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Department of Philosophy - FILO

Talk TEARS Conference

8 - 10 June 2026

Insights into the socio-political aspects of narrative practices, affects and emotions

  • In person : Philosophy Department of the University of Bologna, Bologna
  • Society & Culture In English

How to partecipate

Free registration required

Program

Day 1. Monday June 8th 

Venue: Sala Rossa, Via Azzo Gardino 23 

14: 30 Welcome

15:00-16:00 “From outlaw emotions to moral injury: Rethinking the affective disruptions of norms” Ditte Munch-Jurisic (Copenhagen) 

16:00-17:00 “Feelings and Epistemic Resistance” Caleb Ward (Hamburg)

17:00 Keynote address: Maria Pia Lara (UAM)

19:30 Social Dinner

Day 2 Tuesday June 9th

Venue: Sala Rossa, Via Azzo Gardino 23

8:00-9:00  “The emancipatory power of narrative practices” Laurencia Saenz Benavides (Bologna)

9:00-10:00 “Pedagogical perspectives on loneliness narratives in extremist and emancipatory movements” Ruth Rebecca Tietjen (Tilburg) 

Break

10:15-11:15  “The Unfinished ‘We’: Longing for Belonging, Loneliness, and the Affective Fault Lines of Political Communities” Marie Wuth (Erlangen-Nürnberg)

11:15-12:15: TBC Tris Hedges (Copenhagen)

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30 “Mass Masochism” Serena Gregorio (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen). 

15:30-16:30 “‘Something new must be created at all costs’. Affects of Societal Transformation” Henrike Kohpeiß (Lüneburg)

Break

17:00 Keynote lecture: Mariana Ortega (Penn State University)

19:30 Dinner 

Day 3. Wednesday June 10th

Venue: Sala Apollo, 38 Via Zamboni 

9:00-11:00 Concluding remarks

End of the conference

The conference is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 1011105929 TEARS project.

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Event Within the Framework of:

The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity

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The conference "TEARS - The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity" aims to bring together doctoral students, researchers, and scholars whose work on the socio-political aspects of narrative practices, affect, and emotions can offer illuminating perspectives on some of the issues addressed by the TEARS research project. Specifically: affective dimensions of resistance to social oppression (race, class, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, etc.); affective conditions for solidarity; the role of narrative practices in resistance to oppression; ambiguity and resistance to oppression.