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проф. Мирослав Маринович, віце-ректор Українського католицького університету
під час відкриття 15-го Екуменічного соціального тижня "Мандрівна ідентичність: осмислення сенсів та цінностей"
Говорити про ідентичність українців непросто. Кажуть, пояснюючи феномен часу, св. Августин якось зізнався: «Якщо ніхто мене не питає, я знаю, щό таке час; якщо б я захотів пояснити тόму, хто питає, — ні, не знаю»[1]. Схоже, що це саме такий випадок… Але я спробую.
По-перше, дуже важливо зрозуміти, що українська ідентичність не гомогенна, а мозаїчна, плюралістична. Це було незмінною причиною наших історичних поразок у той час, коли суспільними домінантами були уніфіковані імперії. Створити свою власну імперію роздріблені українці не мали ніякого шансу. Проте в другій половині ХХ століття домінантною формулою стала формула «єдність у багатоманітті», і тут в українців з’явився історичний шанс.
Сьогодні війна, яку нав’язала нам Росія, стала дивовижним цементом нашої національної ідентичності. Прагнучи зловжити нашими мовними і регіональними відмінностями, Путін, навпаки, сприяв дивовижній національній консолідації українців. Причому консолідація не означає гомогенізацію. Мозаїчність нашої ідентичності залишиться й надалі – припускаю, що після закінчення війни ми знову сперечатимемося довкола своїх відмінностей. Але відтепер люди пам’ятатимуть отой дивовижний досвід національної згуртованості.
Dr. Jörg Lüer, Head of the “Justice and Peace” Commission, Germany
15th Ecumenical Social Week "Wandering Identity: Considering meanings and Values", Lviv-2022
Thank you very much for the friendly invitation to this conference. To be honest I am very much impressed by the fact that you are holding this conference despite all the odds Ukraine is facing today, despite the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
For me this is an impressive sign of a vivid European society which does not give itself in to the daily challenge of violence, murder and suffering but continuously reflects in a practical perspective the fundaments and principles of living. Thank you very much for this living witness. It is meaningful not only for Ukraine.
Immanuel Kant pointed in his reflections on peace out, that even in times of war it is necessary to keep an attitude of peace allowing us to enter into the process of building peace, when time has come, beause peace has to be prepared already in war time, so that we will not get stuck in the self referential dynamics of violence.
I understand this conference in this perspective and I feel privileged having the opportunity to give my humble contribution to it.
Gerard Delanty
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
15th Ecumenical Social Week "Wandering Identity: Considering meanings and Values", Lviv-2022
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent war that followed, the idea of Europe is once again in question. The formation and identity of Europe throughout history has been very much bound up with the aftermath of war and the attempt to establish peace. Since 1945, there is general agreement that if Europe stands for anything it is peace. It is now widely accepted that the identity of Europe is not based on an underlying substance that guarantees unity in face of its diversity and there is nothing particularly unique or singular about its culture. Its identity is necessarily contested and a product of whatever meaning Europeans have given it. One such meaning is the normative value of peace. But what does that mean? What does it mean to invoke the notion of peace as the core value of European integration.
It is certainly the case that the period since 1945 has been one of extraordinary peace in Europe as a whole. The project of European integration from its early beginning in the 1950s to the present European Union can be seen as built on the belief in the necessity to establish lasting peace in Europe. This was an elite driven project that was the product of visionary leaders who sought to create the conditions for lasting peace between Germany and France, countries that had been at war with each other three times since 1870. There can be no doubt, too, that the relative success of this desire for peace was connected to the advancement of democracy and prosperity. Now, while I do not think that this needs to be called into question, the notion of Europe as a peace project needs to be re-assessed. This is because the presuppositions upon which it was built no longer exist.
INTERNATIONAL FORUM
15th Ecumenical Social Week
Wandering Identity: Considering Meanings and Values
October, 3-7, 2022
Hybrid format (Lviv, online)
Click here to see our Program
Organizers: Institute of Ecumenical Studies of UCU, Ukrainian Catholic University, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung Ukraine
Partners and experts: Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland; Higher Institute of Ecumenical Studies of the Catholic University in Paris, France; Faculty of Catholic Theology, Vienna University, Austria; International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine; Church History Institute of UCU; Protestant Theology Department, Institute of Education, Work and Society, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany.
Media partners:
General media partner: media-hub Tvoe Misto
Exclusive media partner: internet platform Religious Information Service of Ukraine
Other media partners: Religious internet platform Spiritual Greatness of Lviv; platform Dyvensvit; website “Espresso”; radio Voskresinnia; Zhyve Radio; radio Maria”
Part І. Edges of Identity: Religious, National, Ethnical, Cultural, Political
Part ІІ. Identity, War and Migration
Part ІІІ. The Role and Impact of Social Institutions on the Formation of Identity
More information:www.esweek.org.ua
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All times are listed in program according to Kyiv time zone
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