Congresses

Villa de Leyva (Colombia) will be the host city of the fourth congress

Rome (Italy) was the host city of the third congress

“Beyond the borders of nihilism: the development of a philosophy of the future” was the third conference organized by the International Center for Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This academic event took place in Rome (Italy) on August 5, 2024.

The speakers of the third CeNic congress, and the title of their papers, were as follows:

  • Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa, Italia; USI, Lugano, Suiza), I margini del nichilismo e la filosofia del futuro
  • Alfredo Rocha de la Torre (Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja), Futuro della filosofía e ritorno dello stupore
  • Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia), L’impossibilità dell’ateismo: ripensare l’essere con Dio
  • Chung-Chi Yu (Sun Yat-Sen University) On Husserl’s Discourse of Cultural Difference and the Relation to Nihilism
  • Daniel Conway (Texas University, USA), “The Meaning of our Cheerfulness”: Nietzsche’s Provisional Affirmation of the Death of God
  • Gaetano Chiurazzi (Università di Torino, Italia), Esiti del nichilismo: dissoluzione o sytabilizzazione delle differenze
  • Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin, Irlanda), Sacrificing Nihilism
  • Rebeca Maldonado Rodriguera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), El olvido de la diferencia como nihilismo en Heidegger
  • Rogerio José Schuck (Univates, Brasil), A essência da técnica em tempos de tecnologias digitais: (Re)pensando o modo de ser contemporâneo
  • Stefano Bancalari (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia), The vanishing of borders as the fundamental experience of nihilism
  • Teresa Oñate y Zubia (UNED, Madrid, España), Nihilismo y Resurrección

Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the second CeNic congress: “Human Existence and Coexistence in the Epoch of Nihilism”

“Human Existence and Coexistence in the Epoch of Nihilism” was the name of the second congress organized by the International Center for the Study on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This academic event will took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on November 28, 29 and 30, 2023.

The speakers at the second CeNic congress, and the title of their papers, were as follows:

  • Adriano Fabris, Transformations of the Idea of Humanity in the Age of Technological NihilismPreobrazba ideje človeškosti v dobi tehnološkega nihilizm
  • Alfredo Rocha de la Torre, Sprache und Nihilismus Govorica in nihilizem
  • Dean Komel, Nihilismus und die unzeitgemäße Situation der Philosophie Nihilizem in nesodobna situacija filozofije
  • Damir Barbarić, Der Wille zum Nichts Volja do niča
  • Dragan D. Prole, Nihilismus der Nivellierung Nihilizem nivelizacije
  • Werner Stegmaier, Orientierung als Antwort auf den Nihilismus Orientacija kot odgovor na nihilizem
  • Žarko Paić, The Technosphere and Nihilism – Autopoiesis as the End of Metaphysics Tehnosfera in nihilizen – autopoeisis kot konec metafizike
  • Veronica Neri, Image, AI and Informational Nihilism Podoba, umetna inteligenca in informacijski nihilizem
  • Susanna Lindberg, Wounded Thinking of the Wounded World Ranjeno razmišljanje o ranjenem svetu
  • Josef Estermann, Progress as Barbarism. Epistemic Violence and Philosophicide of the West against Indigenous Cosmo-Spiritualities Napredek kot barbarstvo. Epistemično nasilje in filozoficid Zahoda nad domorodnimi kozmo-duhovnostmi
  • Chung-Chi YU, The Encountering of Cultural Difference Srečanje s kulturno različnostjo
  • Petar Bojanić, Moment of the Negative Moment negativnega
  • Ion Copoeru, Meaning, Autonomy and Interaction Smisel, avtonomija in interakcija

Pisa (Italy) hosted city of the first congress: “Forms of contemporary nihilism”

“Contemporary Nihilism Forms” was the name of the first congress organized by the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This academic event took place at the Università di Pisa (Italy) on 4, 5 and 6 November 2019. This first congress will pave the way for three more events of the same dimension: the next one will be held at Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia) in 2023; the third one in Rome (Italy) in 2024 and the fourth one in Villa de Leyva (Colombia) in 2025. Due to the covid -19 pandemic, the congresses scheduled in Mexico City and Melbourne (Australia) were cancelled.

The speakers at the first CeNic congress, and the title of their papers, were as follows:

  • Andrew Benjamin, Potentiality, Human Being and the Impossibility of Nihilism
  • Dean Komel, Die Geschichtlichkeit Europas in der Schatten des Nihilismus
  • Giuliano Campioni, In nichilismo europeo in Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Helmut Heit, Europa und die Frage nach dem Wozu
  • Jacinto Rivera de Rosales, Jacobi contra Fichte: la primera disputa sobre nihilismo
  • Seung Chul Kim, The Buddhist understanding of nihilism by Keiji Nishitani
  • Teresa Oñate y Zubía, La crítica del nihilismo en Tiempo y Ser. Heidegger repensando a Parménides
  • Michele Borrelli, La fine del mito e l’avvento del nichilismo
  • Rogerio Schuck, (Pós)modernidade e niilismo em tempos tecnológicos
  • Stefano Bancalari, Lived Experiences of Non-Sense: The Shadow of Qohelet on Contemporary Nihilism
  • Tsunafumi Takeuchi, Think Rationally But Feel Spiritually-A Nihilistic Dualism in Modern Japan
  • Werner Stegmeier, Ist die Demokratie nihilistisch?
  • Adriano Fabris, Nichilismo e indifferenza
  • Alfredo Rocha de la Torre, Fondamento o abisso (Abgrund)?: la interpretazione heideggeriana del nichilismo nella filosofia di Nietzsche