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This is a time of change, the end of a world, a _kairos_ in which everything is possible, yet we remain stuck, lost in a labyrinth of myths that traps us in a seemingly inevitable present, and makes us so unable to imagine different futures that, in the face of the crisis of capitalism, we desperately cling to the status quo out of fear of what lies ahead.Dismantling this labyrinth has been the task Graeber pursued throughout his life: that’s why in these times we need his work more than ever, if we are to reclaim our collective capacity to reinvent ourselves
This is why we have chosen to dedicate a conference to his legacy:
it shall be three days:
- in Bologna, October the 6th
- Ravenna, October the 7th
- Reggio Emilia, October the 8th
We are as distrustful of the "monastic self" as Graeber was, and we want this to be as much of a conversation as possible: we will leave ample space for it and we will not invite the audience to ask questions, but to participate in the discussion.
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PROGRAMME
6 ottobre, 2025, Bologna
Aula Prodi, piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
David Graeber fra antropologia e filosofia
9:00 - 9:30 Luca Guidetti, Università di Bologna, Direttore Dipartimento di Filosofia
Welcome address
9:30 - 10:00 Lorenzo Vinciguerra, Sive Natura, Università di Bologna
Perché gli spinozisti leggono Graeber
10:00 - 10:30 Simona Ferlini, Sive Natura, Università di Bologna
Immaginazione e desiderio: note sull’antropologia filosofica di David Graeber
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Nicholas Smaligo, independent scholar
The War for the Human Imagination
11:30-12:00 Massimiliano Mollona, Università di Bologna:
Genocidio, lavoro ed immaginari di lotta. Per un'economia politica dell'alterità.
12:00 - 13:00 Conversation
13:00 - 14:00 Light lunch
14:00-14:45 Botteghe Spinoza 38:
my grandmother in a wheelbarrow
15:00 -17.30 round table: David Graeber and the Ontological Turn
Federico Venturini, University of Udine
Being, doing, and knowing otherwise: Graeber and mutual aid
Stefania Consigliere, Università di Genova
Magic and imagination. Against academic ‘bon ton’
Rastko P. Chirco Popovich, Università di Malta e Sive Natura
Beyond the de Castro-Graeber Debate: Graeber’s Reading of Marylin Strathern’s Post-Plurality
Marco Manca, Fondazione Scimpulse
The Poiesis of Ignorance. Epistemology as Struggle for the World
7 Ottobre 2025, Ravenna
Artificerie Almagià, Via dell’Almagià 3
Imagining the abolition of the present state of affairs
9:00 - 9:30: Welcome address
9:30- 11:30 Conversation: radical democracy and social ecology (EN)
Marisa Holmes, Rutgers University
Fabio Carnevali, Sive Natura, Università di Palermo
Debbie Bookchin, Bookchin Foundation
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex, A Kaddish for Tikki Tikki Tembo
Elif Sarican,
Franco Berardi
11:30-12:00 break
12:00 - 13:00 Anarchia e antropologia I
Stefano Boni Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Le antropologie anarchiche di David Graeber
Erica Lagalisse, London School of Economics
Anarchy and anthropology
13:00-14:00 break
14:00 - 15:40 Anarchia e antropologia II
14:00 - 14:30 Francesco Codello
Idee per un anarchismo positivo
14:30 - 15:00 Giovanna Gioli
Pensare da anarchici
15:00- 15:30 Conversazione
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Giancarlo Norese e Cesare Pietroiusti (artisti, Fondazione Lac o Le Mon)
“Ci vuole del caso, dell'involontario, del gratuito”
8 Ottobre 2025, Reggio Emilia
Value and values
DCE Unimore, palazzo Dossetti, Aula riunioni, secondo piano.
9:30 Welcoming address
10:00 - 10:30 Federico Montanari, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia:
Theories of value between Graeber, semiotics, economic sociology, and Actor Network Theory: critiques and cross-perspectives
10:30-11:00 Francesco Zanotelli, Università di Firenze
La potenza della natura e il valore di Graeber: spunti etnografici
11:00-11:30 break
11:30-12:00 Pasquale Menditto, University of Bologna
Prima del giubileo. La visione di Graeber per un’altra fine del mondo (capitalistico)
12:00-12:30 Veronique Dutraive, Université de Lyon
Values versus economic interests: David Graeber and behavioral economics
12:30-13:00 Andrea Buchetti, Università di Roma la Sapienza
Giocare, scegliere, creare. Il 'valore' di David Graeber nell'antropologia del gioco
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
Biblioteca Panizzi, via Carlo Farini, 3
14:00 - 14:30 Marco Mietto, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Councillor for Culture and Youth
Welcome and introduction
14:00-14:30 L. Randall Wray, Levy Economics Institute:
Defining Value
14:30-15:00 Julio Linares, Economic Anthropologist, Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network:
Decolonizing Money: or, why we must abolish the US Dollar.
15:00-15:30 Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex:
Dreaming with Value: Rereading Graeber Against the Grain of His Own Work
15:30 Stefano Montes, Università di Palermo
Building on Graeber: anthropological indisciplines
16:00 -17:00 Conversation
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Aula Giorgio Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2, 40124 Bologna BO, Italia, Bologna, Italy
