The project has been realized in July 2003 – February 2006 at EHU with support of OSI/HESP. Project director: Prof. Anatoly Mikhailov; project coordinator: Ass. Prof. Evgeny Borisov.

 

A. Thematic field and main goals of the project

Thematic field of the project is contemporary communicative philosophy presented in its main directions: social theory, hermeneutical philosophy, and philosophical anthropology.

The main goals of the project are:

1. to organize a long-term collaborative work of a team of young university faculty committed to the radical advancement of philosophy teaching in the post-Soviet landscape and capable of multiplying innovative effects of the regional seminar at their home universities;
2. to disseminate within the region exemplary attempts of synthesis of advanced scholarship with dialogical strategies of philosophy teaching, both presented by resource persons and designed by participants;
3. to provide the regional networking of initiatives with intent to modernize the discipline and to institutionalize a new generation in post-Soviet philosophy.

 

B. Participants and Resource Faculty

24 young philosophy teachers from Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia have participated in the project. The following persons have been working as core resource faculty members, i.e. involved in all activities within the project: Prof. Vladimir Fours, Ass. Prof. Tatiana Shchyttsova, Ass. Prof. Ilya Inishev (all from EHU). Besides, the following scholars have participated in separate sessions as resource persons: Prof. Jean Grondin (Montreal, Canada), Prof. Hans-Peter Kruger (Berlin, Germany), Privatdocent Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg, Germany), Prof. Mark S. Poster (Irvine, California, USA), Prof. Bernhard Waldenfels (Bochum, Germany), Privatdocent Dr. Peter Trawny (Wuppertal, Germany), Privatdocent Paola-Ludovica Coriando (Freiburg, Germany), and Ass. Prof. Evgeny Borisov (Minsk).

 

C. Activities and list of events

1. Summer sessions.

2. Winter workshops.

3. Research seminar held at EHU (2003/04 academic year).

4. Intersession small group seminars held in St.Petersburg, Kyiv and Vilnius (2005 – 2006).

5. Advising participants by resource persons via email.

 

List of events (summer and winter sessions and intersession seminars; all programs are written in Russian)

• July 2003: summer session Person, Interpersonality, Communication. Program
• February 2004: winter session. Discussion of new curricula, developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their home universities; discussing the program of summer session 2004. Program
• July 2004: summer session Communication in the Globalizing Social World . Program
• February 2005: winter session. Discussion of new curricula, developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their home universities; crude summary of the seminar work; discussing the program of summer session 2005. Program
• July 2005: summer session Communicative turn in contemporary philosophy and goals of philosophical courses. Program
• February 2006: final winter session. Discussion of new curricula, developed by participants, and experience in realizing these curricula at their home universities; summing-up the seminar work; discussing possibilities of the long-range participants' co-operation and further dissemination of innovative ideas worked out at the seminar. Program
• Intersession small group seminars (2005 – 2006). Programs

 

D. Project materials (papers and syllabi written by the project participants as well as the most interesting pieces of email-advising)

See also the special issue of the journal Topos [# 1(12), Minsk, 2006] devoted to the project results.

 

Forum

 

E. Contact information

Evgeny Borisov (project coordinator)

Tel. +375 29 694 13 55

Fax. + 375 17 284 29 94