During the first week of September from 4 to 6 September 2024, the international phenomenological conference The Many Worlds by Phenomenology will take place. Umwelt – Mitwelt – Lebenswelt. This event is the ninth year of the Central and Eastern European Society for Phenomenology conference series, which this year’s co-organizer is also the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The conference will be held at the Malý Berlín cultural center in Trnava.
The key concept that the conference will deal with is the concept of the world, environment, surroundings, space, reality, the world of our life and being with others. The concept of the world as a comprehensive guide in phenomenology, which runs through the entire work of Edmund Husserl, opens up and inspires many important and current research topics. After Husserl, the concept of the world was subsequently developed in independent works by Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Eugen Fink, Ludwig Landgrebe, Alfred Schütz and many others. The aim of the conference is to discuss, through several areas of research, for example, how the world is connected to the exploration of space, perception and horizon; how it becomes significant for experience, subjectivity, and corporeality. In our daily existence, we are present in the world, we dwell in it, we are integrated into it, we live in it with other people; It is a space for our creative activities, for what we can do, for scientific research. The aim of the conference is to explore the complexity of the concept of the world in phenomenology, seen from several points of view, not only in various concepts within the phenomenological tradition, but also in contemporary research.
The main speakers at the conference are Professor Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl from the University of Graz, Dr. Tao DuFour from the University of Cambridge and Professor Karel Novotný from the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Together with him, 55 philosophers from almost 20 countries will speak.
The program of the event is attached.
Edited by: Jaroslava Vydrová, Institute of Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Ilustration: Žofia Dubová