On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November 2025, the second edition of the doctoral conference entitled ‘Centres and Peripheries: interdisciplinary perspectives on power, space and identity’ will take place in Trieste, in memory of Giacomo Gobbato.

The Trieste-Udine inter-university conference explores the relationship between centres and peripheries with a multidisciplinary approach. The analysis is divided into three panels, corresponding to the curricula of the PhD programme. The Philosophy Committee aims to interpret this relationship as a process of subjectivation, discussing the relationship between the traditional way of conceiving the subject as a foundation and otherness, which is secondary or, worse, subordinate. The Political and Social Studies committee presents an examination of the topic that combines a focus on individual and collective actors with the disciplinary diversification of political science: philosophy of law, international relations, government studies. The History committee offers the perspective of institutions, investigating the pressures and resistance of peripheral institutions on central ones.

Conference venues: Department of Humanities, University of Trieste:

Androna Campo Marzio 10, Lecture Hall C

Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, Lecture Hall 6

PROGRAM:
Thursday, 6 November:
2:00–6:00 p.m.: Panel I, Political Science.
Friday, 7 November:
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Panel II, Philosophy.
12:30–2:00 p.m.: Lunch break.
2:00–6:30 p.m.: Panel III, History.

The detailed conference programme and all relevant information can be found in the attachments below.

Scientific and Organising Committee: Dott. Simone Antonilli, Dott.ssa Silvia Brugnera, Dott.ssa Elisa Brumat, Dott.ssa Sara Cosatti, Dott.ssa Anna Draghi, Dott. Mirko Galasso, Dott.ssa Beatrice Marchesini, Dott. Alessio Martino, Dott. Andrea Moretti, Dott. Manfredi Maria Fausto Pinzauti, Dott. Riccardo Sasso, Dott.ssa Maria Serena Russo, Dott. Francesco Vezzani.