Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Letters
27th – 28th October, 2016
Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information/IEF (R&D Unit)
DAY 1 - 27 October
SALA VÍTOR MATOS (6th Floor)
9.30. Opening
10.00. Rob Shields (University of Alberta)
Figures of the Virtual
10.30. Discussion
10.45. Stefano Gualeni (University of Malta)
The Experience Machine. Things to Keep in Mind while Designing Video Games and Other Tragic Technologies
11.15. Discussion
11.30. Coffee Break
12.00. Joaquim Braga (Universidade de Coimbra)
Imagination and Virtuality. On Susanne Langer's Theory of Artistic Forms
12.30. Discussion
13.00. Lunch
15.00. Edmundo Balsemão Pires (Universidade de Coimbra)
Personality, dissociation and organic-psychic latency in Pierre Janet's account of hysterical symptoms
15.30. Discussion
15.45. Mark Grimshaw (Aalborg University)
Sonic Virtuality
16.15. Discussion
16.30. Coffee Break
17.00. Alberto Romele (Universidade do Porto)
The End of the Virtual? A Hermeneutical Understanding of Digital Technologies
17.30. Discussion
17.45. Steven S. Gouveia & Raquel Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Are we living in a virtual simulation? Maybe
18.15. Discussion
18.30. Simone Guidi (Fine Arts Academy of Milan)
From Mimesis to Action. A Change of Paradigm in the Digital Virtuality
DAY 2 - 28 October
SALA DE SEMINÁRIOS DE INGLÊS (6th Floor)
10.00. Matthew Causey (Trinity College Dublin)
Encountering the Immaterial Body and the Incorporeal Event in Digital Art: Against the Virtual/Reality Distinction
10.30. Discussion
10.45. Henrique Jales Ribeiro (Universidade de Coimbra)
Utopia and Philosophy
11.15. Discussion
11.30. Coffee Break
12.00. Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho (Universidade de Coimbra)
The scope of the virtual in the treatment of melancholy
12.30. Discussion
13.00. Lunch
SALA VÍTOR MATOS (6th Floor)
15.00. João Pedro Cachopo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Beyond the Fiction / Documentary Divide with Mark Rappaport and Peter Watkins
15.30. Discussion
15.45. Paulo da Silva Quadros (IMATECH-São Paulo)
Contemporary Paradigmatologies and Paradoxologies of Virtuality: The Opacity, complexity and hybridization between the idea of presence and distance in the digital age
16.15. Discussion
16.30. Coffee Break
17.00. Matthew Crippen (American University in Cairo)
Digital Fabrication and Its Meaning for Film
17.30. Discussion
17.45. Paulo M. Barroso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Virtual, fiction and reality in Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism
18.15. Discussion
18.30.Daniel O’Shiel (KU Leuven)
Phenomenology and the Challenge of the Virtual