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Department of Philosophy - FILO

Talk The Changing Waves of Historical Time: Progress and Regression

8 June 2026

Keynote Lecture by María Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México)

  • 05:00 PM - 06:45 PM
  • Online on Microsoft Teams and in person : Via Azzo Gardino 23, Sala Rossa, Bologna
  • Society & Culture In English

How to partecipate

Free registration required

Program

In this lecture, I discuss how we have experienced what modernity has called progress and what Critical Theory refers to as regressions (a concept taken from psychoanalysis). I explain how “waves” of progress and regression have been interpreted in both ancient and modern history; waves that bring unresolved problems to the surface and in which narratives of utopias and dystopias emerge, allowing us to understand the reflexivity around experiences of improvement and moral unlearning.

Speakers

  • María Pía Lara

    Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)

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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.