The Permanent Seminar of the UPF Center for Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives meets once a month to discuss the origins, meaning, and consequences of the Italian philosopher’s thought. Invited researchers from around the world and members of the Center address different aspects of Vattimo’s philosophy with the aim of fostering enriching debate. Although the seminar focuses primarily on Vattimo’s weak thought, the sessions are also open to dialogue with other philosophies, thinkers, and issues. Over the years, several seminars have been devoted to Vattimo’s aesthetics, his interpretation of religion, his dialogue with Jacques Rancière and, more recently, to Alice Rohrwacher’s weak cinema and Ignasi de Solà-Morales’s weak architecture. At least one seminar each year is devoted to the study of unpublished materials preserved in the Archives. The seminar is organized by the Center’s team and is open to anyone interested in the Italian thinker and continental philosophy.

If you would like to receive information about upcoming seminars, you can contact us at: [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].

Next event

Next session of the Permanent Seminar

28 September
XIV

Dr. Adrià Porta Caballé (UPF), 40.041

Two Critiques and a Praise of the Concept of Kenosis in Vattimo

Calendar

Upcoming events

International Workshop8 October

10th Anniversary of Vattimo's Archives at the UPF

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XV27 October

Prof. Dr. Víctor J. Krebs (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)

10:30–12:00

 ¿Quién sueña hoy? La colonización digital de la apertura

XVI9 November

Prof. Dr. Camil Ungureanu (UPF)

Vattimo and Derrida's Postmetaphysical Religion

XVII14 December

Lorenzo Gensini (UPF)

Digitizing Vattimo’s UPF Archives

2027

XVIII
January
Prof. Dr. Daniel Esparza (UPF)
Title to be confirmed
XIX
February
Prof. Dr. Stefano Bellin (UPF)
Title to be confirmed
XX
March
Sr. Ricardo Marrero Gil (UPF)
Title to be confirmed
XXI
April
Prof. Dr. Gregorio Tenti (Università di Vercelli)
Launch of Vattimo's Biography (Castelvecchi)
XXII
May
Prof. Dr. Jordi Ibanez (UPF)
Title to be confirmed
XXIII
June
Prof. Dr. Anna Pages Santacana (UrL)
Title to be confirmed
XXIV
September
Prof. Dr. Laura Llevadot (UB)
Title to be confirmed
XXV
October
Prof. Dr. Miquel Seguró (UOC/URL)
Title to be confirmed
XXVI
November
Prof. Dr. Antonio Castilla Cerezo (UB)
Title to be confirmed

2028

Prof. Dr. Libera Pisano
Title to be confirmed

Seminar archive

Past events

2026

XIII
17 June – Prof. Dr. Andrea Mecacci
From Postmodernism to Aestheticization: Vattimo and the Transparent Society
16 h @ 20.237
XII
27 May – Dr. Bernardo García Morales
Architecture and Weak Thought
XI
20 April – Antoni Torzewski
On the possibility of Verwindung: Some critical thoughts regarding Vattimo’s philosophy of religion
X
5 March – Giuseppe Iannantuono
Freedom, Emancipation, and Politics in Weak Thought: A Dialogue with Vattimo
IX
29 January – Mar Olave Ylleras (UPF)
Weak Cinema. Alice Rohrwacher, Interpreter of Vattimo

2025

International Workshop
23 October
Aesthetic Ruptures: Revolution and Dissensus in Jacques Rancière and Gianni Vattimo
VIII
9 September – Zachary Clausen (Independent Scholar)
Interpretation, Being, and the Ontological Turn in Anthropological Discourse
VII
16 June – Gregorio Tenti (UPF)
Vattimo Today. Post-metaphysics, Poetry, Ecology
VI
23 May – Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University)
The Imagination of Imagination: Circular, Hermeneutic, and Ecosocial
V
26 March – Lee Braver (University of South Florida)
The Eternal Return of Nietzsche’s Texts: A Hermeneutics of Enactment
IV
6 March – Daniel Gamper (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Vattimo’s Irony
III
4 February – 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
16 December – Valerio Rocco Lozano (CBM/UAM)
Vattimo and the European Home
I
25 September – Chiara Caiazzo (UPF)
Borderless Aesthetics: Art, Oscillation, and Heterotopia in Vattimo's Thought
International Workshop
15 May
Tribute to Gianni Vattimo (1936–2023): Hermeneutics, Religion, and Politics

2023

Online book presentation
11 December
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 contributors to the Dictionary will take part in the conversation: Silvia Mazzini, David Webb, and Santiago Zabala (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University).
International book presentation
29 September
International presentation of The Vattimo Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press) with Simonetta Moro, Jaume Casals, Libera Pisano, Miguel de Beistegui, and Daniel Gamper.

2022

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

2019

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

2017

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

2016

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