Interpreting Bergsonian Ideas through Philosophical, Cultural and Literary Interconnections
Organisation : M. Sait Özervarlı (Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul) and Caterina Zanfi (CNRS/ENS Paris) as part of the CNRS International Research Network
« A Chapter in the Global History of Philosophy: New Perspectives on Bergsonism »
Date : 16 et 17 octobre 2025
Lieu : Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes (IFEA), Istanbul ou en ligne (Zoom)
Lien de connexion : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/96354754233?pwd=UHgycFhnNnR1VXVVcWNrZXZnV1haUT09
Programme
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
9:30 : Welcome Reception
10:00-10:30 : Opening Remarks
10:30-12:30 : Keynote and Updates on the Project
Moderator: Caterina Zanfi, CNRS/ENS Paris
Frédéric Worms, ENS Paris
How Can a Philosophical Problem Concern the Whole World ? From Global Bergsonism to Our Present Time
Alessandro Taverniti, ENS Lyon
Worldwide Bergsonian Bibliography
12:30-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-16:00 Bergsonism in Turkey
Moderator: Pascale Roure, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul
Dilek Sarmış, University of Strasbourg
Multiscalar Bergson: An Epistemology of the Conceptual and Terminological Interconnections between Philosophy, Literature and Politics in the Republican Turkish World
Micah A. Hughes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Between “Total Social Fact” and “Social Institution”: Bergsonian Philosophy of Religion in 20th-century Turkey
30’ Break
16:30-18:30 : Bergsonism in the MENA Region
Moderator: Dilek Sarmış, University of Strasbourg
Khaled Bahri, Université de Tunis El Manar
Perception tunisienne des idées de Bergson : Nature et enjeu
Seyed Ashkan Khatibi, Université de Téhéran
Au prisme de la philosophie irano-islamique : Contre trois (fausses) lectures du bergsonisme
Friday, October 17, 2025
10:00-13:00
Bergson and the Traditions of Philosophy
Moderator: Khaled Bahri, Université de Tunis
Clara Zimmerman, Institut Catholique de Paris et Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Le bergsonisme en Argentine : Une médiation philosophique entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine
Anna Kuszmiruk, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń
Forgotten Dialogues: Bergson and the Polish Philosophy of Science
Doudja Boumaza, Université Grenoble Alpes
Vers un bergsonisme analytique? Matière et mémoire, une passerelle entre deux traditions philosophiques
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Language and Linguistics in Bergsonian Thought
Moderator: M. Owais Khan, Istanbul Zaim University
Asmaa Ramil, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul
Secular Transcendence: Bergson, Valéry and Merleau-Ponty on Language as a Gateway to the Ineffable
Tobias Endres, ENS Paris
An Intercultural Perspective on Bergson’s Engagement with the Linguistics of His Time
30’ Break
16:30-18:30
Bergsonian Influence on Global Literature
Moderator: Micah A. Hughes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nurgül Şener, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul
Re-reading Halide Edib’s Literary Masterwork in the Light of Bergsonian Influences
Ties van Gemert, Tilburg University
A Bergsonian Prometheus: The Experience of the Anti-Social in Carry van Bruggen
18:30-19:15
Conclusion and General Discussion
Moderator: M. Sait Özervarlı, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul