Movements
12.40
Béla MESTER (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Philosophy, onsite)
A Dilemma of the Historiographers of Philosophy. Discovery of the National Particularity by the Researchers of Universality – Part I.
13.00
László Attila HUBBES (Sapientia, The Hungarian University of Transylvania, online)
Turanism, Exotism, Exclusivism – Orientalizing Motives in the Hungarian Language Social Media Networks
13.20 Discussion
13.40 Coffee & lunch break

2nd Section: Communist and Post-Communist Tendencies in Poland and in Hungary
(Chair: László Gergely SZÜCS)
15.00
Borbála JÁSZ (Kodolányi János University, online)
“The Heavy Hand of God” A Comparison of Polish and Hungarian Brutalist Sacral Architecture
15.20 Rafał SMOCZYŃSKI (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, onsite)
The Constitutive Outside. Negative Ontology and the Rise of Political Ideologies in Poland
15.40 Aleš MAVER (University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, online)
Contemporary Belarusian Views of Poland
16.00 Discussion
16.20 Coffee break

3rd Section: Orientalization in the Past and Present of the Polish Thought
(Chair: Béla MESTER)
16.40
Tomasz ZARYCKI (University of Warsaw; online)
Orientalization of Eastern Poland in a Broader Context of European Economic and Symbolic Geographies: new findings
17.00
Grzegorz PYSZCZEK (The Maria Grzegorzowska University; online)
Navigating Orientalism. Malinowski and Znaniecki in Shaping Social Science Paradigms
17.20 Discussion
17.40 Concluding words (Rafał SMOCZYŃSKI)