The UPF Center for Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives organizes Lectures, Conferences, and a Permanent Seminar that meets several times a year to discuss the origins, meaning, and consequences of the Italian philosopher's ideas. Invited scholars from around the world and members of the center engage with different aspects of Vattimo’s philosophy to foster fruitful discussion. Although the goal is to focus on Vattimo’s Weak Thought, the seminars do not exclude engagement with other philosophies, thinkers, and themes. Over the years, several seminars have been dedicated to Vattimo's aesthetics, interpretation of religion, confrontation with Jacques Rancière, and, in the last year, to Alice Rohrwacher's weak cinema and Ignasi de Solà-Morales's weak architecture. At least one seminar per year focuses on unpublished material from the archives. The Center team organizes the seminar, and it is open to anyone interested in the Italian thinker and continental philosophy.

If you wish to be notified of the next seminars, please let us know at: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].

 

Upcoming Events

2026

  1. XV
    October 27
    Prof. Dr. Víctor J. Krebs (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
    10:30–12:00
    Who Dreams Today? The Digital Colonization of Openness
  2. XVI
    November 9
    Prof. Dr. Camil Ungureanu (UPF)
    Vattimo and Derrida's Postmetaphysical Religion
  3. XVII
    December 14
    Lorenzo Gensini (UPF)
    Digitizing Vattimo’s UPF Archives

 

Future Events

2027

  1. Lecture
    January 15
    Prof. Dr. Carmelo Dotolo (Pontificia Università Urbaniana)
    Title to be confirmed
  2. XVIII
    January 28
    Prof. Dr. Daniel Esparza (UPF)
    Title to be confirmed
  3. XIX March
    Sr. Ricardo Marrero Gil (UPF)
    Title to be confirmed
  4. XX April 13
    Prof. Dr. Stefano Bellin (UPF)
    Title to be confirmed
  5. XXI May
    Prof. Dr. Jordi Ibanez (UPF)
    Title to be confirmed
  6. XXII June
    Prof. Dr. Gregorio Tenti (Università di Vercelli)
    Launch of Vattimo's Biography (Castelvecchi)
  7. XXIII September
    Prof. Dr. Anna Pages Santacana (UrL)
    Title to be confirmed
  8. XXIV September
    Prof. Dr. Laura Llevadot (UB)
    Title to be confirmed
  9. XXV October
    Prof. Dr. Miquel Seguró (UOC/URL)
    Title to be confirmed
  10. XXVI November
    Prof. Dr. Antonio Castilla Cerezo (UB)
    Title to be confirmed

 

Past Events

2026

  1. International Workshop
    October 8
    10th Anniversary of the Vattimo Archives at UPF
  2. XIV
    September 28
    Two Criticisms and One Praise of the Concept of Kenosis in Vattimo
    Dr. Adrià Porta Caballé (UPF), 40.041
  3. XIII
    June 17 – Prof. Dr. Andrea Mecacci
    From Postmodernism to Aestheticization: Vattimo and the Transparent Society
    16 h @ 20.237
  4. XII
    May 27 – Dr. Bernardo García Morales
    Architecture and Weak Thought
  5. XI
    April 20 – Antoni Torzewski
    On the possibility of Verwindung: Some critical thoughts regarding Vattimo’s philosophy of religion
  6. X
    March 5 – Giuseppe Iannantuono
    Freedom, Emancipation, and Politics in Weak Thought: A Dialogue with Vattimo
  7. IX
    January 29 – Mar Olave Ylleras (UPF)
    Weak Cinema. Alice Rohrwacher, Interpreter of Vattimo

2025

  1. International Workshop
    October 23
    Aesthetic Ruptures: Revolution and Dissensus in Jacques Rancière and Gianni Vattimo
  2. VIII
    September 9 – Zachary Clausen (Independent Scholar)
    Interpretation, Being, and the Ontological Turn in Anthropological Discourse
  3. VII
    June 16 – Gregorio Tenti (UPF)
    Vattimo Today. Post-metaphysics, Poetry, Ecology
  4. VI
    May 23 – Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University)
    The Imagination of Imagination: Circular, Hermeneutic, and Ecosocial
  5. V
    March 26 – Lee Braver (University of South Florida)
    The Eternal Return of Nietzsche’s Texts: A Hermeneutics of Enactment
  6. IV
    March 6 – Daniel Gamper (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    Vattimo’s Irony
  7. 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

  1. II
    December 16 – Valerio Rocco Lozano (CBM/UAM)
    Vattimo and the European Home
  2. I
    September 25 – Chiara Caiazzo (UPF)
    Borderless Aesthetics: Art, Oscillation, and Heterotopia in Vattimo's Thought
  3. International Workshop
    May 15
    Tribute to Gianni Vattimo (1936–2023): Hermeneutics, Religion and Politics

2023

  1. Online Book Launch
    December 11
    The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts hosts the first online presentation of The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), edited by Simonetta Moro. Three authors who contributed to the Dictionary will participate in the discussion: Silvia Mazzini, David Webb, and Santiago Zabala (ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
  2. International Book Launch
    September 29
    International presentation of The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press) with Simonetta Moro, Jaume Casals, Libera Pisano, Miguel de Beistegui, and Daniel Gamper.

2022

  1. International Workshop (IUC)
    November 9
    Vattimo's Farewell to Truth
  2. International Workshop (Duke University - Kunshan University’s Humanities Research Center)
    September 30
    Weakening Strategies: Vattimo and Chinese Thought
  3. Lecture on Aesthetics by Federico Vercellone
    February 10

2019

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

2017

  1. Lecture 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

  1. Seminar by Emma Wason
    November 30
    Weak thinking, weak reading: poiesis, politics and compassion
  2. June 6
    Inauguration of the Gianni Vattimo Archives at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with the participation of Josep Ramoneda and Santiago Zabala