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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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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
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Debunking Patriarchal Idolatry: Diotima’s Epistemology and the Experience of Women Christian Mystics
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Workshop “Breaking Idols, Embracing Doubts. From Idolatrous to Sceptical Attitudes” 14-15th May 2024 Idolatry in modern times has been conceptualized as the annihilation of the hiatus between reality and the symbolization process of a culture, as Emil Fackenheim once wrote. In this regard, then, the efforts of Italian Second Wave
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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Internal Workshop, 20-22nd February 2024 The concept of experience (Erfahrung) was one of the focal points of the young Walter Benjamin’s first theoretical efforts during his years of cultural activism in the German Youth Movement. In 1913, he started his reflections with a Platonic distinction between “experience” and the dimension
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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies’ Internal Workshop, 8-9th November 2023 The concept of experience (Erfahrung) was one of the first theoretical efforts made by the young Walter Benjamin during his years of cultural activism in the German Youth Movement. In 1913, he started his reflections with a Platonic distinction between “experience” and the ideal dimension,
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference 2019 This research explores Benjamin’s reflections on the Novel, and the evolution of his perspective through the years. The analysis begins from the concept of the Novel as Benjamin defined it in The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism. Then it compares that perspective to its new


