The complex and multifaceted relationship between Islam and human rights has given rise to increasingly high-profile debates over the past decade, both in the Islamic world and in Western contexts. – While addressing the often-posed question of the ‘reconciliation’ of Islam and human rights, the conference will seek to move beyond this binary framing of the subject, forcing us to probe our perhaps preconceived understandings of the universality of human rights and the presumed secularity of many of our national states…

Due to the pandemic, the study day on “Cognitive Literary Studies: Theories, Methodologies, and Challenges” has been transformed into an interdisciplinary and international book project. Now, at the end of the project, Professor Jean Ehret will address the topic of the “power of literature” through the lens of literary aesthetics, and engage with the participants into a lively exchange…

Pour animer la discussion autour du phénomène sociétal de la « distanciation » liée à la pandémie, un Webinar de présentation du livre d i s t a n z a aura lieu le 9 avril prochain. Le débat sera introduit par le Pr Gianluca Cuozzo ; y participeront les professeurs Sara Nosari (Turin), João Maria André (Coimbra), Jean Ehret (Luxembourg) e Sandro Mancini (Palermo)…