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Schelling Tag 2026: “Nature and Agency” (Padova, 24-25 September, 2026)

September 24, 2026 University of Padova
Sala delle Edicole

Piazza Capitaniato 3, Padova

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We are very glad to give notice of the International Conference Schelling Tag 2026: Nature and Agency.

The event will take place on September, 24th-25th at the University of Padova (Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio, Piazza Capitaniato 3) and on Zoom.

The Schelling Tag 2026 is organized by Luca Illetterati and Giulia Bernard in cooperation with the Internationale Schelling-Gesellschaft e.V. It is dedicated to the memory of Gian Franco Frigo (1941-2025).

To attend via Zoom, please email giulia.bernard@unipd.it.

Below you can find the presentation of the event and the program of the conference.

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The Schelling Tag 2026 is dedicated to exploring the concept of agency in Schelling’s thought, with a particular focus on his radical reconceptualization of nature and its implications for key notions such as subjectivity, objectivity, and life. The conference investigates how Schelling’s rethinking of ‘nature’ may challenge modern accounts of agency grounded in autonomy, intentionality, and subject-centered action, by developing a dynamic and relational understanding of acting, productivity, and self-determination.

 

Thursday, September 24th, 2026

Palazzo del Capitanio, Sala delle Edicole

15:00 Welcome and Introduction – Luca Illetterati (Università di Padova)

15:30 – 16:45: Ulrich Schlösser (Universität Tübingen), Schelling on the Combination of Idealism and Realism in the Conception of Freedom and the Real Possibility of Evil

17:00 – 18:15: Benjamin Berger (University of Hartford), Schelling, a Stoic?

Coffee break

18:35 – 19:20 Abendvortrag: Lore Hühn (Universität Freiburg – Internationale Schelling Gesellschaft e.V.), Das Böse im Anthropozän ? Überlegungen zur Aktualität einer Grundkonstellation bei Schelling 

 

Friday, September 25th, 2026

Palazzo del Capitanio, Sala delle Edicole

10:00 – 12:30 New research perspectives – Chair: Giulia Bernard (Università di Padova)

Laura Follesa (Università di Cagliari), Urwissen – Urlebendig:  Origins of Knowledge and the Life of Nature from Schelling’s Timaeus to the Weltalter

Tommaso Mauri (Istituto Universitario Sophia), Towards Ecological Agency: Schelling on Nature as Productive Totality

Ludovica Neri (Università di Bologna), Nature, Agency, and Freedom: A Phenomenological Account of Schelling’s Late Philosophy of Nature

Lunch break

Chair: Vicki Müller-Lüneschloß (Internationale Schelling Gesellschaft e.V.)

14:30 – 15:45: Charlotte Alderwick (University of West of England Bristol), Agency, freedom and evil in Schelling

16:00 – 17:15: Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney), Organism, Organisation, and Construction in Schelling’s Naturphilosophie

17:30 Concluding remarks

 

Scientific Direction: Luca Illetterati, Giulia Bernard

Organizing Committee: Giulia Bernard, Mattia Megli

 

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Schelling Tag 2026: “Nature and Agency” (Padova, 24-25 September, 2026)