SYMPOSIUM, HOUSE CONFERENCE
"The leitmotif of Ivan Illich's books in the seventies was the recognition that many institutions had increasingly obviously reached, or even crossed, a threshold beyond which they had become counterproductive, even malign. Beyond a certain volume, Illich argued in Self-limitation, institutions produce as many problems as they seek to solve (...) But worse than that, they obscure, they overshadow the basic human capacity to speak one's own language, for example, to be surprised, or to hear one's own death."
David Cayley
Schedule
The aim of the symposium, organised in the spirit of Ivan Illich, is to review Illich's critical thought in its broad spectrum and to reflect on it in the context of contemporary critical thought and contemporary socio-social phenomena. We wish to emphasize the methodological principle that Illich formulated as "the worst is the worst of the best", i.e. the deterioration of Christianity, i.e. the critical examination of the institution of the Church, can provide a key to the other
of the other social institutions, the school system, health, technology and science, and even the legal system.
and state institutions in the face of the crises and innovations of the digital age
innovations. Regardless of this priority, we welcome speakers with a free choice of topics.
The conference is open to the public, the language is Hungarian and the papers will be published in the journal Kellék.
Preliminary programme:
Friday 17 May
14.00: Introduction by Daniel Baric (Paris, Sorbonne), Éva Kocziszky (Theatre and Film Academy, Paris, France)
University of Cinematography and Design)
15.00 - 18.00
Lajos Mitnyán (Szeged Teacher Training College). Ivan Illich's questions on the
"myths of progress".
Break
András Kiss Lajos (University of Nyíregyháza).
Ivan Illich and André Gorz
Alpár Losoncz (University of Novi Sad): After the 60s.
18.30: Dinner together
Saturday, 18 May
10.00-14.00:
Ármin Tillmann (Budapest). Health policy
A critique of health policy in Ivan Illich's oeuvre
Zoltán Lengyel (University of Szeged).Break
Viktor Feczku (University of Debrecen):Language in networks: language criticism by Ivan Ilich
Zoltán Fetzcz (Debrecen, Zoltán Llich, University of Budapest): Insights of Ilich's linguistic insights in networks in the light of the texts "Science in Commons" and "The War Against Subsistence".
Éva Kocziszky (Budapest, SZFE): speech acts: the oath and the " corruption of the best "
14.30: Closing remarks
Budapest, 18 January 2024.
Prof. Dr. Eva Kocziszky ([email protected])
Prof. Dr. Daniel Baric
Conference Secretary: Ármin Tillmann ([email protected])
Nyitott Műhely
The Open Workshop is a fine place, a place where many different kinds of people can feel at home, which is to say that there is something that is rare and difficult to create, the spirit of the place. This spirit is very sympathetic to me, because it means both that there are shows that interest me and that the occasional stew is okay. And that I'm likely to meet people there who I'm happy to meet, and it's not even out of the question that they're me. Such public (open) spaces are rare in Budapest.
