Seminar Series Programm and Schedules

Programme

Draft 04/02/2025

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1^st Session – 2.30 pm (London) – 19^th March 2025:

• Caroline Elkins, Harvard University, USA – "Legalized Lawlessness: Violence and the End of the British Empire."
• Max Silverman, University of Leeds, United Kingdom – “Concentrationary violence and the everyday: The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023).”

2^nd Session – 2.30 pm - 23^rd April 2025:

• Lea David, University College, Dublin – “On personal items found in places of atrocity: From trauma to ideology.”
• Siniša Malešević, University College, Dublin – “Why do Soldiers Kill? The Emotional Dynamics on the Battlefield. ”

3^rd Session – 2.30 pm - 21^st May 2025:

• Oliver Richmond, University of Manchester, United Kingdom – “Artpeace: Validating Power, Mobilising Resistance, and Imagining Emancipation”
• Diana Soeiro, Iscte-IUL, Portugal – “Reflections on «No Other Land» (2024): Can films contribute to regulate conflicts?”

4^th Session – 2.30 pm - 18^th June 2025:

• Johanna Mannergren, Södertörn University, Sweden – “Gendering Memory Politics. The invisibility and hyper visibility of women’s bodies.”
• Joana Ricarte, University of Coimbra, CEIS20, Portugal – “The Memory Politics of Genocide and the 2023- Gaza War."

5^th Session – 2.30 pm - 16^th July 2025:

• Herman Siemens, Leiden University, Netherlands – “Towards a Political Ontology of Violence: Laclau, Nietzsche and the Ontological Difference”
• Peter J. Verovšek, University of Groningen, Netherlands – “The Philosophical Roots of Liberal and Illiberal Democracy: Collective Memory and Conflicting Visions of Sovereignty in Europe.”

6^th Session – 2.30 pm - 17^th September 2025:

• Robert Junqueira, University of Minho, Portugal – “The Sacred Nature of Human Rights: Vladimir Solovyov’s 1898 Saint Petersburg Speech.”
• Giovanni Zanotti – University of Coimbra, Portugal – “The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanism and Political Realism in Alexandre Kojève.”

7^th Session – 2.30 pm - 15^th October 2025:

• Claudia Hassan, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy – “Conspiracy Violence, Memory, and Critical Theory.”
• Soraya Nour Sckell, NOVA School of Law, Portugal – "Disconnected and Forgotten: On Discrimination and the Politics of Networked Belonging."

8^th Session – 2.30 pm - 12^th November 2025:

• Raquel Beleza da Silva, CEI-ISCTE/IUL, Faculty of Economics/University of Coimbra, Portugal – “Visualising Resistance: A Research-to-Film Project on Portugal’s Armed Struggle Against the Dictatorship.”
• Susan Rottmann, Ozyegin University, Turkey – "From Everyday Hostility to Collective Violence in an Istanbul Neighbourhood: An Ethnography of the Symbolic and Moral Worlds of Anti-Syrian Violence."

9^th Session - 2.30 pm - 10^th December 2025:

• Peter Verovsek, University of Groningen, the Netherlands - “The Philosophical Roots of Liberal and Illiberal Democracy: Collective Memory and Conflicting Visions of Sovereignty in Europe.”
• Edmundo Balsemão Pires, University of Coimbra/CEIS20, Portugal - "Testimonial Communication in Social-Epistemic Networks."

10^th Session - 2.30 pm – 21^st January 2026

• Fernando Sadio Ramos, ESE-IPC, IEF e AREA - "David P. Boder: Memory, Trauma, and Biographical Method.”
• Francisco da Costa Espada, FCT, CEIS20 - "The Role of Violence and Moral Representation in Georges Sorel’s Social Myth."