4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CeNic
Nihilism and Culture: Nihilism, Destruction, and Creation
Speakers
Adriano Fabris
Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy), where he also teaches Ethics and Deontology of AI. At the same University he serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Communication. He is President of the National Society of Philosophy (Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia), Italy, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Golinelli Foundation. He is currently Co-President -with Alfredo Rocha de la Torre- of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism. He is also Director of the Research Institute ReTe (Religions and Theology) of USI (University of Italian Switzerland), Faculty of Theology. In this field, he promoted researches on interreligious dialogue and on digital religions. Among his publications, we list RelAzione. Una filosofia performativa (2016); Ethics of Information and Communication Technologies (2018); Etica per le tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione (2019); Comunicazione (with G. Manetti, 2019); Etica e ambiguità (2020); Trust. A Philosophical Approach (2020); L’amore ambiguo: Filosofia, neuroscienze, letteratura (2020); Ethics of Eating and Drinking. Food and Relations (2024); and the most recent La filosofia nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale (2025). He also edited Etiche applicate. Una guida (2018); Heidegger. Una guida (2023); and Digital Environments and Human Relations (with S. Belardinelli, 2024).
Christopher Sauder
Christopher Sauder is Assistant Instructional Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA, where he teaches primarily in the Development of Western Civilization program. His doctoral dissertation in the history of philosophy at the Université de Paris-IV, Sorbonne, will be published in French under the title Hegel et Heidegger lecteurs de Aristote. This book aims to demonstrate how the formal ontological differences between the two German philosophers concerning finitude, teleology, movement, negativity and time, are correlated to their divergent interpretations of Aristotle. He has published on Heidegger, Neoplatonism, aesthetics, secularism, the philosophy of religion and contemporary European literature.
Dragan Prole
Professor of Philosophy (Ontology, Philosophical Anthropology, Phenomenology of Alien) and the guest lecturer at Academy of Arts (Aesthetics, Contemporary Aesthetics). He is a member of Editorial Board of several philosophical journals: Conatus (Athens, Greece), Phainomena (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Društveni pregled, (Sarajevo, BiH), Theologos (Belgrade, Serbia), Epistemes, Metron, Logos (Athens). He has published eleven books in Serbian as the single author, and ten anthologies as the editor or the co-editor. Prole had study visits to University of Berlin, Weimar, Leuven, Graz, Heidelberg and Vienna. He has been invited as a visiting lecturer to several Universities (Leuven Husserl Memorial Lecture 2019, Uppsala, Krakow, Athens, Ljubljana, Vienna, Oßmannstedt, Weimar, Skopje, Prague). He received five awards for his books: best book in philosophy, theory of literature and art in 2011 (Humanity of the Foreign Man), best book of the year 2013, award “Stevan Pešić” 2013 (Inner Outland. Philosophical Reflections on Romanticism), and best essays award “Sreten Marić” (Appearances of the Absent) in 2016, and “Radomir Konstantinović” Charter 2020 (Equality of the Unequal. Phenomenology and the Early avantgarde Movements). He has translated seven books from German into Serbian (Edmund Husserl –First Philosophy, Cartesian Meditations–, Bernhard Waldenfels, F.W.J. Schelling, Boris Groys).
Gaetano Chiurazzi
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Torino (Italy). He studied and worked as research fellow in the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris, Oxford, Warsaw, and Freiburg i.B. His interests are especially focused in ontology, metaphysics, philosophy of translation, philosophy of technology and information, with a particular focus on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Classic German Philosophy and Contemporary French Philosophy. He is the author of many publications in several languages and his books are translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian. Among his recent publications we can mention: L’esperienza della verità (2011; Serbian tr.: Iskutsvo istine, 2016; English tr.: The Experience of Truth, 2017; Portuguese tr.: A experiência da verdade, 2019); Dynamis. Ontologia dell’incommensurabile (2017; English and Spanish 2021); Détours de Derrida, 2020; Seconda natura. Da Lascaux al digitale (2021; French 2024). He is the editor in chief of Tropos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica, founded with Gianni Vattimo.
Manca Erzetič
Research Fellow at the Research Institute Nova Revija for Humanities (J6-70215 – research project, Testimony between Epistemological and Communicative Value), Associate Professor at the New University in Ljubljana, and Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana. From 2019 to 2024, she served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Slovenian and International Studies. She has been a guest lecturer at various universities (e.g., Bucharest, Barcelona, Macerata, Pisa, Palma de Mallorca, Udine, Budapest, Katowice, etc.) and a visiting professor in Zagreb (Croatia) and Leiden (Netherlands). She is a member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) and the executive board of the Central and Eastern European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP). Her main research interests focus on the hermeneutics of testimony and witnessing, nihilism, ethics, and existential phenomenology, and their connections with cultural, historical, political, religious, literary, and social-critical perspectives. She is the author of the monograph Hermenevtika pričevanja [Hermeneutics of Testimony, 2023] and numerous peer-reviewed articles in international humanistic journals (e.g., Teoria, Phainomena, Human Affairs, etc.); co-editor of thematic journal issues (e.g., On Testimony: Erzetič–Agamben–Ricoeur–Vattimo–Heidegger; 2024) and an editor of several collective volumes (most recently Meaningful Orientation and the Nihilistic Split; 2026). Currently, she is a member of the COST Action (Research Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical Deliberative Democracy; 2023–2028) and leads the research project Testimony between Epistemological and Communicative Values (ARIS, 2026–2029).
Peter Trawny
Born 1964 in Germany, philosopher, author of many and good books (cf. Nietzsche, Ecce homo) translated in twenty languages, one of the editors of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe, director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the Bergische University of Wuppertal.
Rebeca Maldonado
PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and completed her postdoctoral studies at the UNAM Institute for Philological Research. She is currently a Full Professor in the area of Ontology and Metaphysics at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy. Her areas of expertise are Japanese philosophy and Martin Heidegger's thought. She is currently responsible for the PAPIIT IN404425 research project On the Way to Dwelling: Heidegger's Posthumous Work from 1941-51. New avenues of interpretation. She has published the following books: De la moderación. Ensayos de hermenéutia analógica (2008); Metáforas del abismo. Itinerarios de ascenso y descenso en Nietzsche (2008); Kant. La razón estremecida (2010). She also coordinated the Spanish translation of Filosofía como metanoética [Philosophy as Metanoetics] (2014) by Japanese philosopher Hajime Tanabe.
Rita Šerpytytė
Full professor of Philosophy at the Vilnius University (Lithuania), Visiting Professor at the University of Torino (Italy) (2020). She is a specialist in Heidegger’s , Hegel’s, Postmodern philosophy, Contemporary Italian philosophy (Gianni Vattimo, Giorgio Agamben and others). Her interest is focused on Speculative and New Realisms and especially on the problem of Nihilism and Negativity in Western Philosophy. She was a lecturer at universities of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, USA and invited lecturer of international conferences at different universities of Italy, Spain, France, Germany. Among her main publications we can list Nihilizmas ir Vakarų filosofija, 2007, Tikrovės spektrai. Vakarų nihilizmas tarp diagnozės ir teorijos, 2019; Tarp Nomos ir Ius: ontologiniai profiliai , 2026 (Lithuanian) / Between Nomos and Ius: Ontological Profiles (English forthcoming). She is editor in chief of the international journal of philosophy Problemos. Rita Šerpytytė was awarded the Lithuanian Science Prize of 2022 in the field of the humanities for the cycle of studies “Western Nihilism between Diagnosis and Theory (2007–2021)”.
Stefano Bancalari
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Sapienza University of Rome and Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is the director of the international journal Archivio di Filosofia and a member of the board of the Enrico Castelli Institute of Philosophical Studies. He has been appointed holder of the «Étienne Gilson Chair of Metaphysics» at the Institut Catholique of Paris for 2025. His research focuses primarily on contemporary phenomenology, with particular attention to how its fundamental problematic junctures allow for a reworking of classic themes in the philosophy of religion. Among his recent publications: Fenomenologia della religione. Parole chiave (Morcelliana, 2024); Heidegger in Italia (ed., 2024); Logica dell’epochè. Per un’introduzione alla fenomenologia della religione (ETS, 2015); Fenomenologia e pornografia (ETS, 2015). He has edited an Italian edition of the Works of Rudolf Otto. He is preparing for PUF a publication titled L’expérience paradoxale. Une philosophie de la religion.
Tsunafumi Takeuchi
Professor at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. His research explores modern German philosophy –especially Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche– and contemporary debates on ethics, nihilism, and the philosophy of religion. His publications include: Schopenhauer als Religionsphilosoph. Über den „Übergang“ vom Mitleid zur Verneinung des Willens, in D. Birnbacher and M. Koßler (eds.), Das Hauptwerk: 200 Jahre Arthur Schopenhauers Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (Königshausen & Neumann, 2022), pp. 289–301, and Think Rationally but Feel Spiritually: A Nihilistic Dualism in Modern Japan, Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, 40(1) (2020), pp. 137–146. His current interests include compassion and moral motivation, pessimism and nihilism, and the relevance of Nietzsche’s philosophy to today’s post-truth era.
Alberto Moreiras
Professor at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Interpretación y diferencia (Madrid: Visor, 1991); Tercer espacio: literatura y duelo en América Latina (Santiago: ARCIS/Lom, 1999); The Exhaustion of Difference: the Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (Durham: Duke UP, 2002); Línea de sombra. El no sujeto de lo político (Santiago: Palinodia, 2008); Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada (Madrid: Escolar & Mayo, 2016); Against Abstraction. Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021); Infrapolitics. A Handbook (New York: Fordham UP, 2021); Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy (Durham: Duke UP, 2022); and Tiempo roto. Vivir en el Antropoceno (Santiago de Chile: Palinodia, 2024). He is the coeditor, with Nelly Richard, of Pensar en/la postdictadura (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2002) and, with José Luis Villacañas, of Conceptos fundamentales del pensamiento latinoamericano actual (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2017). He is coeditor of Política común. A Journal of Thought.
Alfredo Rocha de la Torre
Gastwissenschaftler at the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, (Marie Curie COFUND Fellow). PhD. in Philosophy from Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany) under the supervision of Klaus Held. Doctoral scholarships from the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst (KAAD), COLFUTURO and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst (DAAD. Declined). Member of the advisory group of the Organization of Ibero-American States on the project ‘The Teaching of Philosophy in Ibero-America’; member of FORhUM for the humanities (Forum za humanistiko / Forum für Humanwissenschaften), co-director of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), founding member of the Ibero-American Society for Heideggerian Studies (President 2009-2011), and member of the scientific and editorial committees of the journals Teoria (Università di Pisa), Phainomena (University of Ljubljana), Topologik (Università della Calabria), Signos (UNIVATES), Revista de Filosofía (UIS), Límite (Universidad de Tarapacá), and Franciscanum (Universidad de San Buenaventura). Publications in Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Serbia, and Venezuela. Editor-in-chief of the journal Cuestiones de Filosofía of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.
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