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Turin

Ecological strategies for contingency

Pour le quizième numéro de la revue de philosophie contemporaine Philosophy Kitchen, la rédaction propose aux contributeurs de réfléchirs sur les implications théoriques, épistémologiques et politiques du concept d'écologie.

Florence

Call for papers - Representation

From ritual to myth: Carnival in European culture

D’où vient la profonde exigence sociale du carnaval et quels sont les thèmes et les motifs que cette tradition a fait émerger dans notre héritage culturel et artistique ? Du drame bouffon à la farce et à la grande tradition de la commedia dell’arte italienne, des observations de Goethe sur le carnaval de Rome aux compositions de Schumann (Carnaval, op. 9) et de Saint-Saëns (Le Carnaval des Animaux), jusqu’à la peinture de Brueghel l’Ancien, Monet, Pissarro et Elrond, le carnaval a fasciné de nombreux auteurs. Le but de ce colloque est de recueillir et de combiner des idées innovatrices pour l’analyse ou la reformulation de ce mythe, en créant un pont entre les perspectives de lecture les plus diverses dans le domaine des humanités.

Genoa

Call for papers - History

Contending Representations: Questioning Republicanism in Early Modern Genoa (1559-1684)

In the past thirty years, several studies have been devoted to the political and cultural flowering of the republic of Genoa during the so-called ‘siglo de los Genoveses’, between 1528 and 1630, when Genoa became the hub of European trade and an important epicenter of artistic and literary production. Yet little attention has been granted to the cultural and economic crisis that followed or to how Genoese republican state power was represented during the long seventeenth century, especially in relation to neighbouring polities. To address this gap, the conference will explore how the Genoese Republic shaped its political image between 1559 – the year of the publication of Oberto Foglietta’s Delle cose della repubblica di Genova – and 1684, when Genoa was bombed by the French. We intend to address questions such as how did Genoese politicians and men of letters represent their homeland? How was Genoa represented by the Genoese community in Spain or in the Low Countries? How was its political system conceived by other Italian and non-Italian political writers? And how did prevailing depictions of absolutism influence republican rhetoric?

Certaldo

Summer School - History

New Dimensions of the Political: Gaia and the Republic

The Spring School, organized by Alexander Etkind (European University Institute) and Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St. Petersburg), will focus on three major concentrations: classical republicanism and its modern relevance; climate crisis and the modern state; nature in history and philosophy.

Venice

Call for papers - History

Waging war and making peace

European ways of inciting and containing armed conflict, 1648-2020

The history of Europe is as much about violence and divisions – including religious wars, national clashes and ideological conflicts – as it is about shared cultural, social and economic accomplishments. If war has been such a constant presence in the history unfolding on the continent, the incessant efforts to limit its destructiveness are also an undeniable fact. It was such efforts that eventually led to the birth of Jus ad bellum and, ultimately, laid down the foundations of modern international law. From such a viewpoint, one might even find another definition of what European history might be. Some scholars have suggested that if war has structured a common European space, the containment of violence and the art of peacemaking have constituted ‘Europe’ in thought and practice.

Naples

Call for tender - Thought

Modern Philosophy and Critical Theory in the Early Frankfurt School

Post-doc grant as part of the MOSCHO project

The research program focuses on the reception of modern philosophy in European culture during the first half of the 20^th century, particularly on the Frankfurt School. It includes the organization of a seminar cycle on “Reason and Modernity” and a conference on “Readings of Modern Philosophy in the 19^th Century and the Beginning of the 20^th”. The post-doc fellow will be specialized in modern philosophy and/or contemporary re-readings of authors, concepts, problems of modern thought; he will work on receptions of modern philosophers in European culture between the 19^th and 20^th centuries and will contribute to organizing the seminar sessions and the conference.

Rome

Conference, symposium - Epistemology and methodology

La creatività

Il Convegno, promosso dal Dipartimento di Scienze Umane dell'Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi in collaborazione con il Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze Umanistiche, ha l’obiettivo di studiare il tema della creatività secondo linee di ricerca transdisciplinari per favorire e valorizzare al massimo il potenziamento del confronto e la produttività scientifica. La creatività è l’arte, la capacità e la facoltà cognitiva della mente di creare e inventare: rappresenta una forma mentis che assume una funzione particolarmente significativa in rapporto ai nostri processi cognitivi, come l’intuizione, la percezione, il pensiero analogico, la simulazione, l’associazione di idee, la ricerca nel contesto di un problema strutturato, la riflessione, l’immaginazione, la rielaborazione personale, il pensiero critico.

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Milan

Seminar - Representation

Thresholds III – “Avatar”

Seminar of philosophy of image

Recent evolutions in the contemporary iconoscape have enabled the production of pictures that elicit in the perceiver a strong feeling of “being there”, namely of being incorporated into new and autonomous environments. Subjects relating to such environments are no longer visual observers in front of images isolated from the real world by a framing device; they are experiencers living in quasi-worlds that offer multisensory stimuli and allow interactive sensorimotor affordances. In relation to such quasi-worlds, a key role is played by the avatar, a digital proxy through which subjects interact with synthetic objects or other avatars. The notion and the uses of the avatar are becoming crucial in a variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy to visual culture studies, anthropology, sociology, cognitive psychology, and neurosciences. Also, they are raising relevant issues in the fields of ethics and politics.

Turin

Call for papers - Thought

Aristotle in Quotation: An example of the reappropriation in philosophy of the discourses of past knowledge

Quatrième colloque dans le cadre du Programme Le problème de la réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoir antérieurs (Colloque 1 : « La poésie archaïque comme discours de savoir », 28-29 novembre 2014 ; Colloque 2 : « La poésie dramatique comme discours de savoir », 21-22 mai 2015; Colloque 3: « Platon citateur : un exemple de réappropriation par la philosophie des discours de savoir antérieurs », 29-31 mars 2017). Faisant fond sur les résultats obtenus lors des trois colloques précédents (en cours de publication chez les Classiques Garnier), nous aurons à examiner les citations (directes ou indirectes) de Aristote non seulement aux poètes archaïques et classiques, mais également aux autres discours de savoir non philosophiques.

Bergamo

Call for papers - Language

Discourse, power and spirit - between reason and emotions

Le pouvoir est un moyen d'influencer les types de relations et interactions entre les individus. Celles-ci peuvent amener en retour une partie à imposer sa volonté à une autre partie, quels que soient les motivations et fondements à l’origine de cette volonté. Au vu de la nature sociale de ces rapports, on peut postuler que les pratiques discursives gardent la trace des dynamiques de pouvoir. L’analyse du discours peut par conséquent constituer un angle d’approche pour la compréhension des relations et des positionnements hiérarchiques. Le rapport entre discours et pouvoir implique également une entrée en interaction avec la conscience de l’autre.

Bologna

Call for papers - Religion

Litany in the Arts and Culture

The litany derives from ancient religious rites. Throughout the ages, however, it spread across many countries and became much more than a mere form of prayer. As has been demonstrated by our recent studies on the litanic forms in European poetry it is possible to reconstruct a cultural and literary map of European regions that traces the level of their participation in and contribution to the litanic tradition. The litanic verse is marked by religious semantics, but it also bears the mark of inter-European divisions, such as those experienced between and within various denominations, countries and nations, as well as the original folk cultures. Therefore, the litany may be of interest to scholars specializing in areas such the emergence of national identities and religious minorities, the crossover between art and religion as well as between music and poetry, the history of liturgy and spiritual life, the cultural exchanges between various nations.

Palermo

Call for papers - Thought

Human existence as terrain

Peut-on considérer l’existence comme un objet d’étude à part entière ? Quand on parle d’existence, qu’est-ce qu’on désigne ? Quels instruments et quelles méthodes peut-on utiliser et à quelles disciplines peut-on avoir recours afin de mieux saisir l’existence ? L’existence dont nous voulons parler, c’est celle des humains. L’existence, n’est-ce pas celle d’individus en particulier ? Comment les observer ? A propos d’existence, est-il pertinent de parler de recherche de terrain ? Dans ce colloque, nous entendons nous focaliser sur l’existence et sur ses composantes possibles afin de répondre à ces quelques interrogations et sans aucun doute à d’autres encore.

Florence

Conference, symposium - Representation

The sites of dream - fantasy architecture in literature, texts and images

Architectures fantastiques dans la littérature : textes et images

Le colloque portera sur le rêve et l’architecture. Unis, opposés, croisés, ces deux thèmes seront déclinés sous plusieurs aspects : les édifices cultuels propices au rêve, les rêves d’architectures, l’imaginaire de l’architecture des âmes, les constructions oniriques des romans médiévaux, les constructions projetées. Dans une double perspective, littéraire et artistique, la rencontre s’attachera au rapport entre textes et images, tout en favorisant une approche pluridisciplinaire (histoire, archéologie…). Le colloque privilégie les éclairages novateurs et les cas d’études originaux sur une période large allant de l’Antiquité au Baroque.

Catania

Call for papers - Political studies

Redistribution and Recognition: Calling Paradigms of Justice into Question

Since 2009 the Department has been hosting scholars from all over the world within the Colloquium of Philosophy and Global Affairs of which the journée is part. The journée d'étude aims at encouraging reflections about social justice by questioning the competing and yet perhaps complementary paradigms centered on redistribution and recognition. The philosophical reflection on these paradigms will be enriched by contributions from neighboring disciplines.

Padua

Parrhesia, eros, polis

Tragedia greca, questioni contemporanee: letture etico-politiche

L’intento di questa giornata di studi è promuovere un’interrogazione del nostro tempo a partire dalla rilettura della tragedia greca. La convinzione che motiva questa proposta è che la tragedia antica rappresenti una drammaturgia di condotte, dilemmi morali, problemi politici che segnano l’esistenza individuale e la convivenza sociale. Il combinarsi di una messa in atto di storie, che investono la parola e i corpi dei personaggi, con la riflessione sulla vita umana – non di rado col contributo decisivo del coro – offrono concetti, suscitano emozioni, indicano piste di pensiero dalla valenza etico-politica. Tale convinzione è suffragata dai numerosi riferimenti ai tragici greci presenti nel pensiero contemporaneo.

Palermo

Study days - Language

Genetic criticism: history, method and corpus

Critica Genetica: storia, metodi e corpus

Ces journées d'études qui sont organisées dans le cadre du projet Textual Genetics and chaotic system. A new approach to the writing process financé par le Ministère Italien de l'instruction, de l'université et de la recherche, ont pour objectif d’instaurer un dialogue entre les jeunes chercheurs en critique génétique venant d’Italie et de l’étranger et de leur offrir un moment d’approfondissement méthodologique et d’échange scientifique. Ainsi, après les communications de spécialistes qui approcheront l’histoire, les méthodes et les développements interdisciplinaires de la critique génétique, les journées d’études feront place aux contributions des chercheurs qui pourront présenter leurs travaux en cours.

Milan

Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

The Predatory Museum

39th annual International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) symposium

Have visitors ever wondered how museums acquire the wonderful things they present to the enquiring public? It is certain that some do, but how many would see the museum as a predator? Would they ever recognize the museum activity of acquiring the valued collections that are put on display as the result of a predatory undertaking? It is true that museums are discerning but eager recipients of gifts offered by individuals who cross their threshold and who are willing to donate or bequeath their treasured possessions to their local museum. These ongoing acts of charity aside, museums have other avenues of collection-building which they explore and have done so since their inception.

Naples

Conference, symposium - Thought

Malebranche e i suoi contemporanei

Nell’ottobre 1715 ricorre il tricentenario della morte di una delle maggiori figure intellettuali del Seicento, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715). Lungi dall’essere un pensatore isolato o un mistico, Malebranche ha stabilito stretti contatti con filosofi e scienziati dell’epoca ed è stato spesso coinvolto in polemiche anche aspre per l’ardire di certe sue posizioni in campo sia filosofico sia teologico. In occasione della ricorrenza della scomparsa di Malebranche, gli organizzatori di questo convegno, per la prima volta nel contesto napoletano, si propongono di riportare l’attenzione degli studiosi sul filosofo francese, ritenendo che tale iniziativa possa aggiungere un tassello illuminante alla comprensione della circolazione delle idee, degli scambi intellettuali e della formazione dei sistemi filosofici tra la metà seconda del Seicento e la prima metà del Settecento.

Genoa

Conference, symposium - Representation

Intermediality and transmediality in contemporary artistic practices

Dans les dernières décennies du XX^e et au début du XXI^e siècle, on assiste à une augmentation de la production d'œuvres dans les domaines de la littérature, des arts visuels et des nouveaux médias, où la circulation entre les pratiques joue un rôle important sinon prépondérant. Hybridation, intermédialité, transmédialité, multimédialité, intersémioticité sont les termes qui nous permettent de désigner l'entrecroisement de ces pratiques où se multiplient les emprunts entre cinéma, photographie, art numérique, art vidéo, littérature, etc., quoique la distinction conceptuelle entre chacune de ces notions ne soit encore tout à fait consolidée. Ce colloque se propose de développer une réflexion autour de l'usage de ces notions à travers un débat théorique entre diverses approches disciplinaires.

Palermo

Conference, symposium - Prehistory and Antiquity

Feeding animals/Eating animals. Theories, Attitudes and Cultural Representations of Nutrition in Ancient and Medieval World

Memoria scientiae 2015

According to ancient biological theories, nutrition is, along with reproduction, one of the functions of the soul shared by men, animals and plants. At the same time, however, eating habits are among the starting points on which differences between humans, animals and plants are culturally built. This means that a transversal biological praxis can be used as an anthropological device, in order to to fix and identify specific boundaries and thresholds, either symbolic or theoretical, between both animality and vegetality on the one hand, and zoosphere and anthroposphere on the other hand.

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