We are glad to give notice of the Summer School Nature and Culture: Between Classical German Philosophy and Contemporary Perspectives, which will take place at the University of Padua on 9-13 September, 2024. The summer school is organized in collaboration between the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (Naples) and the University of Padua, Hegelpd research group.

To take part in the summer school seminar series, the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies provides five scholarships. The scholarships are reserved to students who received their master’s degree after January 1, 2018.
Applications, including scientific reasons, telephone contact details, copy of identity card, curriculum vitae of studies, copy of degree certificate with grades obtained in individual exams and any certificates of language proficiency, should be received in digital format at the following address: iisf.borsedistudio@gmail.com.

Application deadline: September 1, 2024.

The subject of the message should include the call code (15/2024BF). The scholarship requires in-person attendance and the submission of a written final report (max 25.000 characters) to be submitted within 30 days after the conclusion of the seminar series. Attendance certificates will be released.

Below you can find the program of the summer school.
For further information please visit this link.

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Program

Monday, 9th

OPENING LECTURE

15.00: Welcome and introduction
Fiorinda Li Vigni (IISF), Luca Illetterati (Università di Padova), Luca Corti (Università di Padova)
15.15–17.15: Opening lecture
Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen): Nature Begets, Culture Nourishes: Steps Toward a New Humanism

Tuesday, 10th

NATURE AND CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES FROM CLASSICAL GERMAN PHILOSOPHY

Morning lectures
9.30 – 10.45: Thomas Khurana (Universität Potsdam): Altera Natura: The Anthropocene as an Aesthetic Problem
11.15 – 12.30: Luca Illetterati (University of Padua): The Reconceptualization of Nature in Classical German Philosophy

Afternoon discussion
Chairs: Giulia Bernard, Mattia Megli, Armando Manchisi, Giovanna Luciano
14.30 – 16.00: Seminar Discussion
16.30 – 18.00: Seminar Discussion

Wednesday, 11th

NATURE AND CULTURE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION

Morning lectures
9.30 – 10.45: Nadia Breda (Università di Firenze): Le nature e le culture secondo l’antropologia di Philippe Descola: Esperienze sul campo con l’approccio descoliano
11.15 – 12.30: Tarek Elhaik (UC Davis): Curating Anthropos: Another Kind of Listening

Afternoon discussion
Chairs: Ilaria Bussoni, Elisa Gremmo, Emma Lavinia Bon
14.30–16.00: Seminar Discussion
16.30–18.00: Seminar Discussion

Tuesday, 12th

NATURE AND CULTURE: AESTHETICS AND LITERATURE

Morning lectures
9.30 – 10.45: Maria Grazia Portera (Università di Firenze): Promises and pitfalls of naturalism in aesthetics. From the evolutionary framework to contemporary Environmental Humanities

11.00 – 12.30: Seminar Discussion
Chairs: Ilaria Bussoni, Laura Dequal, Alberto Merzari

Afternoon Discussion
Tour of the Exhibition (optional): Pierre Huyghe, Liminal (Venice, Punta della Dogana)

Friday, 13th

Closing Lecture
10.00 – 12.00 : Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota): Nature vs. Culture: Perspectives from Feminist Epistemologies