Organizing Committee
BERNARDO BARROS OLIVEIRA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE
Professsor of Philosophy at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). His main research interest has been a dialogue between the field of fiction and its reception, supported by authors such as Benjamin, Ricoeur, and more recently Freud. He is the author of several articles on the subject, and the book Olhar e narrativa: leituras benjaminianas.
CÍNTIA VIEIRA DA SILVA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE OURO PRETO
Bachelor degree, master degree and doctorate in Philosophy from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, with collaborative period on ENS-LSH (Lyon, France). Post-doctoral research about dance at the Universidade de São Paulo post-graduate studies program. Professor at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Researches the body as a philosophical question, the relationship between body and image in its aesthetical, ethical, political and epistemological implications, having Deleuze, Espinosa and, more recently, Paul B. Preciado, as main references. Author of the books Corpo e pensamento: alianças conceituais entre Deleuze e Espinosa and Devires filosofantes. President of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.
FERNANDA PROENÇA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS
Bachelor degree in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo. Master degree in Philosophy from Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Currently, doctorate student at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, CAPES scholarship holder. Her research focuses on Aesthetics, specially on Theodor Adorno and contemporary issues regarding museums and the curatorial exercise. Board member of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.
MARCELA OLIVEIRA
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Doctorate in Philosophy at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Researches themes in Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art and Contemporary Philosophy, with emphasis on Walter Benjamin and the relationship between theory, literature and theater. Member of the Aesthetics Working Group at ANPOF. Author of the book Teatro da espera: Beckett e a ruína do drama (7Letras, 2018).
PEDRO DUARTE
PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Full Professor at PUC-Rio, working in the Graduate Programs of Philosophy and History, in the Undergraduate Philosophy Program and in the Specializations in Art and Philosophy and in Performing Writing. Research Productivity Scholarship from CNPq and Researcher of Our State from Faperj. Postdoctoral fellow as Fulbright Chair in Brazilian Studies at Emory University (USA, 2020). Author of the books “O ensaio como narrativa” (Oca, 2021 – Portugal); “A pandemia e o exílio do mundo” (Bazar do Tempo, 2020); “Tropicalia” (Cobogó, 2018); “A palavra modernista: vanguarda e manifesto” (Casa da Palavra, 2014); and “Estio do Tempo: Romantismo e estética moderna” (Zahar, 2011). Organized the book “Objeto não identificado: Caetano Veloso – 80 anos” (Bazar do Tempo, 2022). Co-author, screenwriter and curator of the TV series “Alegorias do Brasil”, together with director Murilo Salles (Canal Curta!, 2018). Curator, along with writer Tatiana Salem Levy, of the “Art, Autonomy and Politics” section of Revista Pessoa (online). Editor of the academic journal “O que nos faz pensar”, from the Department of Philosophy at PUC-Rio. Leader of the Research Group at CNPq on “Art, Autonomy and Politics”, of which is Coordinator at Capes’ Institutional Internationalization Program (PRINT).
PEDRO FRANCESCHINI
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA
Doctorate in Philosophy at the Universidade de São Paulo, with collaborative period in Ruhr Universität Bochum/Hegel Archiv. Professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Researches themes in Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy, with special focus on Romanticism and German Idealism, but also literary works. Published papers and book chapters on authors such as Schiller, Hölderlin, and Schelling, and translated into Portuguese the aesthetic writings of Herder. Board member of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.
PEDRO SÜSSEKIND
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE
Pedro Süssekind is currently Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Philosophy Department of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2005 after a period of research in Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His many publications include three nonfiction books: Shakespeare, the Original Genius (Zahar, 2008), Theory of the End of Art (7letras, 2017), and, more recently, Hamlet and Philosophy (7letras, 2021).
ROSA GABRIELLA DE CASTRO GONÇALVES
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA
Bachelor degree, master degree and doctorate in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo. Postdoctoral research on Art History at the Art and Art History Department of Stanford University. Associate professor at the Art History and Painting Department of the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Experience in Art Theory and Aesthetics, specially modern and contemporary. Published Kant, Greenberg e a questão do formalismo na arte. Board member of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.
VLADIMIR VIEIRA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE
Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Federal Fluminense. His area of research comprises Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy, with emphasis on Kantian philosophy, its predecessors and influences. Vieira has published several papers on authors such as Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Hume, and translated Schiller’s aesthetic essays on tragedy and on the sublime into Portuguese. He is currently vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.