Description
These constitute the core of the event. These smaller gatherings of pupils and teachers in different rooms happens simultaneously.
Pupils taking part in the workshops have to write a paper presenting their commentary on a philosophical text of their own choosing, preferably making a link to the theme of HYBRIDITY. The theme or topic of the paper may be chosen from one of the following:
Ethics
Theory of Knowledge
Politics and Society
Philosophical Anthropology
Other domains
The participant’s paper may consist of the following:
A substantial excerpt from a philosophical text;
A commentary on this text which should explain the main claim and question it tries to answer;
A counterpoint or counter-argument to the text’s main claim (this can either be the writer’s own reflections or another viewpoint from another thinker/field of study).
A paper can be delivered in either French or English. Each workshop lasts for 1 hour. There should be at least 15 min. for a plenary “question and answer” portion of the session. Each session is managed by a pupil chairperson (with the support of a teacher).
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Prof. Emiliano FRUCIANO10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Densité de population et degré de développement culturel : existe-t-il une relation causale entre ces deux phénomènes ? Un regard critique sur la pensée de l'ethnologue français Michel Leiris (1901-1990).
Description: Y a-t-il un rapport entre la densité de population et le développement culturel ? Les grandes villes sont-elles toujours les moteurs de la vie intellectuelle d'un pays...
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Prof. Louis MILLER10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Truth, Mystery, Ideology: from Plato to Marx and Back Again
Description: The idea is to make some suggestions about the relationship of three things: philosophy; religious questioning and belief; and both modern political ideology (taking Marxism as the central example) and the modern 'hermeneutic of suspicion' (Paul Ricoeur) with its pretense to unmask all truth claims as...
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Prof. Matthew PYE10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: When the world turns alien
Description: Global heating has pushed ecosystems towards the edge of a deep destablisation. Those who have seen the data quite rightly struggle to understand how human society could allow such situation to happen. After a brief recap of the science of climate tipping points, this workshop will consult different philosophers who found themselves inside...
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Prof. Cédric JULIENS10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Qu'est-ce que "habiter"?
Description: Qu'est-ce que "habiter"? On ne traverse pas une forêt comme on l'habite, on ne visite pas une maison comme on l'habite. Car derrière l'idée d'habitat, il y a celle de rapports de contenance et de subsistance : l'assurance, sur une certaine durée, de moyens de survie et de réconfort. Mieux : l'habitat représente une forme de mon existence. A...
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Prof. Charlie RENARD10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Soi et chez-soi
Description: Tout lieu peut-il être « chez soi » ? A quoi reconnaît-on le « chez soi » d’un autre lieu ? Qu’est-ce que le "chez soi" dit de soi ? Y a t il un soi sans chez soi ? Le « chez soi » est-il proprement humain ?
Les participants seront amenés à réfléchir au concept de « chez soi » à partir de photographies et de visites virtuelles.
Speaker:...
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Prof. Déborah BROSTEAUX10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Quitter son chez soi
Description: L’atelier propose d’interroger un moteur puissant qui traverse l’histoire de notre modernité : l’obsession pour « quitter son chez soi », pour se délester des routines et des traditions afin de vivre l’aventure, de se découvrir soi, de partir en quête de terres inconnues. En partant du personnage de Faust, nous explorerons les affects multiples -...
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Prof. Tom BOIY10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: From Gilgamesh to Gilgamos. Dwelling, thinking and culture in Mesopotamia and Rome.
Description: Mesopotamia is often seen as the cradle of our civilization. First the invention of agriculture lead to sedentarization, but also the invention of irrigation later greatly influenced settlement patterns. How this influenced thinking and culture in Mesopotamia is what we are going to...
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Prof. Martin STONE10/02/2023, 09:55
Title: Thinking and Dwelling: Does the milieu in which we philosophize influence the manner in which we think philosophically? Reflections from the life and work of Seneca the Younger (4BCE-65BCE).
Description: In the following presentation I propose to consider salient aspects of these rival conceptions of philosophy by way of an examination of the ideas of the Roman Stoic philosopher...
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