O seminário é organizado pelos docentes André Barata (Praxis UBI) e Robert Bernasconi (Penn State University) e tem lugar no Museu dos Lanifícios nos dias 23 e 24 de junho.
The pandemic disturbed our regular habits and routines. Our experience of everyday life was no longer the same as it had been. Many of us quickly learned to develop new habits and routines in an effort to establish "a new normal." But to what extent do customs and routines establish normality? Or does our sense of normality necessarily always transcend what is habitual? More precisely, has our concrete experience of the disruption of our habits brought about by the pandemic given us any new insights into an understanding of the normal?
These are questions that phenomenology with its focus on the concrete experience of everyday life seems well placed to address. Perhaps phenomenological investigation of the concrete experience of the transformations occasioned by the pandemic (but also a war, like the one we’re living now) can even help us think of better ways of inhabiting our times, our places, and our relationships.
The international seminar at the University of Beira Interior seeks to explore phenomenological answers to the provocative, perhaps even ironic, question "so you call this 'normal'?"
Thursday 23rd, afternoon
- Robert Bernasconi (Penn State University)
- André Barata (University of Beira Interior)
- Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick)
Friday 24th, morning
- Ana Falcato (New University of Lisbon)
- Paul Davies (University of Sussex)
- Irene Borges Duarte (University of Évora)
Friday 24th, afternoon
- José Manuel Santos (Praxis - Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Culture)
- Francois-David Sebbah ( Paris Nanterre University)
