Program HEPE 2020
International Virtual Conference on
Higher Education, Philosophy and Ethics
(HEPE)
Facing Contemporary Challenges
June 24 - 27, 2020
Iași, Romania
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
9:30 - 10:00
CONFERENCE OPENING AND GREETINGS
Carmen Cozma, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
President of the Organizing Committee
10:00 - 12:30
PLENARY
Keynote Speakers:
ANGELA ALES BELLO, Lateran University, Rome, Italy
Education and formation: The contemporary relevance of Edith Stein's message
GH. VLĂDUȚESCU, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Pleading for a history of philosophical ideas
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00
SESSION I: KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
ALEXANDRU PETRESCU, West University of Timișoara, Romania
The 'problematological' perspective on knowledge: Lucian Blaga and Michel Meyer
TETSUYA KONO, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Philosophy for/with children for revitalizing the local region in the Tohoku District in Japan
NIKOLAY KOZHEVNIKOV, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk
Elements and structures of the universal hermeneutic triangle
FLORIN GEORGE POPOVICI, “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
The metaphor as a valuable cognitive device in the philosophical research of mind
FELIX OLUSANJO OLATUNJI, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria
The catholic church, religious imperialism and the dethronement of cultural values in Africa
MARIUS POPESCU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Challenges of the epistemic discourse in contemporaneity
ROBERT DOLEWSKI, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
Autocreation as inhabiting and discovering new worlds -
in the scope of Friedrich Nietzsche and Paul Ricoeur's concepts of narration and identity
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
Thursday, June 25, 2020
9:00 - 10:00
PLENARY
Keynote Speaker:
ADRIAN MURARU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Some notes on academic citizenship in Eastern Europe: A case study on a higher education institution (HEI) in Romania at the end of the second decade of the 21st century
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
10:00 - 12:30
SESSION II: EDUCATIONAL CULTURE CONTEXTS
CODRUȚA HAINIC, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Philosophical insights into embodied experience and education
GLORIA VERGARA, University of Colima, Colima, Mexico
The role of art and humanities in the educational challenges of the 21st century
BIANCA IOAN, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Essential values in higher education: The horizon of encounter with the 'other' - A model
SUAT AKSU, Ankara University, Turkey
Misconceived gap year process at transition of higher education in Turkey: A videographic study on high school's graduates
CRISTIAN-CONSTANTIN LUPAȘCU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
The antics of vocation: A question of who gets to choose the curricula of education
SHAHID MOBEEN, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
“All creatures are connected”:
A philosophical proposal for harmonious human growth through higher education
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:00
SESSION III: CULTURE AND HEALTH NETWORK
SATSUKI TASAKA, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan
Critiques on arguments for application of germline genome editing (GGE) to human reproduction
NICOLAE RÂMBU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
The culture as duty by Immanuel Kant
ANTONIO DE LUCA, University of Calabria, Italy
The consideration of the existential condition in the psychopathological field as an ethical, epistemological and clinical problem
GEOFFREY SCHEURMAN, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, Wisconsin, USA
Let there be Tao on Earth: Coping with a global self-worth pandemic
Vicențiu Buzduga, Independent Scholar, Iași, Romania
On the need to recover our authentic moral values
ARMAND A. VOINOV, West University of Timișoara, Romania
Plato and the contemporary aspects of assisted suicide
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
Friday, June 26, 2020
9:00 - 10:00
PLENARY
Keynote Speaker:
LYUDMILA MOLODKINA, The State University of Land Use Planning and Management, Moscow, Russia
The aesthetics of nature in 'phenomenology of life' of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka:
A Contemporary Philosophical Vision
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
10:00 - 13:00
SESSION IV: LANGUAGE, ARCHITECTURE AND ARTS
LEILA TAVAKOLI, ICKPT, New York, USA
The structure of languages in relation to education in the challenges of the Nostratic global world against the anti-Nostratic global world
HODJJAT ASSADIAN, ICKPT, Helsinki, Finland; ICKPT, Brussels, Belgium
Knowledge as 'epistēmē' / 'ἐπιστήμη' and its distinction from Germanic 'Wissenschaft' and Latin 'scientia'
IOANA CĂTĂLINA ANTĂLUȚĂ, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, Romania
Experiencing the city 'per pedes'
BOGDAN OLARIU, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, Romania
Encountering the 'other/ness' in the architecture of public space
ION GAGIM, “Alecu Russo” State University of Bălți, Republic of Moldova
A true encounter on the heights:
About the spiritual living of music, or
About the need of switching from a horizontal towards a vertical experience
FRĂGUȚA ZAHARIA, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
'Maiastra' by Constantin Brancusi as existential flight: A phenomenological approach
CHRISTINE MCNEILL-MATTESON, University of Kansas, USA
Phenomenon of existence: A poet's observations in the synchronicity of death
ALEKSANDRA PAWLISZYN, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
Archetypal character of the work of art: On art as play with unconsciousness
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 17:30
SESSION V: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
LEONARDO GUSTAVO CARABAJAL, National University of Jujuy, Argentina
The collective memory and the Aristotelian 'phronesis' as elements of social cohesion
CARMEN COZMA, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
In search of the meaningfulness of 'academic ethics': Make ethics count in the modern university!
BOGDAN POPOVENIUC, “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania
Philosophy and ethics for higher (moral) education
ANNA KAWALEC, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
“Enchantment”, or... What is the purpose of aesthetics?
ANA MĂDĂLINA HRISCU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Fashion and the fashion consumer facing contemporary challenges
FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION
Saturday, June 27, 2020
10:00 - 12:00
CLOSING CONFERENCE DISCUSSION