Morning Session

Opening remarks: 08:30 (London) – 09.30 (Rome)

Giuseppe Ucciardello (Head of DICAM – Messina)
Rita Fulco (Head Messina research Unit – PRIN)

Panel 1: 08.45-10.00 (London) – 09.45-11.00 (Rome)

Panel 1: Cohabitation, rights and obligations
Chair: Valentina Surace (University of Messina)

Rita Fulco (University of Messina)

“Vulnerability, Discourse, and Politics: Judith Butler and Simone Weil”

Annamaria Passaseo (University of Messina)

“Pluralism and cultural conflicts. What kind of cohabitation is possible?”

Aisling Reid (Queen’s University Belfast)

“If He May Be Called a Man: Framing the Monstrous Irish from Gerald of Wales to Judith Butler”

Discussion

Break

Panel 2: 10.15-12.30 (London) – 11.15-13.30 (Rome)

Panel 2: Critics of violence

Chair: Aisling Reid (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Dominic Harkin (Queen’s University, Belfast)

“Mourning the Unrecovered: Islekel, Alareer, and Necrosovereignty”

Valentina Surace (University of Messina)

“Injurable Lives. Judith Butler’s reflections on violence and war”

Flash Presentation

Pantaleone Condello (University of Messina)

“Vulnerability and Power: Nadežda Mandelstam’s Ethical-Political Experience”

Noele Di Nuzzo (University of Messina)

“Beyond the armor. Vulnerability and Care in male education”

Giusy Mantarro (University of Messina)

“Vulnerability, corporeality and maternity in Emmanuel Levinas”

Discussion

Lunch Break: 12.30-14.30 (London) – 13.30-15.30 (Rome)

AFTERNOON SESSION

Panel 3: 14.30-16.15 (London) – 15.30-17.15 (Rome)

Panel 3: Politics of difference
Chair Rita Fulco (University of Messina)

Caterina Resta (University of Messina)

“Sui generis. Universal Vulnerability”

Silvia Benso (Rochester Institute of Technology, NY)

“Love without Fear: On Friendship and Sisterhood with Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler,
and bell hooks”

Elvira Roncalli (Carroll College, Montana)

“Living in Dark Times: Lessons on Politics from Arendt, Weil and Other Less Known
Women”

Martine Prange (Tilburg University)

“Judith Butler’s Ethics of Vulnerability, Mourning and Life”

Discussion

Closing Remarks: 16:30 (London) – 17.30 (Rome)

Rita Fulco, Annamaria Passaseo, Aisling Reid and
Valentina Surace