Simona Forti: Is Evil Still a Meaningful Concept Today?
Wednesday 05 November, 2014
6:15 - 8:15pm, $0
Columbia University, The Heyman Center
2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
Simona Forti will discuss her work and her new book, The New Demons. Rethinking Evil and Power Today, published by Stanford University Press. She will be in conversation with Adriana Cavarero, Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universit degli studi di Verona.
Simona Forti is Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the Universit del Piemonte Orientale, Italy. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna, and she received her PhD in the History of Political Thought from Turin University. She is a founding member of FINO, a PhD Program in Philosophy coordinated by the Northwestern Italian University Consortium. She served as the Italian member of the Coordinating International Committee of the European Science Foundation Network Activity on "The Politics and History of European Democratisation" (PHED) for the European Science Foundation. From 2003-2011 she was member of the jury for Der Hannah-Arendt Preis fr politischen Denken, Heinrich Bll Stiftung, Bremen and Berlin. She is standing President of the International Centre BIOS, research on biopolitics and bioethics, based at the Universit del Piemonte Orientale.
She is known for her works on Hannah Arendts thought and on the philosophical idea of Totalitarianism and for her more recent work on Biopolitics and on the contemporary reshaping of the notion of Evil.
Adriana Cavarero is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universit degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard. Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on theories of narration and on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and literature.