NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Maiorescu and Maiorescianism in Contemporary Romanian Philosophical Consciousness, occasioned by the 170th anniversary of the thinker's birth. The symposium is organised by the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest together with the Romanian Society of Philosophy, on 26 November 2010.
Titu Maiorescu is regarded by most researchers of Romanian cultural history as the initiator of the critical spirit in our culture and the founder of the first Romanian philosophical school. Today no one categorically contests these qualities. Nevertheless, our contemporaries also attach to Titu Maiorescu the „image” once proposed by Constantin Noica: that of a „spirit of the wilderness”. The organisers intend, together with the participants in the symposium, to place under scrutiny the place that Maiorescu's work and the work of the „Maiorescians” hold in contemporary Romanian philosophical consciousness.
The symposium will have two moments:
(1) A COLLOQUIUM on the following themes:
a) Cultural institutions mentored by Titu Maiorescu;
b) Maiorescu's critical attitude towards Romanian culture. Maiorescianism today;
c) The philosophical school of the Maiorescian tradition. The critique of Maiorescian criticism in interwar thought.
(2) A PAPER SESSION, with the following sections:
The History of European Philosophy in Lectures
Maiorescian Logic
The Early Philosophy
Venue: the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei, No. 204, Sector 6, Bucharest.
Organising Committee:
Acad. Gheorghe Vlăduţescu
Prof. Dr. Romulus Brâncoveanu
Prof. Dr. Mircea Dumitru
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viorel Cernica
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Constantin Stoenescu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Savu Totu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viorel Vizureanu
Information on Participation
Researchers, university teaching staff, doctoral students, master's students and students are invited to participate in the symposium. Those wishing to register for the programme are asked to send, by 15 November 2010, the title of their paper and a short CV, to the email address:tmaiorescu.simp@gmail.com. The symposium programme will be finalised by 19 November 2010 and will be posted on the website of the Faculty of Philosophy: www.ub-filosofie.ro. For any details regarding participation and the organisation of the symposium, you can contact the organisers at the email address mentioned (contact person: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Viorel Cernica) or at the telephone numbers: (021) 318 65 76, (021) 318 15 56, (021) 318 29 74.
Programme
NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Maiorescu and Maiorescianism in Contemporary Romanian Philosophical Consciousness
26 November 2010
The symposium is occasioned by the 170th anniversary of the birth of Titu Maiorescu and the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Philosophy. The latter event is connected with the name of Ioan Maiorescu, the philosopher's father. The history of this faculty, one might say, is imbued with the Maiorescian spirit. The symposium is organised by the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, the Centre for Research in the History of Philosophical Ideas, together with the Romanian Society of Philosophy.
Venue: the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei, No. 204, Sector 6, Bucharest.
PROGRAMME
10:00 – 10:05 Welcoming address – Prof. Dr. Romulus Brâncoveanu,
Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, the University of Bucharest
I. 10:05 – 12:15 COLLOQUIUM – Moderator: Acad. Gheorghe Vlăduţescu
– Room 8, „Tudor Vianu”
10:05 – 11:15 Lectures
– Cultural institutions mentored by Titu Maiorescu – Prof. Dr. Constantin
Schifirneţ, SNSPA
– The philosophical school of the Maiorescian tradition. The critique of Maiorescian criticism in
interwar thought – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Constantin Aslam,
the National University of Arts
– Models of philosophising and cultural projects. Maiorescianism today – Assoc. Prof.
Dr. Viorel Cernica, the University of Bucharest
11:15 – 12:15 Discussions
II. 16:00 – 19:00 PAPER SESSION – Moderators:
Prof. Dr. Angela BOTEZ
Prof. Dr. Romulus BRÂNCOVEANU
– Room 7
16:00 – 16:20 Angela Botez – the Institute of Philosophy, Titu Maiorescu – the Place of European Philosophical Ideas in the Process of Reconstructing Romanian Culture …
Discussions
16:20 – 16:40 Titus Lateş – the Institute of Philosophy, From the Books Donated by Titu Maiorescu to the Library of Philosophy and Letters …
Discussions
16:40 – 17:00 Mona Mamulea – the Institute of Philosophy, The Philosophy of Relation and the Frameworks of Maiorescian Thought in the Criticist Period …
Discussions
17:00 – 17:20 Mihai Popa – the Institute of Philosophy, The Concept of Relation and Cultural Forms in Titu Maiorescu …
Discussions
17:20 – 17:40 Constantin Stoenescu – the University of Bucharest, The Thesis of Forms without Substance and the Debate on National Specificity …
Discussions
17:40 – 18:00 Savu Totu – the University of Bucharest … Title not specified
Discussions
18:00 – 18:20 Viorel Vizureanu – the University of Bucharest, Openings of Maiorescian Logic…
Discussions
18:20 – 18:40 Ilie Pintea – the Spiru Haret University, The Conception of Philosophy in the Early Writings of Titu Maiorescu …
Discussions
18:40 – 19:00 Romulus Brâncoveanu – the University of Bucharest … Title not specified
Discussions