Guest speakers

is an Emeritus Full Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia (Spain). He conducted research at the Universities of Munich, Bonn, Frankfurt, St. Gallen and Notre Dame. He is a member of the ÉTNOR Foundation (for the ethics of business and organisations), the Xavier Zubiri Research Seminar and the International Network of Discourse Ethics. His publications include the following books: El crepúsculo de la metafísica (Barcelona, Anthropos, 1988), El poder de la mentira (Madrid: Tecnos, 1997), Horizontes de economía ética (Madrid: Tecnos, 2004), Ética hermenéutica (Madrid: Tecnos, 2006), Intimidad corporal y persona humana (Madrid: Tecnos, 2019) and Nietzsche frente a Habermas. Genealogías de la razón (Madrid: Tecnos, 2021).

is Coordinating Professor of the Polytechnical Institute of Tomar, UNESCO Chair of Humanities and Integrated Cultural Management of the Territory, and Deputy Director of the Geosciences Center (FCT network). He is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History, Lisbon Academy of Sciences and Europaea. He’s the President of the International Council of Philosophy and Human Sciences. He authored ca. 90 books and 300 papers stemming from projects in archaeology, heritage management and territory management in Europe, Africa and Latin America. He is also Vice-President of HERITY International and Director of the Mação Museum, as well as member of the board of UNESCO’s BRIDGES program.

is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra (CECH). She is involved in the transnational Luso-Brazilian project DIAITA: Lusophone Food Heritage. She serves as Deputy Director of the master's programme in Food: Sources, Culture and Society and as Director of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at FLUC.

is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, member of the Institut de France and co-editor of the journal Multitudes, and recently co-directed with Enrico Campo the volume Politics of Curiosity. Alternatives to the Attention Economy (Routledge, 2024), after having published Altermodernités des Lumières (Seuil, 2022), Faire avec. Conflits, coalitions, contagions (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2021), Générations collapsonautes (Seuil, 2020, in collaboration with Jacopo Rasmi), Mediarchy (Polity Press, 2019), Contre-courants politiques (Fayard, 2018), The Ecology of Attention (Polity Press, 2016). His articles are in open access on his website www.yvescitton.net.

is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Sharjah. He is the co-editor of three books in Critical Social Theory: Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury), Modernity and Critique: Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s Macro-Social Theory (Routledge) and Democratizing Critique: Social and Political Philosophy After James Bohman (forthcoming, Routledge). His work appears in the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Critical Horizons, and Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness, among others. He is currently working on a forthcoming 2-volume monograph (Palgrave MacMillan) that articulates an “appropriative” approach to Critical Theory out of a social-ontological reading of Being and Time titled, Re-thinking the Sociality of the Self: The Emancipatory Project of Being & Time (Volume 1) and Authentic Selfhood and the Possibility of an Individualizing Sociality: The Emancipatory Project of Being & Time (Volume 2), respectively.

is Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her fields of expertise are Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Utopian Studies and the Environmental Humanities. Her most recent book is States of Grace: Utopia in Brazilian Culture (SUNY UP, 2018) and her most recent co-edited book is The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (Synergetic, 2021). She currently heads the European Research Council Consolidator project “ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin” and co-coordinates the Gerda Henkel Foundation funded project “Resilient Forest Cities: Utopia and Development in the Modern Amazon.”

is professor emeritus for philosophy of religion, Leiden University, and for philosophy of the humanities, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He also served as dean of its school of humanities and digital sciences. He has an advanced degree in theoretical physics and earned doctorates in religious studies and philosophy. He is academic secretary for humanities and social sciences of the Royal Holland Society for the Sciences and Humanities (KHMW, 1752). Among his publications are What Are the Humanities for? (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates (Routledge, 2010).

He is Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science at the University of Coimbra.

He is Full Professor of Classical Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies.

His main areas of interest are ancient history, Greek law and political theory, theatre pragmatics and the ancient novel. He also has a strong interest in digital humanities.

She has been Rector of Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa since March 2018.

She was Minister of Education in the 17th Constitutional Government between 2005 and 2009.

She chaired the Science and Technology Observatory of the Ministry of Science and Technology between 1996 and 2003.

She has been a researcher at CIES-Iscte (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology) since 1986, where, among other positions, she was a member of the Board of Directors (1989-96).

She is the author of several published works, particularly in the areas of Sociology of Professions, Information Society and Public Policies.

Isabel Maria De Oliveira Capeloa Gil has been Rector of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) and President of the UCP Foundation since 2016. In 2018 she was elected President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC). She is Professor of German Studies and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Human Sciences of UCP. She is a board member of the European Women Rectors Association (EWORA) and a non-executive director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Pope Francis appointed her to the Scientific Council of the Holy See's Higher Education Accreditation Agency (AVEPRO) and as a consultant to the Holy See's Congregation for Catholic Culture and Education. Isabel Gil is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Edmond de Rothschild Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of AmCham (Portugal) and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Boston College, as well as by the Australian Catholic University and ICP in Paris. She is the author of more than 140 publications, spanning the fields of cultural theory, interart studies, visual culture, culture and conflict. In 2023, she was considered by Forbes to be one of the most influential women on the list of personalities over 50.