The 13th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

3–9 February, 2025

International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo

On Otherness in the Contemporary World: Through William Shakespeare's Othello (The Moor of Venice)

February 7 (Friday), 17:00 – 19:00, IFB Offices (Sime Milutinovića 10)

A public discussion will be organized On Otherness in the Contemporary World: Through William Shakespeare's Othello (the Moor of Venice) as part of the 13th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, February 7 (Friday), to start at 5:00 p.m.

A common feature of all the eras of European culture capable of tragedy – from Pericles' Athena to Elizabethan England and Louis XIV's France – is that Others were not treated during those epochs as enemies to be erased from the world but understood as interlocutors who were a version of oneself. It is of interest to examine the images of otherness offered by William Shakespeare in his plays, and especially in Othello, which the author himself originally entitled The Moor of Venice. Tragedy is the form that captures the image of the world and man's place in it most clearly, so that it makes sense to take perennial philosophy into account when considering it as "the metaphysics that recognizes the divine reality at the foundations of the world". How to understand the otherness of early modern Europe in the light of our experiences in the present age? This question is relevant to almost every relationship we have with the realities of the world.

These and similar questions will be discussed by: Almir Bašović, Matija Bošnjak, Tanja Miletić-Oručević, Lamija Milišić, Vahidin Preljević and Đorđije Radulović.

This public discussion is open to all members and friends of the IFB.

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