Le Cercle Benvensite s’est réuni pour discuter les fins de l’article de John McWhorter pulié dans le site New York Times.

Carlo Illuminati Porcari (University of Calgary) This paper aims to clarify three key issues of the political praxis, which Machiavelli considers the most difficult and risky human activity: because of both the intellectual capacity to establish an adequate plan for power and the valour required to achieve it. The term that unites the two capacities…

Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) Since the 1980s, a new focus on art patronage and art collecting by women has emerged. Scholars explore the collecting and sponsorship of art projects by women, whose intentions were to honor themselves making a statement of their pedigree, power, and nobility. Indeed, female patrons not only celebrated their lineage,…

Nataša Raschi (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) La linguis:que et les mathéma:ques sont deux disciplines souvent et injustement opposées alors qu’elles sont en dialogue permanent, car la langue est la spécificité de la science dure, dans le sens de la précision cogni:ve, de l’élabora:on applica:ve et de la communica:on interpréta:ve. En par:culier, la…

Presented by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary) Chernobyl has a symbolic meaning for several generations of east Europeans. It is both the place of the catastrophic nuclear explosion, a representation of a post-apocalyptic landscape, and an eloquent demonstration of the Anthropocene. The mainstream of artistic investigation, which is well known in the West, is realized…