Permanent Seminar

The UPF Center for Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives Permanent Seminar meets six times a year – in the Autumn, Winter, and Spring – to discuss, interpret, and contextualize the Italian philosopher's ideas' origins, meaning, and consequences. Members of the center and invited scholars will engage with different aspects of Vattimo’s philosophy to generate a fruitful discussion during the seminar. Although the goal is to focus on Vattimo’s Weak Thought, the seminars do not exclude engagements with other philosophies, thinkers, and themes. During the year, at least one seminar will be devoted to unpublished material from the archives. The members of the Center organize this seminar, and it is open to all members of the University. If you wish to be notified of the next seminars, please let us know at [email protected].

UPCOMING

XIII
June 17 – Prof. Dr. Andrea Mecacci
From Postmodernism to Aestheticization: Vattimo and the Transparent Society
4 pm @ 20.237

Future Events

International Workshop
October 8
10th Anniversary of Vattimo's Archives at the UPF

XIV
November – Prof. Dr. Camil Ungureanu
Vattimo and Derrida's Postmetaphysical Religion

2027: Jordi Ibanez, Libera Pisano, Stefano Bellin, and Daniel Esparza

Past Events

2026

XII
May 27 – Dr. Bernardo García Morales
Arquitectura y Pensamiento Débil

XI
April 20 – Antoni Torzewski
On the possibility of Verwindung: Some critical thoughts regarding Vattimo’s philosophy of religion

X
March 5 – Giuseppe Iannantuono
Libertad, emancipación y política en el pensamiento débil: diálogo con Vattimo

IX
January 29 – Mar Olave Ylleras (UPF)
Cine Débil. Alice Rohrwacher, interprete de Vattimo

2025

International Workshop (IDSVA)
October 23
Aesthetic Ruptures: Revolution and Dissensus in Jacques Rancière and Gianni Vattimo

VIII
September 9 – Zachary Clausen (Independent Scholar)
Interpretation, Being, and the Ontological Turn in Anthropological Discourse

VII
June 16 – Gregorio Tenti (UPF)
Vattimo Today. Post-metaphysics, Poetry, Ecology

VI
May 23 – Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University)
The Imagination of Imagination: Circular, Hermeneutic, and Ecosocial

V
March 26 – Lee Braver (University of South Florida)
The Eternal Return of Nietzsche’s Texts: A Hermeneutics of Enactment

IV
March 6 – Daniel Gamper (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Vattimo’s Irony

III
February 4 – Max Ryynänen (Aalto University)
Weak Thinking and The Nordic Welfare State: Notes on the non-metaphysical construction of Nordic democracies and Gianni Vattimo’s legacy

2024

II
December 16 – Valerio Rocco Lozano (CBM/UAM)
Vattimo y la casa europea

I
September 25 – Chiara Caiazzo (UPF)
Borderless Aesthetics: Art, Oscillation, and Heterotopia in Vattimo's Thought

International Workshop
May 15
Homenatge a Gianni Vattimo (1936-2023): Hermenèutica, Religió i Política

2023

Online Book Launch
December 11
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).

International Book Launch
September 29
International Book Launch of "The Vattimo Dictionary" (Edinburgh University Press) with Simonetta Moro, Jaume Casals, Libera Pisano, Miguel de Beistegui, and Daniel Gamper.

2022

International Workshop (IUC)
November 9
Vattimo's Farewell to Truth

International Workshop (Duke University - Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center)
September 30
Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought

Lecture on Aesthetics by Federico Vercellone
February 10

2019

International Workshop
October 28
Have we reached Vattimo’s Transparent Society?

2017

Conference by Martin Woessner (The City College of New York, CUNY)
April 6
The Strength of Weakness: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line as Hermeneutic Cosmology

2016

Seminar by Emma Wason
November 30
Weak thinking, weak reading: poiesis, politics and compassion