{"id":11576,"date":"2026-06-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucsia.org\/?p=11576"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:16:17","slug":"rewind-fucesummerschoolwebinar-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucsia.org\/en\/nieuws\/rewind-fucesummerschoolwebinar-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Within the Truth:  V\u00e1clav Havel, Pope Leo XIV, and the Building of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11576\" class=\"elementor elementor-11576 elementor-11554\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3914a30b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3914a30b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e315122 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3e315122\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d48caa5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d48caa5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;sticky&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;sticky_on&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;],&quot;sticky_offset&quot;:152,&quot;sticky_parent&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;sticky_effects_offset&quot;:0,&quot;sticky_anchor_link_offset&quot;:0}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5546beac elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5546beac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Watch the webinar!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6ea4bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"d6ea4bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/KJ51uo0tfho&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28d26e75 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"28d26e75\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c20738 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4c20738\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61a62011 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61a62011\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">FUCE Summer School on European Humanism<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f867c7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f867c7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This week, the 7th FUCE Summer School opens at the Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Lille. Under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsia.org\/en\/events\/fucesummerschool2026\/\">European Humanism in the Making of Peace<\/a>, undergraduate students from across Europe and beyond will spend five days exploring how peace can once again become a creative, moral, and cultural project for the continent. UCSIA coordinates the programme.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ae7fe8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ae7fe8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>FUCE Summer School lecturer Michael Shortall (St. Patrick&#8217;s Pontifical University, Maynooth) held a preparatory webinar with participating students.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fc80cfc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7fc80cfc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7bb1d4d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7bb1d4d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A cellist among the ruins<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f32dda elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f32dda\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shortall opened with a story from the siege of Sarajevo. On 27 May 1992, artillery shells struck a bakery in the besieged city, killing 22 people. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15e3695 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"15e3695\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The following day, a cellist named Vedran Smailovi\u0107 dressed in his concert attire, took his seat among the ruins, and played Albinoni&#8217;s Adagio in G minor. He returned every day for 22 consecutive days \u2014 one for each victim \u2014 performing in the open air as sniper fire continued around him. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8013302 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8013302\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>He wasn&#8217;t stopping tanks or negotiating treaties. But his music became a refusal to allow the logic of destruction to define reality completely.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffebe6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ffebe6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>That image set the theme for the entire webinar: <strong>peace is far more than the absence of war<\/strong>. Beneath every stable society lies a deeper question: <strong>how are we to be human together?<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-965eeb8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"965eeb8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shortall argued that the most pressing <strong>European crises<\/strong> today are not merely political or economic but anthropological. They reflect a <strong>weakening of the shared understanding of what human beings are and what binds them together<\/strong>. When that understanding becomes thin, public discourse grows tribal and citizens stop encountering each other as neighbours in a common project.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-faa7166 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"faa7166\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7700e0cc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7700e0cc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-382d2937 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"382d2937\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Living within the lie and the truth<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3b1633 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3b1633\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>To think through this diagnosis, Shortall turned to V\u00e1clav Havel, the Czech playwright and dissident whose landmark essay <em>The Power of the Powerless<\/em> was written in 1978.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4249022 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4249022\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Havel observed that oppressive systems sustain themselves not through fear alone, but through the everyday conformity of ordinary people who learn to &#8220;live within the lie&#8221;.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28b7786 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"28b7786\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>His famous image is a green grocer who displays a political slogan he doesn&#8217;t believe in \u2014 not out of conviction, but because the system expects it. Over time, moral language hollows out and human beings divide internally between public performance and private conviction.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d6e93c4 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2d6e93c4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ebd0778 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ebd0778\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24eeb0c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24eeb0c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Shortall extended this diagnosis to our own era. Consumer culture and technology, Havel already noted, reinforce post-totalitarian conformity in their own way: numbing people, or reducing them to serving the algorithm rather than mastering it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d2264c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d2264c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Yet <em>The Power of the Powerless<\/em> is ultimately a hopeful text. Havel&#8217;s answer is living within the truth: not dramatic rebellion, but small daily acts of honesty, responsibility, and refusal to participate in falsehood.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0367ff9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0367ff9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>These quiet gestures are the seedbed of genuine freedom. And lasting political change, Havel insisted, cannot happen without this kind of prior moral and spiritual renewal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1500cc94 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1500cc94\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17a5b7cf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"17a5b7cf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20415d91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"20415d91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Pope Leo XIV's <em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-350a1094 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"350a1094\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Alongside Havel, Shortall drew on Pope Leo XIV, whose first encyclical <em>Magnifica Humanitas<\/em> had been published just days before the webinar. Directed primarily at <strong>artificial intelligence<\/strong>, the document also addresses war and peace with particular urgency.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccf545f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ccf545f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Leo XIV warns against a <strong>&#8220;culture of power&#8221;<\/strong>: a political or technological mentality willing to sacrifice human dignity in pursuit of advantage \u2014 and raises alarm about the normalization of war and the growing psychological acceptance of permanent militarization in contemporary Europe. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6356dab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6356dab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the use of AI in armed conflict, his position is unequivocal: lethal or irreversible decisions must never be entrusted to artificial systems, and no algorithm can make war morally acceptable.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68020d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68020d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Against the culture of power, he proposes the &#8220;civilization of love&#8221; \u2014 the conviction that human beings remain capable of goodness, solidarity, and renewal, and must never be reduced to instruments of any kind. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7c92a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7c92a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>To ward off any accusations of pessimism, the encyclical turns to an unlikely source: Gandalf the wizard in &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217;. It is, Shortall noted, probably the first time a pope has ever quoted a wizard.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba52d23 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ba52d23\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6da905b0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6da905b0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-131f79f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"131f79f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The dissident next door<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ad825df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6ad825df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Both Havel and Leo XIV share a fundamentally anthropological concern: what does it mean to be fully human when political, technological, or cultural systems seek to diminish that humanity? And both ultimately hold out hope.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63ebb19 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"63ebb19\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the close of the webinar, Shortall returned to the cellist of Sarajevo. Vedran Smailovi\u0107 was, in Havel&#8217;s terms, a dissident \u2014 not a revolutionary, but someone who refused dehumanization in his daily life and insisted that truth, and beauty, matter even when the logic of war says otherwise.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd1cd4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd1cd4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Lasting peace is not built at the negotiation table alone. It begins in the <strong>recognition of our shared humanity<\/strong> and in the small, daily acts of integrity through which we become people \u2014 and societies \u2014 capable of resisting violence.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-600e93a6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"600e93a6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12172d8a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"12172d8a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The FUCE Summer School programme<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-753979ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"753979ed\" 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