Date:
Event location: Bologna
Tuesday 27 June
Aula Mondolfo via Zamboni 38
10.00 - Welcome and Greetings
10.30 - Practice: Discussion of position papers
Chair: Filippo Del Lucchese and Hasana Sharp
Elia Zaru, Powers and Law in Early Modern Europe: The English Political Thought between Constitution and Revolution (1640-1670)
Pier Giuseppe Puggioni, By force or by consent? Law, Democracy and the Theory of Revolution: Harold J. Laski on Marx
Jacopo Galimberti, Right Images: Understanding the European Right through its Visual Policies
15.00 - Methodology Workshop: Different ways to approach the history of philosophy through the lens of Edward Said’s Orientalism
Organized by Dallas Yokic and Thomas Minguy
The present workshop offers an exploration of different ways to approach the history of philosophy through the lens of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Our goal is to read Said with a focus on what he says about the ways in which Orientalism distorted and obscured our understanding and conception of the history of philosophy. How is Orientalism influencing our conception of the canon? Can we even revise the canon without romanticizing the historical Other? Which alternative methodologies are available to us? What are the traces we still see in our conception of history? How can we encounter the historical Other? All of these are guiding questions that we seek to discuss within this workshop.
Recommended reading: E. Said, Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Wednesday 28 June
Aula Mondolfo via Zamboni 38
10.00 - Theory Workshop: Canonisation: how to think about intellectual histories
Organized by Giovanni Giorgini. Planned interventions by Will Roberts and Elia Zaru
We will examine the notion of canon and its creation, in the persuasion that the very idea of a philosophical canon has an overt or hidden political agenda. As a guide in this research we will use Quentin Skinner’s studies on liberty, to show that his revisionist examination of “the English notion of liberty” and of the Liberal canon constitutes an attempt at building an alternative, republican canon of thinkers in the western tradition of political thought.
Recommended reading: Q. Skinner, A Third Concept of Liberty in “Proceedings of the British Academy” 117 (2002): 237-268.
15.00 - Practice: Discussion of position papers
Chair Elia Zaru
Philip-Emmanuel Aubry, Studying the “Politics of Theory”
Andrea Moresco, Sera-t-il pratique pour nous de conserver ces mêmes mots? Pourquoi Spinoza retrouve-t-il les catégories universelles du bien, du mal et du modèle?
Dave Mesing, War, Prison, and the Fabric of Politics: Strategy and Theory
Thursday 29 June
Aula Mondolfo via Zamboni 38
10.00 - Methodology workshop: The different hermeneutic traditions and methodological approaches in the history of political thought
Organized by Philip-Emmanuel Aubry
Even though courses in the history of political thought often draw from different methodological (or even "anti-methodological") and hermeneutical approaches, there remains a gap to be filled in the offer of courses reflexively reflecting on their use in the history of political thought. This workshop proposes to reflect on the development of 13-week (McGill) or 12 credits (Bologna) course outlines aimed at filling this gap. Its goal is not to arrive at a consensus among participants on what such a course should look like, but rather to generate a productive reflection on this topic by way of comparison.
15.00 - Practice: Discussion of position papers
Chair: Elia Zaru
Marta Libertà de Bastiani, Spinoza on servants and women’s exclusion from politics and the nature of the masses: why does it interest us today?
Andrea di Gesu, Foucault dans l’anthropocène. Critique, ècologie, science, dèmocratie
Friday 30 June
Morning free
16.00 - The "Caminar preguntando walk": Political History of Bologna, a tour on the ground
Meeting point: via Zamboni, 38
This is a guided tour of some symbolic places of alternative politics in Bologna. After calling on some of the landmarks of the 1970s insurrection movement in the city, we will visit the situations where the “legacy of 1977" has been picked up and that continue to have a fundamental impact on Bolognese political life today. These include a series of projects and spaces that carry on a political and social commitment of a cooperative, solidarity-based and sustainable nature, marked by anti-racist and anti-sexist principles.
Organized by Valentina Antoniol