Wednesday, June 17

15:30-16:00 Registration

16:00-17:30 Opening Session

Welcome by Gediminas Karoblis, Dean of Faculty of Humanities

Opening Speech. Danielle Cohen-Levinas (Sorbonne University / École normale supérieure)

Face(s). Who is the other?

17:30-19:00 Reception

Thursday, June 18

9:30-11:00

Elis Simson (Koç University)

Not Being at Home in the World: Levinas, Adorno, and Exile as Ethical Resistance

Dalia Marija Stančienė (Klaipėda University)

Emmanuel Levinas: Hypostasis and Solitude

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00

Gediminas Zelvaras (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

Jouissance and the Home as the Overcoming of Subjective Anonimity in Emmanuel Levinas’s ‘Totality and Infinity’

Matthew Zavislan (New School for Social Research)

The Breath of the Skin: Autochtony, Exile, and the Ambiguity of Enjoyment

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 

Sevket Benhur Oral (Vytautas Magnus University)

Existential Intelligence: Absolute Transformation in Tanabe, Levinas, and Heidegger 

Yonathan Busquila Listik (Leiden University)

Levinas Against the State: Readings Toward a Decolonial Philosophy

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16.30-18:00

Gintautas Mažeikis (Vytautas Magnus University)

E. Levinas on Jacob’s Struggling for the Home as Israel

David Allen / Agata Handley

Levinas and the Ethics of the Aesthetic Encounter: Ross Birrell and David Harding’s Triptych

Friday, June 19

9:00-10:30

David Hoinski (West Virginia University / Vytautas Magnus University)

Levinas contra Hegel on War, State, and Family

Danutė Bacevičiūtė (Vilnius University)

Asymmetry of Responsibility: Between Home and Exile

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30

Viktoras Bachmetjevas (Vytautas Magnus University)

Between the Private and the Public: Heidegger, Arendt, Levinas

Marius Markuckas (Vytautas Magnus University)

Levinas, Harman, Žukauskaitė: Three Philosophical Approaches to Disability–or One?

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30

Thomas Froy (University of Antwerp)

Heideggerian Hospitality: Rethinking Dwelling

Giulia Cervato (University of Padua)

Dwelling Otherwise: Levinas, Heidegger, Neher and the Question of (Up-)Rootedness