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Fifty (+1) years after the publication of the essay Dalla parte delle bambine, internationally regarded as a manifesto of feminist pedagogy, the research centers Arendt, Genie, and PoliTeSSe are organizing…

To support the development, design, and creation of an archive of Adriana Cavarero’s writings, the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies offers an internship opportunity for 1 student enrolled in…

The book tour for “Donna si nasce” continues! Adriana Cavarero and Olivia Guaraldo presented their latest work at the Women’s Bookstore in Milan.

The Arendt Center participated in Job Orienta, at the Puglia Region Pavilion, for the presentation of the book “Studiare e vivere in città accoglienti e sostenibili. La strategia di Puglia regione…

On November 27, the Arendt Center participated in the Urban Planning Committee of the Municipality of Verona to present the University of Verona’s research projects on public spaces and urban…

We would like to highlight an engaging dialogue with Adriana Cavarero focusing on the themes of “Gender, Sex, and Feminism.” The event will take place on November 15 at 5:00…

In recent years, the field of city analysis, urban transformations, and the consequent changes in political action has become a key focus for the Arendt Center. Last year, we engaged…

DIVENIRE CITTA’. Vita e progettazione urbana What is the relationship between life and urban design? The increasingly rapid and complex evolution of urban centers and the networks they are part…

On Friday, October 25, in the Caprioli Auditorium, the film “La Scuola” by Daniele Lucchetti was screened in the presence of the director, who engaged in a discussion with Giacomo…

We invite you to attend the event “Politica, guerra e violenza: le prospettive di Hannah Arendt e Andrea Caffi” in Aula 1, Via Sant’Antonio (Milan) on November 14, 2024, to…

Full call for applications: Call for Abstracts – Arendtian Counciliarism To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s passing, the Arendtian Counciliarism: Visions and Care for Democracy seminar will be…

We are pleased to share the news of the launching of the Hannah Arendt Consortium on Crisis and Political Transformation at the University of Cambridge. As “Hannah Arendt Center for…

On births, cultural wars, and feminist struggles. An essential book to navigate the feminist debate, to bring to light the lost treasure of difference feminism, and to cast a gaze…

Today at ICI in Berlin, we will discuss vulnerability, after the pandemic and amidst the war. An event that is primarily the result of generative relationships among young philosophers, initiated…

Tonight at 8:30 PM, Aula Caprioli University of Verona We will have guests: Stefano Levi della Torre and Nico Piro Israel and Palestine. Is it still possible to talk about…

We conclude the conference series on the city by discussing Verona with the Deputy Mayor of the City of Verona, Barbara Bissoli, and the COCAI association. This occasion will be…

For the last meeting of the VeronaEuropa Festival, we will discuss feminism and the right to abortion. The debate, organized by the interns of the Bachelor’s degree in Strategic Studies,…

Tomorrow, as part of the Europa Festival, we invite Nadia Urbinati from Columbia University to discuss the reasons for and the future of Europe. Joining her in the discussion will…

We are happy to invite you to tomorrow’s meeting, May 8, 2024, with the Deputy Mayor of Mariupol, Dénis Kochubei, as part of the Verona Europa festival. On this occasion,…

Today, after the 4 PM meeting with Giorgio Vasta at Aula SMT.11 in Santa Marta, we will move to the Palazzo della Gran Guardia at 9 PM for the start…

We are very happy to host for the penultimate meeting of Città e Libertà, the series of discussions on the city organized in collaboration with COCAI and Contemporanea, one of…

Today, at the Sala Arazzi of the Municipality of Verona, we presented the program for the Verona Èuropa festival. It is a rich program, featuring dozens of events taking place…

We would like to highlight the publication of these two volumes in the “Polis” series by Edizioni Ets, directed by Adriana Cavarero, Marco Geuna, and Pier Paolo Portinaro: Daniele Bassi,…

Two esteemed guests will be with us: Giovanni Caudo, full professor of urban planning at Roma Tre University, and Barbara Mezzaroma, a Roman entrepreneur. The meeting will be held at…

After the massacre on October 7 and the war against Gaza, there have been many initiatives that, as the Hannah Arendt Political Studies Center, we have organized or supported to…

The philosophical and political thought of Adriana Cavarero continues to spark interest outside Italy, provoking readers and scholars from all over the world. This is evidenced by a recent text,…

🎉 Tomorrow, Thursday 22nd, at 4 PM, in Aula Megalizzi, the meetings of the lecture series City and Freedom will resume. 👉 We will discuss with Carlotta Cossutta, author of…

To assist in the ideation, planning, and realization of the Verona Éuropa Festival, which will be held from April 27 to May 12, 2024, there is an opportunity for 4…

5:15 PM, Aula Caprioli, Palazzo di Lettere, Via San Francesco 22 A public meeting to inform and discuss the plight of the Iranian people, subjected to a repressive regime, with…

Together with other colleagues from the Department of Cultures and Civilizations – University of Verona, we have organized this rich series of events at the Lambertini Studio in Verona, bringing…

Monday, February 12th, 2024, at 5:30 PM, at the Circolo della Rosa, Via Santa Felicita 13, the book “WOMEN WHO BREASTFEED WOLF PUPS. Icons of Hyper-motherhood” by Adriana Cavarero, Castelvecchi,…

We remind you that the lecture series, organized together with Contemporanea and COCAI, begins this Thursday, February 1, at 6 PM, at Spazio Baleno in Verona. We will discuss, along…

To celebrate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the University of Verona, Center for European Studies, and the Hannah Arendt Study Center, in collaboration with the Municipality of Verona, proposes an event…

Seppur il conflitto russo-ucraino e la conseguente crisi energetica rimangano il fulcro del dibattito internazionale, la lotta al terrorismo non è affatto terminata. A più di 20 anni dall’11 settembre,…

We are thrilled to receive and to share the news that in the spring the Hannah Arendt Circle, that we hosted in Verona last summer, will meet in person at…

Seminar LAW AND THE INNER SELF Sala delle Colonne Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche Via Carlo Montanari, 9, Verona Introduction Matteo Nicolini Associate Professor, Comparative Public Law University of Verona Speaker…

April 12th, 2023 3.30 p.m. (local time)   Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy with Shmuel Lederman (University of HAIFA) and Matteo Bortolini (University of Padua) Room: Aula Riunioni Palazzo Zorzi,…

“Common world” February – May 2022 Public Seminars   Martedì 8 febbraio 2022 “The world we have in common”. Hannah Arendt e il mondo comune Olivia Guaraldo (Università di Verona) e…

December 2nd, 2021 5.30 – 7.00 p.m.   Room: Aula Messedaglia, Chiostro Santa Maria delle Vittorie Lungadige Porta Vittoria, Verona   Public Seminar Cedric Cohen Skalli Director, Bucerius Institute for…

Reading Arendt in the Time of the Pandemic: Vulnerability and Democracy Wednesday, September 22nd 03:00 PM Rome 3-5 pm CET / 2-4 BST / 9-11 New York (via Zoom)  …

June 3rd, 2021 3.45 p.m. (ZOOM WEBINAR)   “Il nome più bello di tutti”. Democrazia antica e pensiero politico.   Book launch: “Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy” (Brill,…

SEVENTH SEMINAR May 7th, 2021 3.45 p.m. (Zoom WEBINAR) “Le ragioni dell’autogoverno” Salvatore Vaccaro (University of Palermo)   Link: https://univr.zoom.us/j/83302817326   Public Seminar

April 22th, 3.45 pm On occasion of Italy’s Liberation Day (76th Anniversary) Zoom Webinar “Dalla vita si misero fuori”. Parole e azioni di donne nella Resistenza Elvira Roncalli Associate Professor…

FIFTH SEMINAR April 8th, 2021 3.45 p.m. (Zoom WEBINAR) “Crisis Times through Hannah Arendt’s lenses and concepts”  Sanja Bojanic (Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia)…

FOURTH SEMINAR March 18th, 2021 3.45 p.m. (Zoom WEBINAR) “Il fantasma della sovranità” Ida Dominijanni (Philosopher and Journalist) Link: https://univr.zoom.us/j/87684232798   Public Seminar

THIRD SEMINAR March 5th, 2021 3.45 p.m. (Zoom WEBINAR) Sulla guerra e sullo stato: Randolph Bourne di fronte alla prima guerra mondiale Alberto Castelli (Università di Ferrara) Link: https://univr.zoom.us/j/83224785448 Public…

SECOND WEBINAR February 25th, 2021 “The theopolitical problem of Israel” Cedric Cohen Skalli (University of Haifa, Israel) Link: https://univr.zoom.us/j/88406024121 Public Seminar

“Cos’è l’istituzionalismo e perché ci riguarda” con Sandro Chignola (Università di Padova) Mariano Croce (Università La Sapienza, Roma) Andrea Salvatore (Università La Sapienza, Roma) Link: https://univr.zoom.us/j/88356172639

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Premessa, di Ilaria Possenti Hannah Arendt La libertà di essere liberi. Condizioni e significato della rivoluzione (1967, trad. Ottavia Nicolini) Richard Bernstein Ripensare il sociale e il politico (1986, trad. Daniele Bassi)…

Populism, democracy and political action. A conversation with Adriana Cavarero Watch the Video (Italian language)    Participants: Adriana Cavarero, Olivia Guaraldo, Daniele Bassi, Giacomo Mormino (Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University…

  We are delighted to publish the following text: Carlo Galli, “Carl Schmitt e il realismo politico”.pdf Carlo Galli is Honorary Professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna.…

    The Amor Mundi Podcast from The Hannah Arendt Center – Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: The Thrill of Democracy This is episode 7,”The Thrill of…

Calendar 4 dicembre 2019, Prof. Roger Berkowitz: Totalitarianism and loneliness 10 Dicembre 2019, Prof. Pier Paolo Portinaro, Il realismo politico  23 Gennaio 2020, Prof. Dimitri D’Andrea, Il realismo di Weber 27 Febbraio 2020,…

June 20th, 2018 11.00-13.30 Aula Messedaglia, Chiostro Santa Maria delle Vittorie (Veronetta) Emilia Mickiewicz (Lecturer in Legal Theory, Newcastle University Law School) The obligation to have obligations. Legitimacy of International Law…

The Academy of Finland has funded the international Project  “Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory” (2018-2022) directed by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies (“Narrare”) at…

June 7th,  2018 3 p.m., Room D4 (“Olimpia”) (Department of “Culture e civiltà”, 3rd floor  – Via San Francesco 22, Verona) Daša Duhaček (University of Belgrade) “Political Responsibility and Political Judgment…

“Ambiguità di Ulisse” Avril 20th, 2018 – 2.00 p.m. Room 1.6 (Palazzo di Lettere) A Conference held by Stefano Petrucciani (Professore Ordinario di Filosofia politica Università “La Sapienza di Roma)

“Anarcofemminismo e ontologia del transindividuale” A Seminar with Chiara Bottici (Associate Professor of Philosophy, New York School for Social Research) Date: March 2nd, 2018 Place: Aula Riunioni, Palazzo Zorzi (Lungadige…

February 22nd (2018), 2.30 p.m. Aula Messedaglia del Chiostro di S.M. delle Vittorie (Lungadige Porta Vittoria 41, VR) Seminar A. Castelli – Università di Ferrara (see A. Caffi, “Critica della…

Januari 18th, 2018 –  4 p.m. Aula SMT.04 del Polo Santa Marta (Via Cantarane 24, Verona) “Ebraismo e modernità: identità e differenza nel pensiero delle intellettuali ebree del Novecento” Participants:…

November 30th, 2017 ore 2.30 p.m. Room 1.6, Palazzo di Lettere (Via San Francesco 22, Verona)   Participants: Francesca Izzo (Fondazione Istituto Gramsci) Mariano Croce (Università “La Sapienza” di Roma) Geminello Preterossi (Università…

Giving Life to Politics. Conference on Work of Adriana Cavarero University of Brighton, 19-21 June 2017 (CAPPE – Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics) Keynote speakers: Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler,…

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BEYOND BORDERS: REFUGEES AND STRUGGLES IN EUROPE Mobilization, Solidarity and Political Challenges in the Long Summer of Migration International Conference Friday, May 12th, 2017 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Place: Institute…

FRIDAY, MAY 12th 2017  –   Aula 2.3, Palazzo di Lettere, 5 p.m. Simona Forti presents Hannah Arendt, “Karl Marx e la tradizione del pensiero politico occidentale”, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2017…

A Seminar with Piergiorgio Donatelli (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) “Filosofia politica della vita umana. La procreazione, la sessualitò, il morire alla prova della libertà” Participants: Lorenzo Bernini, Mariano Croce, Olivia…

A Seminar on Luca Baccelli, “Bartolomé de Las Casas. La conquista senza fondamento” (Feltrinelli 2016) Participants: Luca Baccelli (Università di Camerino) Marco Geuna (Università di Milano) Pier Paolo Portinaro (Università di Torino). Date: Thursday,…

April 6th, 2017, 2.30 p.m. Palazzo di Economia, Aula H (Via dell’Artigliere 19, Verona)  Alessandra Sciurba “La cura servile, la cura che serve. Lavoro e cittadinanza nelle migrazioni femminili” This…

Thinking in Dark Times. Hannah Arendt and the Crisis of Democracy 12-13/10/2017 – Olin Hall – 10th Annual Fall Conference at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York) “Above all, we ask,…

12/10/16 – “Egitto: dalla rivoluzione tradita alla dittatura di Al Sisi” Participants: Costanza Spocci (Nawart Press, MA International Relations and Affairs), Olivia Guaraldo (University of Verona) Date: Saturday, December 10th, 2016, from 10.30…

A book presentation on Frantz Fanon, Pelle nera, maschere bianche, ETS, Pisa 2015, translated by Silvia Chiletti, with an Introduction by Vinzia Fiorino. Participants: Vinzia Fiorino, Silvia Chiletti, Lorenzo Bernini Date: Wednesday, November 30th,…

12/05/16 – Davina Cooper, “Utopie quotidiane” [“Everyday Utopias”] A book presentation on Davina Cooper, Utopie quotidiane. Il potere concettuale degli spazi sociali inventivi, ETS, Pisa 2016 (Italian translation by Mariano Croce) Participants: Valeria…

A book presentation on Hannah Arendt – Kurt Blumenfeld. Carteggio 1933-1963, Ombre corte, Verona 2015, italian edition by Sara Rapa, with an Introduction by Laura Boella. Participants: Sara Rapa, Olivia Guaraldo Date: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016, 5.00…

Arendt Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to Arendtian Studies. It is particularly interested in the philosophical dimensions of Arendt’s work and how they might illuminate pressing issues in philosophy,…

Participants: Mariano Croce (Sapienza-University of Rome), Bob Brecher (University of Brighton), Annalisa Ceron (University of Milan), Clare Woodford (University of Brighton), Matteo Bortolini (University of Padua), Olivia Guaraldo (University of Verona,…