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DFCI

Coimbra International Conference On the Virtual

Programme

Coimbra International Conference On the Virtual

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