INVITED SPEAKERS
Guy StandingGuy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right.
He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014). In his recently published book, The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty (2023), he focuses on how the definition and use of time is a political tool that reflects fundamental beliefs and values about the orientation of life and labor. As the theme of his presentation, Professor Standing will outline a proposal for a new politics of time, which could liberate us and help save the planet, through strengthening real leisure and working together through commoning. |
Chris ArmstrongChris Armstrong is a Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton and a member of various research groups, such as the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and the Centre for Democratic Futures.
He works in normative political theory and is the author of A Blue New Deal: Why We Need A New Politics for the Ocean (Yale University Press, 2022), Why Global Justice Matters (Polity 2019), Justice and Natural Resources (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Global Distributive Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His current research ranges across issues of conservation justice, natural resource justice, global justice, climate justice, and territorial rights. Professor Armstrong's presentation will build on his A Blue New Deal, providing an account of the oceans’ state, the environmental and political crises that currently characterize it, and proposing political solutions that are able to tackle them. |
Bernhard SyllaBernhard Sylla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), at the University of Minho. He is also the vice-president of the Portuguese Association of Phenomenological Philosophy (AFFEN).
His research interests include the analytic and continental tradition of philosophy of language, the phenomenological tradition of philosophy, especially Husserl and Heidegger, and more recently the philosophy of technology related to philosophers like Anders, Blumenberg, Sloterdijk, Marcuse. He is the author of various books, translations, and peer-reviewed papers on philosophers mentioned above (Heidegger, Sloterdijk, Anders, Adorno, etc.). Alongside books on continental philosophy of language, he co-edited two books on Phenomenology (published in 2017), was the co-editor and translator of Dessauer’s Philosophy of Technology (2018). Professor Sylla's presentation will focus on work he has developed about the Anthropocene as a philosophical object and concept which allows an understanding of the environmental crisis in a broader and critical perspective. |
Nicola PirasNicola Piras is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), at the University of Minho, where he runs a project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) on the conceptual and normative dimensions of food waste. Additionally, he is a coordinator at Culinary Mind, an international centre for the philosophy of food.
He works primarily at the interplay between food, cultures, and the environment. His goal is to explore the conceptual, ontological, and normative dimensions surrounding food production, consumption, and waste, along with their profound impact on the world and societies at large. Before joining CEPS, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Milan and an adjunct professor in the joint program ‘Philosophy, Politics, and Public Affairs (PPPA)’ of the University of Milan (Italy) and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Italy). He received his Ph.D. in environmental sciences and philosophy of science from the University of Sassari (Italy). Along the way, he spent a visiting period at Columbia University (USA). He graduated from the University of Pavia (Italy) and was an Erasmus student at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany). Nicola Piras will present on the development of philosophical tools to revise and ameliorate concepts related to food production and consumption, ensuring their continued effectiveness in the face of environmental threats. |