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Ioan Petru Culianu and the History of Religions
Giovanni Casadio talks to Sorin Antohi
1 November 2022, 18:00
Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151
Almost a historical generation after his brutal death, Ioan Petru Culianu is an enduring, seminal, and haunting presence. On 21-23 October
2022, a colloquium was held in Iași, his native city: Ioan Petru Culianu. Lives, Works, Legacies. For more information, go to www.sorinantohi.org. The recordings are to be found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/
UC1WL0JvTYq1sG0hj0Qn06fg. Soon, a full, edited film is going to be posted on my homepage. A collective volume in English will appear next year with a major international publisher.
The colloquium, placed under the aegis of the Academia Europaea, has examined Culianu in a liminal situation, that of someone standing on the threshold of History, in a fluid space, engaged in a rite of passage from a memory that is mainly living, fragmentary, passionate (ranging from hagiography to slander) to a predominantly historicized, comprehensive, critical, and calm memory (the one that Paul Ricoeur called mémoire apaisée).
With one of the participants, Giovanni Casadio, I shall revisit some of the colloquium’s main points, and continue to place Culianu in the context of the history of religions, as well as against the background of the evolution of several other fields in the social sciences, humanities, and science studies.
Sorin Antohi
Descarca pliant Idei in Agora 1 noiembrie 2022
