Deadline Febraury 16, 2007

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                   4th international conference

     HUMAN  BEING  IN  CONTEMPORARY  PHILOSOPHICAL  CONCEPTIONS

         Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia

                       May 28 – 31, 2007



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                    in collaboration with
         Stefan Cel Mare University of Suceava  (Romania)
         International Simeon Frank Philosophical Society
                 Russian Philosophical SOciety

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GENERAL INFORMATION AND RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS

- Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology
- Human Being in Social and Political Philosophy
- Philosophical and Social/Cultural Anthropologies
- Man in the Circle of Existentialism
- Philosophical Anthropology, Psychology, Psychoanalysis
- Humankind, Information Society, and High Technologies
- Values of Modern Individuals
- Globalization and Human Prospects
- Philosophy of Man and Philosophy of Language
- Humans in Communicative Environments
- Phenomenology of Human Being
- Philosophical Anthropology and Gender
- Heuristic Potential of Philosophical and Religious Antropologies
- New Approaches and Ideas in the Humanity Research
- Problems of Evolutional Anthropology
- The Possibility of anIntegral Philosophy of Human Being



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


Oleg Inshakov (chairperson), Nikolay Omelchenko (co-chairperson), Viorel Guliciuc (co-
chairperson, Suceava, Romania), Emilia Guliciuc (co-chairperson, Suceava, Romania),
Alexander Chumakov (co-chairperson, Moscow).  Vyacheslav Gulyaikhin (secretary), Vassily
Friauf (Saratov), Alexander Pigalev, Alexander Strizoe.


STEERING COMMITTEE

Jean Salem (co-chairperson, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France), Vladimir Mironov (co-
chairperson, Moscow State University by the name of M.V. Lomonosov), Yury Solonin (co-
chairperson, Saint Petersburg State University), Diab Al-Badayneh (Al-Tafielah, Jordan),
Sabina Finaru (Suceava, Romania), Lorenzo Magnani (Pavia, Italy), Kolawole Ogundowole
(Lagos, Nigeria), Kuruvilla Pandikattu (Pune, India), Jozef Sivák (Bratislava, Slovakia),
Robert Timko (Mansfield, USA), Joao Vila-Cha (Braga, Portugal).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nikolay Omelchenko (chairperson), Oscar Brenifier (Paris, France), Alexander Chumakov
(Moscow), Vladimir Dobrenkov (Moscow), Vassily Friauf (Saratov), Viorel Guliciuc
(Suceava, Romania), Emilia Guliciuc (Suceava, Romania), Boris Markov (Saint Petersburg),
Alexander Pigalev.


SYMPOSIA


“Mythology and the Human Images”,
devoted to the 100-anniversary of the Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade

      The main topics for discussions:
-	Mythology and Anthropology
-	Experiences in the Mystic Light of M. Eliade (1907-1986)
-	The Phenomenon of Human Mind and Cosmos
-	Humans and Their Beliefs
-	Philosophical Anthropology and Yoga
-	Problems of the Changed States of Concsiousness



“Metaphysics and Anthropology of Simeon Frank”
devoted to the 130-anniversary of the Russian thinker

      The main topics for discussions:
- The Subject of Knowledge and the Unknowable of S.L. Frank (1877-1950)
- Reality and Human Being
- The Human Soul
- The Spiritual Foundations of Society
- Metaphysics and Ethics
- The Predestination of Man and Meaning of Life


Languages of the conference: Russian, English.


CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizing committee invites papers up to 5 pages. Texts should be typewritten in
Times New Roman, 1,5-spaced. References are supposed to be listed at the end of the
paper. The papers should be submitted both in hard and electronic versions.
     The registration fee () will enable to cover publishing expenses of the conference
proceedings, rent of the conference rooms, translation services. The registration fees are
payable upon arrival.

Deadline for the texts and registration forms is Febraury 16, 2007.

All the documents are to be sent to: Vyacheslav Gulyaikhin, School of Philosophy and
Social Technologies, Volgograd State University, 100 Universitetsky Prospect, Volgograd,
400062, Russia.

Tel.: +7 (8442) 40-5523
Fax: +7 (8442) 46-0279
E-mail: gulyaich@yandex.ru


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