University of Helsinki, Finland, December 16–17, 2025
Venue: University Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33), room U4062

This is a hybrid event. Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62372706694?pwd=lLSESTGYxODHzyT7RCfgNhfVBLGxK8.1

Tuesday, December 16: How to Forget You

16.15–16.45
Coffee and refreshments
Sami Pihlström and Naoko Saito: Opening and introduction

16.45–19.00
Yu Sakudo, Norio Hashigaya, and Atsushi Nagao: Introducing the film How to Forget You; Naoko Saito: Remembering and Forgetting
Yu Sakudo: Response (followed by Q&A)

Wednesday, December 17: Films, Emotions, Worldviews, and Hope

11.00–12.30
Raffaele Ariano: Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits as a Cavellian Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
Lauri Snellman: Wicked Problems: The Problem of Evil, Decision Theories, and Worldviews

12.30–14.00
Lunch break

14.00–15.30
Sari Kivistö and Sami Pihlström: Hope and Meliorist Philosophy of Suffering
Henrik Rydenfelt: Emotional Responses as Interpretants

15.30–16.00
Break

16.00–17.45
Emma Williams: Ministering to a Mind Diseased? (online)
Paul Standish: Wittgenstein, Private Language and Pain (possibly online)
Naoko Saito and Sami Pihlström: Closing remarks

The workshop is co-organized by Professor Naoko Saito (Kyoto University) and the research project Secular Theodicies – a Pragmatist Critique (PI Sami Pihlström), funded by the Research Council of Finland and hosted by the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki. It is also a special event within the open pragmatism seminar, Metaphysical Club 2.0.

Further information:
Dr. Lauri Snellman, lauri.jo.snellman@helsinki.fi
Prof. Sami Pihlström, sami.pihlstrom@helsinki.fi