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Participation in the 22nd annual Pacific University Undergraduate Conference (in english / по-английский)

Jury Urso will participate in the academic conference in Oregon. He will join the 22nd annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon (http://www.pacificu.edu/current-undergraduate/academics/majors-minors/philosophy/undergraduate-philosophy-conference) that will happen on April 20-21, 2018. Jury will present a paper called “The importance of language as tool of the colonization in Homi K. Bhabha and Frantz Fanon” on Saturday, April 21nd at 2:25 P.M. – 3:45 P.M. in a room “Miletus” Paper Session #4 – http://www.pacificu.edu/current-undergraduate/academics/majors-minors/philosophy/undergraduate-philosophy-conference/full-conference-schedule

Abstract:

This paper elaborates on the idea of Homi K. Bhabha that teaching English serves as a tool for the colonizing of certain culture. In particularly, Bhabha speaks about the importance of the English book as a sacred commodity fetish that not coercively forces certain culture silently accept the domination of the other culture. However, Fanon develops this idea by saying that language itself serves as a tool of constructing power-relations between Master (the colonizer) and Slave (the native). In sum, this paper will suggest that language itself as a tool of the epistemological domination serves as a powerful mechanism for the colonization of the certain territory combined with economical imperialism, when the possibility of your visibility as a native depends on the studying of the language of the Master.

Participation in the 18th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Conference (in english / по-английский)

Jury Urso will participate for the first time in his life in the academic conference. He will join tomorrow 18th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon (http://www.pacificu.edu/current-undergraduate/academics/majors-minors/philosophy/undergraduate-philosophy-conference) that will be on April 4-5, 2014. Jury will present a paper called “Transformation of the Role of the Intellectual in Society” on Saturday, April 5th at 2:00-4:15pm Paper Session #3 in section HEIDEGGER & FOUCAULT (Marsh 206) – http://www.pacificu.edu/current-undergraduate/academics/majors-minors/philosophy/undergraduate-philosophy-conference/full-conference-schedule

Abstract:

This article explores transformation of the role of intellectual, from universal to the specific one, that was described in an interview called “Truth and Power” by Michele Foucault. In this article I compare theory of intellectuals by Foucault to the Gramscian distinction between organic/traditional intellectuals finding out similarities between two theories. In the end I try to apply Foucault’s distinction to the Belarussian context arguing about the problematic of applying it to the other than French context. My hypothesis is that the disappearance of the universal intellectuals, in Foucault’s terminology, is not a positive transition, but actually it deprives power of the intellectuals.