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 CONFLICT AND DIVERSITY. 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).
Title: Machiavelli and conflict: the persistence of the origin
Description: In Machiavelli's political reflection, conflict is not a pre-political residue to be eliminated through politics, but rather the permanent origin from which politics constantly re-emerges in view of an increasing conquest of freedom.
Speaker: Marco Mantovani studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Milan...
Title: A good kind of rhetoric: Recovering the lost art of dialogue
Description: Is meaningful dialogue possible in a world governed by competing worldviews and personal truths? The rhetoric of the sophist seeks to convince without truth, while Platonic rhetoric sees the search for truth as an act of love. Can this ancient debate speak to the way we approach conflict and diversity in the...
Title: L'indiscutable
Description: Je voudrais déplier un paradoxe : c’est dans les sociétés où l’on peut en droit discuter de tout que semblent se multiplier aujourd’hui les points où « on ne peut plus discuter ». Faut-il conclure avec stupeur, comme dans l’histoire du gruyère et des trous, que plus il y a de discussion, moins il y a de discussion ?...
Il est en tout cas tentant de voir...
Title: Conflicts in relationships: understanding intimate partner violence
Description: This presentation will look into the nature of femicide, as well as identify and reflect on so-called red flags in intimate relationships. The aim is to challenge common ideas of love and good relationships.
Speaker: Mrs Anastasia Balasi is ethics, human sciences and geography teacher at EEB2.
She...
