OXYMORAL

Professor Martin Diweg-Pukanec, Principal Investigator of the project OXYMORAL, acts as etymologist in Stanislav Piatrik and Maria Piatrikova’s film essay about Pope Francis‘ trip to Slovakia. The film also features František Mikloško (former dissident), Róbert Bezák (archbishop emeritus), Mária Tiňová (clinical psychologist), Richard Duda (chairman of the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities), Daniel Pastirčák (preacher of the Church of the Brethren), Anna Hogenová (philosopher and phenomenologist), Ivan Ružička (secretary of the Slovak Bishops‘ Conference), Monika Hudiová (Roma living in Luník IX), Peter Veselský and Marián Mataťa (Salesians in Luník IX), Jaroslav Václavík and Terézia Gondová (volunteers in the Bethlehem Centre), Pavol Demeš (analyst of foreign policy relations), President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová and, of course, Pope Francis.

At the premiere of the Slovak film Návšteva (The Visit), which was for invited guests, the PI of the project Oxymoral, Prof. Diweg-Pukanec, had the unique opportunity to promote the project Inverted Morality: Reversed Semantics in Old Church Slavic Moral Words as part of the explanation of his etymologies. This was further enhanced by the fact that the film names the challenges for an authentic and at the same time more harmonious coexistence of different cultures in one society. As Pope Francis has repeatedly expressed, the film points to the need to create a society where no one is to be left on the margins, and wants to contribute to a greater openness of all people.