Antonio Trujillo’s @univmalaga.bsky.social presentation explored the topic of cosmopolitan friendship and the inclusive reach of the Aristotelian concept of philia politikê. Seminar "The People and its Enemies" @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

Was freedom defined in opposition to slavery or the otherness of the strangers in ancient Greece? Oscar-Daniel Lorente Martínez @ub.edu explored the question is his paper “Freedom as the telos of the citizen: communitarian membership and exclusion in Archaic Greece." @koneensaatio.fi

Photo @houmanauriell.bsky.social Thank you for the chair of the session @rosariolopez.bsky.social

Doc. Antti Lampinen’s (TIAS @utu.fi) keynote lecture "What is Wrong with Polemo? Thinking About Ethnic Discrimination in the Life and Writings of the Notorious Physiognomist" lead to lively discussions on the long historical continuations of ancient racializing thinking. @koneensaatio.fi

Prof. Andreas Føllesdal’s (@uio.no) keynote lecture "The Truths, Mistakes and Challenges of Populism" offered a multifaceted analysis of populism(s) of today. Seminar The People and its Enemies @univmalaga.bsky.social by ORT-project @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

Joel-Anthoney Bossous' (Duke University) presentation “In the Power of the Tongue: Necropower, Knowledge & Liberty” explored power and the extremely topical concept of epistemic injustice. With @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @rosariolopez.bsky.social Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

Senior lecturer Martina Reuter's (Origins of Racializing Thought -project, @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) presentation scrutinized debates over the citizenship of Jews in Finland, focusing on newspaper articles from 1872 and 1882. Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social

In the session "Inclusion/exclusion in the history of political philosophy", Giovanni Battista Soda (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) discussed the problem of racism in David Hume’s anthropology and politics. Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social

In the session "Populism and the Far-Right", Malin Grahn-Wilder (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social ,Origins of Racializing Thought -project @koneensaatio.fi ) analyzed cultural racism, and exclusive views on citizenship in Finland. With @rosariolopez.bsky.social Photo @houmanauriell.bsky.social

Populism was one of the topical questions discussed in the Acting Democratically -conference. Tomás Pacheco-Bethencourt (Univ. of Málaga) addressed this topic in his presentation “An Exclusionary Concept: Competing Definitions of ‘The People’ in Populist Democratic Theory and Republican Theory”.

Elad Carmel's presentation (@eladcarmel.bsky.social, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) “The Bubble: Utopia, Democracy, and (Contested) Inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest” opened fascinating perspectives both to democracy and the upcoming @eurovision.tv at Basel. Photo: @houmanauriell.bsky.social