Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Toulouse-Rome, November 27-28 2025
On 27 and 28 November, at l’Institut Catholique de Toulouse (ITC) and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (PUSC), a joint seminar titled “Actualité de la recherche doctorale” took place simultaneously in person and remotely. This seminar was promoted by the ROR to facilitate an immediate discussion between lecturers and doctoral candidates in Philosophy and Theology from the two universities. The seminar was jointly coordinated by Andrea Bellantone (ITC) and Gennaro Luise (PUSC). On the afternoon of 27 November, from Toulouse, Professor Luise, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, delivered an opening lecture titled “Substance, sujet e permanence. Quelques éléments de réflexion préliminaire chez Aristotele et Kant”.
The following day, presentations were given from Rome, moderated by Professor Juan Andrés Mercado: Matheus Fonseca (PUSC) “In the Beginning is Relation. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational Paradigm and its Philosophical Repercussions”; Manon Sicard (ICT) “La relation entre l’œvre d’art e le culte liturgique” (ICT); Diletta Colarossi (PUSC) “The Church integrated into the trinitarian missions: Daniélou’s ecclesiology between transcendence and immanence”. In the same session, the following spoke from Toulouse: Marie-Véronique du Pasquier (ICT) “Romano Guardini: le sacré comme remède à la crise existentielle”; Silvia Patricia Guijarro Alaña (PUSC), “Épiméleia: revisiting the Greek Origins as an argument for an ontological understanding of care”; Alessandro Biddau (ICT) “La relecture du tragique chez Hölderlin”; Juan Pablo Marcos Ramos (PUSC), “Divine simplicity and Freedom in the contemporary Debate and St. Thomas Aquinas”.
In the afternoon, the following presented their papers from Rome: Emilien Elisabeth (ICT) “Le glas de l’autre: Levinas et le problème de la poésie”; Rémi de Martin de Viviés (PUSC) “La spiritualité de la Sainte Famille chez sainte Émilie de Rodat (1787-1852): de l’expérience apostolique à la lumière de Nazareth”; Emmanuel Hot (ICT) “Déprise et dépossession, lieux d’une désactivation possible des dispositifs du pouvoir. Une Hypothése à partir de Michel Foucault”. The following spoke from Toulouse: Jerome Gerald Mkindi (PUSC) “The state of the wise in contemplative solitude. Solitude and contemplation in Book X of Nicomachean Ethics and, finally”, Raphaël Bukasa Mbaya (ICT) “La métaphore de la manducation du livre. Étude intertextuelle d’Ez 2,1-3, 11 et Ap 10,1-11”.
The proceedings, through the discussion sessions, facilitated a fruitful exchange of concepts and the sharing of intellectual experiences among the doctoral candidates from various disciplines. Aided by the recreational moments, the cultural dialogue further fostered a jovial, authentic, and profoundly shared human exchange among the enrolled students and the visitor students, concluding with a promise to meet again soon to repeat a truly successful experiment.
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