HICO Agenda
— Upcoming events
Lecture by our honourable member Levi Haeck
Thursday 5 March, 4pm
CANCELLED (with sadness)
FLAGSHIP EVENT
Lecture by Katrien Schaubroek (Universiteit Antwerpen): Imagining Death. Iris Murdoch and autobiographical despair.
Thursday 7 May, 4pm
Location: Faculteitszaal, Blandijn
Followed by a free reception, kindly offered by: HICO.
— Past events (Academic year 2025-2026)
Lecture by Laura Langone (University of Verona): Nietzsche on Food and Wellbeing
Tuesday 18 November, 4pm
Location: Faculteitszaal, Blandijn
If Nietzsche was one of the few Western philosophers to make our food habits a subject of philosophical inquiry, following in the footsteps of Feuerbach and few others, he was the first to advocate for a history of the philosophy of food, as well as for a study of the impact of food on our physiology and our morality. Also due to his own gastrointestinal issues, Nietzsche was particularly concerned with nutrition and read works on physiology and dietetics by some of the most renowned scholars of the 19th century. Building upon his knowledge of 19th-century science, Nietzsche devised a philosophical method to deal with the issue of nutrition so as to pursue the most one’s wellbeing as well as one’s goals.
Workshop: “Lebensphilosophie and the Sciences.”
Ghent University (Belgium), 11-12 September 2025
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