Carlo Salzani

Dr. Zipporah Weisberg gives a lecture on humanism at the University of Vienna (Photo Credit: Oliver Hirtenfelder) On November 11, 2025, Dr. Zipporah Weisberg – who teaches at the University of Ottawa and is a guest researcher at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna – gave a compelling talk at the University of Vienna’s Department of Philosophy. Her central message was both surprising and refreshing: despite decades of critique, the humanist tradition still contains valuable resources...

On the 10th of September, Dr Leonie Bossert started the Vienna Animal Studies (VAS) 2025 Winter Lecture Series by asking whether geoengineering has the potential to help animals or if it just presents another “techno-fix” informed by ideas of human domination.

Receipt of works in the form of scientific articles, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images or other formats that reflect on the theme, with a deadline of June 30, 2025 . Two and a half millennia ago, Aristotle provided Western political philosophy with a model that would establish the coordinates that define and organize politics and subjectivity in the West: in Book I of his Politics , he defined "man" (the masculine in the English translation, absent in the Greek anthropos ,...