Conference Adorno: Works In Progress

10 June 2026

International Conference

  • 10:00 AM - 06:15 PM
  • In person : aula Mondolfo, Via Zamboni 38, Bologna
  • Society & Culture In English

How to partecipate

Free admission

Program

Adorno: Works In Progress

International conference in which are presented newly published studies and recently completed research projects on Theodor W. Adorno.

Program

10.00-12.30 SESSION I

10.00-10.30 Stefano Marino (Università di Bologna) – Learning from one’s enemies: dialectical strategies in Adorno’s theory of truth and untruth

10.30-11.00 Giulia Zerbinati (Università di Bologna/Centre Marc Bloch) – The aesthetic and dialectics: exploring the aconceptual with Hegel and Adorno

11.00-11.30 Susanna Zellini (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Centre Marc Bloch) – Aesthetics of the form: Nietzsche and Adorno

11.30-12.30 Q&A

 

12.30-14.30 Lunch break

 

14.30-16.15 SESSION 2

14.30-15.00 Francesco Simoncini (IZEA-Zentrum Halle) – Adorno on myth: a metacritique

15.00-15.30 Marvin Ester (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Centre for Social Critique) – Narcissism: an essay after Adorno

15.30-16.15 Q&A

 

16.15-16.30 Coffee break

 

16.30-18.15 SESSION 3

16.30-17.00 Yasmin Afshar (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Centre Marc Bloch) – Beyond the everlasting violence: social antagonism in Adorno

17.00-17.30 Felipe Catalani (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) – Adorno: moral philosophy in the postwar world

17.30-18.15 Q&A

Partners

In collaboration with the research center for aesthetic studies Almæsthetics.

Contacts