DAY 1
Felix Ó Murchadha is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Galway. He received his PhD from the University of Wuppertal. He is a Fulbright Scholar and currently President of the Irish Philosophical Society. His research is in Phenomenology with emphasis on questions of Religion, Time, Nature and the Self. His most recent monograph is The Fidelity of Reason: A Phenomenological Metaphysics of Self, Nature and Divinity (Springer, 2025). He is also the author of The Formation of the Modern Self: Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant (Bloomsbury 2022), A Phenomenology of Christian Life: Glory and Night (Indiana University Press, 2013) and The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2012).
DESIRE, ESTRANGEMENT AND IDENTITY: ESCHATOLOGY AND FALLENNESS
DAY 2
Naomi Janowitz, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at the University of California–Davis, is the author of numerous articles on Judaism, Christianity and Graeco-Roman religions in late antiquity as well as semiotics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Her books include The Poetics of Ascent: Rabbinic Theories of Language in a Late Antique Ascent Text (SUNY Press), Magic in the Roman World: Pagans Jews and Christians (Routledge), Icons of Power: Rituals Strategies in Late Antiquity (Penn State Press) which was chosen as a Choice Journal Outstanding Academic book for 2003, The Family Romance of Maccabean Martyrdom (Routledge) and most recently Acts of Interpretation: Ancient Religious Semiotic Ideologies and Their Modern Echoes (De Gruyter). She is a graduate of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalytic and serves on the editorial board of The American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
FRACTURING SELVES AND MULTIPLYING OTHERS
DAY 3
Cezary Woźniak is working as Associate Professor in Institute of Culture at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. His previous publications include Martin Heidegger’s Thinking on Art (1998, 2004), Augenblick. Primordial Experience and Limits of Philosophy (2008, 2013), Spectrum of Immanence (2025). He has published articles on contemporary Continental thought and ancient Asian thought. His coedited books are Aesthetics/Inaesthetics. Contemporary Theories of Artistic Practice (2020) and Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management (2020). He works widely on a variety of philosophical themes, but with particular focus on phenomenology, Buddhist studies, culture studies, hermeneutics and esthetics.
MAKING OTHERNESS INTO NON-OTHERNESS. DIALECTICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF OTHERNESS