In a ceremony that will be held on October 19 in the Palazzo dei Congressi delle Terme Luigiane, Acquappesa – Guardia Piemontese (provincia di Cosenza), it will be awarded the Premio Internazionale per la Filosofia Karl-Otto Apel to Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris, co-founder and co-director of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This prize has been received by other recognized philosophers such as Gianni Vattimo, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Giacomo Marramao, Francisco Sesto Novás, Carmen Bohórquez Morán, Giuseppe Cacciatore, Holger Burckhart, Adela Cortina, Arrigo Colombo, Reinhard Hesse, Alessandro Pinzani, João J. Vila-Chã. The celebration of the prize will have as a prelude a lecture entitled “L’etica della comunicazione come critica della ragione comunicativa”, which will be carried out by professor Fabris.

*** For more information please visit the following websites:

http://www.centrofilosofico-karl-otto-apel.net/Premio_Internazionale_Filosofia_Karl-Otto_Apel_dodicesima_edizione.html

http://www.topologik.net/Premio_Apel_Filosofia_XII_edizione.htm

Award ceremony of the Apel Prize Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris

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Prof. Dr. Kim Seung Chul, graduated in physics from the Korea University, and who subsequently obtained his MA in Theology from the Methodist Theological University in Seoul (South Korea) and his PhD at the Faculty of Theology from the University of Basel (Switzerland), has recently joined to the International Center on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) in the role of researcher. Currently he is the director of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya (Japan) and professor in the Faculty of Arts at the same university. His main academic interests revolve about bioethics, christian literature and the bond between science and religion. He has been professor for more than twenty years in Korea and Japan.

Prof. Dra. María Teresa Oñate y Zubía, from National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain, who has as one her main academic researching topics the concept of Nihilism, as well as asthetics (of space-time) and hermeneutics, joined on October to the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) in the role of researcher. The Professor Oñate y Zubía is the director of the researching international group Onlenher: Ontology, Language, Hermeneutics of UNED, and currently work as a professor of the Philosophy Department at UNED.

Prof. Dr. Michele Borrelli, researcher of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), president of the International Philosophycal Centre Karl-Otto and the Karl-Otto Apel International Philosophy Prize, and current general pedagogy professor of the Humanistic Studies Department at the Università della Calabria (Italy), published recently “Metafisica e nichilismo. Il problema della verità in Martin Heidegger” (Topologik, No. 23, 2018, pp. 27-40), “Neuer Humanismus oder Nihilismus” (Concordia, vol. 71, 2017, pp. 3-19), “Hümanizm ya da Nihilizm. Batılı Paideia’nın Büyüklüğü ve Sefaleti” (Politeknik, No. 12, 2016, http://politeknik.de/p6865/) and “Humanismus oder Nichilismus Grösse und Elend der abendländlichen Paideia” (Politeknik, 12/2016, http://politeknik.de/p6868/).

The International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), in the role of co-convener entity, invites to the lectures cycle “Dialogosofía”, organized by the researcher groups GIFSE and KAIROS of the Philosophy School at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC). Besides the CeNic, this academic event will be supported by the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD), the Bank of the Republic (Colombia), the Saint Thomas University and the Juan de Castellanos University. In the attached poster it could be found information about the first lecture, which will be carrried out by professor Eric Pommier, on August 12 at 2 p.m., in the auditorium of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. Registration does not have any cost; however, it is required to register beforehand, by sending an email to: dialogo.sofia@uptc.edu.co

***For students coming from other cities it is workable to arrange lodging —at no cost—forthree days at the UPTC students residences. In case you are intended to do so, please send a message to email mentioned before (with enough time), on the subject “HOSPEDAJE dialogosofia”.