Michael Polanyi 110

          Jubilee Conference of the Michael Polanyi Liberal Philosophical Association
		and the Department of Philosophy and History of Sciences
	            Budapest University of Technology and Economic Sciences
                      to Commemorate the 110th Anniversary of Michael Polanyi's birth

		       Professor's Club of the Budapest University of
 
                  Technology and Economic Sciences
                              Building K, I. 66
 
         (Thursday) May 31st  2001

 	Program

9.30-9.50	    György LITVÁN.  Professor, Honorary Member of the
                       MPLPhA inaugurates  the conference and salutes the participants.
            
            Plenary sessions:
                                  Moderator  György LITVÁN

10.00-10.25	Mihály BECK,  Professor,  Member of the 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
Polanyi's Start as a Chemist
10.25-10.50	Vera BÉKÉS, Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the
HAS 
Examples and Analogies in Polanyi's Philosophy of Science
10.50-11.15	Éva GÁBOR, Associate Professor, Emerita, President of the MPLPhA
Michael Polanyi's "Two Wars"
11.15-11.35	Coffee break
            11.35-12.00   Szilárd KMECZKÓ, PhD Student
The Continuity and Interruption of the Tradition in Michael             Polanyi's Thinking
12.00-12.25	Endre NAGY,  Professor, Chair of the Department of Sociology, and Socialpolitic, University of  Janus Pannonius, Pécs
Dwelling-in and Breaking Out. The Conversion of the Members of the Polanyi Family
12.25-12.50	Mihály SZÍVÓS, Senior Research Fellow, HAS
Tacit Knowledge in the View of the Historian  of Philosophy
	13.00-15.00    Lunch

                       Moderator: Márta FEHÉR,  Professor, Deputy Chair of  the
                                   Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University  
                                   of Technology and Economic Sciences

           15.00-15.25    Phil MULLINS, General Editor of  Tradition and Discovery
"The Post-Critical Symbol" and "The Post-Critical Elements"
 		           in Polanyi's Thought

15.25-15.50	Stefania R. JHA, Research Associate, Philosophy of Education  Research Centre, Harvard University
Neo-Polanyian Epistemology and Ethics
           15.50-16.15    Tihamér MARGITAY,  Professor, Chair of the Department of
                                  Philosophy and History of Science, Budapest University of Technology 
                                  and Economic Sciences 
                                  The Freedom of Knowing
16.15-16.35	     Coffee break
16.35-17.00     Tibor FRANK,  Professor, Director  of the School of  
 English and American  Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
 Cohorting, Networking, Friendship: Michael Polanyi in Exile
17.00-17.25	STUDENTS  of Ágoston Trefort Teacher's Training High School
Michael Polanyi's Enviable Alma Mater
        
18.30	Dinner for the speakers of the morning and afternoon sessions  of the conference

         Other programs connected to the conference

                                                       (Friday) June 1st 2001

9.00                Jubilee Exposition in the Main Library of the Budapest University 
of Technology and Economic Sciences, in honor of the 110th 
Anniversary of Michael Polanyi's birth
Pál VÁSÁRHELYI, Director-General of the Main Library salutes
the participians
9.10	Éva GÁBOR, Associate Professor, President of the MPLPhA opens 
the  Exposition.

         11.00               Visit in Michael Polanyi's High School (Ágoston Trefort Teacher's    
Training School)
Organizers: Ivan BERTÉNYI jr.  History Teacher and Tamás BENDIK, 11th class student.
       
         Sponsor list of the  Polanyi Conference and of the other jubilee programs:
                               Friedrich Naumann Foundation
                               Soros Foundation
		       Hungarian Academy of Sciences	
			
         Márta FEHÉR,  Professor, Deputy Chair                      Éva Gábor, President of the 
         of the Department of Philosophy and History               Michael Polanyi Liberal                                                           
         of Science, Budapest University of Technology           Philosophical Association
         and Economic of Sciences
  			       Budapest, 1111 Stoczek utca 2.	                          
                                                     
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         E-mail: feherm@phil.philos.bme.hu	            E-mail:polanyi@phil.philos.bme.hu