Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Chiara Stefanoni

Lehrveranstaltungen

Unruly Subjects: Wild Children, Disability, and the Limits of the Human (Seminar)

Inhalt: Foundational for modern Western philosophy, particularly in its entanglement with the then-emerging “human sciences” (anthropology, pedagogy, sociology), is the nature/culture dualism – a prism through which the problem of “human nature” is refracted, the question about the naturalness (or animality) of the human and of their humanity. The human in the state of nature versus the human who has entered into the law of culture, of language, as framed by Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. But how does one “transition” from one state to the other? How does one become properly human? With the Enlightenment emerges the theme of education and, along with it – for the first time – the theme of childhood. Why does this problematic arise at this particular moment? How is the child positioned within this nature/culture dualism? And what about those kids and youths without language, like the so-called wild children found in the forests between the 18th and 19th centuries? Can they be educated into culture, into language? This course begins with such questions in order to critically analyze and deconstruct the modern philosophical discourse around nature/culture, focusing on some of its classic expressions (in particular, Rousseau and Jean Itard’s memoirs on the wild boy of Aveyron). Secondly, these themes will be revisited through the lens of today’s critical disability studies and critical animal studies, including contributions from the later 20th century – particularly the work of Fernand Deligny with non-verbal autistic children.

From Green to Machine? Nature and Artifice in the Anthropocene (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 13.10.2025 - 31.12.2025 | C 14.102 a Seminarraum
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 07.01.2026 - 30.01.2026 | C 25.019 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Where has (the debate on) climate change gone? What has become of the climate justice movement today? Does it still make sense to talk about the Anthropocene? It seems that until five years ago, everything was green, sustainable, environmental, in short, natural, while today – after the watershed moment of COVID-19 – the “artificial” dominates, particularly in the form of omnipresent artificial intelligence. At all levels of society, including universities, we are witnessing a shift from the green transition to the AI transition. Starting from a philosophical reflection on the natural/artificial dualism, the course aims to address issues related to the climate crisis (in particular, revitalizing the debate on the Anthropocene) in light of and in interaction with the ‘new’ questions, imaginaries, and specific problems posed by the race towards artificial intelligence. What is Nature? Artifice? Intelligence? Who is this Anthropos (Human)? To try to answer these questions, the course articulates an interdisciplinary path between philosophy, anthropology, ecofeminism, postcolonial studies, and critical digital studies.