Naționalitate și identitate europeană/ Nationality and European Identity

Ideas in the Agora / Idei in Agora

Jörn Rüsen talks to Sorin Antohi

Jörn Rüsen in dialog cu Sorin Antohi

Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, 7 octombrie 2017, 18:00-20:00

Over the last few years, some of the basic concepts related to our understanding of Europe (both as a continent and as a normative political project) have been challenged by historical events, cultural and ideological evolutions, geopolitical, societal, and economic crises. Under the circumstances, we need to critically rethink notions such as nationality and European identity. This dialogue starts from a critique of the post-national attitudes of the German (and in the European) intelligentsia, and goes on to examine the above-mentioned notions and their contexts.

Jörn Rüsen (n.1938) este unul dintre cei mai importanti filozofi si teoreticieni ai istoriei din epoca noastra, precum si un umanist angajat. Dialogul cu Sorin Antohi va porni de la o critica a atitudinilor postnationale ale intelighentiei germane si europene.

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Jörn Rüsen

Born in 1938 (Duisburg), and educated at the University of Cologne, he is one of the leading global figures of our time in the theory and methodology of historical studies, in the humanities in general. Senior Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities) in Essen, whose president (and reformer) he was for ten years (1997-2007), Professor emeritus at the University of Witten/Herdecke (where he has taught intermittently from 1989 to 2007), former professor of general history with special respect to the theory of history at the University of Bielefeld, where he was also one of the directors of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research. He has also taught at the universities of Braunschweig, Berlin (Free University), Bochum. He was a visiting professor, has conducted research, and has lectured in centers of learning around the world, some of which he has helped to reform and develop. He has initiated and led many large-scale research and publishing projects, has published widely in the fields of theory and methodology of historical studies; history of historiography; intercultural comparison of historiography; structure and development of historical consciousness; theory of historical learning; theory, empirical manifestations and historical development of historical culture; history of human rights; strategies of intercultural comparison, humanism in a globalizing world. In 2017, the synthesis of his historical theory, which in many ways is our epoch’s response to the grand theories of the 19th century (significantly, the author’s first book was on the historical theory of Johann Gustav Droysen) Historik. Theorie der Geschichtswissenschaft (Böhlau, 2013), was translated into English: Evidence and Meaning. A Theory of Historical Studies (Berghahn Books).

Sorin Antohi (b. 1957) is a historian of ideas, essayist, translator, and consultant based in Bucharest, where he has established (2007) the Orbis Tertius / A Treia Lume Association, specialized in conferences and publications. He has studied English, French (University of Iasi, Romania), and History (EHESS, Paris). He has taught mainly at the University of Michigan, the University of Bucharest, and the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (where he has also served as Academic Pro-Rector and has founded Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies). He has conducted research at universities, institutes of advanced study and other institutions in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Stanford, Vienna, Essen, Berlin and Leipzig. He has lectured, participated in, (co)organized conferences, (co)directed academic projects in more than thirty countries. Among others, he has served as a member of the Board of the International Committee of Historical Studies, as well as on various editorial and foundation boards. He has published widely on intellectual history, history of ideas, historical theory and history of historiography, as well as on Romania in European contexts. With Jörn Rüsen and Chun-chieh Huang, he edits the book series, Reflections on In(Humanity), published jointly by Vandenhoek & Ruprecht and National Taiwan University Press.

Idei in Agora Ideas in the Agora

Program dedicat analizei spiritului public, realizat de Muzeul Municipiului Bucuresti in parteneriat cu Asociatia Orbis Tertius / A Treia Lume – care asigura continutul. Intalnirile au formate diferite (conferinte, colocvii, seminarii, dezbateri publice etc.), propunand un dialog viu si deschis intre curente, miscari, personalitati, viziuni despre lume, teorii, ideologii aflate in consens, rezonanta, tensiune ori conflict. Discutiile sunt accesibile si prin live streaming, fiind apoi arhivate si folosite ca punct de plecare pentru publicatii virtuale si tiparite. Intelectualii publici si universitarii, politicienii si oamenii de afaceri, studentii, intregul public educat incearca astfel sa inteleaga impreuna lumea in care traiesc. In singurul mod posibil: prin dezbaterea critica a ideilor.

Prima intalnire: Marx and Marxism: Utopia, Dystopia, History. Gregory Claeys talks to Sorin Antohi (21 iunie 2017). A doua intalnire: De ce este Romania cum este? Specificul national ca exceptionalism. Vintila Mihailescu in dialog cu Sorin Antohi (2 iulie 2017). A treia intalnire: Inintelighentia. Dorin Tudoran in dialog cu Sorin Antohi (9 august 2017). A patra intilnire: De la sociologie si geografie la geopolitica in Romania interbelica. Conferinta publica de Calin Cotoi. Moderator: Sorin Antohi (25 septembrie 2017).

In pregatire: The Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Responsibility, conferinta internationala (13-14 octombrie 2017, Casa Filipescu-Cesianu). Antropologie si istorie recenta in Romania. Katherine Verdery in dialog cu Sorin Antohi (Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, 17 octombrie 2017, orele 18:00). Village-City-Nation: Utopia? Opening statements by Gregory Claeys and Sorin Antohi, followed by discussion (Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, 21 octombrie 2017, 18:30). Cultura, ideologie si politica in America de azi. Virgil Nemoianu in dialog cu Sorin Antohi (Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, 23 octombrie 2017, orele 18:00). Identitati evreiesti, identitati romanesti. Moshe Idel in dialog cu Sorin Antohi (Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, 30 octombrie 2017, orele 18:00).