International Conference on Walter Benjamin, Lisbon

International Conference on Walter Benjamin

Lisbon, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, March 25/26, 2008


Walter Benjamin’s thought has been and will remain paramount in European thought. He left us not only a set of concepts which opened, fixed and shaped new configurations for today’s thought, but also a vision which became decisive in areas such as art, technique, history, politics and language. The influx of the benjaminian thought became more or less explicit in contemporary authors who, more than reading and analysing him closely, have brought a fecund reinterpretation of his work, prolonging his legacy not only in philosophy, but in various areas of human sciences.

This conference will offer an opportunity to reclaim the controversial and pertinent analysis of his thought, trying to diagnose the importance of Benjamin’s thought in our days and to rethink the questions, consequences and traces of his influence in contemporary authors and issues.


Organization
José Bragança de Miranda
António Fernando Cascais
Maria João Cantinho

Scientific Board
Paulo Filipe Monteiro
Maria Filomena Molder
José Bragança de Miranda
António Fernando Cascais
Jacinto Godinho
Maria João Cantinho


Keynote Speakers

Arno Münster
Danielle Cohen-Levinas
Gèrard Bensusan
Karl Solibakke
Petar Bojanic


Portuguese Speakers

António Fernando Cascais
António Guerreiro
Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
Jacinto Godinho
José Augusto Mourão
José Bragança de Miranda
Maria Filomena Molder
Maria João Cantinho
Maria Teresa Cruz
Manuel Gusmão
Paulo Barcelos
Paulo Filipe Monteiro
Pedro Andrade
Silvina Rodrigues Lopes
Teresa Cadete
Teresa Levy
Manuel José Damásio
José Gomes Pinto


Panels
The Work of Art
Technique and Media
Image and Language
History and Modernity
Politics and Revolution


Titles

Danielle Cohen-Levinas
Trois figures de temporalités chez Benjamin : la main qui raconte, la main qui
caresse, la main qui ramasse

Gèrard Bensusan
Rosenzweig and Benjamin

Arno Münster
The Relation between Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt

Karl Solibakke
To be indicated
Petar Bojanic
Event, violence, messianism


António Fernando Cascais
Automatisms, repetitions, strangeness

António Guerreiro
Myth and poetry: elements for a benjaminian poetology

Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
Allegory and Image

Jacinto Godinho
The experience between image and word

José Augusto Mourão
The concept of messianism

José Bragança de Miranda
To be indicated

Maria Filomena Molder
To be indicated

Maria João Cantinho
Allegory and history

Maria Teresa Cruz
To be indicated

Paulo Filipe Monteiro
Benjamin against Zarathushtra

Pedro Andrade
Visibilities and social vigilances in Walter Benjamin

Silvina Rodrigues Lopes
Around the question of decision

Teresa Cadete
Walter Benjamin or the demons of history

Teresa Levy
Passages through space-time geographies

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