Activities
2026
January—March 2026: Zabala course in the Master MECLAP will analyze Vattimo's "Weak Thought" Hermeneutics. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March in hall 20.179.
2025
26.06.2025: II International Workshop Hermeneutics of Extinction. Organized by Dr. Gregorio Tenti and Dr. Alice Iacobone.
16.06.2025: VII Permanent Seminar. Dr. Gregorio Tenti — Vattimo Today: Post-metaphysics, Poetry, Ecology.
12.06.2025: I International Workshop Nature Out of Joint: Planetarities, Cosmopolitics, and Radical Futurity. Organized by Dr. Gregorio Tenti and Dr. Alice Iacobone.
31.05.2025: The Logo of the Center designed by Chiara Caiazzo.
23.05.2025: VI Permanent Seminar. Prof. Dr. Kristupas Sabolius — The Imagination of Imagination: Circular, Hermeneutic, and Ecosocial.
26.03.2025: V Permanent Seminar. Prof. Dr. Lee Braver — The Eternal Return of Nietzsche’s Texts: A Hermeneutics of Enactment.
6.03.2025: IV Permanent Seminar. Prof. Daniel Gamper — Vattimo's Irony.
4.03.2025: Conference hosted in Prof. S. Zabala's Contemporary Political Philosophy course in the Political Philosophy MA. Prof. Dr. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University) — From Thinking Automata to Psychoanalytic Machines: Kant, Lacan and Artificial Intelligence.
15.02.2025: Alessandro Baricco and Maurizio Ferraris remember Vattimo on La Stampa.
4.02.2025: III Permanent Seminar. Max Ryynänen — Weak Thinking and The Nordic Welfare State: Notes on the non-metaphysical construction of Nordic democracies and Gianni Vattimo’s legacy.
January—March 2025: Zabala course in the Master MECLAP will focus on Vattimo's "Weak Thought" in relation to the human condition in the 21st Century. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March in hall 20.179.
2024
16.12.2024: II Permanent Seminar. Prof. Valerio Rocco Lozano — Vattimo y la casa europea.
2.11.2024. A new book on Vattimo and the history of philosophy in Turin by Paolo di Motoli. We recommend this review by P. Stagi in Avvenire.
9.10.2024: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Iannantuono visited the archives.
25.09.2024: I Permanent Seminar. Chiara Caiazzo — Borderless Aesthetics: Art, Oscillation, and Heterotopia in Vattimo's Thought.
19.09-20.09.2024: Frammenti dell'avvenire: Convegno internazionale in onore di Gianni Vattimo.
5-6.06.2024: International Conference — "Nihilism, Religion, and Politics: Vattimo and Decoloniality."
23.05.2024: Milan Arch Week 2024: the city celebrates weak architecture.
15.05.2024: Workshop. Homenatge a Gianni Vattimo (1936-2023): Hermenèutica, Religió i Política.
4.03.2024: A New Aesthetics Based on Vattimo's Weak Thought.
5.02.2024: An article by Felipe Souto on the Archives in Sacrilegens.
26.01.2024: Prof. Jean Grondin visited the Archives.
25.01.2024: Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue with Philosophical Traditions.
January-March 2024: Zabala course in the Master MECLAP will focus on Vattimo's "Weak Thought" in relation to the human condition in the 21st Century. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March in hall 20.179.
January-March 2024: Zabala course in the Political Philosophy Master will venture into the political consequences of Vattimo's hermeneutics. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March in Hall 20.237.
2023
11.12.2023: The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is pleased to host the first online book launch of The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), edited by Simonetta Moro. Three authors who contributed to the Dictionary will participate in the conversation: Silvia Mazzini, David Webb, and Santiago Zabala (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University). Register here.
21.11.2023: Un artículo de Chiara Caiazzo sobre la fuerza del debilitamiento en la revista El Ciervo.
21.11.2023: Why are Vattimo's Archives Important? Interview with Santiago Zabala by Thomas Winn.
18.11.2023: An article on the Archives in Diari de Barcelona.
7.11.2023: Tribute to Gianni Vattimo (1936-2023) and International Book Launch of "The Vattimo Dictionary'' (Edinburgh University Press) with Simonetta Moro, Jaume Casals, Libera Pisano, Federico Vercellone, Pablo Pareja, and Daniel Gamper.
18.10.2023: PhD Candidate and Center colaborator Chiara Caiazzo was awarded the FPU doctoral Fellowship for 2023-2027 and a predoctoral fellowship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures to research at Harvard University in 2024. Ms. Caiazzo's thesis is a confrontation of Rancière's political aesthetics with Vattimo and other contemporary thinkers.
7.10.2023: Special Issue of Political Theology Network: "Remembering Vattimo" with contributions from S. Moro, John D. Caputo, David Newheiser, Gavin Hyman, Silvia Mazzini, and Mario I Aguilar.
20.9.2023: Gianni Vattimo passed away at the age of 87. Zabala's obituary in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Roberto Esposito in La Repubblica, Daniel Gamper in Ara, and Michela Marzano, Federico Vercellone, and Cesare Martinetti in La Stampa.
29.06.2023: Interview with PhD candidate and visiting scholar at our archives Mr. Felipe Souto in UFJF.
5.07.2023: Publication of Navigating Postmodern Theology. Insights from Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo’s Philosophy by Michael J. McGravey.
8.06.2023: Vattimo's former student Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin) participated in the Workshop "Estética de la performatividad y la repetición" organized by Prof. Dr. Pol Capdevilla who is also an internal member of our Center. All participants visited the archives after the Workshop.
31.05.2023: Publication of The Vattimo Dictionary by Edinburgh University Press edited by Prof. Dr. Simonetta Moro with the participation of 50 scholars of Vattimo's philosophy.
3.03.2023: Dr. Gregorio Tenti (University of Turin) was awarded a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2023-2024 to work on ecological hermeneutics in our center. Vattimo's philosophy is central in his project.
January-March 2023: Zabala course in the Master MECLAP will focus on Vattimo's philosophy in relation to the human condition in the 21st Century. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March.
January-March 2023: Zabala course in the Political Philosophy Mater will venture into the political consequences of Vattimo's communism. Every Thursday afternoon from January-March.
2022
9.11.2022: International Workshop of the UPF Center for Vattimo's Philosophy and Archives.
30.09.2022: Duke University and Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center, in partnership with the UPF Center for Vattimo Philosophy and Archives, is proud to host the conference "Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought" on September 30th at the Pompeu Fabra University. Speakers from Italy, China and the US will be discussing the relationship of Vattimo's weak thought and Chinese thought.
7.06.2022: Article on the legitimacy of the Archives in La Stampa by Santiago Zabala.
1.05.2022: A Review of "Being and its Surroundings" in Philosophy in Review by John Picchione (York University of Toronto).
14.03.2022: Conference by Dr. Libera Pisano - a UPF member of the Center on aesthetics in the art of Charlotte Salomon.
10.02.2022: Federico Vercellone, one of Vattimo's most renowned disciples, will give a talk on aesthetics on the 10th of February 2021 at the UPF.
9.02.2022 A Dialogue with Gianni Vattimo by Debora Tonelli on youtube.
1.02.2022: The Spanish translation of Vattimo's groundbreaking 1963 study has been released in Felix Editora.
January-March 2022: Zabala's course in the Master MECLAP will focus on Vattimo's philosophy in relation to the human condition in the 21st Century. Every Thursday afternoon.
2021
24.10.2021: Interview in Rolling Stones with Vattimo.
21-22.10.2021 International Conference: Understanding our Climate Emergency through Art and Aesthetics.
1.08.2021: Vattimo's Essere e dintorni translated in English.
2.06.2021: Journal of Italian Philosophy Special Issue on the 30th anniversary of "The Transparent Society."
22.05.2021 Interview in Tutto Libri.
22.05.2021 "Umberto Galimberti on Vattimo."
20.05.2021: An edition of Vattimo's books.
2020
15.09.2020: A Text, Interview, and article on Vattimo in Minerva.
11.09.2020: New Italian edition of Vattimo's Etica dell'interpretazione.
13.07.2020: Interview in La Nacion with Vattimo.
2.06.2020: Interview in Il Riformista with Vattimo.
27.05.2020: Review of El ser y sus alrededores in El Cultural.
27.05.2020: Interview in El Cultural with Vattimo.
27.05.2020: Vattimo's Essere e dintorni translated in Spanish
15.03.2020: Vattimo's article in El País, La religión, la filosofía y la verdad por Gianni Vattimo.
20.02.2020: Article on Vattimo in La Maleta de Portbou. Zabala's on Vattimo's transparent Society.
08.01.2020: Gabriel Serbu successfully defended his PhD thesis.
In preparation for Edinburgh University Press Philosophical Dictionaries Series the "Vattimo Dictionary" edited by Prof. Dr. Simonetta Moro with contributions from Franca D'Agostini, Daniel Innerarity, and many more.
Prof. Zabala course in the MECLAP Master 2020-2021 will be on existentialism and Vattimo's weak thought. Wednesdays from 6-9pm during the first trimester. Open to the public.
2019
1.08.2019: New Book on Vattimo by Ulrike Irrgang: Das Wiederauftauchen einer verwehten Spur. Das religiöse Erbe im Werk Gianni Vattimos und Hans Magnus Enzensbergers
16.05.2019: Vattimo wins Circulo Golden Medal.
5.03.2019: Conference by Cesar Rendueles (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "La gobernanza emocional tras la Gran Regresión. Entre el nihilismo emotivista y el neocomunitarismo adaptativo", 6pm.
6.02.2019: Article on Vattimo in First Things.
15.01.2019: An article in El País on the Archives Hall.
2018
10.12.2018: Leonardo Franceschini successfully defended his PhD thesis.
9.07. 2018: Pope Francis Calls Vattimo.
22.06.2018: Vattimo honored by the Institut for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
25.05.2018: Gianni Vattimo's new 400 pages book, Essere e dintorni, brings together his most interesting takes on contemporary philosophy, politics, and aesthetics in order to interpret our relation with Being in the 21st Century. Published by one of Italy's most prestigious publishing houses: La Nave di Teseo which was funded by Umberto Eco and Elisabetta Sgarbi.
1.03.2018: PhD Candidate Gabriel Serbu receives an Erasmus Plus Mobility Grant to research material for his thesis on Rorty, Vattimo, and Coetzee at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) during Summer/Fall 2018.
15.01.2018: Lev Marder's reviews Making Communism Hermeneutical: Reading Vattimo and Zabala.
Prof. Zabala's course in the MECLAP Master 2017-2018 will be on Vattimo's weak thought. Tuesday's from 6-9pm during the second semester in room 40.213. Open to the public.
2017
12.06.2017: PhD candidate Leonardo Franceschini has received an Erasmus Plus Mobility Grant to research material for his thesis about the relations between racism and Western philosophy, as well as the peculiar effects of European colonialism in China at East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai) during Fall/Winter 2017-2018.
22.05.2017: A book on Hermeneutic Communism, Making Communism Hermeneutical: Reading Vattimo and Zabala, is edited by S. Mazzini and O. Glyn-Williams and includes critical contributions from 19 renown scholars from all over the world as well as Vattimo and Zabala's responses.
6.04.2017: Conference by Martin Woessner (The City College of New York, CUNY) "The Strength of Weakness: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line as Hermeneutic Cosmology."
7.03.2017: Conference by Martin Woessner (The City College of New York, CUNY): The Strength of Weakness: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line as Hermeneutic Cosmology.
2016
11.11.2016: A dossier on Vattimo in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
20.07.2016: Interview with Gianni Vattimo in La Vanguardia.
15.06.2016: Special Issue of Philosophy Today. In Honor Of Gianni Vattimo's 80th Birthday.