Karazin University is holding a round-table discussion Concealment as a Problem of Philosophy: Space Reflections.

The event is called to attract philosophers, scholars and artists to philosophical reflection on the concealment phenomenon in the context of social space, to turn to analysis of spaces history and attempts to understand them, to organize space for interdisciplinary dialogue about possible directions of theoretical space conceptualization.

Event organizers: Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy of the School of Philosophy (Karazin University), Postgraduate Students Research Society Lacan's Raumanalyse. Lacan's Seminars at the School of Philosophy.

Focus areas:

— Everyday life as space of secrecy.

— Dialectic of concealment and manifestations of public relations in social space.

— Topological models of social space.

— Lacking and excess spaces.

— Representative and non-representative areas in understanding art space.

— Social space as being understood and lived.

— Spatial genealogies of contemporary systems of thought.

— History of spatial concealment conceptualization.

— From simulacra to pornography: history of concealment of concealment.

Beginning: at 4:00 PM, May 29, 2015.

Venue: room 243, 2^nd floor, University Northern Building, 6, Svobody Sq.

Contact Information

Telephone: +380 (95) 211-30-74 (Valerii Petrov).

Information letter (in Ukrainian, PDF, 250 Kb)