Together with Sebastian Luft, I co-organize a one-day digital conference on the topic “Social Ontology and Objective Spirit – Classical and Contemporary Perspectives”, to be held on 28 May 2021.
The Call for Papers can be found here!
Together with Sebastian Luft, I co-organize a one-day digital conference on the topic “Social Ontology and Objective Spirit – Classical and Contemporary Perspectives”, to be held on 28 May 2021.
The Call for Papers can be found here!
Happy to announce that we have been granted a two-year research project on “The Role of Transcultural Semantics and Symbols for Resilience During the Corona Pandemic – A Hermeneutic Approach to Historical and Intercultural Expressions of Severe Crisis” by the Volkswagen Foundation. I am looking forward to collaborating with Cornelia Richter (Bonn) and Judith Gärtner (Rostock) on this topic!
The first annual conference of our DFG Research Unit “Resilience in Religion and Spirituality” will be organised jointly by my subproject on “Empathy and Resilience” and the subproject on “Mindfulness and Resilience” from April 22 – 24, 2021, at the University of Bonn.
From April 6–10, 2021, the second DFG Symposium in Philosophy will hopefully take place at the Villa Vigoni on the Lago di Como in Northern Italy. I’m looking forward to a week of intense discussion and presenting some ideas on the relationship between imagination and narration as modes of understanding.
A recent interview with Fritz Breithaupt, Hans-Ludwig Kröber and myself on the topic of “Compassion and Cruelty: The Dark Side of Empathy” has now been published by Deutschlandfunk. Listen/read here!