POETRY IN TRANSLATION WITH BRONISLAVA VOLKOVÁ AND DAVOR GRGURIĆ

The Aestetic Division at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatia Society for Analytic Philosophy, in collaboration with the Center for Language Research, invite you to discussion group Poetry in Translation with Bronislava Volkova and Davor Grgurić on Friday, January 20th 2023., 10:15 – 12:00, room 401, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Rijeka.

Bronislava Volková is an exile poet, who left Czechoslovakia in 1974 and lived over 40 years in the USA, where she became a Full Professor in the Slavic Department of Indiana University, Bloomington. She started publishing poetry ten years later at PmD (Poetry Abroad) in Munich, West Germany and in a number of journals in various languages all over the world. A selection from these poems appeared in Votobia, Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1995 under the title Roztříštěné světy (Shattered Worlds). In English, her selected poems appeared in Sheep Meadow Press, New York 1993 under the title Courage of the Rainbow. Her poetry is reflective, existential and growing its metaphysical dimension. She has also translated many Czech poets into English and Slavic poets into Czech. Her bilingual anthology of 20th century Czech poetry appeared under the title Po hřbetě ďábla/Up the Devil’s Back in Slavica Publishers v Bloomington 2008. Apart from poetry, she publishes stories and essays on the topic of exile, which are also translated into various languages. In addition to her poetry and academic work, professor Volkova is also an accomplished visual artist. Details about her life and work are available at https://bronislavavolkova.com/eng/.    

Davor Grgurić is a Croatian poet, writer, translator, journalist and editor, and is currently a president of the Rijeka branch of the Croatian Writers’ Association.

During the event, a presentation of the literary journal Književna Rijeka will take place.

Moderator: Iris Vidmar Jovanović

New program in Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rijeka

On behalf of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka, we would like to inform you and your students about a new Masters programme in Cognitive Sciences that is jointly run by the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia: MSc in Cognitive Sciences – Cognition and the Mind, https://cogsci.uniri.hr/.

At the core of this programme lies a unique integration of psychology and philosophy, complemented by other disciplines within cognitive sciences. Graduates will be ideally placed to continue their professional journey in academia or industry and adapt to the ever-changing problems and challenges of the modern world. You can find more about the programme structure at: https://cogsci.uniri.hr/programme-overview.

The teaching is provided by an interdisciplinary team of lecturers at the University of Rijeka and external collaborators: https://cogsci.uniri.hr/people.

The quality of the Masters programme is also guaranteed by an international Advisory Board whose members are at the forefront of their respective fields and changes in academic practice:
Prof. Kristin Andrews – Department of Philosophy, York University, Canada
Prof. José Luis Bermudez – Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA
Prof. Chris Chambers – School of Psychology Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Henriëtte Hendriks – Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, UK
Prof. Amanda Seed – School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, UK
Prof. Andreas Nieder – Department of Animal Physiology, University of Tübingen, Germany

The Application Deadline is 24 March 2023, and detailed information about the application process can be found here: https://cogsci.uniri.hr/admissions.

For further information, please contact: cogsci@uniri.hr or +385 (0)51 265 780.

Poziv na okrugli stol Književnost u obrazovanju / Literature in Education

Katedra za estetiku pri Odsjeku za filozofiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Rijeci i Hrvatsko društvo za analitičku filozofiju, u suradnji s Udrugom za razvoj kulture mladih “Kulturni front”, pozivaju vas na okrugli stol posvećen ulozi književnosti u obrazovanju, koji će se održati 5.12.2022. u Opatiji, u Dvorani Veranda u sklopu Hotela Gardenia, s početkom u 18,30 sati.
Sudjeluju: profesor James Harold (Mount Holyoke College), profesor Peter Lamarque
(Sveučilište York) i profesor Stein Haugom Olsen (Bilkent Sveučilište). Izlaganja će biti na engleskom.

Program se nalazi u privitku.

The Division of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, in cooperation with the Association for the Development of Youth Culture “Kulturni Front”, invite you to the round table dedicated to the role of literature in education, which will be held on December 5, 2022. in
Opatija, in the Veranda Hall within the Gardenia Hotel, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Participants: Professor James Harold (Mount Holyoke College), Professor Peter Lamarque
(University of York) and Professor Stein Haugom Olsen (Bilkent University).

The program is attached.

Invitation to the conference “Truth, Fiction, and Literature – a Philosophical Perspective”

The Aesthetic Division at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to a conference on aesthetic cognitivism “Truth, Fiction, and Literature – a Philosophical Perspective” that will be held on December 6-7, 2022. at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka (room 401). This conference is an outcome of project AETNA (https://aetna.uniri.hr), PI  Dr. Iris Vidmar.

See the conference program here.

23rd Rijeka Conference in Philosophy Contemporary Philosophical Issues PROGRAM

The Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the UNIRI project “Critical Thinking and Society” and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to the 23rd edition of the international symposium Contemporary Philosophical Issues, which will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka (room 401).

The symposium can be attended online via the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3354753799   
The program of the conference is here.

Invitation to the workshop “The ThUMB 2022 Meeting on Functions in Biology and the Biomedical Sciences”

pozivamo vas na znanstveni skup The ThUMB 2022 Meeting on Functions in Biology and the Biomedical Sciences koja će se održati u četvrtak 8. i petak 9. rujna 2022. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu u Rijeci, Sveučilišna avenija 4, predavaonica F-401 (4. kat) prema programu koji se nalazi ovdje.

We invite you to the scientific meeting The ThUMB 2022 Meeting on Functions in Biology and the Biomedical Sciences, which will be held on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 September 2022 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Sveučilišna avenija 4, room F-401 (4. floor) according to the following program.

Poziv na radionicu “Mental disorders, public justification, and values”

Pozivamo vas na radionicu “Mental disorders, public justification, and values” koja će se održati u sklopu ljetne škole “Equality and Citizenship” u periodu od 21. do 22. srpnja 2022. na Filozofskom Fakultetu u Rijeci (prostorija 401). 

Pozvani predavači:

Prof. John McMillan (University of Otago): Epistemic trust, epistemic injustice, and therapy for mental illness 

Prof. Inti Brazil (Radboud University): Reflections on what the application of computational approaches in psychiatry can(not) help with

Program radionice se nalazi ovdje

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