Program

Thursday, 26/06/2025  

Venue: Edifici Llevant, Campus Mundet

8.30-8.50 Registration 

8.50-9.00 Conference Opening and Welcome Address 

9.00-10.00 Invited Lecture 1  

Conrad Vilanou Torrano (University of Barcelona) 

Formació humana i restricció alexitímica: vivències iniciàtiques, tedi escolar i  subversió dels sentits 

Human formation and alexithymic restriction: initiatory experiences, school tedium, and  subversion of the senses 

10.00-10.20 Coffee break 

10.20-11.50 Session 1 

Voices of sympathetic dissent: history of education for the present 

Megan Walsh (Fordham University) 

A Cannon to the Philosophical Canon and a Radical Reorientation Towards an Elsewhere 

Núria Sara Miras (University of Barcelona), Laura Camas (Complutense University  of Madrid) 

De la ética a la estética: el sympathetic understanding de Jane Addams como fundamento de la  vida social en el modelo de educación ciudadana progresiva 

From ethics to aesthetics: Jane Addams’ sympathetic understanding as the foundation of social life in the  model of citizen progressive education. 

Carla Schriever (IU Internationale Hochschule) 

Pathos as a Practice of Freedom: bell hooks and the Transformative Power of Emotions  in Education  

12.00-14.00 Session 2 

The teacher-students relationship. An emotional conundrum 

Shiying Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 

The role of emotions in promoting self-respect and belonging 

Satya Prasoon (NALSAR University) 

Pedagogical Thought and Morality of Emotions: Designing Classrooms as Vibrant Public  Realm  

Eric Ortega, Laura Fontán (University of Barcelona) 

Tacto pedagógico y ejemplaridad: ¿fenómenos pedagógicos vecinos? 

Pedagogical tact and exemplarity: neighboring pedagogical phenomena? 

Joan González (University of the Balearic Islands) 

Una fenomenología del component dels contingut en la relación ensenyament aprenentatge: sobre els límits dels afectes en les relacions educatives 

A phenomenology of the content component in the teaching-learning relationship: on the limits of affects in  educational relationships 

14.00-15.15 Lunch break 

15.15-17.15 Session 3 

Negativeness, alteration and affection: experiencing alienation 

Shilpi Singh (Krea University) 

Self and Subjectivities: A Pedagogy of Pathos through the Reading of Manu and Ambedkar  

Gülberk Koç Maclean (Mount Royal University, Calgary) 

Opening the door of cognition through emotions 

Tony Baugh (University of Edinburgh) 

Moral Apathy and Cultural Anamnesis 

Mai-Britt Ruff (Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen) 

The Many Face(t)s of Shame in Educational Thought 

17.15-17.30 Coffee break 

17.30-18.30 Invited Lecture 2 

Malte Brinkmann (Humboldt University of Berlin)  

Understanding and describing. Phenomenological and intercultural  considerations on emotions (in Chinese classrooms)

18.30-20.00 Session 4 

Embodied emotions and subjectification 

Noemí Duran (University of Barcelona) 

Situacions i gestos pedagògics per una dimensió estètica a la deriva 

Pedagogical situations and gestures for an aesthetic dimension adrift 

Laia Ferrús, Macarena del Pilar Morales López, Ana María Novella Cámara (University of Barcelona) 

Reconocerse pionero alimenta la construcción de la identidad ciudadana: pathos, narrativa y  agencia en la participación infantile 

Recognizing oneself as a pioneer nourishes the construction of citizen identity: pathos, narrative, and agency  in early childhood’s participation 

Macarena del Pilar Morales López, Ana María Novella Cámara, Montserrat Payà  Sánchez, Ana María Ayuste González, Laia Ferrús (University of Barcelona) Espacios subjetivadores y la construcción de ciudadanía en infancias subalternas Subjectivizing spaces and the construction of citizenship in subaltern childhoods 

Friday 27/06/2025 

Venue: Aula Sanvisens, Edifici Llevant, Campus Mundet  

9.00-11.00 Session 5 

Going back and moving forward: Educative pathos in ancient philosophy 

Chrysoula Gitsoulis (City College, City University of New York) Aristotle on the educative aspect of drama  

Marc Zapata Pedrosa (University of Barcelona) 

L’educació en el dolor com a mesura contra el vici. Reconstrucció d’una possible pedagogia  aristotélica 

Education in pain as a measure against vice. Reconstructing a possible Aristotelian pedagogy 

Roser Homar (University of Barcelona) 

Somatització emocional i catarsi: defensa de l’educació emocional en la dansa  d’època imperial 

Emotional somatization and catharsis: defense of emotional education in imperial-era dance 

Ivan Nišavić (University of Belgrade) 

The Emotional Dimension of Scholē: Ancient Leisure as a Path to Education  11.00-11.15 Coffee break 

11.15-12.15 Invited Lecture 3 

Luigina Mortari (University of Verona) 

La colla della ragione: educazione affettiva ed etica  

The glue of reason: affective and ethical education 

12.15-14.15 Session 6 

Activating pathos: caring as a form of being and doing 

Wilfried Göttlicher (University of Graz) 

Beyond Pathos and More than an Emotion: Biophilia, a Forgotten Way of Being Human 

Jairo Alonso Jiménez (Sabana University) 

Educación ambiental y ética del cuidado: Hacia una relación más profunda con el mundo  natural 

Environmental education and ethics of care: Towards a deeper relationship with the natural world 

Antonio Pinilla Torres (Tilburg University-KU Leuven) 

The role of emotions in the justification of education 

Jorge Costa Delgado (University of Alcalá) 

¿En qué condiciones es viable una educación emocional democrática en la crisis del  neoliberalismo? 

Under what conditions is a democratic emotional education possible in the crisis of neoliberalism?

14.15-15.30. Lunch break 

15.30-16.30 Invited Lecture 4 

Eulàlia Collelldemont Pujadas (University of Vic) 

Joguina?, ceptre? o tal vegada bastida? Investigar sobre l’educació de la  sensibilitat des seqüències de significats 

Toy? Scepter? Or perhaps scaffolding? Investigating the education of sensitivity through  sequences of meaning 

16.45-17.45 Session 7 

Is Spare time a waste time? On playing and texting in the digital era 

Emma Grau, Iris Lázaro (University of Barcelona) 

Més enllà de divertir-se: crítiques ludològiques a la gamificació 

Beyond having fun: ludological critiques of gamification 

María Casas Bañares (Complutense University of Madrid) 

Educación y amor en la era digital: entre la fidelidad, la renovación y la amenaza del olvido  Education and love in the digital age: between fidelity, renewal, and the threat of oblivion 

17.45-18.45 Session 8 

Experiencing emotions through reading. The place of literature 

Anna Laura Díaz Iglesias (Universidad de Valencia) 

Literatura, emoció i ensenyament: una reflexió des de “Parricidi” 

Literature, emotion, and teaching: a reflection from “Parricidi” 

Raul Arango (University of Barcelona ) 

Pathos y educación en Albert Camus: de la emoción de lo absurdo a la rebeldía incesante Pathos and education in Albert Camus: from the emotion of the absurd to ceaseless rebellion  

18.45-19.00 Closing words