TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY
interdisciplinary program with the support
of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Invited Speaker
Paul Ballanfat (Galata University, Istanbul)
TOPIC: THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY
After the speech and the discussion, we will listen to modern musical compositions in piano
of Claude Debussy, Lina Tonia, Dimitri Terzakis and Laércio de Freitas.
There will be a live streaming of the event through DIAVLOS.
Thursday June 8 2017, 8pm
Aimilios Riadis Auditorium
Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Coordinators of the Program
Miltiadis Konstantinou, Professor of Biblical Studies, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Argyris Nicolaidis, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The webage is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s work: Squares with Concentric Circles (1913). For Kandinsky color meant more than an optical element of a picture. Color is the soul of a painting. Furthermore Kandinsky had synesthetic experiences. He could “listen” to colors and “see” sounds.
Abstract and short CV
The speaker starts from the roots, the ancient Greek thinking, crosses the European philosophy, follows the genealogy of ideas, and indicates the points of crisis and the deadlocks. The separation of politics from meta-physical and ethical considerations, the domination of technology over nature and human life, the political messianisms which led humanity to the known tragedies of the 20th century.
We don’t have a narrative of the given present, and according to Nietzsche, nihilism is lurking.
Paul Ballanfat, born in 1960 in France, studied philosophy at the Universities of Lyon and Strasbourg and obtained his doctorate at the University Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) on Eastern Languages and Civilization. From 2009 he is Professor of Philosophy at the Galata University, a renown French speaking educational institute in Istanbul.
There was a broad coverage of the event by the media, with interviews to journals and national TV channel ET3.
From the media response, read the interviews of Paul Ballanfat
- Editors Journal http://www.efsyn.gr/arthro/i-dianoisi-prepei-na-parameinei-makria-apo-kathe-politiki-desmeysi
- Athenian-Macedonian News Agency http://www.amna.gr/article-pagination.php?id=160888
- THESSNEWS newspaper http://www.thessnews.gr/article/39516/o-gallos-filosofos-pol-antre-mpalanfa-stin-thessnews-den-eimai-dianooumenos-kai-den-thelo-na-eimai%E2%80%A6-
- THINKFREΕ Magazine http://www.thinkfree.gr/ballanfat-politics-megaro-mousikis-auth/?doing_wp_cron=1507285645.9013020992279052734375
See more Pictures of the event here