St. Petersburg State University
Faculty of Philosophy
Saint-Petersburg Philosophical Society
CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL CULTURE STUDIES
St. PETERSBURG's SOCIETY for STUDIES of CULTURAL
HERITAGE of NICHOLAS of CUSA
Mendeleevskaya, 5, St. Petersburg, 199034, RUSSIA
Phone: (812) 4224261
E-mail: odushin@mail.ru
Internet: http: \\ philosophy. pu. ru
The International Conference
REFORMATION OF MARTIN LUTHER AND EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY AND
CULTURE
(The Preliminary Program)
Saint-Petersburg, 28-30 of June 2012
I.
The medieval German mystics: from Meister Eckhart till Nicholas of Cusa
Prof. AleksandrPogonyailo (Saint-Petersburg State University) The German mystics: from
Meister Eckhart to Nicholas of Cusa
Dr Mikhail Khorkov (People’s Friendship University, Moscow) From Meister Eckhart to
Nicholas of Cusa
Dr. Tatyana Trush (Kiev National University) Mystical teaching of Meister Eckhart and the
German philosophy
Dr Matthias Vollet (The Cusian Academy of European History, Bernkastel-Kues) The role of the
Idiota / Layman in Nicolas of Cusa as Reformation topic in his thought and actions
Dr. Dmitri Yavorski (Volgograd Academy of State Service) Medieval mystics and utopian
thinking
II.
Origins and sources of Reformation and Lutheranism
Dr. Ivan Phokin. (Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, Saint-Petersburg) Luther and the
world principle of the Christianity
Polina Serkova (University of Duisburg-Essen) Reformation of Martin Luther and the
transformation of German philosophy: from the Middle Ages to pre-Modernity
Dr. Andrei Tolstenko (Saint-Petersburg State University) There is no heart, no religion: the basic
idea of Martin Luther
Dr. Lada Tsypina (Saint-Petersburg State University) John Wycliffe, Jan Hus and the origins of
the Lutheran Reformation
Prof Vladislav Bachinin (Saint-Petersburg) Luther’s analytics of humanitarian consciousness:
portrait of secular intellectual in theological interior (Luther and Erasmus).
Dr. Konstantin Bandurovski (Russian Humanitarian State University, Moscow) The place of
Luther in the discussion about freedom/slavery will
Prof Sergey Nikonenko (Saint-Petersburg State University) Luther and Locke about superstition
Dr. Eugenie Malyshkin (Saint-Petersburg State University) The problem of secondary
knowledge: from Molina to Leibniz
III.
Martin Luther's ideas and classical German idealism
Prof. Igor Evlampiev (Saint-Petersburg State University) Fichte and the Christianity
Dr. Andrei Patkul (Saint-Petersburg State University) Luther’s motives in Schelling’s treatise
“On the essence of human freedom"
Holger Sederström (Humboldt-University, Berlin) Kant’s distinction of reasonable faith and
institutional faith as the legacy of Martin Luther
Carina Pape (Humboldt-University, Berlin) Luther, Kant and the women
Natalia Eremeeva (Saint-Petersburg State University) God as Deus absconditus in Luther’s
theology and God as thing in self in Kant’s philosophy
IV.
Lutheranism and the philosophy of the XX century
Prof Oleg Dushin (Saint-Petersburg State University) Martin Luther and the idea of Resistance
(Lev Shestov and Dietrich Bonheoffer)
Dr. Igor Zaitsev (Saint-Petersburg State University) Influence of Reformation on religiousphilosophical thought: the case of Levinas
Dr. Igor Kaufman (Saint-Petersburg State University) Protestantism and ethos of pre-modern
science: historiography and construction of question
V.
Martin Luther in the Russian philosophy and culture
Dr. Iris Wikström (Abo Academy, Turku) Tolstoy, Wittgenstein and Lutheran Liberal Theology
Dr. Stefan Reichelt (Society for Studies of Christian East, Leipzig) Lutheranism in the Russian
culture: Johann Arndt
VI.
Martin Luther and the Orthodox theology
Dr.Th. Vesa Hirvonen (University of Helsinki) The relics in Martin Luther's theology
M.Th. Ilmari Karimies (University of Helsinki) Luther’s Use of the Metaphors of Light and
Darkness in his Concept of Faith
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to inform you that your presentation should be 30 minutes and 10 minutes
discussion. You can speak in any language but each report should be accompanied by the
English text which will be presented via a projector. So we hope to get your paper (in English
version) before the Conference (till 20 of June).
You have to send good x-copy of basic page your passport (with photo) for preparing invitation
for your visa to e-mail address of Conference Secretary Dr. Maria Semikolennykh:
maria.semikolennykh@gmail.com
We hope to cover payment of your housing in University’s Guest rooms.
Please, confirm your participation in the Conference and inform me about your plans at the next
week! Certainly, you can make changes and corrections in the topic of your presentation if you
need.
Sincerely
Ph.D., Prof. Oleg Dushin
Chairman of Organizing Committee
Chief of Saint-Petersburg Cusanus Society
Coordinator of Centre for Medieval Culture Studies
Department of History of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy
Saint-Petersburg State University