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Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025)

de | sept. 23, 2025 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, Interacțiune cu societatea, UNESCO Chaire

Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025)

Save the date: September 30, 2025, 10AM

Screening of short documentaries produced through the SPOTLIGHT Summer School in Bucharest on placemaking (2024) and multispecies relations (2025).

by

Michał Wanke, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole

Clara Kleininger-Wanik, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Opole; Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter.

Moderator:

Oana Șerban, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest.

An event hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development.

Save the date: September 30, 2025, 10AM.

The screening follows the international SPOTLIGHT Summer School on Audiovisual Capturing of the Dynamics of Place Attachment and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe. This program has been held in Opole (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), and twice in Bucharest (Romania), with financial support from the University of St. Gallen and co-hosting by New Europe College and UNATC (I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film).

Each year, students from across Europe collaborate in teams to develop short documentaries within a one-week intensive workshop. This event will present four short films created during the Bucharest editions of the Summer School. The screening (approx. 45 minutes) will be followed by a discussion (approx. 45 minutes) focusing on the conceptual and methodological dimensions of visual research in urban contexts. This year, the docs explore human and more-than-human relationships, multispecies encounters and urban ecology and we invite you to watch your city through their frames.

Please join us for a multimodal intellectual journey: to watch, feel, think, and talk together.

The films will be introduced and pitched by Dr. Michał Wanke, sociologist and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Opole, and Clara Kleinigner-Wanik, documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist affiliated with the University of Opole and the University of Exeter, where she is completing her PhD on film, multispecies relationships and Indigenous knowledge.

 

Conferința „Humanism & AI: challenges and opportunities” – 25 septembrie 2025

de | sept. 15, 2025 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, Interacțiune cu societatea

Humanism & AI: challenges and opportunities

25 septembrie 2025

Pe 25 septembrie 2025, între orele 15.00-17.00, va avea loc, la Facultatea de Filosofie a Universităţii din Bucureşti, în amfiteatrul ”Mircea Florian”, masa rotundă intitulată ”Humanism & AI: challenges and opportunities”. Moderată de conf. dr. Sorin Costreie, evenimentul include ca participanţi şi alţi profesori îndrăgiţi ai facultăţii (prof. dr. Mircea Dumitru, conf. dr. Constantin Vică) dar şi oaspeţi internaţionali: prof. dr. Jonathan McFarland de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid şi prof. dr. Evangelos Protopapadkis de la National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Mai mult, prin participarea asist. dr. Theodor Voiosu din partea Universităţii de Medicină şi Farmacie ”Carol Davila”, caracterul interdisciplinar şi aplicabilitatea clinică a inteligenţei artificiale ne invită la reconceperea umanităţii în contextul unei etici aplicate a actului medical. Vă aşteptăm!

Le XVIIe Congrès de la Société internationale d’études kantiennes de langue française. Kant et le problème de la méthode – 10-12 septembre 2025

de | sept. 10, 2025 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte

Kant et le problème de la méthode

Le XVIIe Congrès de la Société internationale d’études kantiennes de langue française

10-12 septembre 2025

Miercuri, 10 septembrie 2025

9h00-9h15 Primire

Moderator : Mai Lequan

Conferinţă plenară

9h15-10h15 Márcio Suzuki (Univ. Sao Paulo), Le langage comme une heuristique: Lambert et Kant

10h15-10h30 Pauză

Moderator : Henny Blomme

10h30-11h10 Marta de Mendonça (Univ. Nova, Lisabona), Kant et le principe de raison leibnizien

11h10-11h50 Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Academia română, Bucureşti), Wolff et Kant sur la pensée par soi-même et la méthode philosophique

11h50-12h30 Mai Lequan (Univ. Lyon III / SiEKLF), De la définition de la méthode à la pratique in concreto des méthodologies appliquées : distinction et/ou complémentarité entre description et histoire naturelles

12h30-14h00 Pauză de prânz

Moderator : Giuseppe Motta

14h00-14h40 Julien Lacaille (Univ. Nanterre), L’analyse des concepts de la raison chez Lambert, Tetens et Kant

14h40-15h20 Fandor-Manuel Lopez-Gagné (Univ. Montréal), La possibilité kantienne d’une configuration formelle de prédicats sous un concept dans un jugement en général

15h20-16h00 Gennaro Luise (Univ. Pontificală Sfânta Cruce, Roma), La logique générale et sa distinction d’avec la logique transcendantale. Sur la légitimité de l’usage systématique et dialectique d’une distinction méthodologique

16h00-16h20 Pauză

Moderator : Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet

16h20-17h00 Margit Ruffing (Univ. Gutenberg, Mainz), La méthode de la Herzensangelegenheit

17h00-17h40 Gideon Stiening (LMU München), Ästhetische Urteilskraft und Methode

Conferinţă plenară

17h45-18h45 Luc Langlois (Univ. Laval, Québec), La méthode et le système dans la Critique de la raison pure

 

Joi, 11 septembrie 2025

Moderator : Margit Ruffing

Conferinţă plenară

9h00-10h00 Henny Blomme (Univ. Liberă din Bruxelles), Kant et Newton

10h00-10h40 Gaetano Chiurazzi (Univ. din Torino), De la méthode expérimentale à la méthode transcendantale

10h40-10h50 Pauză

Modération : Gualtiero Lorini

10h50-11h30 Elena Partene (ENS/PSL, Paris), L’idéal et l’actuel : une distinction précritique entre méthode mathématique et méthode métaphysique

11h30-12h10 David del Bianco (Univ. din Milano), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Synthesis: Kant’s Adoption of Newton’s Method in the Inquiry (1764)

12h10-12h50 Alin Vârciu (Academia română, Bucureşti), The Contribution of Kant’s Transcendental Method to Metaphysics

13h00-14h30 Pauză de prânz

Moderator : Luc Langlois

14h30-15h10 Giuseppe Motta (Univ. din Viena), La déduction transcendantale des catégories chez Kant : méthode et contenus

15h10-15h50 Jean-Paul Paccioni (IHRIM, Lyon), Méthode analytique et méthode synthétique, comprenons-nous vraiment la difficulté du « procédé (Verfahrung) de la Critique de la raison pure » ?

15h50-16h30 Christoph von Villiez (Univ. Humboldt, Berlin), La synthèse du philosophe: intuition et abstraction dans la métaphysique kantienne

16h30-16h50 Pauză

Moderator : Márcio Suzuki

16h50-17h30 Gualtiero Lorini (Univ. Verona), Le « système » comme horizon méthodologique. Les problèmes de l’Architectonique kantienne

Conferinţă plenară

17h30-18h30 Günter Zöller (LMU München), Neither Metaphysics Nor Method. Kant on the Idea of a Transcendental Philosophy (online)

18h30-19h30 Adunarea generală a SiEKLF

 

Vineri, 12 septembrie 2025

Moderator : Elena Partene

9h00-9h40 Ousmane Mballo (Univ. Toulouse II Jean-Jaurès), Kant et les limites de l’introspection: quelle approche pour la science de l’homme ?

9h40-10h20 Diogo Sardinha (SiEKLF), Kant avant l’évanescence du problème du mal

10h20-11h00 Adrian Niță (Academia română, Bucureşti), La nature de l’hypothèse chez Leibniz et Kant

11h00-11h30 Pauză

Moderator : Diogo Sardinha

11h30h-12h10 Pedro Costa Rego (Univ. Federală, Rio de Janeiro), Objection critique et objection dogmatique: sur la méthode de l’idéalisme kantien dans sa réfutation de l’idéalisme (online)

12h10-12h50 Rodica Croitoru (Academia română, Bucureşti), La méthode analytique dans les Prolégomènes et son influence sur la substance

12h50-13h30 Thomas Detcheverry (Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne), Deleuze et la critique post-kantienne de Kant. La méthode analytique contre la méthode génétique

 

Organizare : Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet şi Alin Vârciu

SiEKLF/ IFPAR/ CEREFREA/ Facultatea de Filosofie a Univ. din Bucureşti/ ICUB (Humanities)

Pentru întrebări sau informaţii, vă rugăm să scrieţi la adresa : congreskantsieklf@gmail.com

Apel la contribuţii: conferinţa internaţională „Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction”, 9-10 octombrie 2025

de | sept. 9, 2025 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte

Call for Papers

Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction”

9-10 octombrie 2025

We’re delighted that Daniel Hutto (University of Wollongong) will be in Bucharest in October 2025, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest. Professor Hutto will be a keynote speaker in the “Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction” conference, to be held October 9-10, 2025, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (https://philevents.org/event/show/139506), and also at the international workshop ‘Theory or Narratives? New Grounds for the Theory of Mind’, to be held October 11-12, 2025 in Bran.

The conference “Enactive approaches to LLM and human interaction” is part of „The effects of LLM interaction on TOM in digital and virtual environments” ICUB grant in enhancing institutional performance at the University of Bucharest, gathering a research team from philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology. The event will take place 9-10 October, between 10-20 PM, local time for Bucharest, Romania, on October 9th and 09:00 -13:00 on October 10th. Regular presentations will be 30 minutes long, followed by 15 minutes long Q&A.It will have a mixed format, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only or face to face at the event’s location (if so, their session will enjoy a live audience, but it will also be streamed to remote participants).

We encourage MA students, as well as early PhD’s and postdocs, to contribute research abstracts related to the event’s topic areas. Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words. Abstracts will receive full consideration if sent before September 27th, 2025 at the following address: ubphilosophymasters@gmail.com We welcome papers that address (but are not limited to) the following issues:

Can large language models (LLMs) be genuine participants in social cognition?

  • What misleads us into thinking they might be (claims such as “LLMs have developed theory of mind”, “LLMs have more empathy than human agents”)?
  • Is it that anthropomorphism and distinguishing social interaction from social cognition are the wrong framework? Are LLMs linguistic agents? If not, what are they, models – and of what?
  • What does “talking” to a LLM mean?  What are the text outputs of LLMs?
  • Is there any shared ground between LLMs and their human interlocutors? Do such textual encounters realize “narrative practices”? Or does narration, just like talking, change meaning and apply more broadly with the emergence of artificial text production?
  • What are the costs and benefits of assuming LLMs are linguistic agents? How does this bear on “therapy” bots, and why could the “interaction” between a LLM and a person (not) be considered “therapy”? Do LLMS “care”, and need they?

All submissions will go through a process of blind peer review. (Please write your identifying details in the body of the email, and leave the attached abstract anonymized.)

We intend notifications of acceptance for the abstracts to be sent out on or before September 30th, 2025. The conference programme will be announced as soon as review is completed. For any questions, please don’t hesitate to email: ubphilosophymasters@gmail.com

 

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

de | sept. 9, 2025 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, UNESCO Chaire

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