David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy

Session 1, Bologna 6 ottobre, 2025, Prodi Lecture Hall:
David Graeber between anthropology and philosophy

9:00 - 9:30 

Welcome address

9:30 - 10:00 Lorenzo Vinciguerra, Sive Natura, Università di Bologna

Why Spinozists read Graeber

10:00 - 10:30 Simona Ferlini, Sive Natura

Out of the maze

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00-11:30  Nicholas Smaligo, independent scholar

The War for the Human Imagination

11:30-12:00 Massimiliano Mollona, Università di Bologna: 

Genocide, labour and images of struggle.  Towards a political economy of otherness.

12:00 - 13:00 Multilogue

13:00 - 14:00 LIGHT LUNCH

14:00-14:45 Botteghe Spinoza 38:

my grandmother in a wheelbarrow

15:00 -17.30 round table: David Graeber and the Ontological Turn

Chair:

• Federico Venturini

• Stefania Consigliere, Università di Genova

Magic and imaginary. Against academic ‘bon ton’

• Rastko P. Chirco Popovich, Università di Malta 

Beyond the de Castro-Graeber Debate: Graeber’s Reading of Marylin Strathern’s Post-Plurality

• Marco Manca, Fondazione Scimpulse

The Poiesis of Ignorance. Epistemology as Struggle for the World

Session 2, Ravenna:
Imagining the abolition of the present state of affairs, 7 ottobre

Arteficerie Almagià, via dell’Almagià

9:30-10:00 

Welcome address

10:00-11:30 Round table: radical democracy and social ecology (EN)

• Marisa Holmes, Rutgers University

• Fabio Carnevali, Sive Natura, Università di Palermo 

• Debbie Bookchin, Bookchin Foundation

• Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex, A Kaddish for Tikki Tikki Tembo

• Elif Sarican,

• Andrej Grubacic, California Institute of Integral Studies

• Franco Berardi

11:30-12 break

12:00 - 13:00  Anarchia e antropologia (ITA)

Stefano Boni Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Le antropologie anarchiche di David Graeber

Erica Lagalisse, London School of Economics

13:00-14:00 break

14:00 - 14:30 Francesco Codello

Idee per un anarchismo positivo

14:30 - 15:00 Giovanna Gioli

Pensare da anarchici

15:30 - 16:00 Multilogo: anarchia e antropologia (ITA)

16:30 - 17 Break

17:30 - 19:30 Fondazione Lac o Le mon

Session 3, Reggio Emilia, 8 ottobre:
Value and values

9:30-10:00  Marco Mietto, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Councillor for Culture and Youth

Welcome and introduction

10:00 - 10:30 Federico Montanari, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia:

Theories of value between Graeber, semiotics, economic sociology, and Actor Network Theory: critiques and cross-perspectives

10:30-11:00 Francesco Zanotelli, Università di Firenze

11:00-11:30 break

11:30-12:00 Pasquale Menditto, University of Bologna

Before the jubilee. David graeber vision for an alternative end of the (capitalist) world

12:00-12:30  Veronique Dutraive, Université de Lyon

12:30-13:00 Andrea Buchetti

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14:30 L. Randall Wray, Levy Economics Institute:

Defining Value

14:30-15:00 Julio Linares, Economic Anthropologist, Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network:

Decolonizing Money

15:00-15:30 Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex:

(Title)

15:30 Stefano Montes

Building on Graeber: anthropological indisciplines

16:00 -17:00  All speakers and the public:

Multilogue on value and values