International Workshop Metamorphosis of Imagination

Workshop Metamorphosis of Imagination

International Workshop:

Metamorphosis of Imagination. Early Modern and Contemporary Perspectives

Date and Venue: 23-24 September 2024Pisa, Aula Magna, Palazzo Matteucci | Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Pisa

Organizers: Lorenzo Biagini, Sara Cocito, Enrico De Martin Topranin, Simone Gasparoni, Enrico Maresca, Sara Rocca, Leonardo Vanni

Sponsors: The conference is organized within the project Nuovi orizzonti della ricerca – Incontri del Dottorato in Filosofia cfounded by the Università di Pisa and the Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.

More info (Official Webpage – external link)

Program

23 September 2024, Aula Magna, Palazzo Matteucci, Pisa

Panel 1: Morphogenesis of imagination in the Modern Age

Chairs: Alessandra Fussi, Leonardo Vanni

9:00 – 9:30 Introduction and presentation

9:30 – 10:30 Iacopo Chiaravalli (IISG), Imaginabor: Topologia dell’immaginazione cartesiana

10:30 – 11:30 Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Università di Bologna), L’immaginazione: Una facoltà solo umana? Contributo seicentesco ad un dibattito contemporaneo

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 Alfredo Ferrarin (SNS), The Symbolic Mode of Expression of Ideas

Panel 2: Contemporary forms of imagination: The 20th century between continuity and ruptures

Chairs: Sara Cocito, Sara Rocca

14:30 – 15:30 Claudio Majolino (University of Lille), Husserl on variation and imagination – or: why is ‘fiction’ the vital element of phenomenology, as of all eidetic science?

15:30 – 16:30 Jean-Luc Amalric (EHESS), Le Cours sur l’imagination de Paul Ricœur

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:00 Andrea Nicolini (Università di Firenze), Effetti di realtà. Foucault e il potere delle immagini

 

24 September 2024, Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Pisa

Panel 1: Imagination between affectivity and technological invention

Chairs: Enrico De Martin Topranin, Simone Gasparoni

9:00 – 10:00 Cécile Malaspina (King’s College London), Imagination and Invention: Rethinking so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Automated Optimisation (AO) with Gilbert Simondon and Yagmur Denizhan

10:00 – 11:00 Lorenzo Biagini (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Does Negative mean Melancholic? Some Remarks on Phantasy and Affectivity in Adorno’s Dialectics

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva), Emotions, Memories, and Narratives

Panel 2: Imagination across the sciences

Chairs: Lorenzo Biagini, Enrico Maresca

14:30 – 15:30 Lorenzo Magnani (Università di Pavia), Imaginability, Abductive Cognition, and Eco-Cognitive Openness

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Enrico Maresca (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Imagining at the Threshold: Thought Experiments and Constraints for a Theory of Quantum Gravity

Poster (PDF) – external link

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