Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences Conference

 

Converging Dichotomies
An interdisciplinary approach to Nature and Culture

4 - 5 maggio 2017

Sala Crociera Alta di Giurisprudenza

Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milano.

 

Programma

4th MAY. First day - Philosophy session

9.30 – 10.30
Key-note Speaker: Prof. Richard McKirahan - Pomona College
The new Sophistry and the Importance of the Sophists in fifth-century Athens

10.30 – 11.00
Sebastiano Taccola - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Natural Chrematistics vs. Unnatural Chrematistics in Aristotle’s Politics I: a Problematic Dichotomy

11.15 – 11.45
Valeria Pace - University of Cambridge
Nature and culture in the pastoral mode: converging dichotomies in Daphnis & Chloe

11.45 – 12.15
Angelo Michele Mazza - Pontificia Universitas Antonianum
Original Sin and Natural Law: the influence of Francescan thought in modern philosophy

12.15 – 12.45
Marie Moise - Università degli Studi di Padova
From Nature to Culture and beyond: a feminist path

 

4th MAY. First day - Anthropology session

14.30 – 15.30
Key-note Speaker Prof. Laura Rival - University of Oxford
Alterity embodied: rediscovering the Huaorani Covade

15.30 – 16.00
Giovanni Nubile - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Hitting the mallet of dichotomies: a note on the use of “ontology” in anthropology

16.15 – 16.45
Anita De Donato - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca / Université Paris 8
Peasant or farmer? Politicized perceptions of the environment in the rural village of Wadi Fukin (West Bank)

16.45 – 17.15
Daniel Delatin Rodrigues - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
From conservation to restoration: the creation of nature and the implications to a new political ecology

17.15 – 17.45
Stella Papakonstantinou - Dilos School of Acting Athens
The Actor’s Body as an Agent of Transition between the Nature and Culture Dichotomy in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata

 

5th MAY. Second day - Geography session

9.00 – 10.00
Key-note Speaker Prof. Beth Rose Middleton - University of California-Davis
Geographies of Justice

10.00 – 10.30
Fausto Di Quarto - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Conflict and participation along the Seveso River basin (Milan)

10.45 – 11.15
Sabrina Sposito - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Changing geographies of cities and rivers

11.15 – 11.45
André-Marie Dendievel - Université Jean Monnet Lyon
Holocene anthropogenic and climatic changes revealed by macrofossil studies of peat sequences
from the Béage volcanic plateau (Upper Ardèche, S-E Massif Central, France)

11.45 – 12.15
Josselin Guyot-Tépahny - Université de Limoges
Contradictions of nature conservation in the Anthropocene era: an environmental geography of the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)

12.15 – 13.00
Prof. Mauro Van Aken - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Relatedness in the Anthropocene. Cultural denials and relations with the athmo/sphere

 

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