Annual Conference of the Association for Philosophy and Literature: ‘The Object(s) of Literature’
July 15-17, 2026, at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Participation with the paper: Francesco Campana, ‘Politics and the Novel in German Aesthetics around 1800’.
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Event: Libertà come autonomia
Public book discussion of the volume Freedom and Perfection:
German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx by Douglas Moggach.
Participants: Gabriele Schimmenti (Università Pegaso), Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa), Federico Di Blasio (Fondazione Gramsci Roma), Francesco Campana (Università di Padova)
Paper: “Post-Kantian Perfectionism and the Aeshtetics”
Organization: Gabriele Schimmenti
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From June 8-10, 2026, the conference The Power of Art: Aesthetics and Politics in Classical German Philosophy will be held at the Departiment of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psycology of the Univeristy of Padua.
The event will be held both in person and online. To attend via Zoom, please use the following link: https://unipd.zoom.us/launch/jc/84059901744
The conference is organized by Francesco Campana and Gabriele Tomasi. It is the second conference within the PolArt project, following the first conference, which was held at the New School for Social Research in New York in February 2025.
The event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101066460 (Project: PolArt – Political Art: Understanding the Function of Art in the Contemporary Social Space Through a New Interpretation of Classical German Philosophy.
The conference is sponsored by the Italian Society of Aesthetics and the PhD Program in Philosophy at the University of Padua, and is organized within the framework of the activities of the hegelpd research group.
PROGRAM
University of Padua
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology
June 8-10, 2026
The Power of Art
Aesthetics and Politics in Classical German Philosophy
11.00: Visit to the Scrovegni Chapel*
June 8, Sala delle Edicole
15.00: Reception
15.15-15.30: Francesco Campana, Gabriele Tomasi, Greetings and Introduction
Chair: Luca Illetterati
15.30-16.30: Giovanna Pinna, Aesthetic Universalism and the Aestheticization of Politics: On Schiller and Hegel
16.45-17.45: Mario Farina, Hegel: Art and the Critique of Modernity. The Hegelian Roots of the Politicization of Art
20.00: Dinner*
June 9, Sala Bortolami
Chair: Giulia Bernard
9.30-10.30: Kristin Gjesdal, Tradition, Critique, and Agency in Germaine de Staël
10.45-11.45: Francesco Campana, Aesthetics, Politics, and the Novel: The Case of Florentin by Dorothea Mendelssohn-Schlegel
12.15-13.15: Markus Gante, The Politics of Absolute Spirit
13.30 Lunch*
15.00: Visit to the Bo Palace*
Chair: Giovanna Luciano
16.30-17.30: Alberto L. Siani, Artcentrism, Eurocentrism, and the Stakes of Hegelian Aesthetics
17.45-18.45: Paul A. Kottman, The Attention Economy
20.00: Dinner*
June 10, Sala Bortolami
Chair: Elena Nardelli
9.30-10.30: C. Allen Speight, Inscrutability and the Aesthetic
10.45-11.45: Gioia Sili, Resisting Oblivion. Fanny Mendelssohn and the Female Narrative
12.00: Visit to the Padua Baptistery*
13.30 Lunch*
Chair: Giovanna Miolli
15.00-16.00: Italo Debernardi Cárcamo, The Ideal or Artistic Beauty and the Sense of Appearance in Hegel’s Aesthetics
16.15-17.15: Gabriele Schimmenti, Myth after Religion: The Politicization of Myth in Left Hegelianism
17.45-18.45: Gabriele Tomasi, Friendship, Love and Politics. On Hölderlin’s Quest for Community
19.00: Conclusion
20.00: Dinner
*Activities for speakers only
Seminar series: ‘Actualité de la recherche en philosophie allemande classique’ (academinc year 2025/2026)
May 20, 2026, École normale supérieure in Paris (salle des Résistants, 45, rue d’Ulm, Paris 75005)
Organization: Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak et Alexandru David
Discussion of the book: Francesco Campana, The End of Literature, Hegel and the Contemporary Novel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
PhD workshop ‘Temi e problemi della filosofia classica tedesca: Goethe e la filosofia classica tedesca’
April 28, 2026, University of Padua
Pariticaption with the paper: Francesco Campana, Weltliteratur: aporie di un concetto
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PhD and MA seminar in Feminist Theories (PHI615): ‘Feminist Philosophies and Greek Antiquity’ (Prof. Valentina Moro)
January 28th, 2026, Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
Guest Lecture: Francesco Campana, ‘The Politics of Artistic Representation’
Annual Conference of the Association for Philosophy and Literature: ‘Borders / DIALECTICS / Civility’
August 20-22, 2025, at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Participation with the paper: Francesco Campana, ‘How Worldwide is the World of World Literature? Weltliteratur, Borders, and Hot Air Balloons’.
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XXIII Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Aesthetics: ‘Estetica e Politica’
28-30 May, 2025 at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
Participation with the paper: Francesco Campana, ‘Art on the barricades: or, the end of art, but this time actually conceived as the possibility of its death’
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SoSe 2025 Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Francesca Raimondi (Critical Theory and Aesthetics).
May 3, 2025 at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Participation with the paper: Francesco Campana, ‘On Representation: Artistic Space as Political Space’.
International Conference German Idealism and Beyond.
21st February, 2025, at the New School for Social Research (Wolff Conference Room (D1103), 6 East 16th Street, New York City), from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Organization: Agnese di Riccio (New School for Social Research), Giuliano Infantino (University of Stüttgart) and Samuel Lee (New York University).
Participation with the paper: Francesco Campana, ‘Irony and Objectivity in Hegel’s Philosophy
with a commentary by Pablo Pulgar Moya (UDP)
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