This session explores how our connection with things has evolved throughout time (through different patterns of collecting and diverse ways of valuing objects). In addition, we will discuss how human beings have bonded to objects by using, making, keeping, or guarding them.

How do we engage with the question of “experience” in judgement?, From “the life of the law” to “political” judgments, this session examines legal and philosophical starting points and useful entries to the question

January 26 (5pm, CET time). The event will be held in a hybrid format at Sciences Po Paris (13 Rue de l'Université salle/room K008 and on Zoom)

A two part conversation 14h30-16h30: Law and art: property, nature and the representation of things with Helena Alviar, Patricia Zalamea and Eulalia de Valdenebro 7h00-19h00: Academic traditions and intellectual styles: a dialogue

Thought experiments and counterfactuals stand very close to fiction and require strong imaginative skills on part of those who both write and use them. As such, they are a “distanced mode of thinking” that might come with an ironic twist.

A l’interférence entre liberté de création et régulation de la liberté d’expression, on s’interrogera sur les catégories interprétatives mobilisées quand une fiction ou une œuvre d’art passe en procès, d’hier à aujourd’hui.

In this session we discuss the parallel counternarratives of law, mythology and feminist epistemology to mitigate the embellished story of the journey to political modernity.

A specific ontology of prescriptivity takes us back to classical Rome and the roots of modern metaphysics. A strange fictional world of as-if where persons and things, rights and obligations, are legal artefacts that hardwire the underlying reality.

The ever-evolving Globinar is back in the form of Political Humanities Recitals. Its first session will feature an interdisciplinary debate concerning the renewed importance of a Political Humanities approach to both social sciences and contemporary global challenges