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.
4. 11. 2009
:::: Divadlo Vizita: The horrible groundbull (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre
, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
28. 10. 2009
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek & Jan Paleček: Explaining the unexplainable: Scientific and religious truths about apparitions
We are studying how reported phenomena such as having visions of Jesus Christ or seeing and talking to Virgin Mary are practically dealt with – i.e., accounted, doubted, believed, investigated, recognized as true or false… or, as part of all this, translated into something else (for instance, into a psychiatric symptom). Besides analyzing historical material, theological and pastoral literature, thematically related pop-cultural artifacts, contemporary psychiatric cases and respective religious experiences, we conduct an extensive case study of Marian apparitions that took place 1991-95 in Litmanová, Slovakia. Based on this heterogeneous empirical ground, we want to discuss the relationship between religious and scientific approaches to the phenomena: what a how constitutes “the truth” of this or that apparition? Where and when? Although the religious and the scientific are often seen as antagonistic, we offer a more subtle and complex view, in which ambivalence, partiality and practical relevance play important, and often “positive”, affirming roles. The mutual relationship between scientific and religious views of the issue is further complicated by the observation that, for instance, one can identify multiple and often diverging “truths” of apparition within the religious practice. In fact, it is not only us, STS inclined researchers, but religious people themselves (clerics as well as laics), who often appreciate not so much some intrinsic qualities and genuineness of the miraculous events themselves, but rather “all the transformations [the reported encounter] undergo later in the hands of others” (Latour). By focusing on controversial piety and devotionalism “in action”, we try to better understand neglected aspects of contemporary religious life. In this respect, our research can be debated as an(other) application of STS inspired views in the field of religion studies.
24. 10. 2009
:::: Jaroslav Dušek: The four agreements (Havířov - to be confirmed)
Also with: Pjér Lašéz - bass, guitar, singing; Zdeněk Konopásek - drums, percussions, trumpet; Viktor Zborník - lights
23. 10. 2009
:::: Divadlo Vizita (Ústí nad Labem)
Improvised performance, Činoherní klub - The Cult festival
22. 10. 2009
:::: Divadlo Vizita: Seed at five o'clock (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
21. 10. 2009
:::: Divadlo Vizita: Night in the fourth house (Praha)
Improvised performance, Archa Theatre, Na porici 26, Praha 1. 8pm
20. 10. 2009
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: David Bloor a co následovalo (silný program, studia laboratorní práce, studium vědeckých diskursů a další)[David Bloor and after (the strong programme, laboratory studies, the study of scientific discourses]
Lecture within the MA sociology course "Science, technology, and politics", Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
19. 10. 2009
:::: Divadlo Vizita (Hradec Králové)
13. 10. 2009
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek: Věda jako instituce - Mertonovská sociologie vědy [Science as an institution - Mertonian sociology of science]
Lecture within the MA sociology course "Science, technology, and politics", Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno
10. 10. 2009
:::: Zdeněk Konopásek & Jakub Konšel: MEVA Cup 2009 (Roudnice nad Labem)
Tournament of doublets in petanque
A good play, in that rainy, cold day: second place (out of 64 teams). My probably best result ever. And Jakub's too.
9. 10. 2009
:::: Jaroslav Dušek: The four agreements (Český Krumlov)
Theatrical performance, the Ekofilm festival
6. 10. 2009
:::: 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
29. 9. 2009
:::: 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
