New book

We recommend the new publication on clinical ethics consultation in PL, edited by Joanna Różyńska. Look inside.

International Academy of Law and Mental Health July 22nd-26th 2024

We are calling for submittions for the upcoming International Academy of Law and Mental Health’s (Montréal, IALMH) XXXVIIIth Congress in cooperation with the Académie Internationale d’Éthique, Médecine et Politique Publique (Paris, IAMEPH) which is being held at the faculty of law at the University of Barcelona from July 22nd-26th, 2024.

The registration fees will include luncheons and special events according to the tradition of the IALMH. 

In the event that there are colleagues who, for special reasons, would need assistance with registration fees, there is a possibility of special assistance.
 

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, “The Importance of Socialist States’ Experiences for Ecosocialism”, 3rd June, 3 p.m. CEST, online

We invite you to participate in a seminar “Philosophy and Social Movements”. The seminar guest will be Professor Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro who will deliver a talk “The Importance of Socialist States’ Experiences for Ecosocialism”.

The seminar will be held 3rd June 2023 (Saturday) at 3 p.m. CEST.
Registration link: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArfuyuqz0rGtzlX03RegFLX6459z44N2I6

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is professor at the Geography Department and Environmental Studies of SUNY New Paltz. His most recent books are Socialist States and Environment and Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism (with G. Martin). His research areas include soil contamination and acidification, urban food production, dialectical materialism, and socialism and environment. He teaches courses on physical geography, gender and environment, people-environment relations, socialism, and soils. He is Senior Editor for Capitalism Nature Socialism and Reviews Editor for Human Geography.

The seminar is organized within a scope of the project “Ideas of progress and development in the context of climate crisis in peripheral philosophies in XXI century” – National Science Centre, Poland, Opus 22, grant no 2021/43/B/HS1/03354 – realized at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, and in the collaboration with “Le Monde diplomatique – edycja polska”, Foundation Instytut Wydawniczy “Książka i Prasa” and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Michael Löwy ,”Beyond ‘development’: ecosocialist degrowth”, 22nd April 2023, 3 p.m. CEST, online

We invite to you to participate in a seminar „Philosophy and Social Movements”. The seminar guest will be Professor Michael Löwy who will deliver a talk “Beyond ‘development’: ecosocialist degrowth”.

Michael Löwy, born in Brazil, lives in Paris. He is the Emerit Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris. His books and articles have been translated into 29 languages. His main publications include: “Georg Lukács : From Romanticism to Bolchevism”, Verso, 1981; “Romanticism against the current of modernity” (with Robert Sayre), Duke, Duke University Press, 2001; “Fire Alarm. Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the concept of history ‘”, London, Verso, 2005; “The Theory of Revolution of the Young Marx”, Chicago, Haymarket, 2005.

The seminar will be held 22nd April 2023 (Saturday) at 3 p.m. CEST.
Registration link: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqf-isrDwtGdD7gWolbsp53N8Gp7AwaY_C

The seminar is organized within a scope of the project “Ideas of progress and development in the context of climate crisis in peripheral philosophies in XXI century” – National Science Centre, Poland, Opus 22, grant no 2021/43/B/HS1/03354 – realized at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, and in the collaboration with “Le Monde diplomatique – edycja polska”, Foundation Instytut Wydawniczy „Książka i Prasa” and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.