Visiting

Trained and experienced as an academic philosopher, specialized in the philosophy of Spinoza and of the 17th century, I am an independent researcher in philosophy and in the arts based in Paris. As a researcher, as a writer and as an artistic director in performance and theatre, I work closely with academic methodology and its high standards, deliberately on an independent basis to value and benefit from multidisciplinary and multifocal approaches. Thanks to my professional activities committed to showcase the resources of philosophy and performance for our contemporary times, I have developed over the years a close relationship with academic and cultural institutions in various countries as shown in my curriculum vitae. First, throughout my doctoral and post-doctoral years, I have worked within the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Harvard University and the Sorbonne. During those years, I acquired research and teaching experience in Lille University, Grenoble University and Paris Institute of Politics. Afterwards, as an independent worker for the arts and a philosophy researcher, I worked with various academic institutions in Europe, the United States and South America, among which philosophy departments of many universities and researches institutions in France, such as Sorbonne-Université and the Institut Jean Nicod, the philosophy departments of New York University, Columbia University, The New School for Social Research, Princeton University, the Centre for the Study of the Senses at London University, the philosophy departments of the Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität, Bonn Universität, Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, the philosophy department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Cultural institutions I have been collaborating with include the Institut Français, the Goethe-Institut, the Italian Institute, EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture), UNESCO. Artistic institutions include Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (Finland), the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Gent (Belgium), the Frick Collection in New York. My writings include several academic articles and classical as well as more contemporary studies, and philosophical essays published by Flammarion, Gallimard, Albin-Michel and the Grasset for the up-coming one I am currently writing on Spinoza and Europe. This last project provides the opportunity for my application for a Visiting Researcher Fellowship to carry out my research activities with the University of Bologna Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, within the Research Centre Sive Natura.

Visiting period: 9 February 2023 - 2 March 2023

Homero Santiago is a professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo. In addition to numerous published essays and the translation of Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts (2016), he is the author of Spinoza and Cartesianism: the establishment of order in the Principles of Cartesian Philosophy (2004), Love and Desire (2011), Geometry of the Instituted: study on Spinozan Hebrew grammar (2014), and Between Servitude and Freedom (2019).

Visiting period: 1 April 2023 - 30 June 2023

Diego Tatián es doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba y diplomado en ciencias de la cultura por la Scuola di Alti Studi Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena (Italia). Se desempeña actualmente como docente en la Universidad Nacional de San Martín y trabaja como Investigador Independiente del Conicet en el Laboratorio de Investigación en Ciencias Humanas de la UNSAM.

Sus últimos libros son: Spinoza disidente (2019), Lo que no cae. Bitácora de la resistencia (2019), Lecturas imaginarias. Spinoza, la felicidad y la rebeldía (2020), La tierra de los niños (2020), El efecto Deodoro (2021), El odio. Consideraciones spinozistas (2021), Libro de los pasajes. Mitológicas de Córdoba (2021), El efecto Deodoro (2021), Spinoza y el arte (2022) y La filosofía y la vida. Doce lecciones con Spinoza (2023).

Ha sido director de la editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba entre 2007 y 2011 y Decano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la misma Universidad entre 2011 y 2017. 

Thomas van Binsbergen is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is currently studying political thought and the early reception of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.

Iago Orlandi Gazola is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo. He is currently studying Spinozan intuitive science under the mentorship of Homero Santiago. He is a member of the editorial group of Cadernos Espinosanos, a 17th-century philosophy journal of the University of São Paulo. He is the author of two articles on Spinozan philosophy: Intuitive science from the attributes of thought and extension (2024) and The strong distinction between principal attributes in Descartes and the subtle indifference between attributes in Spinoza (2021).

Visiting period: November 2024 - May 2025

Daniela Cápona is PhD in Philosophy, mention in Aesthetics and Art theory of the University of Chile and the University of Rome III. She was a teacher at the University Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile). She has a postdoctoral fellowship of the National Agency of Research and Development (ANID, by its Spanish initials, Chile). Her research is centered in the aesthetics and political philosophy of Spinoza, founded in sensitivity and Body’s theory.
Her postdoctoral research is focused on an interdisciplinary study between Spinoza’s Aesthetics and architectonic studies, where the city becomes an affective core. Architecture is understood as an art produced by bodies’ social practices, and not as a passive product of architects, in an analysis based on interpretations of philosophers and architects of the XX and XXI centuries.   

Visiting period: 15 February 2025 - 15 February 2027

Francisco Rivera holds a degree in Philosophy and is an Internal Doctoral Fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina, with his workplace at the Laboratory of Research in Human Sciences (LICH) and the Administrative Coordination Office Parque Centenario. His research develops at the intersection of philosophy, law, political science, and international relations, with special emphasis on Latin American political philosophy.

His doctoral project, supervised by Diego Tatian (Independent Researcher at CONICET) and co-supervised by Mariana Gainza (Associate Researcher), is titled Spinoza in Latin America: the Spinozan conception of democracy in the philosophy of Marilena Chaui. The objective is to provide a situated reading of Spinoza's thought, highlighting its relevance in contemporary democratic debates and its influence on Latin American political philosophy.

Between 2017 and 2021, he was a member of the Spinozist Studies Group in the city of Córdoba, within the framework of the "Contemporary Spinozism" project based at the Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (CIFFyH) of the National University of Córdoba (UNC). Through this group, he actively participated in the organization of the International Spinoza Colloquia, which since 2004 have brought together researchers from various regions of the world. Since 2022, he has been part of the research team Contemporary Spinozism: politics, art, social sciences, at the National University of San Martín, also based at LICH. Currently, he is part of the Latin American Center for Spinozist Studies (CLES), where he serves as a board member, collaborating with specialists of recognized national and international trajectory under the auspices of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the National University of Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.

Visiting period: January - March 2026