Philosophy and Civic Engagement in the Italian Traditions

Description:

The Winter School is a project promoted by UniTrento in partnership with ENS Lyon and KU Leuven and aims to offer a one-week advanced training school focused on the Italian philosophical traditions. The first edition will take place February 12-16, 2024 in Brixen, in the enchanting setting of the Novacella-Abbey . The school is open to master's and doctoral students, as well as early-career researchers in philosophy, history, and literature. Its goal is to gather a community of international students interested in exploring topics related to Italian culture in preparation for their theses, dissertations, or research projects. The school will provide them with lectures and seminar discussions of ongoing projects, led by a group of internationally renowned professors; each day will focus on a chronological period and related authors (see the provisional programme below). After the welcome session on Monday, each morning will feature lectures, while the afternoons will be dedicated to the presentation and the discussion of papers by the participants.

Languages:

In line with the international nature of the project, classes and presentations can be conducted in English, Italian, French, German, or Spanish. In the case of lectures and presentations in languages other than English, the organization will provide an English translation of the lecture text to be shared with the participants. This is to ensure inclusivity and facilitate the widest possible accessibility to the initiative. Similarly, participants who present their papers in one of the indicated languages other than English are required to provide an English translation of the text to the organization before the start of the school in order to share it with the participants.

Credits:

Participants delivering a paper will receive a certificate of attendance certifying 3 ECTS (or 1 ECTS for participants who will not deliver a paper) at the end of the Winter School, which can be used to get ETCS from their home university. For UniTrento Students, participation in the School can be recognized as credits, thesis points or extra credits, according to the rules of their course.

Location:

The 12-th-cent. Augustinian monastery of Novacella is located in South Tyrol, in the middle of the Alps. Travel advice & tips to discover the region will be given on our website in due time. In the meantime, visit https://www.suedtirol.info/en

PROGRAMME WELCOME SESSION

Monday, 12 February 2024

Wolkenstein-Lounge (first floor)

3:00 pm Welcome coffee and registration

Bibelsaal (ground floor)

4:00 pm Introduction

4:30 pm Opening lecture

Jean-Claude Zancarini (ENS Lyon): Il pensiero politico nella Firenze delle guerre d’Italia

6:30 pm Dinner

8:00 pm Meet the Speakers

SESSION 1: THE MIDDLE AGES

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Bibelsaal (ground floor)

9:15 am Lidia Lanza (Lisboa): Justice and Rulership before and after the Rediscovery of Aristotle’s Politics (Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Bartolus of Saxoferrato, and James of Viterbo)

11:00 am Claudio Giunta (Trento): “Sanza lei non è in terra pace”. Su Dante scrittore politico

12:30 am Lunch

2:30 pm Visit to the Abbey

4:00 pm Participants’ Panel

Tommaso Alberti (Milano Bicocca): Il deserto delle illusioni. Note sul pensiero politico di Giacomo Leopardi

Edoardo Panei (Roma 3): Ascendenze crociane nella Meditazione milanese di Carlo Emilio Gadda

Simone Ghelli (Normale Pisa): Contro il privilegio e la disuguaglianza. Primo Levi pensatore politico antifascista

Silvia Rossi (Trento): Il lavoro intellettuale come professione. Delio Cantimori lettore di Max Weber

6:30 pm Dinner

8:00 pm Meet the Speakers

SESSION 2: EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Wednesday, 14 February

2024 Bibelsaal (ground floor)

9:15 am Jean-Claude Zancarini (ENS Lyon): Come e perché abbiamo scritto “Machiavel. Une vie en guerres”

11:00 am Sandra Plastina (Calabria): Italian Women Philosophers in the XVI Century

12:30 am Lunch

3:15 pm Luca Burzelli (Universität Siegen-KU Leuven): Gasparo Contarini: a case of philosophia civilis at the downfall of Venice

4:00 pm Participants’ Panel

Fernanda Elias Zaccarelli Salgueiro (Sao Paolo): Le peuple chez Machiavel

Sarah Marie Leitenberger (KU Leuven): Recognition in Machiavelli’s La Mandragola

Odile Liliana Panetta (Cambridge): Jacopo Aconcio (ca. 1520 – ca. 1567) on civil authority and religious freedom

Andrea Sola (Salerno): Love and Republicanism in Marsilio Ficino’s Revival of Plato

6:30 pm Dinner

8:00 pm Meet the Speakers

SESSION 3: LATE MODERN PERIOD

Thursday, 15 February 2024

Bibelsaal (ground floor)

9:15 am Pierre Girard (ENS Lyon): Le sfide della scrittura filosofica di Vico

11:00 am Christiane Liermann (Villa Vigoni): Il concetto di società civile in Rosmini: ricostruzione ed attualità

12:30 am Lunch

4:00 pm Participants’ Panel

Francesca Fidelibus (Trento): Giambattista Vico e il sapere economico. Soggettività, conflitto e società

Francesco Civili (Ca’ Foscari): L’interesse di Leo Strauss per Giambattista Vico

Federica Biscardi (Trento): “Italia, cattolicesimo e indipendenza sono tre cose che non possono separarsi”. Rosmini e il “panteismo germanico” come categoria teologico-politica

Gregorio Fracchia (Torino/Pavia): La struttura della metafisica. Tomismo intensivo e filosofia neoclassica.

6:30 pm Dinner

8:00 pm Meet the Speakers

SESSION 4: THE MODERN ERA

Friday, 16 February 2024

Bibelsaal (ground floor)

9:15 am Romain Descendre (ENS Lyon): Gramsci e la tradizione italiana

11:00 pm Participants’ Panel

Nicolò Maria Ingarra (Macerata): Archaeology of work. Antimo Negri and the rediscovery of the philosophy of work.

Loriane Lafont (Chicago): Guglielmo Ferrero: a few hypotheses for his oversight and a call for the revival of his thought

12:30 am Closing lunch

Organising Committee: Romain Descendre (ENS Lyon), Michele Nicoletti (UniTrento), Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven), Alessandro Palazzo (UniTrento), Tiziana Faitini (UniTrento) Discussants: Salvatore Carannante (UniTrento), Francesco Ghia (UniTrento), Paola Giacomoni (UniTrento), Paolo Marangon (UniTrento), Fabrizio Meroi (UniTrento), Giulia Valpione (UniTrento)

Support: Francesca Fidelibus, Gabriele Pulvirenti, Valeria Vignocchi (UniTrento)

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