Thursday, June 2nd
Venue: Società letteraria, Piazzetta Scalette Rubiani, 1, 37121 Verona
13.45-14.00 Welcome and presentation of the Conference - Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona
14.00-14.45 Keynote 1:
Dustin Ells Howes, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
"The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence." Chair: Olivia Guaraldo
14.45 - 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30
Panel 1 “Genealogy 1”. Chair: Adriana Cavarero, University of Verona
1. Marianna Esposito, University of Salerno, “Rethinking Nonviolence with Simone Weil.”
2.Enrico Euli, Chiara Tosi, University of Cagliari, “Nonviolence and Game: steps to an Ecological
View.”
3. Ulrika Bjiork, University of Uppsala, “Polis, Violence and Reconciliation."
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45-18.15 Panel 2 “Theory”. Chair: Matti Hyvärinen, University of Tampere
4. Michael Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, “The Presence of War: ‘Here and Elsewhere’”
5. Martin Nitsche, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne, “Out-grounding of Non-violence”
6.Lauri Siisiäinen, University of Jyväskylä, “Biopolitics, Non-violence and the Denigration of
Vision”
18.15 - 19.00 Special Guest Lecture 1 - Louie Palu, photographer
“The Costs of War”, Chair Kia Lindroos, University of Jyväskylä
Friday, June 3rd
Venue: Università di Verona, Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia, Polo Zanotto, Viale dell’Università 1,
Room 1.1 www.univr.it
9.30-10.15: Keynote 2:
Fulvio Cesare Manara, University of Bergamo , «Making New History. Critiques of Violence
and Nonviolence towards a New Philosophy of History», Chair: Adriana Cavarero, University of
Verona
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-13.00 Room 1.1 Panel 3 “Genealogy 2”. Chair: Lorenzo Bernini, University of Verona
7. Raul Castorcea, University College, London, “Non-violent Fascists? The ‘Legion of the
Archangel Michael’ between1936 and 1938”.
8. Elena Guerini, University of Verona, “After Nine Eleven: The Recent Debate About Just War”.
9. Timo Pankakoski, University of Helsinki, “Carl Schmitt Against the ‘Intermediate State’:
Domestic and International Variants”
10.Anca Pusca, Goldsmith College, “The EU and the Roma Problem”
10.45-13.00 Room 1.3 Panel 4 “Genealogy 3”. Chair: Frank Möller, University of Tampere
11. Martin Šimsa, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne, “Non – violent Thoughts in Czech
Democratic Discourse”
12. Sara Rapa, University of Verona, “A Jewish Army as a (Missed) Chance for the Beginning of a
Jewish Politics. The Position of Hannah Arendt”
13.Niklas Toivakainen, University of Helsinki, “The Dynamics of Non-violence and Truth: a
Gandhian Perspective.”
14. Francesca Consolaro, University of Verona, "Mending the World: a non-violent Apocalypse".
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.15 Room 1.1
Keynote 3: Paul Kottman, New School for Social Research, New York
“Lovers, not Fighters: From Duels to Suicides in Romeo and Juliet" – Chair: Tommaso Tuppini,
University of Verona
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-18.30 Room 1.1
Panel 5 “Aesthetics 1” – Chair: Kia Lindroos, University of Jyväskylä
15. Frank Möller, University of Tampere, Peace Research Institute, “‘It's way too dangerous being a
superhero’ - Aesthetic Interventions in Rio de Janeiro's Culture of Violence”
16. Igor Pelgreffi, University of Verona, “Subject, Self-image, Non-violence”
17.Martta Heikkila, University of Helsinki, “From Violent Logos to the (Non-)Violence of the
Sensuous: Bataille and Nancy on Art and Materiality”
18. Mia Hannula, University of Turku, “State of Violence – Imagine Non-violence”
15.30-18.30 Room 1.3
Panel 6 “Aesthetics 2”– Chair: Girma Negash, University of South Carolina Aiken
19. Dana Arieli, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, “Horrorism and the Graphic
Novel: the Case of Exit-Wounds”
20. Cristina Giudice, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin, “Vulnerable Bodies: Examples in
Contemporary Art”
21. Tommi Kotonen, University of Jyväskylä, “Poetry and ‘War on Terror’: Finding a New
Language”
22. Maija Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä ,“Singing and ‘die Betroffenheit’”
Saturday, June 4th
Venue: Università di Verona, Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia, Polo Zanotto, Viale dell’Università
1, Rooms 1.1, 1.4, 2.2
9.30-11.15 Room 1.1.
Panel 7 “Ontology & Aesthetics”. Chair: Ulrika Björk, University of Uppsala
23. Kia Lindroos, University of Jyväskylä, “Il/legitimacy and Power”
24. Ignazia Bartholini, University of Palermo, “The Vulnerability of the Body and the Non-violent
Acceptance of the Other’s Violence in the Intimate Sphere”
25. Saara Hacklin, University of Helsinki, “On the Ambiguity of the Other: Politics of
Spectatorship in Merleau-Ponty”
9.30-11.15 Room 2.2
Panel 8 “Praxis 1”. Chair: Lorenzo Bernini, University of Verona
26. Nada Ghandour-Demiri, University of Bristol,“The Politics of Nonviolence in Israel-Palestine”
27.Laura Junka-Aikio, University of Lapland, “Late Modern Subjects of Colonial Occupation: the
Politics of Aesthetics in Palestine”
28. Jacek Kornak, University of Helsinki, “Queer Nation and Politics of Parody”.
29. Yahya R. Haidar, “On Violent and Non-Violent Resistance”
9.30 -11.15 Room 1.4
Panel 9 “Praxis 2”. Chair: Fulvio C. Manara, University of Bergamo
30. Swenja Granzow, Saskia Mestern, University of Hamburg,“Regaining the Discourse: Using
Public Authorship for Moving to an Aesthetic of Non-Violence”.
31. Ludmila Bazzoni, University of Verona “La Plaza de las Madres: Collective Mourning and
Public Space in Argentina”
32. Paola Coppi, University of Verona, “Nathan’s Tolerance: an Exercise in Nonviolence”
11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
11.45-12.30 Room 1.1
Keynote 4: Nouraddin Shehaddah, Ricki Levi, Combatants for Peace, Palestine/Israel: “Non-
violence as a Strategy in Palestine/Israel”, Chair: Olivia Guaraldo
12.30-13.00 Final discussion and closing remarks
