Key Speakers
CARLA FRANCALANCI
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Not a specialist of anything specific, she nevertheless has some quite fruitfull guesses. Time and again she stumbles upon love issues. Published Amor, discurso, verdade – uma interpretação do Symposion de Platão. She is participant at the school of psychoanalysis Letra Freudiana.
FERNANDO COSTA MATTOS
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC
Doctorate in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and held three post-doctoral fellowships at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2011, he is Professor of Philosophy at UFABC, where he has also been Provost for Community Affairs and Director of the UFABC Press. Author of the books From theory to freedom: the question of objectivity in Kant (Ed. AM, 2009) and Nietzsche: perspectivism and democracy (Ed. Saraiva, 2013), he translated to portuguese the Critique of pure reason and the Critique of the faculty of judgment, by I. Kant (Ed. Vozes, 2012/16), and The joke and its relation to the unconscious, by S. Freud (Cia.das Letras, 2017). In 2020, he launched the Costa Mattos’ Philosophical Happy Hour, a weekly program which is broadcast on his YouTube channel, where other philosophical contents, such as courses, events and study groups are also available. His current research interests are mainly directed to the so-called “first Heidegger”, in particular Being and time, and other texts from the same period, as well Heidegger’s influences (either suffered or exerted by him) and interlocutions.
FLORENCIA GARRAMUÑO
UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS
Florencia Garramuño received her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She is an independent researcher at CONICET. She received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a Tinker Visiting Fellow at Stanford University. She published Cultural Genealogies: Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay en la novela contemporánea, 1980-1990, Modernidades Primitivas: Tango, Samba y Nación, La experiencia opaca, Mundos en común. Essays on non-specificity in art and Cannibal Brazil: Between bossa nova and the extreme right. She has translated texts by Silviano Santiago, Ana Cristina Cesar, João Guimarães Rosa and Clarice Lispector, among others.
JOANA MATOS FRIAS
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Joana Matos Frias is professor at Universidade de Lisboa and researcher in its Center for Comparative Studies. She has been lecturing courses in Interarts and Intermediality, Visual CUlture, Compared Aesthetics and Literary Taste Theory, amongst others. She is the author of various books of essays on Portuguese and Brazilian writers, the last of which was published in 2023 and has the title Oscilations (Poetry in All Senses). She has organized and co-organized many thenmatic antologies of Portuguese and Brazilian poetry such as Poems with Cinema and Passages (Poetry, Visual Arts).
LUISA BUARQUE
PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Luisa Buarue holds a BA, MA and PhD in Philosophy from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has been a professor at the Philosophy Department of PUC-Rio since 2013. She was vice-president of the Brazilian Society for Classical Studies (SBEC) and editor-in-chief of Classica – revista de estudos clássicos, a journal of the SBEC. She works in the area of Ancient Philosophy and Greek Literature, with emphasis on Plato’s philosophy and Aristophanes’ comedy. She has published extensively on Aristotle, Plato, Aristophanic comedy, the history of the philosophy of language and Greek rhetoric. She is the author of The Comic Weapons: Socrates’ Interlocutors in Plato’s Cratylus (Hexis 2011) and co-organizer of the Dictionary of Untranslatables (Autêntica 2018), the Brazilian version of the Vocabulaire Européen des Philosophies (org. Barbara Cassin, Vrin 2004).
MARIA FILOMENA MOLDER
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
Full Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL). Member of the Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem (IFILNOVA). Guest professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She was a member of the Scientific Council of the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (2003-2009). She writes about problems of aesthetics, as problems of knowledge and language, for philosophy, literature, and art magazines. Latest publications: O Absoluto que pertence à Terra (Edições do Saguão, 2020) – Essay award Jacinto do Prado Coelho 2021. Três Conferências I – Lança o teu Pão sobre as Águas (Edições do Saguão, 2021). Palavras Aladas. Conversas em torno do Desenho com Cristina Robalo (Documenta, 2022). She has also edited Fernando Gil. Paisagens dos Confins (Edições Vendaval, 2009), Morphology. Questions on Method and Language (Peter Lang, 2013) and the n. 68 of the magazine Rue Descartes, “Philosopher au Portugal Aujourd’hui”, 2010.
MOACIR DOS ANJOS
FUNDAÇÃO JOAQUIM NABUCO
PhD in economics at University of London. Researcher at Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, where coordinates the project Política da Arte. Served as director of the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (2001-2006), Recife, and was a visiting research fellow at the Transnational Art, Identity and Nation research center at the University of the Arts, London (2008-2009).Curator of the 2010 São Paulo Biennial and of the exhibitions Cães sem Plumas (2014), MAMAM, A Queda do Céu (2015), Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Emergência (2017), Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Quem não luta tá morto. Arte democracia utopia(2018), Museu de Arte do Rio and Raça, classe e distribuição de corpos (2018), Educação pela pedra (2019), Necrobrasiliana
NUNO CRESPO
UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA
Nuno Crespo lives between Lisbon and Porto. Portuguese curator, art critic and researcher dedicated to the study of intersections between art, philosophy, architecture and cinema. Graduated and PhD in Philosophy from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Associate Professor and Director of the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal. Regular contributor, as an art critic, to the cultural supplement Ipsilon (Público), having been a member of its editorial board. Among his books, the following stand out: Art, Criticism, Politics, Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2016; Julião Sarmento: Animal Gaze, Porto: Cooperativa Árvore, 2014; Wittgenstein and Aesthetics, Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2011; Impossible Body, Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2007.