Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance

The conference Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance is organized by the Centro Studi di Critica Heideggeriana (CSCH) on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. The conference will take place from February 17 to 19, 2027, at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua. 

In a context that has long been active in Heidegger studies, the conference aims to bring into dialogue some of the most authoritative voices in the current debate on Heidegger’s work and thought across different philosophical traditions and geographical contexts. Alongside contributions from invited speakers in the regular sessions (Hiroshi Abe, Francesco Camera, Paola-Ludovika Coriando, Giuliana Gregorio, Servanne Jollivet, Giusi Strummiello, Mark Wrathall, Holger Zaborowski) and a panel dedicated to the work of the Paduan philosopher Franco Volpi (“Being and Time”: A Practical Philosophy? Interpretative Perspectives in Dialogue with Franco Volpi, with guest interventions from Jesús Adrián Escudero, Adriano Fabris, and Carlo Scilironi), the event will include parallel sessions featuring presentations selected through a call for abstracts.

The guiding idea of the conference is to foster engagement with a classic text of twentieth-century philosophy by rereading it from the standpoint of the present and by relating the fundamental questions that run through Heidegger’s masterpiece to the concerns of an era – our own – shaped by radically transformed conceptual horizons and frameworks of thought. 

The aim is to encourage dialogue among different traditions of thought that have found in Being and Time a major source of inspiration – such as hermeneutics, existential philosophy, and phenomenology of embodiment – or that have engaged with it in original ways, such as certain areas of analytic philosophy and pragmatism.