“Contemporary Nihilism forms” will be the name of the first congress organized by the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic). This academic event will take place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2019 at Università di Pisa (Italy). This first congress will lead to two other similar events: the first one will be organized in Villa de Leyva (Boyacá, Colombia) in 2020; the second one at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia) in 2021. Confirmed lecturers, and the title of their lectures, are the following:

Andrew Benjamin, Potentiality, Human Being and the Impossibility of Nihilism

Dean Komel, Die Geschichtlichkeit Europas in der Schatten des Nihilismus

Giuliano Campioni, In nichilismo europeo in Friedrich Nietzsche

Helmut Heit, Europa und die Frage nach dem Wozu

Jacinto Rivera de Rosales, Jacobi contra Fichte: la primera disputa sobre nihilismo

Seung Chul Kim, The Buddhist understanding of nihilism by Keiji Nishitani

Teresa Oñate y Zubía, La crítica del nihilismo en Tiempo y Ser. Heidegger repensando a Parménides

Michele Borrelli, La fine del mito e l’avvento del nichilismo

Rogerio Schuck, (Pós)modernidade e niilismo em tempos tecnológicos

Stefano Bancalari, Lived Experiences of Non-Sense: The Shadow of Qohelet on Contemporary Nihilism

Tsunafumi Takeuchi, Think Rationally But Feel Spiritually – A Nihilistic Dualism in Modern Japan

Werner Stegmeier, Ist die Demokratie nihilistisch?

Adriano Fabris, Nichilismo e indifferenza

Alfredo Rocha de la Torre, Fondamento o abisso (Abgrund)?: la interpretazione heideggeriana del nichilismo nella filosofia di Nietzsche