Caterina Diotto
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paper to be presented at the conference On Trial: Claiming Feminist Justice in Dark Times. Between Law, Testimony, and Politics, organised by “Hannah Arendt” Center in collaboration with SAFI Network (SOCIETAS APERTA FEMINORUM IN IURIS TEORIA), 3-4 December 2026 Find the full programme here. This paper aims firstly to highlight the issues of the current…
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ILAe – International Lexycon of Aesthetics A critical practice that investigates representations of non-human entities and their relationships with humans in literature. The term is commonly used without “literary” in all the aforementioned five languages, unless the context requires the field of study to be specified. The prefix “eco” derives from “ecology”, understood both as…
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Paper presented at ICA2026 – 23rd International Congress of Aesthetics, “Aesthetics Today”, Prešov, Slovakia, 20-24 July 2026 Abstract The fields of ecocriticism and intermediality have seen a growing interest for aesthetic phenomena that see literary elements intertwined with natural environments. The hiking trail represents a special form of human-nature relationship, and a phenomenon that has…
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The hiking trail represents one of the many shapes took by the relationship between the human and what in the Western cultures has been called ‘Nature’ – and which I prefer to refer to as ‘non-human’ to avoid the implicit conceptualization outlined by Philippe Descola in Beyond Nature and Culture[1] – during the centuries. A…
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‘Captioned Landscapes’ is the first comprehensive monograph on intermedial combinations between writing and natural environments. Writing is traditionally considered as a distinctive sign of the human; interrogating its interactions with the world beyond the human means questioning its presumed centrality and separateness. The multiple angles from which these combinations are studied in this two-volume anthology…
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6th Annual Conference SWIP Italia “Prospettive femministe sul potere” (Feminist perspectives on Power), Pavia 13th-14th November 2025. I will bring the conference on Antimeridionalism and Femminismo Terrone presented at the Braga Meetings back in Italy. Photographer: Serra Utkum İkiz su Unsplash
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What we are as humans is a question we will never stop answering. If a definitive answer cannot be given, we could, however, analyse how the question has changed in contemporary times, and especially how it has returned to the centre of attention in recent decades. The way in which we question ourselves today is…
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15th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy 2025, 25th-27th June 2025, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal When speaking of migration, one generally assumes a separation, between a geographical-cultural place of departure and one of arrival; a temporal succession, between the definition of a border and the movement of people; a verticality, in power relations.…
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Invited entry for Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, De Gruyter Brill, Berlin, Germany. Expected publication: 2026 Photographer: Caterina Diotto, my library
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International Walter Benjamin Conference 2025, “Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution”, International Walter Benjamin Society, Società italiana Walter Benjamin, 17th-20th September 2025. Benjamin’s relationship with women colours his philosophy from his earliest writings to the end of his life, reflected in the many – often crucial and usually subversive – roles that different images of the…
