PWL International Seminar
Date: Every last Thursday of the month | 8 PM (CET)
Location: ONLINE
The PWL International Seminar is a monthly online lecture-and-discussion series convened by the International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) in collaboration with Palinode. Building on the earlier “Mapping PWL” seminar series, the relaunch brings together scholars and practitioners working across traditions, methods, and fields to explore dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself.
Each session features a substantial lecture of presentation followed by moderated discussion. Recordings are published for wider public access through the Palinode Substack and curated on the ISPWL seminar page, creating a durable, international archive of contemporary work in—and adjacent to—Philosophy as a Way of Life.
Schedule
| March 26 | 8 PM (CET) | David Haney “Hermeneutics as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Leadership in an Age of Instrumental Individualism” Recording available here. |
| April 30 | 8 PM (CET) | Kam Bellamy & Philip Francis “Philosophy as a Way of Life and Humane-Formative Higher Education: Practice Grounds for Living and Transforming Oneself” Recording available here. |
| May 28 | 8 PM (CET) | Matteo Stettler “Intellectual Happiness in XIV-century Bologna: Reading Gentile of Cingoli and Related Texts“ Recording available here. |
| June 25 | 8 PM (CET) | Lucas Nascimento Machado “Affability, Attention to the Present and Cosmic Consciousness: Byung-Chul Han and Philosophy as a Way of Life” Recording available here. |
| September 24 | 8 PM (CET) | Jennifer A. Baker “Four Unique Features of Stoicism: How They Enable and Hinder PWL” Recording available here. |
| October 29 | 8 PM (CET) | Charles Johnson “A PWL Conversation with Charles Johnson: The Spiritual Exercises of Novels and Cartoons” |
| November 19 | 8 PM (CET) | Leonard Waks “Formation and the Liberal Arts” |
| December 17 | 8 PM (CET) | Maeusz Janik “Confucian Robes, Jesuit Body On Monism and the Early Modern Origins of Comparative Philosophy” |
| January 21 | 8 PM (CET) | Laura Cremonesi “Michel Foucault and The “Vie Autre,” Or The Otherness Of The Cynics’ Philosophical Life” |
| February 25 | 8 PM (CET) | Laura Anna Macor “‘Gymnastics of the Spirit.’ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Philosophy as a Way of Life” |
| March 25 | 8 PM (CET) | Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna TBD |
| April 29 | 8 PM (CET) | Beto Cavallari “Corporate Cosmology” |
| May 27 | 8 PM (CET) | Gleb Sharygin “Rationality and mysticism in early Buddhism in comparative perspective: a call for a change of paradigm” |
Attendance
If you wish to attend the sessions, please become a member of the ISPWL by clicking the button “Join Us” below.
If you are already a member, you will automatically receive the link for each one of the sessions.