International conference

Grand Hotel Bernardin Convention Center, Portorož, Slovenia
June 18–21, 2023

Organised byScience and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies&Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), Kobe University

This conference has been financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), through theresearch project Surviving the Anthropocene through Inventing New Ecological Justice and Biosocial
Philosophical Literacy (J7-1824) and research programme Liminal Spaces: Areas of Cultural and Societal
Cohabitation in the Age of Risk and Vulnerability (P6-0279).

CONFERENCE PROGRAMMESUNDAY, June 18, 2023

17.00–18.00
Registration

18.00–19.00

Conference Opening
Agreement of Friendship and Cooperation SigningZRS Koper & KOIAS

19.00–20.30
Dinner

20.30
Book series launch

Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing
With series editors Lenart Škof and Magdalena Górska
&Book launch
Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being
by Petri Berndtson
With Patrick Burke

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MONDAY, June 19, 2023

9.30–11.30
Panel IKOIAS PANEL: CONTRIBUTIONS BY CROSS-CULTURAL ATMOSPHERICSTUDIES
Chair: Lenart ŠkofYuho Hisayama: Polarity: Goethe and the Cross-cultural Atmospheric Studies
Lorenzo Marinucci: Breathing the landscape in: Reading Bashō with Schmitz
Tomoyo Arisawa: Ki/ke (“気") in Early Modern Japanese Literature: Human Body under theInfluence of the Outside World
Mao Matsuyama: Breathing of Painting, Painting of Breathing

11.30–12.00
Coffee break

12.00–13.30
Panel II

RE-ATTUNED RESPIRATIONS
Chair: Petri Berndtson
Pier Francesco Corvino: Some Preliminary Considerations around a New Respiratory Anthropology
Bart HM Vandeput: MicroTuning – Tying Microbial, Cooling Tower and Human Respiration
through Attunement
Maja Bjelica: Listening and Breathing: An Ethical Conspiracy****
15.30–17.00
Panel III

BREATHING IN ART AND CULTURE
Chair: Lorenzo Marinucci
Kantaro Ohashi: The Art of the Respiring Actor’s Body and its Materialistic Basis in the thoughtof Denis Diderot
Yuna Yoshimizu: Breathing and Acting in Antonin Artaud’s “An Affective Athleticism”
Ayako Ikeno: Figures of Breathing in Contemporary Art: The Artist as a Bricoleur

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20.30–22.00
Workshop
WELL-BEING OF RESPIRATORY WORLDWith Petri Berndtson & Saara-Maija Strandman

TUESDAY, June 20, 2023

9.30–11.30
Panel IV

BREATH AS SOCIO-POLITICAL WORLDING
Chair: Marijn Nieuwenhuis
Magdalena Górska & Nasima Selim: Breathing Commons: Biopolitical and EthicalImperatives for More-than-Human Respiration
Fabian Heubel: Autometamorphic Democracy: Daoist Reflections on the Political Significanceof Breath-change/氣化
Sozita Goudouna: Respiratory Art: A Paradigm Shift in the Performing and Visual Arts
Natasha Lushetich: The Epistemology of Breath in Counter-Cultural Practices

11.30–12.00
Coffee break

12.00–13.30
Panel V

BREATHING WITH DUST, EARTH AND LAND
Chair: David Abram
Marijn Nieuwenhuis: Geographies of Pneumoconiosis: Miners, Lungs and Dust
Cirila Toplak: Elemental Politics at the Detriment of the Subaltern: Nature Worship of Primorska
Agnieszka Rostalska: Caring for Land and Living Beings: Ancient Indian Environmental Perspective

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15.30–17.00
Panel VIPRĀṆA AND QI/KI: FROM ETHICS TO SOMAAESTHETICS
Chair: Agnieszka Rostalska
Ana Laura Funes M.: The Ethical Dimension of Prāṇa and the Cultivation of Equanimity inClassical Sāṅkhya
Purushottama Bilimoria: Alchemy of prāṇa-vital in Tantra-Yoga Traditions
Geoff Ashton: The Somaesthetics of Hara Breathing and Ki in Zen Buddhist Meditation

17.00–17.30
Coffee break

17.30–19.00
Keynote lectureDavid Abram
Into the Depths of a Breathing Planet
Corporeal Participation and Immersion in the Commonwealth of Breath

WEDNESDAY, June 21, 2023

9.00–10.00
WorkshopPRĀṆA – A RESPIRATORY JOURNEY INWARDSWith Purushottama Bilimoria & Agnieszka Rostalska

10.30–12.30
Panel VIIRESPIRATORY POSSIBILITIES OF CARNAL POETICS AND PHENOMENOLOGY
Chair: Magdalena Górska
Raquel Ferrández Formoso: A Carnal Relationship with Words: María Zambrano’s Lyrical Breathing
Takuya Niikawa: The Distinctive Status of Breathing in the Philosophy of Action
Boyu Xie: Who Is Breathing? An Examination of Breathing in the Anonymous Life
Petri Berndtson: The New Ultimate Ontologico-Respiratory Notion: Fleshpiration

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14.30–16.00
Panel VIIIMYSTICS AND POETICS OF BREATH
Chair: Yuho Hisayama
Lenart Škof: Breath-kiss: A Philosophy of Loving Encounter
Reza Akbari: Shams al-Dīn al-Dailamī on the Mystical and Philosophical Discussion ofBreathing
Zahra Rashid: Nafas: Breath Ontology in Rumi’s Poetry

16.00–16.30
Coffee break

16.30–17.30
Concluding lecture

Michael Marder
The Specters of Vegetal Breath

17.30–18.30
Closing discussion

Respiratory Futures
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20.30
Airy concert

Irena Z. Tomažin6