Events
My public appearances in the past and future (as far as I can see): lectures, conference speeches, workshops, concerts, performances, petanque tournaments... sociology, music and other stuff, all in one.
13. 10. 2010
:::: Jaroslav Dušek: The four agreements (Ústí nad Labem)
12. 10. 2010
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Problém reflexivity [The problem of reflexivity]
Lecture within the MA sociology course "Science, technology, and politics", Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
12. 10. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita: The burning rain storm (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre
, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
11. 10. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita: Mirror-like Andrei (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
9. 10. 2010
:::: Ondra Preuss, Jakub Konopásek & Zdeněk Konopásek: Zlaté prasátko (Brno-Slatina)
Prestige tournament in petanque, triplets
Seventh place in total.
8. 10. 2010
:::: Jaroslav Dušek: Svět Toltéků (Český Krumlov)
5. 10. 2010
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Obrat k jazyku [The linguistic turn]
Lecture within the MA sociology course "Science, technology, and politics", Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
27. 9. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita: Active sperm (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
26. 9. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita: The silent cave (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
25. 9. 2010
:::: Jaroslav Dušek: The four agreements (Opava)
21. 9. 2010
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Konstruktivismus a dekonstrukce [Constructivism and deconstruction]
Lecture within the MA sociology course "Science, technology, and politics", Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
21. 9. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita (Praha)
Improvised performance, Dobeška
18. 9. 2010
:::: Divadlo Vizita (Litomyšl)
25. 8. 2010
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Religion in action: When theology and pastoral work meet Latourian science studies (Tokyo)
STS arguments about science (as well as about STS approaches and theoretical frameworks) are occasionally developed and “tested” by excursions to some other fields, such as political theory or economics. Among these fields, religion belongs to rather neglected areas – the most important exception being the work of Bruno Latour. Latour, referring mainly to religious icons and talk, challenges traditional thinking about differences between science and religion. He argues that we should understand religion in its own terms (“religiously”) while seeing it as something “local, objective, visible, mundane, unmiraculous, repetitive, obstinate, and sturdy”. When hearing about religion, we should avoid, Latour insists, turning our attention “to the far away, the above, the supernatural, the infinite, the distant, the transcendent, the mysterious, the misty, the sublime, the eternal”. Only then we can reframe the relationship between science and religion in a new, mutually meaningful and acceptable way… In this paper I will critically discuss and perhaps also make more refined these Latour’s arguments. Empirical evidence will be taken from my current ethnographic research on religious apparitions and demonic possessions, inspired by Latourian science studies. A case study on Marian apparitions in Eastern Slovakia (1991-5), for instance, nicely documents how religious practices do not simply aim at establishing some belief in (unwarranted knowledge of) non-present, distant entities; in many respects, these practices rather redirect our attention to what is present, close, and living. Contrary to what Latour seems to suggest, however, I will try to show that the respect toward the local, visible, graspable, mundane and repetitive cannot and, after all, is not (by various participating actors) separated from the interest in or the reality of supernatural, mysterious and transcendent religious phenomena. On the contrary, the two orientations are constitutively connected – and sometimes such a connection is even clearly reflected by priests or worshippers.
