Key Speakers

CELSO FAVARETTO
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Bachelor degree in Philosophy from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1968), master degree in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo (1978). Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo from 1976 to 1985. Retired professor at the School of Education of Universidade de São Paulo, where he has been a docent since 1985. Among a vast number of publications, see Tropicália: alegoria alegria, 4th edition, Cotia, 2007; A invenção de Hélio Oiticica, 1st edition, São Paulo, Edusp, 1992; and his most recent book, A contracultura, entre a curtição e o experimental, 1st edition, São Paulo, N-1 edições, 2019.

CHRISTEL FRICKE
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO

Bachelor degree and doctorate degree in Philosophy and Romance from Heidelberg University. Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. Research director of the Moral Agency subsection of the Centre the Study of Mind in Nature, member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and of the Norwegian Society of Science. Visiting Scholar at the Humboldt University, at Oxford University, Cambridge University and Columbia University, among others. Mainly works in the field of Aesthetics and Moral Philosophy, specially on Kant. Author of the books Kants Theorie des reinen Geschmacksurteils and Zeichenprozess und ästhetische Erfahrung.

GEORG BERTRAM
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN

Full Professor of Aesthetics and Theoretical Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2007. PhD in Philosophy (2007) at the University of Giessen and Habilitation in Philosophy (2004) at the University of Hildesheim. Junior Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim between 2002 and 2007. Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre (2015) e Università degli Studi di Torino (2015). Among many articles and books, some of them translated into Italian, Spanish, English, Korean, see: Was ist der Mensch? Warum wir nach uns fragen?, Stuttgart: Reclam (2018); Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes. Ein systematischer Kommentar, Stuttgart: Reclam (2017) and Art as Human Practice. An Aesthetics, Bloomsbury (2019); Kunst. Eine philosophische Einführung, Stuttgart: Reclam (2005).

LAURENT JAFFRO
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1

Doctorate in Philosophy from Paris Nanterre University. Professor of Moral Philosophy at Panthéon-Sorbonne and Senior Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. Member of PHARE (Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques). Worked as Visiting Scholar at the Université Paris Nanterre, Université Neuchâtel, and Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II. His current interest lies in the psychological and normative dimensions of issues of trust and distrust, blame and forgiveness. His latest book, La couleur du goût. Psychologie et esthétique au siècle de Hume (Paris, 2019), deals with sentimentalist and rationalist approaches to value judgements.

PAOLA BERENSTEIN JACQUES
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA

Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, specialization in Theory and Design of Architecture and Urbanism from ENSA de Paris-Villemin with AA School (London), master in Philosophy of Art and doctorate in History of Art and Architecture from Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. Full professor at Faculty of Architecture, Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism and the Graduate Programs in Visual Arts and Dance at Universidade Federal da Bahia. CNPq productivity researcher. Coordinator of Laboratório Urbano research group, in association with Laboratoire Architecture/Anthropologie (LAA/LA VUE/CNRS ENSA Paris-La-Villette). Author of the books: Les favelas de Rio (2001); Estética da Ginga (2001); Esthétique des favelas (2003); Elogio aos errantes (2012); Fantasmas modernos (2020); and Pensamentos selvagens (2021).

ROSA DIAS
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO

Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro and one of leading researchers in Nietzsche in Brazil, particularly in the field of Aesthetics. She organized several companion books on Nietzsche, such as Leituras de Zaratustra (2011), Nietzsche e as cartas (2019) and Nietzsche e o riso (2020), and published, amongst others, Nietzsche e a música (1994), Nietzsche educador (2003), Nietzsche, vida como obra de arte (2011), Páginas da vida, páginas da arte (2016) and Passagem nietzscheana (2019).

STEFANIE BUCHENAU
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8

Professor at the Department of German Studies of the Université Paris 8. Her research comprises a wide range of topics on Philosophy and Literature of the 18th Century, such as Aesthetics, Anthropology and Medicine, with a special focus on German Enlightenment. With many published works about Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Kant, and others, she is the author of The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art (2013) and editor of Médecine et philosophie de la nature humaine, de l’Âge classique aux Lumières (in collaboration with Raphaële Andrault, Claire Crignon and Anne-Lise Rey; 2014) and Esthétiques de l’Aufklärung (in collaboration with Elisabeth Décultot; 2006).

VINICIUS DE FIGUEIREDO
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ

Doctorate in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo. Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Federal do Paraná. His area of research comprises Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy, with emphasis on Kantian philosophy, its predecessors and influences. Published several papers on authors such as Kant, Rousseau, Diderot, Nietzsche and Cassirer, and translated Kant’s Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen into Portuguese.