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The conference takes place in the main building of the University of Tartu (Ülikooli St 18).
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Thursday, 28 October
13:00
Opening (room 232)
13:10-14:40
Plenary session
Gesche Linde – The Meanings of 'God': A Semiotic Approach
Parallel session I (room 232)
15:00-16:00
Parallel session II (room 230)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa – “Ich werdend spreche Ich Du” – Creative dialogue in the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber
Marko Pajević – The Encounter and Transcendence – Martin Buber’s dialogical definition of humanity
Gunnar Gjermundsen – Names, energies and epistemic contact with the transcendent: A patristic view [online presentation]
Anders Ek – Metaphor, Parable and Analogy
16:00-16:30
Coffee break (room 230)
16:30-17:30
Parallel session III (room 232)
Parallel session IV (room 230)
Normunds Titans – Alternatives of Immanent Transcendence [online presentation]
Per Bjørnar Grande – Imitation and the Transcendent
Marius Timmann Mjaaland – The Controversy on Transcendence: Kant, Fichte and Jacobi
Theodor Sandal Rolfsen – Is finitude original? A re-reading of ‘Violence and Metaphysics’
17:30-19:00
NSPR Meeting (room 307)
Friday, 29 October
10:00-11:30
Plenary session (room 232)
Timo Koistinen – Religion, Fiction, and Facts
11:30-12:00
Coffee break (room 228)
12:00-13:30
Parallel session V (room 232)
Parallel session VI (room 228)
Elizaveta Bruk – Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology as an Imaginative Metalanguage of European Culture in 17-19th centuries [online presentation]
Jörg Disse – Art as an expression of ‚religio’. The relationship between modern art and religion in the phenomenology of Michel Henry
[online presentation]
Sami Pihlström – Truth and Realism in the Philosophy of Religion vs. Truth and Realism in the Philosophy of Theology and Religious Studies
Carl-Johan Palmqvist – Can a Semantic Agnostic Partake in Religious Life? [online presentation]
Roomet Jakapi – Religious Expressivism and Global Expressivism
13:30-15:00
Lunch
15:00-16:30
Plenary session (room 232)
Toomas Siitan – The Embodiment of the Word in Arvo Pärt’s Music
16:30-17:00
Coffee break (room 228)
17:00-18:00
Parallel session VII (room 232)
Parallel session VIII (room 228)
Robin Attfield – Language about the Transcendent [online presentation]
Igor Ahmedov – Between East and West: Communicating God as a Contradiction
Ervik Cejvan – Acéphale, the Impossible, Eroticism: the Technologies of Transcendence Beyond the Limits of Symbolization in Georges Bataille [online presentation]
Anastasiia Babash – Transcendence through cyberrelationships