The truth of fiction

On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, the "Julien Ries" Archive in collaboration with FLECIR (Interuniversity Research Center "Philosophy and Literature") organizes the conference The truth of fiction.
In the wake of symbolic anthropology and its specific approach to the religious phenomenon, the conference aims to deal with the relationship between truth and fiction through the contribution of philosophy and literature.

The conference will take place in dual mode:

- to participate in person, write to the e-mail address archivio.ries@unicatt.it

- to participate remotely via the Teams platform, click here

For information and registration:

Tel. 02.7234.3206

archivio.ries@unicatt.it

Program 

10.00 a.m.

Introduction to the work

Silvano PETROSINO, Director of the "Julien Ries" Archive for Symbolic Anthropology

10.15 a.m.

Truth as "aletheia": the splits of the privative alpha

Giovanni BOTTIROLI, former professor of Theory of Literature at the University of Bergamo

11.00 a.m.

Maps and labyrinths. Thinking with Cormac McCarthy

Federico BELLINI, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

11.45 a.m.

Discussion on relationships  

12.45 p.m.

Lunch break

2.45 p.m.

From Pinocchio to Black Pinocchio. A dialogue between truth and fiction

Paola PONTI, Professor of Modern Literature and Contemporary Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

3.30 p.m.

Of truth and its interpretations. Glimpses of Luigi Pareyson's hermeneutics

Luca GHISLERI, Professor of Philosophy of Religions, Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Eastern Piedmont

4.15 p.m.

Discussion on relationships