Brown Bag Seminar | What is Dis-integrating Global Society?

16.01.2026

The Center for Social Ontology and the SPGI Department are pleased to announce a Brown Bag Seminar entitled What is dis-integrating global society? Civilizing and de-civilizing processes in the perspective of realist social theory.

The seminar will take place on Friday, 16 January 2026, from 9:00 to 12:30, at Teatro Ruzante (Riviera Tito Livio 45, Padova).

The event is held within the framework of the Annual Meeting of the Center for Social Ontology and is open to the academic community.

It aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion on the dynamics of global society, focusing on processes of integration and dis-integration through the lens of realist social theory.

Speakers include: Ismael Al-Amoudi, Helena Flam, Emmanuel Lazega, Douglas Porpora, Bridget Ritz and Frederic Vandenberghe.

The discussion will be chaired by Andrea Maccarini.

The seminar is scientifically coordinated by Andrea Maccarini, Davide Ruggieri, and Beatriz Ribeiro da Silva.