ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE FILOSOFÍA INTERCULTURAL
INTERNATIONALE SCHULE FÜR INTERKULTURELLE PHILOSOPHIE
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY
ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILOSOPHIE INTERCULTURELLE
PHILOSOPHY - SPIRITUALITY - SOCIETY
For a plural coexistence in a common world
EIFI - International School for Intercultural Philosophy
The EIFI understands itself as a "school-community" for a plural coexistence in a common world, open to all those who share its objectives and want to help in its realisation.
The EIFI Seminar Series
The EIFI seminar series - an initiative founded and coordinated by Raúl Fornet-Betancourt - have started in 2018 with a course on the school's three main areas of focus: philosophy, spirituality and society.
The following year, a five-part series of seminars adresses the question of Europe's dialogue with its diversity. The question of identities is being discussed in order to explore perspectives for living together in an intercultural Europe that is renewing itself from its regions.
EIFI Seminar Series 2019: EUROPE IN DIALOGUE WITH ITS OWN DIVERSITY
>> First Seminar: Philosophical thinking and questions of identity in Southeast Europe:
Albania - Croatia - Macedonia - Serbia
>> Second Seminar: Philosophical thinking and questions of identity in Eastern Europe:
Bulgaria - Russia - Poland
>> Third Seminar: Philosophical thinking and questions of identity in the European Mediterranean region: Greece - Italy - France - Spain
>> Fourth Seminar: Philosophical thinking and questions of identity in Catalonia
>> Fifth Seminar: Europe's dialogue with its diversity: answers to populism and nihilism?
EIFI Seminar Series 2020: AFFECTIVITY, KNOWLEDGE, HUMAN SOUL
Faced withthe challenge of new technologies, especially with their transhumanist and"post-humanist" project, the EIFI Seminar Series 2020 invites you to a critical reflection on the need to continue to focuson the “humanity”of man. Thus, the cuestion for the relation between affectivity, knowledge, human soul takes center stage.
>> First Seminar: Humanist ethos, affectivity and melancholy (short report)
>> Second Seminar: Affectivity, knowledge, human soul. Contributions from the Ignatian tradition.
>> Third Seminar: Affectivity and knowledge from Maria Zambrano (conference report)
EIFI Seminar Series 2021: IN TIMES OF PANDEMIA
EIFI Seminar Series 2021 starts with three seminars focussing on Latin America.
In the fourth Seminar, which will again take place as a face-to-face Seminar, the results of a survey conducted by CESFN, EIFI and Unitierra on the impact of the pandemic will be presented and discussed.
>> First Seminar: Christian Philosophy and popular devotion (engl.) - (short presentation)
>> Second Seminar: Brasil 2016-2021: entre o golpe, o cristofascismo e a necropolitica (port.)
>> Third Seminar: Violencia, pandemia y gobernabilidad (span.)
>> Fourth Seminar: What changes the pandemic situation has brought with it ?
EIFI Seminar Series 2022: AFFECTIVITY AND COGNITION
This seminar series takes up the thematic focus "Affectivity, cognition, human soul" of the EIFI seminar series 2020 in order to develop it further.
>> First Seminar: Loneliness in the world today (report)
>> Second Seminar: Affectivity and Cognition (Span.)
>> Third Seminar: Metanoia: a cultural turn (Span.)
EIFI Seminar Series 2023: EUROPE AND PEACE
>> First Seminar: Catalonia. The legacy of Lluís Maria Xirinacs for a Culture of Peace. (Catalan.)
>> Second Seminar: 33 years after 1989/90: Texts and Theses on Peace and Non-Violence. (Span.)
>> Third Seminar: Peace in Russian Thought. (Span.)
>> Fourth Seminar: Jesuit Tradition in the Iberian School of Peace: Contributions to Peace and Dialogue with our Times. (Span.)
EIFI Seminar Series 2024: HUMAN VALUES
>> Second Seminar: Recognizing the good and doing the truth. A philosophical approach to the virtues. (Span.)
UPCOMING EVENTS:
>> Third Seminar: The earth and human values
Date: 28. Date: September, 28 and 29, 2024
>> Viertes Seminar: The impacto of human values in the CESFN Foundation
Date: November 22 and 23, 2024
CONGRESSES OF INTERCULTURAL PHILOSOPHY
>> Acts of the EIFI Seminar series 2019:
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (ed.),
Europa im Dialog mit seiner Diversität.
Europa en diálogo con su diversidad.
Europe in dialogue with its own diversity.
Concordia. Série Monografías. Vol. 74,
Aachen 2020
ISBN : 978-3-95886-353-8
In Dialogue with the Cultural Diversity of Humanity
This series of philosophical congresses founded and coordinated by Raúl Fornet-Betancourt continues since the first congress in 1995 in Mexico City in the rhythm of two years. The central intention is to transform philosophy into a dialogue with the cultural diversity of humanity, and thus to lay the foundation for a more just and supportive coexistence in cultural diversity.
These congresses have been organised in different local contexts in Latin America (Mexico City, 1995; São Leopoldo, Brazil, 1997; Buenos Aires, 2007; San José de Costa Rica, 2011; Santo Domingo, 2015, Medellín 2019), in Asia (Bangalore, 2001; Seoul, 2009), and in Europe (Aachen, 1999; Seville, 2003; Senftenberg, 2005; Vienna, 2013; Barcelona, 2018; Aachen 2022).
The central themes of the conferences include: cultures of philosophy, interaction and asymmetries between cultures in the context of globalisation; conceptions of the human being and interculturality; universality and cultural justice.
This series of conferences is in addition to the research project on "Justice, knowledge, spirituality", with the thematic focus:
formation, spirituality and university
>> XI Congress (Santo Domingo, 2015)
>> XII Congress (Barcelona, 2017)
>> XIII Congress (Medellín, 2019)
>> XIV Congress (Aachen, 2022)
>> XV Congress (Santiago de Chile, 2024)
Acts of the XIV International Congress of Intercultural Philosophy:
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg./Ed.)
Vernünftige Hoffnung - hoffende Vernunft. Quellen der Hoffnung in schwierigen Zeiten.
Reasonable Hope - hopeful reason. Sources of hope in difficult times.
Esperanza razonable - razón esperanzada. Fuentes de esperanza en tiempos difíciles.
Espoir raisonnable - raison qui espère. Sources d'espoir en temps difficiles.
Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität. Bd. 48, Aachen 2023
>> Foreword and
Contents
International Seminars of the North-South Dialogue Program
Promoting plural coexistence in a common world
Since the first seminar in 1989 in Freiburg i. Br. (Germany), the interdisciplinary seminars, initiated and coordinated by Raul Fornet-Betancourt, have been organised every two years. In the change of meeting places, intercultural exchange continually opens up to new contextual life-worlds and makes them centres of debate on the great questions of humanity.
These seminars have been organised in different contextual places in Latin America (Mexico, 1991, 2002 and 2014; Brazil, 1993 and 2010; San Salvador, 1998), in Asia (India, 2007); and in Europe (Germany, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2011; 2019; Spain, 2004, 2008, 2013, 2017 and 2023).
From a philosophical exchange between the ethics of discourse and the ethics of liberation/philosophy of liberation, this dialogue programme has been dedicated since the 1980s to social challenges: poverty, human rights, democracy in cultures, globalisation, justice and solidarity, and the encounter between cultures of knowledge and wisdom.
This series of conferences is in addition to the research project on "Justice, knowledge, spirituality", with the thematic focus:
spirituality and society
>> XVII Seminar (Chiapas/Mexico, 2014)
>> XVIII Seminar (Sevilla, 2018)
>> XIX Seminar (Aachen, 2019)
>> XX Seminar (Barcelona, 2023)
Acts of the XIX International Seminar of the North-South Dialogue Program:
Raúl Fornet-Betancourt (Hrsg./Ed.)
Religionen als Lebens- und Denkformen.
Religions as Ways of Life and Thinking.
Religiones como formas de vida y de pensamiento.
Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität. Bd. 47),
Aachen 2020
