Department of Philosophy
\nSapienza Università\; di Roma
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\nStanley Cavell at 100
\nAn International Centennial Conference
\nParis | Rome | Boston
\n- Rome Conference -
\nEthics\, Politics\, Forms of Life
\n8-10 June 2026
\nOrganized by Piergiorgio Donatelli
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\nVenue
\nVilla Mirafiori
\nVia Carlo Fea 2\, Rome
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\nProgram
\n8 JUNE
\nROOM 5
\n09:00&ndash\;9:30: Welcome and Opening remarks
\nOpening Lecture | Chair: Paola Marrati
\n9:30&ndash\;10:30 Veena Das \;(Johns Hopkins): Opening lecture Objects Beyond Catalogues: Yet Another Take on the Outer and the Inner
\n10:30&ndash\;10:45: Break
\nROOM 5
\nPlenary Panel 1 | Chair: Jeroen Gerrits
\n10:45&ndash\;11:25 É\;lise Domenach (É\;cole Nationale Supé\;rieure Louis-Lumiè\;re\, IUF): Projecting Cavell: skepticism and ecocinema
\n11:25&ndash\;12:05 Nancy Yousef \;(Yale): Must we mean what we write? or\, can ethics and aesthetics be one?
\n12:05&ndash\;12:45 Michael Campbell \;(Kyoto University): The critical sensibility and the senses of criticism
\n12:45&ndash\;14:15: Lunch break
\nROOM 5
\nKeynote Lecture 1 | Chair: Juliet Floyd
\n14:15&ndash\;15:05: Alice Crary \;(New School &ndash\; ISJPS Paris 1): Pro-democratic defiance
\n15:05&ndash\;15:20: Break
\nParallel Sessions A
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\nROOM 5 | Chair: Alessio Vaccari
\n15:20&ndash\;16:20
\nRico Gutschmidt \;(Universitä\;t Konstanz): Cavell\, skepticism\, and the epistemic transformation of groundlessness
\nChester Leung \;(University of Southampton): Self-knowledge\, selfhood\, and the truth of scepticism
\nFrancesco Gandellini \;(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The truth on the truth of scepticism
\n16:20&ndash\;16:50 Discussion
\nROOM 1 | Chair: Miranda Boldrini
\n15:20&ndash\;16:20
\nSimon van der Weele \;(University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht): Moral status\, profound intellectual disability\, and skepticism: from moral status to acknowledgment
\nUri Brun \;(Oxford): Beyond the implementation problem: \;a Cavellian perspective on conceptual engineering
\nFrancesco Zucchini \;(Sapienza): Normativity without rules: Stanley Cavell on language and ethics
\n16:20&ndash\;16:50 Discussion
\nROOM 12 | Chair: Clara Han
\n15:20&ndash\;16:20 \;
\nReza Hosseini \;(Rosebank International\, South Africa): Stanley Cavell on what used to be called the state of one&rsquo\;s soul
\nAmir Sotoudeh \;(Sapienza): From Private Sensation to Shared Intelligibility: The Moral Life of Reason and the Perfectionist Imagination in Pain
\nLucilla Guidi \;(UniPegaso - Universitä\;t Potsdam): Cavell on soul-blindness: seeing and failing to see others
\n16:20&ndash\;16:50 Discussion
\n16:50&ndash\;17:05: Break
\nROOM 5
\nKeynote Lecture 2 | Chair: \;Sandra Laugier
\n17:05&ndash\;17:55: Roberto De Gaetano \;(Sapienza): The art of acknowledgement
\n9 JUNE
\nROOM 5
\nKeynote Lecture 3 | Chair: Alice Crary
\n09:15&ndash\;10:05: Victor Krebs \;(Pontificia Universidad Cató\;lica del Perú\;): Neither progress nor decline. Cavell&rsquo\;s pertinence to the anthropocene
\n10:05&ndash\;10:20: Break
\nROOM 5
\nPlenary Panel 2 | Chair: Daniele Lorenzini
\n10:20&ndash\;11:00 Clara Han \;(Johns Hopkins): &ldquo\;From me it is born&rdquo\;: the singularity of a life and a politics of the ordinary
\n11:00&ndash\;11:40 Alessio Vaccari \;(Sapienza): Reading Nietzsche&rsquo\;s ethical thought through Cavell&rsquo\;s moral perfectionism
\n11:40&ndash\;12:20 Lotte Buch Segal Undoing a form of life: How knowledge of Palestine became pale
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\n12:20&ndash\;13:35: Lunch break
\nParallel Sessions B
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\nROOM 5 \;| Chair: Piergiorgio Donatelli
\n13:35&ndash\;14:35
\nGustavo Gó\;mez Pé\;rez \;(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana): The tragic sense of responsibility: Cavell\, affective injustice\, and the acknowledgment of pain in Colombia&rsquo\;s conflict
\nLuigi Corrias \;(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Acknowledgement after dehumanization: Cavell and the politics of reconciliation
\nArnaud Petit \;(Oxford): A perfectionist play of voices
\n14:35&ndash\;15:05 Discussion
\nROOM 12 \;| Chair: Lucilla Guidi
\n13:35&ndash\;14:35
\nCamila Lobo \;(Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Cavell&rsquo\;s politics of means: moral perfectionism and prefigurative practice in times of crisis
\nWade Roberts \;(Juniata College): Aversive thinking in dark times: confronting the contemporary crises of democracy
\nMiranda Boldrini (Nantes Université\;): Cavell\, anthropology\, and ordinary ethics
\n\;14:35&ndash\;15:05 Discussion
\n15:05&ndash\;15:20: Break
\n\;Parallel Sessions C
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\nROOM 5 \;| Chair: Victor Krebs \;
\n15:20&ndash\;16:20
\nGilad Nir \;(Universitä\;t Potsdam): Modernism\, skepticism and theatricality
\nBojin Zhu \;(Universitä\;t Wien): Separateness and the limits of public language
\nKristen De Man \;(University of Chicago): &ldquo\;All my words are someone else&rsquo\;s&rdquo\;: Stanley Cavell on the individual and the community
\n16:20&ndash\;16:50 Discussion
\nROOM 1 | Chair Luca Tenneriello
\n15:20&ndash\;16:00
\nJonas Friedli \;(New School): Overconfidence in convention: on passion\, expression and irreducibility in Derrida&rsquo\;s and Cavell&rsquo\;s second encounter with Austin
\nJuliette Courtillé\; \;(Sorbonne University): Ways of doing philosophy: the Cavellian legacy of Hilary Putnam
\nLuca Antonio Donato (Sapienza): Acknowledgment after AI: Enabling Avoidance
\n16:00&ndash\;16:30 Discussion
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\nROOM 12 | Chair: É\;lise Domenach
\n15:20&ndash\;16:20
\nMoran Godess Riccitelli \;(Bar-Ilan University &ndash\; Universitä\;t Potsdam): The aesthetic ground of Cavell&rsquo\;s moral perfectionism
\nSaliha Shah (Women&rsquo\;s College Srinagar): \;The Ontology of Onwardness: Thinking of Cavell and Iqbal
\nLuka Chilvers \;(University College London): Cavell and Midgley on games and (ordinary) life
\n16:20&ndash\;16:50 Discussion
\n16:50&ndash\;17:05: Break
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\nROOM 5
\nKeynote Lecture 4 | Chair: Paul Standish
\n17:05&ndash\;17:55: Paola Marrati \;(Johns Hopkins): Cavell and Baldwin: knowledge of the self and knowledge of reality
\n10 JUNE
\nParallel Sessions D
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\nROOM 5 | Chair: Nancy Yousef
\n9:30&ndash\;10:30
\nKevin Spencer \;(Wenzhou-Kean University): Debasing Emersonian perfectionism: l'acte gratuit as genre
\nLè\;a Boman \;(Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne): From events to moments: the ethics of ordinary time in Cavell and Emerson
\nLuke Ciancarelli \;(Harvard) and Austin Wang (Johns Hopkins): On the source of the perfectionist demand &ldquo\;Be true to yourself&rdquo\;
\n10:30&ndash\;11:00 Discussion
\nROOM 1 \;| Chair: Michael Campbell
\n9:30&ndash\;10:30
\nAnton Hug \;(Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne): Conflictual gender disagreements
\nFrancesca Scapinello \;(Universidade de Lisboa): Cavell and anarchy
\nLuca Tenneriello \;(Sapienza): &ldquo\;Not a competing theory of the moral life&rdquo\;: Cavell vs Rawls
\n10.30-11.00: Discussion
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\nROOM 12 \;| Chair: Lotte Buch Segal
\n9:30&ndash\;10:10
\nEdward Guetti \;(American University\, Washington\, DC): With and against abandonment: the Emersonian perfectionist and Homo Sacer
\nJustin Burdick \;(University of South Florida): Attuning to the Over-Soul: Emerson&rsquo\;s metaphysical posture and Cavellian moral perfectionism
\n10:10-10:40: Discussion
\n11:00&ndash\;11:15: Break
\nROOM 5
\nKeynote Lecture 5 | \;Chair: Naoko Saito
\n11:15&ndash\;12:05: Paul Standish \;(University College London): In the craftsman&rsquo\;s garden
\nConclusions
\n12:05&ndash\;12:35: Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sandra Laugier\, Juliet Floyd
\nROOMS
\nRoom 5 (Aula V): ground floor
\nRoom 12 (Aula XII): outside
\nRoom 1 (Aula I): outside
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