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Cartea colegului nostru Cristian Iftode, „Foucault și practica adevărului”, în atenția „Revistei de filosofie”

de | nov. 2, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Apariții editoriale, Articole, UNESCO Chaire

Cartea colegului nostru Cristian Iftode, „Foucault și practica adevărului”, în atenția „Revistei de filosofie”

Cel mai recent număr al Revistei de filosofie găzduiește, în secțiunea „Opinii despre cărți”, un grupaj dedicat volumului Foucault și practica adevărului (București, Editura Trei, 2026), semnat de colegul nostru Cristian Iftode.

Grupajul cuprinde contribuțiile semnate de Claudiu Baciu, de la Institutul de Filosofie și Psihologie „Constantin Rădulescu-Motru” al Academiei Române, și de colegul nostru Paul Gabriel Sandu.

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International Conference: The Future of UNESCO Chapters: Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience. The 4th Edition – 6 November 2026

de | oct. 29, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Conferences, Conferinte, UNESCO Chaire

The Future of UNESCO Chapters: Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience

The 4th Edition

6 November 2026

The programme is now available for the 4th International Conference “The Future of UNESCO Chapters: Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience”, organised under the auspices of the SMOC project – Sustainable Management in Cultural Organizations.

The conference brings together participants affiliated with institutions in Romania, Serbia, Hungary, the United States, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, Egypt, China, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India, Venezuela, Germany, Iran, Türkiye, the United Kingdom and Morocco to explore cultural memory, heritage and intercultural resilience.

Join us on 6 November 2026 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Mircea Florian Amphitheatre, 1st floor, 204 Splaiul Independenței. Online panels will also be held.

Please see the full conference programme below.

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Organized under the aegis of the UNESCO Chair in Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, the annual international conference The Future of UNESCO Chapters: Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience 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, Communication and Business Administration, 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 a personal or cultural signifier, but as a strategic and ethical dimension within leadership and organizational change.

This year’s edition is inspired by the broader context of the 70th anniversary of Romania’s accession to UNESCO (27 July 1956). Throughout 2026, the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO is running an extensive anniversary programme under the motto “Celebrating the Past, Building the Future Together.” It is our belief that this celebration must be embraced also by our UNESCO Chair, which has devoted the fourth edition of this annual conference to a special topic, Cultural Memory, Remembrance and Intercultural Resilience. The present conference joins this anniversary agenda, reflecting on how cultural memory, remembrance, and intercultural resilience connect seven decades of Romanian engagement with UNESCO to the collaborative governance of the future.

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 · Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Cultural Memory: Challenges and Ethical Limits

  • Digital reconstructions of cultural heritage and collective memory
  • Virtual museums, digital archives, and “digital witnesses” of memory
  • Algorithmic bias and distortions of AI-generated historical narratives
  • Intellectual property, authenticity, and misinformation in digital representations of the past
  • Ethical governance of emerging technologies in memory preservation

Panel 2 · Intercultural Resilience in Geopolitical and Biopolitical Contexts

  • Migration, forced displacement, and the (re)construction of cultural identity
  • Conflict, post-conflict settings, and memorial reconciliation
  • Security, sovereignty, and the governance of cultural diversity
  • Biopolitical narratives of resilience among transnational minorities

Panel 3 · Educational Challenges in Memory Studies

  • Pedagogy of memory in academic intercultural environments
  • Human rights education and the memory of collective trauma
  • Training educators for diversity and interculturality
  • Digitalization of memorial education and accessibility
  • The role of universities and UNESCO Chairs in transmitting cultural memory

Panel 4 · Intercultural Resilience in Business Environments

  • Intercultural leadership and the management of organizational diversity
  • Resilience challenges within corporate governance frameworks
  • Intercultural communication and negotiation in global business
  • Corporate social responsibility and organizational memory
  • Organizational resilience in the face of intercultural crises

Panel 5 · Seventy Years of Romania in UNESCO: Legacies, Commemoration, and Future Trajectories

  • Romania’s accession to UNESCO and its evolving role within the organization
  • Institutional memory: archives, commemorative practices, and the politics of anniversary-making
  • UNESCO Chairs and national commissions as custodians and producers of cultural memory
  • From commemoration to strategy: lessons from seven decades for future governance and intercultural cooperation
  • Romanian contributions to UNESCO’s global agendas (heritage, education, sciences, culture) and their intercultural significance

Submission Guidelines

Interested participants are invited to submit, in a single document, the following:

  • Paper title and full affiliation
  • An abstract of the proposal
  • A short professional narrative CV

Please indicate the panel for which you are submitting.

Submissions should be sent to: oana.serban@filosofie.unibuc.ro

Key Dates

Submission deadline

1 October — title, abstract, and short professional narrative CV

Announcement of results

6 October

Conference date

6 November

Submission email

oana.serban@filosofie.unibuc.ro

 

We look forward to your proposals and warmly invite you to contribute to this multidisciplinary reflection on cultural memory, remembrance, and intercultural resilience.

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. PhD. Viorel Vizureanu, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

PhD. Lecturer Oana Șerban, member YAE – Young Academy of Europe, Director of the Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

PhD. Lilian Ciachir, Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

PhD. Candidate Victoria Tarnovschi, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

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 at the Hotel Academica, the Guest House of the University of Bucharest, offered at a preferential fee for the participants of the conference.

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This conference is an annual event organized under the framework of SMOC – Sustainable Management in Cultural Organizations (SMOC), Grant Agreement No. 10508/25.10.2024, funded through the Research and Development Project Fund “Grants for Enhancing Institutional Performance and Competences in Priority Areas” at the University of Bucharest, and is financed for Romanian participants exclusively by FSS GRANTS (University of Bucharest & Ministry of Education). Additionally, the two first panels are supported by the program BIOART – PN-IV-P2-2.1-TE-2023-0636, Biopolitical Art in the Post-Holocaust Age: Philosophical Perspectives on Aestheticized Testimonies, Politicized Aesthetics, and Bare Life, financed by UEFISCDI.

Înscrieri program CIVIS – Is There a Plurality of Natures? Intercultural Reflections on the Philosophy of Nature

de | oct. 22, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Call for papers, CIVIS, Scoala Doctorala, UNESCO Chaire

Înscrieri program CIVIS – Is There a Plurality of Natures? Intercultural Reflections on the Philosophy of Nature

The BIP, aligned with the Hub theme “Heritage and Global Epistemologies”, focuses on the following question: how can we gain a new perspective on nature, while deconstructing the notion of nature shaped by European culture, a notion all too often considered self-evident and scientific? Is there a gap between nature and culture, as European philosophy has argued for centuries? Or should we follow anthropologist Philippe Descola, who shows that in other societies this distinction either does not exist at all or, conversely, leaves room for the idea that there is only one “culture,” while beings differ in terms of their various “natures”?

During this interdisciplinary course, participants – philosophy and cultural theory PhD students from all CIVIS universities – will have the opportunity to work alongside lecturers from five different CIVIS universities on the “Is There a Plurality of Natures? Intercultural Reflections on the Philosophy of Nature” topic. 

By taking a phenomenological approach to explore the experience of nature, we will be able to determine whether, as Klaus Held suggests, there is an “invariant” of nature underlying all possible “worlds”, or if nature is merely a “worldly” phenomenon, as Martin Heidegger proposes. 

We also examine various philosophical perspectives ranging from ancient Greece to the present day, and from European to non-European philosophy. This enables us to understand the origins of the current concept of nature, and how different approaches can deepen our understanding.

We reconsider the gap between nature and culture by taking an intercultural approach. It allows us to show how ideas, cultures and traditions depend on their environment, while acknowledging the way in which they allow the environment itself to emerge like the one sustaining them, as the philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji argues. 

Thus, we bring into discussion the fact that “nature” appears always differently and that, instead of being a substantial, immutable reality, it is rather an interrogation, to which we, as humans, respond always in a different way.

To which questions and challenges of nature must our epoch respond and how do these challenges mirror our way of understanding humanity?

The course is part of a PhD-network we established amongst CIVIS-Universities in the field of Plural Ontologies and Intercultural Philosophy. The added value of the project consists of:

  1. a student-centred approach
  2. a research-based approach
  3. a unique scientific perspective: there are few specialists in intercultural philosophy in Europe, intercultural philosophy not being widely represented in the universities of the project. The course’s subject is relevant to broader European and global challenges. Our approach tackles both a cultural and philosophical understanding of nature, as well as current issues such as the ethics of our relationship with nature and human responses to contemporary environmental problems.

 

During the in-person workshop each participant presents a paper on parts of her/ his dissertation project, related to the class.  

Main topics addressed during the course

  • train students for the research by providing them with the opportunity to take part in academic discussions on specific texts and by receiving feedback from the lecturers and their fellow students both throughout the semester, as well as – and mainly – throughout the in-person workshop;
  • give the lecturers the opportunity to network with researchers working on fields close to their own, beyond the borders of their own university;
  • contribute to the development of the established CIVIS PhD Network “Plural Ontologies and Intercultural Philosophy”, bringing together academics and PhD students from several CIVIS universities.

Learning outcomes

  • getting answers and results with regard to at least some of the research questions and problems that the students formulated in the beginning of the class;
  • gaining the ability to critically engage with philosophical questions regarding nature, environment and interculturality and with contemporary themes like climate change and the nature/culture relationship;
  • the ability to work in an interdisciplinary group and to exchange cross-disciplinary;
  • the ability to present one’s own research in front of a wider academic public;

In addition, the course is meant to provide opportunities to network amongst different CIVIS-universities and to create a network of alumni.

 

Practical details https://civis-agora.widening.eu/offering/46/2316 

Înscrieri program CIVIS – From Art Nouveau to Art Deco: Europe’s Cultural Transformation and Its Lessons for Today

de | oct. 10, 2026 | Actualitate, Anunturi, Avizier studenti, Call for papers, CIVIS, Scoala Doctorala, UNESCO Chaire

Înscrieri program CIVIS – From Art Nouveau to Art Deco: Europe’s Cultural Transformation and Its Lessons for Today

Este deschisă înscrierea la programul CIVIS „From Art Nouveau to Art Deco: Europe’s Cultural Transformation and Its Lessons for Today”, organizat de Université libre de Bruxelles, în parteneriat cu Universitatea din București și Aix-Marseille Université.
Perioada de înscriere: până la 31 octombrie 2026
Perioada cursurilor online: 8–19 februarie 2027
Perioada mobilității fizice la Bruxelles: 1–5 martie 2027
Limba de predare: engleză (nivel B2)
Credite: 3 ECTS
Programul este destinat studenților de licență, masterat și doctorat, cu interes pentru domenii precum filosofie, istorie, arhitectură, istoria artei, management cultural, urbanism și patrimoniu.
Mobilitatea de la Bruxelles va include cursuri, întâlniri cu specialiști și vizite ghidate la importante obiective de patrimoniu Art Nouveau și Art Deco.
Responsabilă de program din partea Universității din București în cadrul consorțiului CIVIS: Lect. Univ. Dr. Oana Șerban.
Pentru informații suplimentare: oana.serban@filosofie.unibuc.ro
Informații complete și înscriere:
„Pagina programului CIVIS și formularul de înscriere”