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What is twist!?

twist! is a thematic workshop on the history of thought hosted by the University of Turin. The workshop brings together early-stage researchers and established scholars from different fields of historical inquiry. Activities focus mainly on the (Early- and Late-) Modern and Contemporary periods. The working languages are English, French and Italian.

Organizers and scientific board

The workshop is organized by the students (38^th cycle) in History of Philosophical and Scientific Thought of the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (FINO) doctoral program. The scientific coordinators of the initiative are Giuseppe Cospito (University of Pavia), Paola Rumore (University of Turin) and Paolo Tripodi (University of Turin).

Twistory

The workshop was founded in 2022-23. In the first edition, it ran under the name his/tho and took the form of a work-in-progress seminar open to MA and PhD students of the University of Turin. Since the academic year 2023-24, twist! has been part of the teaching activities provided by the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium doctoral program.

Upcoming sessions

This academic year, the workshop will have eight meetings in two sessions. The first session will run from November 2023 to January 2024 and will explore the theme of what is a non-standard source in the history of thought. The second session will take place from January to February 2024. It will address the geopolitical motifs that shape how philosophical and scientific communities represent themselves and their activity.

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Non-standard sources in the history of thought

Nov 23, 2023-Jan 15, 2024

University of Turin and Zoom: Join the meeting!

What is a non-standard source in the history of thought? Focusing on different kinds of historical documents (e.g., translations, poems, diaries and travel reports, clandestine literature and replications of chymical experiments), the talks will highlight some nuances of this quality of 'being non-standard' for a historical source. What does the history of modern philology tell us about the history of ordinary language philosophy in the U.S.? And how does reproducing the experiments performed by sixteenth-century alchemists help us understand how mineral resources were studied (and exploited) in pre-industrialized Europe? A non-standard quality in historical sources also surfaces whenever they do not meet the gold standard of knowledge production in a given historical period. Why Early-Modern philosophy was cast in verses from time to time and circulated in clandestine trajectories? And what is the relationship between the production of natural histories in Early-Modern Europe and the development of natural knowledge in more remote areas of the globe at that time?

Geopolitiche delle rappresentazioni intellettuali

Jan 25-Feb 12, 2024 | University of Turin and Zoom

Il ciclo di tre incontri sarà dedicato ai temi e problemi che emergono dalla considerazione storiografica delle caratterizzazioni geografiche della produzione intellettuale. Ci si concentrerà su diversi casi di studio che possano esemplificare diversi gesti in relazione alla determinazione geografica. Dalla costituzione delle identità nazionali in ambito filosofico alla circolazione globale delle idee politiche ed economiche, dal ruolo svolto da attori filosofici e scientifici nella diplomazia internazionale all’analisi del fenomeno della migrazione degli intellettuali dall’Italia fascista e dalla Germania nazista.