Questions of Subjectivity: Philosophy and Literature

Current Activities

2018/2019

I. Jornada de estudos sobre Giacomo Leopardi: «O pensamento poetante» 

Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa

16 November 2018

Programme

II. Reading Group / Seminar:

"Art(s) of Living. Contemporary Challenges to Philosophy as a Way of Life"

UNL-FCSH, I&D Building, Room ID 1.05

Wednesdays, 15h00-18h00

16 January
Bartholomew Ryan: Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought (Introduction)
 
13 February
Marta Faustino: Pierre Hadot, “Philosophy as a Way of Life” / John Sellars, “What is Philosophy as a Way of Life?”
 
13 March
Antonio Moretti: Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (part II, ch. 2)
 
10 April
Giovanni Tusa: Quentin Meillasoux, After Finitude (ch. 5: "Ptolemy's Revenge")
 
15 May
Vittorio Lubrano & Philippe Farah: Massimo De Carolis, “Towards a Phenomenology of Opportunism”
 
22 May
Workshop CultureLab
 
12 June
Luís de Sousa: "Existentialism", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Past Activities
 

2017/2018

I. Permanent Seminar: “Figuras da Subjectividade na Filosofia e na Literatura”

Schedule FCSH (18h00-20h00)

18/10/17: Gianfranco Ferraro, “Nietzsche e a fé: entre critica da metafísica e auto-subjectivação”
08/11/17: Giuseppe Lo Castro, "Leopardi maquiavélico: a reflexão sobre o agir social no 'Zibaldone'”
14/12/17: Paolo Stellino, “Para além da lei moral: morte de Deus e gratuidade de Feuerbach a Sartre”
31/01/18: Ana Kiffer, “Da perda de si às reivindicações identitárias de hoje - por uma critica-clínica da cultura”
14/02/18: Claudio Rozzoni, “Who writes? Who reads? The subjectivity between author and reader”
21/03/18: António Cardiello, “E.M. Cioran e o inconveniente de ter sujeito”
11/04/18: Pietro Gori, “Desconstruindo a subjectividade: William James e Ernst Mach”
16/05/18: Antonio Moretti, “Governing by truth in the form of subjectivity. Nudge and subjectivation”
06/06/18: Ana Falcato, “Vergonha e Autonomia em Shame and Necessity de B. Williams”

Schedule Associação Esquema Irreal (21h30)

22/02/18: Marília Muylaert (Clarisse Lispector)
29/03/18: Bartholomew Ryan (Søren Kierkegaard)
26/04/18: Antonio Cardiello (Fernando Pessoa)
24/05/18: Valério Romão (Virginia Woolf)
14/06/18: António Caeiro (Washington Irving)

II. Workshop: "Cuidado de Si: Perspectivas Antigas e Contemporâneas"

UNL / FCSH - Anfiteatro B1 0.05

23 March 2017

Programme

III. Workshop: “The phantasy-subject. Phenomenology of the aesthetic experience” 
(Co-organized with CultureLab’s research group “Arte, Crítica e Experiência Estética”)

UNL / FCSH - I&D Building, Multiusos 2 | Room 0.06

9-10 May 2018

Programme

IV. International Conference: “Art of Living / Art of Dying: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives”

UNL / FCSH - I&D Building, Multiusos 3

21-22 June 2018

Programme

2016/2017

I. International Conference: “Faces of the Self: Autobiography, Confession, Therapy / Os Rostos do Si: Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia” 

Centro Nacional da Cultura - Galeria Fernando Pessoa

24-25 Nov 2016

Programme

Actividade originalmente realizada no contexto do ex-AELab

II. Thematic Cycle: “Formas de Vida e Práticas dos Valores: Políticas da Subjectividade no Último Foucault”

UNL / FCSH - I&D Building - Room 1.05

Oct 2016 – Feb 2017

Actividade originalmente realizada no contexto do EPLab

III. International Conference: “Government of Self, Government of Others: Ethical and Political Questions in the Late Foucault”

UNL / FCSH - I&D Multiusos 2-3 

6-8 Mar 2017

Programme

Actividade originalmente realizada no contexto do EPLab

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2015/2016

I. Seminar Series: "Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy"

UNL / FCSH

Sep 2015 - May 2016

30/09/15: Bartholomew Ryan, “Orpheu and the Children of Nietzsche: Chaos and Cosmopolitism”
14/10/15: Antonio Cardiello, “Pessoa and his philosophical “ismos”: Neo-Paganismo vs Sensationism”
11/11/15: Humberto Brito, “Pessoa and the person-form"
14/12/15: Bartholomew Ryan, “Immanence, Vision and Value in Alberto Caeiro and Spinoza”
16/12/15: Gianfranco Ferraro, “Beyond confession: Ecce Homo and the transformation of the self”
15/03/16: Rui Lopo, “Fernando Pessoa and Portuguese philosophy”
13/04/16: Pedro Sepúlveda, “On the fragment: Pessoa, Schlegel and Novalis”
18/05/16: Marta Faustino & Antonio Cardiello: “Ainsi l'ouvre d'art est la suprême explication de la Vie”. The aesthetic ideal of ideal of Nietzsche and Pessoa.

II. Seminar Series: “Ethics and Subjectivity”

UNL / FCSH

Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

21/10/15: Luís de Sousa, "Tempo e Subjectividade na Fenomenologia da Percepção de Merleau-Ponty"
18/11/15: Gianfranco Ferraro, "O risco da verdade. Leituras da parresia no último Foucault"
04/12/15: Marta Faustino, "Nietzsche on Therapy and Anti-Therapy"
28/01/16: Luís de Sousa, "Problemas de intersubjectividade"
17/02/16: Ana Falcato, "Uma leitura ética da obra de J.M.Coetzee"
18/03/16: Gabriele De Angelis, "Peter Handke, A Angústia do Guarda-Redes Antes do Penalty"
11/04/16: Bartholomew Ryan, "Before and After Ethics: Kierkegaard's Knight, Nietzsche's Antichrist, and the Wanderer"
16/05/16: Antonio Cardiello, "Ética e humanismo em Fernando Pessoa e Vicente Ferreira da Silva"

III. International Conference: “Intersubjectivity and Values: Phenomenological Perspectives”

UNL / FCSH - I&D Multiusos 2 

14-15 June 2016

Programme

Actividade originalmente realizada no contexto do EPLab

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2014/2015

I. Reading Group: Michel Foucault, A Hermenêutica do Sujeito

FCSH - I&D Building - Room 0.07

Sep 2015 - June 2016

II. International Conference: “The Plurality of the Subject and the Crisis of Modernity / A Pluralidade do Sujeito e a Crise da Modernidade”

Casa Fernando Pessoa

4-6 Feb 2015

Programme

Actividade originalmente realizada no contexto do ex-AELab