Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture (UPF)

Countermovement: Mysticism Against the Grain

2025-2027 Research Project Templeton Religion Trust / PRISM

2027 J&M Villavecchia Fellowship (Call now open!)

For a 4-month artistic and/or research project

New model for 2027 Information about the fellowships

Alois M. Haas' Fundamental Texts of Western Mysticism

An Open Course on Mystics

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Understanding Ramon Llull

Philosophy, Arts and Science through the Ars Combinatoria

Online learning MOOC

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[Call for papers EXTENDED deadline 24.05.2026] Conference "Waste, garbage, surplus. Art and cultural imaginaries in the age of hyperconsumption" (12-13.11.2026)

[Dance Performance] "Noli me tangere", by Sander Vloebergs and Lu Marivoet (26.05.2026)

[Performative reading and conversation] "Stories of the History of the Thousand and One Nights", with Chirine El Ansary, Margarida Castells, and Meritxell Joan (22.04.2026)

Javier & Marta Villavecchia Fellowships New Phase (2027) and Call Opening (Deadline August 31st)

[Recording] Dramatized Reading of "Decreation" by Anne Carson (19.12.2026)

[Workshop] Mapping Memory, Performing Solastalgia, by Chirine El Ansary (17.04.2026)

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Lectures and Conferences

Conference "Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy", 28-30.05.2026

[Conferència] "The Goddess Appears", per Dávid Cseh (24.03.2026)

[Lecture] "El amor en el pensamiento de San Juan de la Cruz", by Lola Josa (UB) (10.11.2025)

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