CIVS Open Lab-ul „VERIS – Voices of Palmyra: Engaging (In)tangible Memorial Heritage in Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion” – 17 septembrie 2025

CIVS Open Lab

„VERIS – Voices of Palmyra: Engaging (In)tangible Memorial Heritage in Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion”

17th of September 2025

Universitatea din București, prin Facultatea de Filosofie, va găzdui pe 17 septembrie 2025 CIVS Open Lab-ul „VERIS – Voices of Palmyra: Engaging (In)tangible Memorial Heritage in Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion”. Evenimentul este organizat în parteneriat cu Universitatea din Lausanne și Universitatea din Glasgow, alături de ONG-ul JRS – Jesuit Refugee Service România.

CIVIS Open Lab-ul va avea loc în Amfiteatrul „Mircea Florian” și Catedra UNESCO pentru Interculturalitate, Bună Guvernanță și Dezvoltare Durabilă din Facultatea de Filosofie (Splaiul Independenței, nr. 204, sector 6), între orele 9:00 și 18:00, iar limba de desfășurare va fi engleza.

În deschidere vor lua cuvântul lect. univ. dr. Patrick Michel (Universitatea din Lausanne), lect. univ. dr. Oana Șerban, coordonatoarea proiectului la UB, prof. univ. dr. Liliana Dumitrache (Universitatea din București) și asist. univ. dr. Brittnee Leysen (Universitatea din Glasgow).

Proiectul se adresează, în primul rând, comunității de refugiați sirieni din România, Elveția și Marea Britanie. Cu sprijinul ONG-ului care facilitează contactul cu aceste comunități, vor fi organizate ateliere cu grupuri de aproximativ 7-10 participanți. De asemenea, cercetătorii interesați de migrație și incluziune socială pot participa la conferințe, cu scopul de a aplica metodologia propusă de coordonatori în proiectele proprii. Totodată, studenții universităților membre CIVIS au oportunitatea de a asista la conferințe și de a accesa expozițiile virtuale și celelalte rezultate ale proiectului, puse la dispoziție online.

Astfel, workshopul va explora legăturile dintre patrimoniul cultural al orașului antic Palmyra și experiențele refugiaților sirieni, prin ateliere interdisciplinare de broderie, storytelling și realitate virtuală. Participanții vor reflecta asupra felului în care memoria culturală poate contribui la reconstrucția identității, la depășirea barierelor interculturale și la sprijinirea incluziunii sociale. Totodată, produsele realizate în cadrul atelierelor de broderie vor fi integrate într-o expoziție dedicată tradițiilor și poveștilor de viață ale comunităților de refugiați.

Ca preambul, pe 16 septembrie 2025, de la ora 18:00,  va avea loc, la CEREFREA Villa Noël, conferința „Communautés et patrimoine culturel. Un projet suisse – From Lausanne University to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Romania”, susținută de profesorul Patrick Michel.

Workshopul de la București face parte dintr-un program mai amplu de cercetare și inovare, care își propune să folosească patrimoniul cultural – tangibil și intangibil – ca resursă pentru incluziunea refugiaților și pentru consolidarea dialogului intercultural în Europa.

OPEN LAB CIVIS PROJECT

VERIS – VOICES OF PALMYRA: ENGAGING (IN)TANGIBLE MEMORIAL HERITAGE IN SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR REFUGEE INCLUSION

 Workshop, September 17, 2025

Venue: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

 

9:00 – Opening: Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne), Oana Șerban (University of Bucharest), Liliana Dumitrache (University of Bucharest), Brittnee Leysen (University of Glasgow)

9:15 – Voices of Palmyra”: Engaging cultural heritage to reconnect diasporas, displaced people and refugees. Mapping a sense of belonging , Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne)

10:10 – Coffee Break

10:30 – Immersive experiences in traumatic pasts. Visiting Palmyra: the past and the present connected by VR

11:30 – Lunch Break

13:00 – Embroidery workshop: Symbols of suffering and resistance. Imaginary homelands and aesthetics of disrootedness, Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne), Oana Șerban (University of Bucharest), Brittnee Leysen (University of Glasgow).

The target group is secured by the NGO JSR, in partnership with the University of Bucharest (partnership coordinator, prof. Liliana Dumitrache)

15:00 – Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00 – Atelier of storytelling on traumatic memories of forced migration, Adrian Socol & Oana Șerban (University of Bucharest)

17:00 – 18:00 – Discussions on competitive narratives of suffering, Patrick Michel (University of Lausanne), Liliana Dumitrache (University of Bucharest), Ileana Dascălu (University of Bucharest), Ștefan Bârzu (University of Bucharest), Brittnee Leysen (University of Glasgow)

18:00 – Closing remarks

Conferința “LLMs and digital autonomy: from misinformation to context collapse” – 5-6.09.2025

LLMs and digital autonomy:

from misinformation to context collapse
05-06 September 2025
Facultatea de Filosofie a Universității din București, prin Departamentul de Filosofie organizează conferința “LLMs and digital autonomy: from misinformation to context collapse”. Evenimentul se va avea loc între 5 şi 6 septembrie, 2025, regim hibrid – atât online, cât și la sediul Facultății de Filosofie a UB (Splaiul Independenței, nr. 204, sector 6). Conferința face parte din grantul ICUB „The effects of LLM interaction in digital and virtual environments on TOM”, format dintr-o echipă de cercetare interdisciplinară din filosofie, lingvistică, psihologie cognitivă și biologie evoluționistă.
La eveniment vor participa cercetători şi studenţi din România, SUA, Australia, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Italia, Belgia: Matthew Jope (The University of Aberdeen); Mahesh Venkataraman (Accenture); Nic Fisk (University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI, United States of America) and Aarthi Venkat (Broad Institute of MIT of Harvard, Cambridge MA, United States of America); Michelle M. Dyke (Tufts University); Andrei Mărăşoiu (UB – Facultatea de Filosofie, CELFIS, ICUB); Marc Champagne (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada); Adam Andreotta (Curtin University); Ching Lam Janice Law (Chinese University of Hong Kong); Chiara Russo (Università degli Studi di Catania); Adina Barbu (UB – Facultatea De Psihologie Şi Ştiinţele Educaţiei); Sandra Brânzaru (UB – Facultatea de Filosofie; ICUB; CELFIS)
Ioan Muntean (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) va susţine prelegerea invitată cu titlul “’Digital phenotyping’ and ‘precision mental health’ with AI: unity, collapse, or pluralism in psychiatry?”, iar Zuzanna Rucinska (University of Antwerp) va susţine prelegerea invitată cu titlul “Can we trust bots with our mental health? Enactivist and phenomenological perspectives”.
Evenimentul va fi unul hibrid, prezentatorii vor susţine prezentări față în față la Facultatea de Filosofie, Universitatea din Bucureşti, sau în regim online. Prezentările vor dura 30 de minute, fiecare prelegere fiind urmată de o sesiune de întrebări și răspunsuri (Q&A) de circa 10 minute. Programul conferinței este disponibil pe pagina evenimentului https://philevents.org/event/show/136557
Cei care doresc să participe în public, fie faţă în faţă, fie online, se pot înregistra la adresa llmsdigitalauntomy@gmail.com

International Conference: The Future of UNESCO Chapters: IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS IN MANAGEMENT. The 3rd Edition – 17.10.2025

The Future of UNESCO Chapters: IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS IN MANAGEMENT

The 3rd Edition

17th of October 2025

Call for papers:

Building upon the success of previous editions—first on Culture as a Global Public Good and then Intercultural Perspectives on Autonomy, Freedom and Independence—this third edition focuses on the critical role of identity and intercultural awareness in contemporary management, with a particular interest for cultural and educational institutions.

Organized under the aegis of the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, the conference engages multidisciplinary academic communities and practitioners to reflect on how philosophical insights inform and develop leadership, governance, and sustainable development in increasingly diverse organizational contexts.

The UNESCO Chair, active since 1999 and running internationally‑oriented MA programmes in Intercultural Management and Communication, fosters a nexus between interculturality, philosophical grounding, and governance. Responding to UNESCO’s UNITWIN and SDG agendas, this event invites contributions that explore identity not merely as personal or cultural signifier, but as a strategic and ethical dimension within leadership and organizational change.

We welcome theoretical, empirical, and practice-based papers, including those offering rigorous philosophical analysis. Participants who submit papers for evaluation are kindly asked to consider one of the following panels:

Panel 1. Philosophical Foundations of Identity in Management

  • Ontology of identity in leadership;
  • Ethical dimensions of identity negotiation in multicultural teams;
  • Philosophical perspective on intercultural awareness;
  • Intercultural perspectives on identity, alterity and difference within power relationships.

Panel 2. Intercultural Awareness, Governance and Leadership

  • Intercultural competences: genealogy, challenges and philosophical underpinnings;
  • Case studies where identity-informed leadership enhanced good governance in NGOs, public bodies, or corporations;
  • UNESCO`s methods to boost intercultural competences;
  • Raising intercultural awareness on World Heritage.

Panel 3. Intercultural Governance, Identities and Public Goods

  • The role of identity awareness in shaping inclusive policies and sustainable strategies for intercultural environments;
  • Tensions between global governance norms and local identities;
  • Public goods, ethnic diversity and governance of the public sphere.

Panel 4. Digital & Virtual Management Contexts

  • Power effects on real and virtual identities: cultural misunderstandings and conciliations in digital societies
  • Virtual governance and philosophical questions of awareness, representation, and belonging
  • The future of UNESCO`s e-platforms on intercultural dialogue
  • Promoting cultural awareness in the era of A.I.
  • The (Un)Expected impact of A.I. on intercultural management and cultural awareness.

Panel 5. Educational & Training Perspectives

Deadline:

Contributions (including an abstract of 300 words, title and a short professional bio in English) are expected to be submitted by accessing the official form, no later than the 28th of August 2025.

Evaluation results will be communicated to participants before September 5, 2025.

The conference will be held in Bucharest, at the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, Friday, on the 17th of October 2025.

Organizing institutions:

  • Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania
  • The UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • CCIIF – The Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Organizing Committee

  • Prof. Dr. Viorel Vizureanu – Dean, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (Romania)
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger – University of Regensburg; Chairman of the Scientific Board for the M.A. Program in Intercultural Management, organized by the UNESCO Chair, University of Bucharest
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Straub – University of Geneva; Chairman of the Scientific Board for the M.B.A. Program, organized by the UNESCO Chair, University of Bucharest
  • Lecturer Dr. Oana Șerban – Director, Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest; Manager of SMOC (Sustainable Management in Cultural Organizations)
  • Dr. Lilian Ciachir – Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
  • PhD. Candidate Andreea Vlad – Doctoral School, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

 Financial support:

The conference is supported by SMOC – Sustainable Management in Cultural Organizations (project supported by the program of grants developed to increase institutional performance in the University of Bucharest) & FSS GRANTS (University of Bucharest & Ministry of Education).

Financial information:

Coffee breaks and lunch will be provided by the organizers. Participants are encouraged to apply to their institutions for mobility grants, including costs of accommodation. On request, we can provide a limited number of rooms of the Hotel Academica, The Guests House of the University of Bucharest, offered at a preferential fee for the participants to the conference.

International Conference: Understanding Biodiversity. Philosophical Perspectives and Scientific Approaches – 27-28 June 2025

Understanding Biodiversity

Philosophical Perspectives and Scientific Approaches

27-28 June 2025

Friday, 27 June

Mircea Florian Conference Room; Google Meet Link: meet.google.com/axk-cmai-ufa

9.15-9.45

Registration of participants

Faculty of Philosophy: 206, Splaiul Independenţei St., 1st floor

9.45-10.00

Opening of the conference

10.00-10.30

Nicolae Morar, University of Oregon

Rethinking Biodiversity? The Challenge of Microbial Life

10.30-11.00

Ion Copoeru and David Mândruţ, Babeş-Bolyai University

Co-habitation with Large Wild Animals: A Phenomenological Research Methodology

11.00 – 11.20

Coffee break

11.20 – 12.20

Guido Verstraeten, Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, and Jeannine de Caluwe, GBS Brussels

Ecocentrism, Entropy, Biodiversity. Exploring the Use of Remotely- Sensed Earth’s Entropy Production to Reveal the Ecological Fitness of Forests (Keynote Presentation)

12.20-12.50

Elias Ifeanyi E. Uzoigwe, University of Calabar

Epistemological Foundations of Biodiversity

12.50 – 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 -15.00

Tinni Goswami, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata

Situating Biodiversity in Sanatan Dharma – Certain Glimpses from the Vedic Literature of

India and its Current Manifestations

15.00-15.30

Ioana Cristina Ciocoiu, University of Bucharest

Nature and Culture: Shaping Sustainability through Contemporary Art

15.30-15.50

Coffee break

15.50 – 16.20

Dina Barcari, Technical University of Moldova

The Anthropocene and the Biodiversity Crisis: Perspectives from Ecological Anthropology

16.20 – 16.50

 Andreea Nechifor, University of Bucharest

Sustainable Agriculture in Java, Indonesia. The Padi-Ikan-Bebek System

16.50 – 17.20

Denis Chiriac, State University of Moldova

The Potential of Cosmist Philosophy in Redefining the Human-Technology-Nature Relationship in the 21st Century

17.20 – 17.50

Aliousseyni Ly, EcoHarvest Senegal

A Study on the Sangomar Marine Protected Area

 

Saturday, 28 June

Mircea Florian Conference Room; Google Meet Link: meet.google.com/axk-cmai-ufa

10.30-11.00

Irakli Brachuli, St. Andrew University, Tbilisi

The Paradigm of Great Texts in the 21st Century

11.00-11.30

Anastasia Zakariadze, Tbilisi State University

Why Biodiversity Is an Ethical Issue?

11.30-12.00

Coffee break

12.00-13.00

Constantin Stoenescu, University of Bucharest

Justice for All… the Members of the Extended Biotic Community (Keynote Presentation)

13.00-13.30

Ihedioha Chimnomso Elsie, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Communal Democracy, AI, and Law for Biodiversity Conservation in Africa

13.30-15.30

Lunch break

15.30-16.00

Micah Thomas Pimaro Jr., University of Bucharest, and Esther Peter Achagwa, Qatar Airways

Can Biodiversity Thrive in a Risk Society?

16.00-16.30

Gelito Inacio Franco Sululu, Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network

Combating Human-Wildlife Conflict in Mozambique

16.30-17.00

Coffee break

17.00-17.30

Mari Silagadze, Tbilisi State University

Global Responsibility and Educational Aims

17.30-18.00

Ileana Dascălu, University of Bucharest

Spiritual Traditions and Cultures of Sustainability

18.00-18.30

Brendan Cline, California State University

The Value of Species and Ways that Life Could Be

 

Current environmental and ethical challenges to the preservation and governance of natural resources have generated numerous directions of research, among which: sustainability studies, conservation practices and community-based conservation, socioecological systems, and environmental justice. Despite controversies in the literature about the best suited approach to environmental sciences and ethics – biocentrism, anthropocentrism or ecocentrism – the relation between nature and culture, mediated by our shared values, continues to be the bedrock of research.

The concept of biodiversity, “coined at the intersection of science, applied science, and politics” (Maclaurin and Sterelny 2013, 6) carries within itself the idea of interconnectedness of all living things. Thus, it implies axiological categories guiding practical reasoning: what are the intrinsic and instrumental values we build into our understanding of biodiversity? Can we think of biodiversity itself as having intrinsic value? (Baard 2022) What frameworks would help addressing the pervasive and evolving relations between nature and culture? What challenges do the discourses born in the laboratory of social sciences raise for the scientific work on biodiversity? In addition to the role of communities in establishing practices that reflect respect and care for nature, or the intergenerational transmission of knowledge about the living world, the concept of heritage has also been used to bring together nature and culture and emphasize the dynamics between them. Landscape is such an example of “holistic system in which nature and culture co-evolve” (Wu 2010, 1149), which can also be understood in the light of “biocultural diversity”, with biological, cultural and linguistic dimensions “interrelated within a complex socio-ecological adaptive system.” (Maffi 2005, 602). Considering the in-built relational dimension of biodiversity, the main objective of this conference is to provide a platform for bringing together philosophical perspectives and scientific approaches to concepts and narratives, fostering dialogues between various disciplines.

We invite abstracts (300 words) for 20-minute presentations addressing theoretically- and empirically-oriented topics that enrich our understanding of biodiversity and of the various narratives about it, with a focus on the inter-relation between nature and cultural values. The event is available both online and in-person.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Theoretical frameworks, epistemological shifts and conceptual challenges to understanding biodiversity; human-nature relations; the role of scientific models in ecosystem conservation;
  • Conservation and management practices; governance of environmental resources;
  • Integrating approaches to biological diversity and sustainability;
  • Social-ecological systems; the role of communities in managing biodiversity;
  • Contemporary debates on biodiversity in environmental ethics;
  • Values, beliefs and cosmologies of communities in preserving biodiversity; knowledge, skills and practices concerning nature;
  • Nature and experience; phenomenological perspectives on biodiversity;
  • Conceptualizing biodiversity in Eastern and Western philosophies of nature;
  • The interrelation between biodiversity and cultural diversity; cultural landscapes; environmental aesthetics; biodiversity and cultural diversity in the context of sustainable heritage management;
  • The role of communities in maintaining biodiversity; the intergenerational transmission of environmental values; environmental education; biodiversity and democracy.

References:

Baard, Patrik. 2022.Ethics in Biodiversity Conservation. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Maclaurin, James and Sterelny, Kim. 2013. What Is Biodiversity? The University of Chicago Press.

Maffi, Luisa. 2005. “Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Diversity”. Annual Review of Anthropology. 29:599-617.

Wu, Jianguo. 2010. “Landscape of culture and culture of landscape: does landscape ecology need culture?” Landscape Ecology (2010) 25:1147–1150

300-word abstracts should be sent to biodiversityconference25@gmail.com by 30 April 2025. Please enclose a very short bio (max. 100 words) indicating your name, institutional affiliation and research interests in a separate document. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 20 May 2025.

Organizers: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, Professor Constantin Stoenescu, Dr. Ileana Dascălu, Dr. Lilian Ciachir.

Conference format: on-site/hybrid, 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.

Conference venue: Faculty of Philosophy, 204, Splaiul Independenţei, 6th district, Bucharest.

Participation fee: There is no participation fee. Certificates of participation can be issued on request after the conference concludes.

Language of the presentations: English.

SPOTLIGHT Summer School – Conceptual Seminar, 29 September 2025, Cinetic UNATC, Bucharest

SPOTLIGHT Summer School – Conceptual Seminar

29 September 2025

Cinetic UNATC, Bucharest

Partners

  • University of St. Gallen
  • New Europe College
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • University of Exeter
  • UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development

II SPOTLIGHT Seminar
More-than-humans in the semi-peripheries
A SPOTLIGHT Summer School seminar
on ways of seeing and being-seen-as other species

29 September 2025, Bucharest, Romania
Venue: Cinetic, UNATC (I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film)
Organizers: UNATC & University of Opole
Contact persons: Dr. Michał Wanke, UO, Dr. Anna Vlad, UNATC

Background:

The fourth edition of SPOTLIGHT – Summer school on documentary filmmaking in social sciences will be held in Bucharest on 21 – 28 September 2025.
The summer school is funded by the University of St. Gallen and co-hosted by New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study (NEC), Bucharest and “I. L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC), Bucharest.

This edition deals with audiovisual capturing of social phenomena in urban spaces in Central and Eastern Europe, such as identity of place (Opole, Poland in 2022), migration and diversity (Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary in 2023) and architecture and city dwelling (Bucharest, Romania in 2024) or more-than-human relations (Bucharest, Romania in 2025). Co-organized interdisciplinarily between visual anthropology, human geography, sociology and documentary filmmaking, it offers an immersive experience for the participating students from all over Europe.

For the second time, the summer school will conclude with a conceptual seminar held at UNATC on Monday, 29 September 2025. We plan to publish an edited volume as a result of the seminars. The deadline for submitting chapters is 3 November 2025.

Call for Papers:
More-than-humans in the semi-peripheries. On ways of seeing and being-seen-as other species

Semiperipheral status of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) creates path dependencies and renders knowledge produced in the region in an epistemologically handicapped position, further marginalizing the vulnerable voices, and especially those whose intersectionalities systematically drag them away from public vision or recognition. If humans of the non-dominant genders, races, ethnicities or classes are out of sight, then the non-human actors tend to be rendered invisible, or acutely misrepresented. Similar arguments and distinctions – nature vs culture, humanity vs animality – have been used to dominate others – both human and non-human (Mullin 1999) and can be said to have contributed to the climate crises we find ourselves in (De Castro and Danowski 2018). Other species’ relationships to humans, the ultimately dominant group is defi ned by neglect, coercion or exploitation. Also, their presence is often romanticized or aestheticized, depriving them of agency, let alone dignity.

Scholars argue for a transformative approach to urban studies that incorporates multispecies justice, which acknowledges the rights and needs of both human and non-human residents in the city (Wang 2024). The right to the city, traditionally focused on humanresidents, is also being reevaluated through a multispecies lens. Current research seeks to explore non-human placemaking in cities enabling the planning of multispecies-friendly urban policies (Van Patter 2022) and address the rights of non-human urban residents, advocating for their access to urban spaces (Singhe 2022).

Some multispecies encounters are undesirable, creating unintended, feral (Tsing 2015) effects of human activity – colonialism, segregation, hyper-inequalities. These agents are making their own agency known in a way that evokes disgust or detest. Another group of non-humans is anthropomorphised and enclosed in apartments whereas others appear only as already processed meat or fur. Proposing that human and more-than-human interests are not at odds, but can benefit from being considered together, through the lens of multispecies justice (Chao et al. 2022), we look for proposals on city dwelling, planning and inhabiting which serve multispecies interests analysis of multispecies marginalisations.

This seminar delves into multilayered epistemological injustice against non-human actors of the social life in the CEE. We seek contributions accounting for the years of neglect of non-human actors who have been under attack in the region, but also those under threat due to the populist backlash throughout the region.

Submission and timeline:

-Abstracts for the seminar are due on July 21, 2025;
-Submit 300-500 word abstract to michal.wanke@uni.opole.pl together with keywords and authors’ short bio;
-Notification of acceptance by July 28, 2025;
-Selected papers (ca 8000 words) are due on Nov 3, 2025;
-Expected publication in the series Interdisciplinary Studies on Spatial Dynamics and Marginalization in Central and Eastern Europe by Lexington Books is in late 2026;

There is no participation fee. Organizers do not provide catering or other services.

References:
Chao, S., Bolender, K., Kirksey, E. (eds. 2022): The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023524

Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de and Danowski, Déborah. “6. HUMANS AND TERRANS IN THE GAIA WAR”. A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2018, pp. 172-204. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004318-008

Mullin, H. (1999): Mirrors and Windows: Sociocultural Studies of Human-Animal Relationships. Annual Review of Anthropology, 28, 201-224. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.28.1.201

Shingne, M. C. (2020). The more-than-human right to the city: A multispecies reevaluation. Journal of Urban Affairs, 44(2), 137–155. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2020.1734014

Tsing, A. L. (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. 2015. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 331.

Van Patter, L. E. (2022). Toward a More-Than-Human Everyday Urbanism: Rhythms and Sensoria in the Multispecies City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(4), 913–932. https://doi-org.libproxy.unibz.it/10.1080/24694452.2022.2134838

Wang, J. (2024): Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15189.001.0001

Download the call as PDF.

Colegii noștri, Prof. Cristian Iftode și Lect. Paul Sandu, prezenți la cea de-a V-a ediție a Nopții Filosofiei, Timișoara, 13 și 14 iunie 2025

A V-a ediție a Nopții Filosofiei

Timișoara

13 și 14 iunie 2025

Ajunsă la a 5-a ediție, Noaptea Filosofiei revine la Timișoara cu o temă mai actuală ca niciodată: starea fragilă a democrației în fața conflictelor, populismului, manipulării informaționale și exploziei tehnologice.

În 13 și 14 iunie, timp de o noapte întreagă (și o dimineață), filosofi, istorici, artiști, sociologi, cercetători în AI și invitați internaționali de marcă vor deschide conversații provocatoare și lucide despre prezentul nostru democratic.

Peste 20 de invitați internaționali și români vor susține prelegeri, mese rotunde și conversații publice, desfășurate simultan în mai multe spații din Timișoara.

Detalii suplimentare și programul sunt disponibile aici https://institutfrancais.ro/timisoara/program-5/?fbclid=IwY2xjawK00glleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHoldQmzkXmiyhyq2oPw1s_T08Cvess7CFsOUtSGua_6f_HMQpEjYfjSGASz-_aem_5hqS5jFRs_acr41civyAnQ#/