Title: Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution
Date: 17-20 September 2025
Location: Sapienza University of Rome (Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies), Circonvallazione Tiburtina 4, 00185 Rome
The next biennial conference of Walter Benjamin scholars will be held in Rome, 17-20 September 2025, organised by the Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin ( https://associazionewalterbenjamin.it/ ). The occasion is offered by the book’s centenary on the Trauerspiel , marked by Benjamin’s stay in Capri and his Marxist turn, thanks to his acquaintance with Asja Lacis. The conference – as well as naturally devoting itself to all aspects of Benjamin’s thought – intends to explicitly thematise the presence of the Mediterranean south (and more generally of the many philosophical ‘souths’) in Benjamin’s thought and constellations.
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Programme according to Streams
1. Mourning and Melancholy
2. Revolution, Uprising, Materialism, Marxism
3. Play, Theatre, Childhood’s Literature
4. Porosity. Mediterranean Architectures, Passages
5. Sovereignty, history, messianism
6. Protestantism, Catholicism, Capitalism, Modernity
7. City Images, Images of the South
17 September: Opening & Keynote Daniel Weidner, Carolin Duttlinger, Sophia Buck
18 September: Presentation Journals & Keynote Enzo Traverso
19 September: IWBS meeting & Screening ‘Capri Revolution’
20 September: Roundtable & Closing