Colloquium Philosophy and Global Affairs

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Colloquium Philosophy and Global Affairs

Filosofia, Politica, Relazioni Internazionali, Dibattito Pubblico. Caranti and coordinated by dr. Nunzio Alì. Cover photo courtesy of Simone Genovese.

The Colloquium on Philosophy and Global Affairs offers the chance for internationally recognized scholars and intellectuals to present their work to students and academics of the Università di Catania. Themes in contemporary global politics are mainly tackled from a normative perspective, in line with the philosophical orientation of the initiative. Founded in 2009, the Colloquium has attracted fu

nds from international bodies and has become a significant event in the cultural life of the city of Catania. Recently selected as part of the curricular activities of the Masters Degree GLOPEM (Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations), the Colloquium is directed by prof. Former guests include world famous political philosophers such as Thomas Pogge, Allen Buchanan, Philippe van Parijs, John Tasioulas, James Nickel, Daniel A. Bell, Leif Wenar, Günter Zöller, Nicolas De Warren, Lea Ypi, Elisabetta Galeotti, Howard Williams, Chiara Bottici, Massimo Renzo, Seumas Miller, Vincenzo Provenzano, Peter Schaber, Valeria Ottonelli, Alessandro Pinzani, Stefan Dolgert, P. Licht dos Santos, Patricia Kauark-Leite, Giorgia Cecchinato, Sorin Baiasu, Debora Spini, Jiří Baroš, Andrea Sangiovanni, Pauline Kleingeld, Paul Guyer, Elettra Repetto, Walter Romero Menon. Each meeting of the Colloquium is structured in such a way that participants and guests have the best change to discuss fruitfully the theme under consideration. While the talk is advertised in the media channels of the University and in the local press, the paper to be discussed is circulated in an email list that contains only students and academics of the Political and Social Sciences Department (DSPS), as well as other consenting scholars. On the day of the event, the guest presents succinctly the main points of his work and two discussants offer structured comments. After the guest's replies, discussion is open to the general audience. https://www.facebook.com/simonegenovesephoto
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08/10/2024

We are happy to welcome any and all interested to attend (in person) the international Conference: IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW, October 17-19, 2024, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Via Gravina 12, Catania.

In the context of Kant’s tercentennial (1724-2024) celebrations, this international conference will focus on those ideas in the critical philosophy that participants perceive as most likely to influence the future. Our effort will be to better understand the significance of Kant’s thought for all areas of current philosophical research and to unearth Kantian resources that may help us to meet the enormous intellectual and practical challenges before us: from phenomena – at the domestic level – such as democratic backsliding, populism, money-driven oligarchic degeneration of liberal democracy, to phenomena – at the supranational level – such as climate change, general political turmoil, and conflicts with a clear potential to degenerate into global war.

The conference includes 8 invited keynote speakers and 80 presentations from advanced and younger scholars worldwide who were selected through a call for papers. No registration is required to attend the conference. Here are the program https://kant300fromnow.weebly.com/program.html and the booklet https://kant300fromnow.weebly.com/booklet.html

Keynotes speakers:

Paul Guyer (Brown University) – Forma imperii and forma regiminis: The Form and the Spirit of Republican Government (online participation)

Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid) – Kant on Gender Domination and Caregiving Outsource

Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS University) – Kant and the Crisis of Normativity

Corinna Mieth (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – The Formula of Humanity and the Mistreatment of Migrants: Indifference, Hostility and Degradation

Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto) – Giving Laws to Ourselves

Susan Shell (Boston College) – Kant as Soothsayer: Revisiting the Idea of History

Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Kant and economic democracy

Allen Wood (Stanford University) – Kant on Lying (online participation)

Organization: Colloquium Philosophy & Global Affairs - Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania
Prof. Luigi Caranti, University of Catania, Italy
Dr. Nunzio Alì, University of Catania, Italy
Dr. Diana Piroli, University of Catania, Italy
Website: https://kant300fromnow.weebly.com/

Support:
The Paradigm Shift in the Modern Understanding of Freedom, a project funded by the PRIN 2022.
Democracy and Citizenship: Kantian and Post-Kantian Perspectives, a project funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU and Italia Domani PNRR 2022.

07/07/2024

Call for Abstracts IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Catania October 17-19, 2024. Abstracts from scholars at an advanced stage of their careers and junior researchers should be between 400 and 500 words, with 5 Keywords. Deadline for submission: July 10th 2024. Please send abstracts to: [email protected]

19/05/2024

Call for Abstracts
IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW
Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Catania October 17-19, 2024
Abstracts from scholars at an advanced stage of their careers and junior researchers should be between 400 and 500 words, with 5 Keywords
Deadline for submission: July 10th 2024
Please send abstracts to: [email protected]

19/05/2024

IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW
Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Catania October 17-19, 2024

07/05/2024

Call for Abstracts
IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW
Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Catania October 17-19, 2024

Abstracts from scholars at an advanced stage of their careers and junior researchers should be between 400 and 500 words, with 5 Keywords

Deadline for submission: July 10th 2024
Please send abstracts to: [email protected]

07/05/2024

Call for Abstracts
IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW
Department of Political and Social Sciences - University of Catania October 17-19, 2024

Kant’s tercentennial (1724-2024) is being celebrated around the world with events ranging from congresses, special lectures, and exhibitions. This international conference will focus on those ideas in the critical philosophy that participants perceive as most likely to influence the future. We want to better understand the significance of Kant’s thought for all areas of current philosophical research and more generally for the world we will inhabit. While in theoretical and practical philosophy Kant offers one of the few credible alternatives to the dominant orientation of our times, that is, naturalism, in political theory his position has come under attack by a new generation of realist scholars who tend to understand politics as a domain fully independent of moral values. Realists have also ‘come back’ by highlighting how international affairs today seem to be explainable in terms of balance of power or lack thereof, with the current crises due to a system no longer controlled by a hegemony and new forces challenging Western dominance. Moreover, the very idea of the human species as deserving a special kind of respect by virtue of its rationality is called into doubt by our inability to work together for what is evidently in our interest: a serious response to climate change. Finally, Kant’s Enlightenment hope for a gradual progress towards the cosmopolitan constitution seems to be frustrated – at the domestic level – by phenomena such as democratic backsliding, populism, money-driven oligarchic degeneration of liberal democracy, and – at the supranational level – by the current regression to a level of international bellicosity that increasingly resembles a third world War. Even the war of ideas does not seem to look promising with many forces (not all of them linked to despotic governments) eager to challenge the legacy of the Enlightenment as an ideal of moral and political decency. In this scenario, we expect participants to make an effort to unearth Kantian resources that may help us to meet the enormous intellectual and practical challenges before us.

Keynotes speakers:
Allen Wood (Stanford University)
Arthur Ripstein (University of Toronto)
Corinna Mieth (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid)
Paul Guyer (Brown University)
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS University)
Susan Shell (Boston College)

Abstracts are welcome for the “IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW,” to be held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania from October 17 to 19, 2024. Abstracts from scholars at an advanced stage of their careers and junior researchers should be between 400 and 500 words, with 5 Keywords.
Deadline for submission: July 10th 2024.
Please send abstracts to: [email protected]

07/05/2024

Call for Abstracts

Abstracts are welcome for the “IMMANUEL KANT, 300 YEARS FROM NOW,” to be held at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Catania from October 17 to 19, 2024. Abstracts from scholars at an advanced stage of their careers and junior researchers should be between 400 and 500 words, with 5 Keywords.
Deadline for submission: July 10th 2024.
Please send abstracts to: [email protected]

25/04/2024

I 300 anni di Kant

17/03/2024

The Colloquium Philosophy & Global Affairs invites you to participate in the seminar that Prof. Darrel Moellendorf (Goethe University, Germany) will hold on 8 April 2024, from 4.00 pm to 8.00 pm, entitled “Climate Change and Global Poverty” at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Catania), Room 21 Marzo, Palazzo Pedagaggi, Via Vitt. Emanuele, 49. Discussant: Prof. Marcello Di Paola (Unipa) and Dr. Diana Piroli (Sant'Anna).

17/03/2024

The Colloquium Philosophy & Global Affairs invites you to participate in the two lectures that Dr. Efe Can Özek (Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany) will hold on 3 and 4 April 2024, from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm, respectively entitled “Varieties of Labor Politics in Europe: The Interplay between the Labor Unions, the Employers and the State” and “A Populist Backlash Against the Welfare State in Europe” at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Catania), Aula L, Palazzo Pedagaggi, Via Vitt. Emanuele, 49.
The activity takes place under the Erasmus+ mobility programme.

17/03/2024

The Colloquium Philosophy & Global Affairs invites you to participate in the two lectures that Dr. Efe Can Özek (Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany) will hold on 3 and 4 April 2024, from 12:00 to 14:00, respectively entitled “Immigration and Ethnic Diversity in the European Labor Market” and “Capitalism without Human Rights: A Global Threat to Democratic Capitalism?” at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Catania), room 6 - Polo Didattico, Via Gravina, 12. The activity takes place under the Erasmus+ mobility programme.

17/03/2024

The Philosophy & Global Affairs Colloquium invites you to participate in the lecture that Prof. Lukasz Golota (University of Warsaw) will hold on 27 March 2024, from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm, entitled “New Technologies in Superpower Rivalry” at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Catania), Room F, Palazzo Pedagaggi, Via Vitt. Emanuele, 49. The activity takes place under the Erasmus+ mobility programme.

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