Workshop On The Work Of Interpretation

University of Ioannina, Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art Department of Classic, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Department of Philosophy Ioannina, 45110, Greece

May 26-28, 2009, University of Ioannina, Greece Workshop on “The Work of Interpretation”: Historical, Aesthetic and Philosophical Approaches,

Although the discussion about interpretation draws her roots from the antiquity, undeniably the 19th century has been decisive for the theoretical and methodological foundation of the act of interpretation. Hermeneutics were enriched with the moderns “techniques of suspicion” (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud), that not only shook the certainties of Cartesian example but also created the perspectives of a new, open and incomplete work of interpretation. Our workshop will bring together scholars from most disciplines within the fields of the Social Sciences and Humanities. The workshop focalizes on history, theory and methodology of interpretative techniques, examining, through concrete areas (literature, translation, visual arts and cinema, philosophy) the interdisciplinary approaches of interpretative undertaking. More concretely, the basic themes and aims will include 1. The ruptures and continuities in the explanatory process. 2. The localisation of exemplary operations and uses of interpretation in the field of social sciences and humanities. 3. The philosophical presuppositions and evaluative criteria that place the limits between the interpretation, in overinterpretation and in the misinterpretation.

4. The role of interpreter as active subject of the production of meaning.

Christos Dermentzopoulos, PHD, Organizer of the Conference, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art, University of Ioannina ([email protected]) Stefanos Dimitriou, PHD, Organizer of the Conference, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina ([email protected]) Ioannis Papatheodorou, PHD, Organizer of the Conference, Assistant Professor, Department of Classic and Modern Greek Studies, University of Ioannina ([email protected])