Philosophy Summer Festival: Life, Love & Death
Event: Philosophy Summer Festival: Life, Love & Death
Date: Friday 5 June 2026
Time: 17:00 - 23:00
Venue: Campus Hub
About
The Philosophy Summer Festival is back! Life, love, and death: topics explored by philosophers from Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre, take centre stage in an upcoming philosophy festival designed to challenge, unsettle, and inspire. Bringing together a series of dynamic talks, the event invites everyone to engage with ideas that shape not just academic thinking, but the way we understand ourselves and the world around us.
Programme
17:50 Welcome Address by Prof. Claude Mangion
18:00-19:00 First Panel
Prof. Joe Friggieri - Aristotle on Realism
Dr Keith Pisani - What Makes a Life Ours? Reason, Choice, and the Space Between Us
Dr David Vella - The Courage to Remain Exposed: Life, Love, and Death After Surrender
Floor open to the public
19:15-19:30 Break
19:30-20:45 Second Panel
Prof. Jean-Paul de Lucca - Should we Love the World we Live in?
Prof. Maria Pisani - On Being Lovable?
Prof. Mark Sultana - Love as the Trace of the Eternal in the Temporal
Dr Robert Farrugia - Love, Affectivity and the Role of the Heart
Floor open to the public
20:45-21:00 Break
21:00-22:15 Third Panel
Dr Kay Camilleri - Outsourcing Death: How Death Moved Out of Sight
Dr François Zammit - Can Souls be Artificial?
Dr Enrico Schiro - What Really Happens When We Pass from Death to Life?
Prof. Christian Colombo - What Legacy Matters?
Floor open to the public
22:15-23:00 Closing Address by Prof. Claude Mangion
Meet the Speakers
