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Proceedings

Proceedings of the first Annual Seminar (LUMSA University, Rome, 21-25 May 2018) “Contemporary Humanism Questioning an Idea: A Time of Fragility, a Time of Opportunity” [open access]

 

Proceedings of the International Conference “The Human Measure. Legacy, Conflicts, and Perspectives of Humanism” (Lumsa University, Rome, 9-11 January 2019) [open access]

Other publications

Humanism and Ethics (Revue d’éthique et de théologie morale, 303, 2019/3) edited by Stefano Biancu

 

Le retour de l’Homme (Transversalités, 153, 2020) contributions of Alberto Anelli, Stefano Biancu, Emmanuel Falque

Who we are

We are a research network and an international and interdisciplinary double-badged PhD program, sponsored by six universities around the world under the umbrella title “Contemporary Humanism”. 

 

The program, which is accredited by the Italian Minister of University and Research as Innovative, is articulated in four curricula: 1) Philosophy and Religion, 2) Education, 3) Literature and Cultural Studies, 4) Social and Political Studies.

 

Why the category of Humanism?

 

Humanism is a polysemic category, being at once historical, cultural and axiological. Historical, in that it indicates a precise period of intellectual history: that of Italian Humanism and its immediate heirs. Cultural, in that it is valid as a generative category of an entire civilization, hence from its ethnic origin – which took place within the geographical borders of Europe – but with universal claims, as the various universal declarations of human rights have effectively testified for some centuries now. Finally, axiological, inasmuch as it indicates a horizon of meaning and a constellation of values whose foundation rests on a conception of humanity as a task – and not as a simple fact – and in a recognition of this humanity as an essential and constituent trait of every human being, quite apart from the age and civilization that produced humanism. 

 

So is the category of humanism still pertinent in the cultural sense, as a synthetic and generative category of a particular civilization, and in an axiological sense, as an ideal regulator and a valorial frame of reference? Is there anything that can be called a contemporary humanism? What are their historical forms and their variations? Are they merely intellectual forms, or rather practices and institutions that bear a humanistic matrix in their DNA, and which, precisely for this reason, foster and condition our ability to understand what humanism is? Can we do without this category? 

 

Many challenges await us. Among them all, naturally, the one arising from the power that humanity wields today: the power to transform the world and humanity itself. This power, cognitive, technical and practical, does not contain within itself instruments and criteria to regulate it. Rather it is seen as an end in itself and used for its own sake. With respect to this power, so axiologically indifferent, we need a horizon of meaning and value. Can the category of humanism still offer a direction and a guide, as happened – many decades ago now – after the catastrophe of global warfare?

The Agreement

The program is based on an agreement signed in 2017 by the Rectors of four universities: Australian Catholic University, Institut Catholique de Paris, Università LUMSA, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.  Later two more institutions joined the program – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2020) and Université Catholique de Lyon (2022).

 

Management Committee and Academic Board

The program is led by a management committee (vice-Rectors level) and an academic board.

The latter is coordinated by LUMSA University.

 

 

Management Committee

Diego Cosmelli, PUC

Peter Hanenberg, UCP

Vincent Holzer, ICP

Gennaro Iasevoli, LUMSA

James McLaren / Philip Parker, ACU

Michel Younès, UCLy

 
Academic Board

Agrusti Gabriella, LUMSA

Bernasconi Andrés, PUC

Biancu Stefano, LUMSA (Coordinator of the Academic Board)
Bonini Francesco, LUMSA
Bourdin Bernard, ICP

Bourgatte Michael, ICP
Carneiro Sarissa, PUC

Cassidy-Welch Megan, ACU

Champion Michael, ACU

Chiuminatto Pablo, PUC

Chou Mark, ACU

Corradi Consuelo, LUMSA

Damiani Valeria, LUMSA

Duque João, UCP

Falque Emmanuel, ICP

Lestang François, UCLy

Lopes Alexandra, UCP

Marion Jean-Luc, Académie Française

Meneses Alejandra, PUC

Mills Kathy, ACU

Palazzani Laura, LUMSA

Papasogli Benedetta, LUMSA

Pesaresi Chiara, UCLy

Squarzina Anna Isabella, LUMSA
Tognon Giuseppe, LUMSA

Treviño Villarreal Ernesto, PUC

 

Former Members

Ávila Natalia, PUC

Alvarado José Tomás, PUC

Gaune Rafael,  PUC

Hillel Margot, ACU

Jorge Ana, UCP
Lasida Elena, ICP

Moog François, ICP

Ossandón Widow María Magdalena, PUC

Page Olof, PCU

Polanco Rodrigo, PUC

Rolle Claudio, PUC

Roose Joshua, ACU

Turner Bryan, ACU

Vaz Carvalho Jorge, UCP

Verdugo Fernando, PUC

Widow Lira Felipe, PUC

Current Students

 

2018-2021

Connelly William – Philosophy and Religion

 

2019-2022

Boscolo Alessandra – Education

Schwibach Sebastian – Philosophy and Religion

Zani Gian Vito – Philosophy and Religion

 

2020-2023

Acharya Rajat  – Philosophy and Religion

Benedetti Filippo – Literature and Social Sciences

Conti Silvia  – Philosophy and Religion

Deketekaere Nikolaas  – Philosophy and Religion

Herzog Christophe  – Literature and Social Sciences

López Gonzalez Dany – Education

 

2021-2024

Bianco Pierangelo – Philosophy and Religion

Clinton Alec – Philosophy and Religion

Fioretti Francesca – Education

Sabato Cecilia – Education

Tassella Marco – Philosophy and Religion

 

2022-2025

Bauer Victoria – Philosophy and Religion
Benassi Cecilia  – Philosophy and Religion
Rudari Federico – Literature and Culture Studies
Steinmann Jan Juhani – Philosophy and Religion
Supiot Jérémie – Philosophy and Religion
Trottmann-Calame Gael – Philosophy and Religion
Vizzani Costanza – Philosophy and Religion

 

 

 

PhD Alumni

 

Anelli Alberto – Education (LUMSA/ICP)

Caccioppola Federica – Education (LUMSA/ACU)

Cambria Domenico – Philosophy and Religion (ICP/LUMSA)

Chironi Giacomo – Philosophy and Religion (LUMSA)

Culcasi Irene – Education (PUC/LUMSA)

Drapało Kamila – Philosophy and Religion (ACU/LUMSA)

Rodríguez Baños Jeyver – Philosophy and Religion (PUC/ACU)

Simeoni Francesca – Philosophy and Religion (LUMSA/ICP)

Torchiaro Aldo – Literature and Social Sciences (LUMSA/PUC)

Vetuli Alessandro – Philosophy and Religion (LUMSA/ICP)

International Conference “The Human Measure”

International Conference “The Human Measure. Legacy, Conflicts, and Perspectives of Humanism” (Lumsa University, Rome, 9-11 January 2019)

 

  • Conference Program
  • Proceedings [open access]

 

2020 Annual Seminar

 

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the third annual seminar, which should have taken place at the Melbourne campus of Australian Catholic University in September 2020, has been canceled. Instead, different local initiatives will be planned by the partner universities.

 

LUMSA University, in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, organaised a doctoral seminar on Pandemic – an intellectual challenge which took place – as Webinar and and in-Person event – on September 10-11.

 

Watch the video of the Seminar

 

The poster

 

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2019 Paris annual Seminar

The second annual seminar took place at Institut Catholique in Paris (May 20-24 2019) under the title “Tradition et innovation dans l’humanisme contemporain”.

 

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