11/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Seminar Room 01
Proponent:
Brandodoro N.
Chair:
Álvarez C.
Speaker:
Álvarez C.,
Brandodoro N.,
Bruckner I.,
Eleven M.,
Grez López E.J.,
Guglielmi G.
On the occasion of the centenary of Michel de Certeau's birth (1925-1986), this panel aims to present a multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of "place" as a pivotal interpretative key across the breadth of his work. The panel seeks to examine how "place" functions in Certeau's thought as a locus of socio-cultural, political, and spiritual transformations, drawing on historical, philosophical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, and theological perspectives. This epistemological question highlights - as well - the consequences of social and political involvement in producing any scientific and spiritual discourse.
Central to this discussion is the intricate relationship between place and alterity. The panel will investigate Certeau's reinterpretation of the "interior place" in modern mysticism, the "place" of institutional power in contrast with the "space" of creative resistance and anarchic daily practices, the historian's "place" in relation to the past, and the "place" of the unconscious in historical and psychoanalytic praxis. This dynamic tension between place and space, topos and heterotopia, destabilizes conventional spatial categories, offering novel perspectives on "place" as an expression of desire, memory, language and social practice in shaping the modern European identity.
The gathering is intended to contribute significantly to the study of a central theme in contemporary thought and to encourage dialogue on Michel de Certeau's theoretical and methodological legacy within the humanities.