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.

Periodo: 9 febbraio 2023 - 2 marzo 2023

Homero Santiago è professore di Storia della Filosofia Moderna presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Università de São Paulo. Oltre che di numerosi saggi pubblicati e la traduzione dei Principi della filosofia di Cartesio e Pensieri metafisici (2016), è autore di Espinosa e o cartesianismo: o estabelecimento da ordem nos Princípios da filosofia cartesiana (2004), Amor e desejo (2011), Geometria do instituído: estudo sobre a gramática hebraica espinosana (2014) e Entre servidão e liberdade (2019).

Periodo: 1 aprile 2023 - 30 giugno 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 è dottorando presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Morali della Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Attualmente studia il pensiero politico e la prima ricezione del Tractatus Theologico-Politicus di Spinoza.

Iago Orlandi Gazola è dottorando presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia della Facoltà di Filosofia, Lettere e Scienze umanistiche dell’Universidade de São Paulo. Attualmente studia la scienza intuitiva spinoziana sotto la mentoria di Homero Santiago. È membro del gruppo editoriale dei Cadernos Espinosanos, rivista di filosofia del ‘600 dell’Universidade de São Paulo. È autore di due articoli sulla filosofia spinoziana: A ciência intuitiva a partir dos atributos do pensamento e da extensão (2024) e A distinção forte entre atributos principais em Descartes e a sutil indiferença entre atributos em Espinosa (2021).

Novembre 2024 - Maggio 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.   

15 febbraio 2025- 15 febbraio 2027