Lithuanian Culture Research InstituteSaltoniskiu Street 58, Vilnius 08105, LithuaniaPhone / Fax (8-5) 275 1898, email: lkti@lkti.lt The meeting room 217

Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutasSaltoniškių gatvė 58, Vilnius 08105, LietuvaTel. / faks. (8-5) 275 1898, el. paštas: lkti@lkti.lt Posėdžių salė, nr. 217

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International Conference

CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS BORDERS IN EUROPE:CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

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Lithuanian Culture Research InstituteVilnius, Lithuania

May 22–23, 2015

Tartptautinė mokslinė konferencijaKULTŪRINĖS IR RELIGINĖS SIENOS EUROPOJE:

TĘSTINUMAS IR KAITA

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Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutasVilnius, Lietuva

2015 m. gegužės 22–23 d.

Friday 22 05 2015 9.30–10.00 Registration. Coffee – Tea10.00–10.05 Welcome. Jolanta Širkaitė (Director of Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

10.05–10.15 Introducing word. Naglis Kardelis (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

10.15–12.15 First session. Borders and Borderlands: the Change of ParadigmsModerator: Alexandr Sautkin (Murmansk State Humanities University, Russia)

1. Viggo Rossvær (Tromsø University, Norway) Borderology: a Kantian Approach to Border-culture 2. Vida Savoniakaitė (Lithuanian Institute of History) Belonging on Borderlands 3. Mikalai Biaspamiatnykh (Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus) Between Fear and Hope. How Border People Think about the EU-Belarusian Border 4. Eduardas Spiriajevas (Klaipėda University, Lithuania) Borderlands of Lithuania and Russia: Limitations and Quest for Spatial Interaction12.15–12.30 Coffe break12.30–14.30 Second session. Transcultural Possibilities and Spiritual Life on the BorderlandModerator: Vida Savoniakaitė (Lithuanian Institute of History)

1. Eivind Sæthre (High School teacher of Russian, Norwegian and English at KKN VGS, Norway) Carnival in Strömstad as Temporary Autonomous Zone – An Essay in Borderology 2. Tomas Kačerauskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania) Regions and Rims in the Context of Creativity Discourse 3. Peter Vedal Utnes (University of Nordland, Norway) On the Poem of the Grand Inquisitor: the Limits and Borders of Polyphony 4. Basia Nikiforova (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute) Imagined Borders and Identities: the Case of Central European Narratives of the XXth Century 5. Rolandas Kregždys (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute) Lithuanian Religious and Ceremonial Terms of Semitic Origin: Phenomenon of Azazel14.30–15.30 Lunch break15.30–17.30 Round table: Borders and Tolerance in Contemporary Political and Cultural DiscourseModerator: Viggo Rossvær (Tromsø University, Norway)

Saturday 23 05 201510.00–13.00 Third session. Borderland Regional Identity and Democracy Moderator: Basia Nikiforova (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

1. Thomas Lunden (Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden) Crossings and Crosses: Religion and Education in Baltic and Barents Borderlands 2. Andrzej Sadowski (University of Białystok, Poland) Confession Belonging and the Belarusian National Identity in Democratic Conditions in Poland 11.00–11.30 Coffe break 1. Alexandr Sautkin (Murmansk State Humanities University, Russia) Subculture’s Borders as Mechanism of Formation of Identity 2. Małgorzata Bieńkowska (University of Białystok, Poland) Gender and Multiculturalism – about the Invisible Other in Culturally Differentiated Societies 13.00–13.30 Coffe break, snacks13.30–14.00 Concluding remarks and discussion about future collaboration15.00–17.00 Cultural program. Excursion in Grand Dukes Palace (Lietuvos valdovų rūmai)