Key Speakers

CLARA ROWLAND
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA

Clara Rowland is Full Professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies at the NOVA University Lisbon School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) and is a faculty member of the PhD programme in Linguistic Disciplines and Foreign Literatures at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her research focuses on Brazilian Literature, Comparative Literature, and Interart Studies. Her publications in the field of Brazilian Studies include essays on Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Manuel Bandeira, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others. Together with Abel Barros Baptista, she coordinates the Brazilian Literature collection Os melhores deles todos (Tinta-da-China). Her recent publications include A língua dos filhos: ensaios (Tinta-da-China), Desconhecido na morada: a carta no cinema (Documenta), and Fantasmas (Planeta Tangerina).

EMI KOIDE
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RECÔNCAVO DA BAHIA

Emi Koide is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts program, the Professional Master’s Program in History of Africa, the African Diaspora and Indigenous Peoples (CAHL), and the Graduate Program in Arts (CECULT) at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Brazil. She is a Senior Associate Researcher in the “Arts of Africa and Global South” program at the Department of Fine Art at Rhodes University, South Africa, and an Associate Researcher in the “Link’Art Áfricas thematic” project, supported by FAPESP. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at EACH-USP with the project “Tessituras do Índigo – percurso entre o elu iorubá e o ai japonês” (2023), including a research internship at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, with partial support from FAPESP. In 2023, she was also a Visiting Researcher at Waseda University, Japan. Since 2017, she has coordinated the Áfricas nas Artes (Africa in the Arts) research and outreach group at UFRB.

MARIA JOSÉ LÉON
UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA

María José Alcaraz León is a full professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, specializing in aesthetics and art theory. Having written her dissertation on Arthur C. Danto’s theory of art, she subsequently investigated issues related to emotional responses to works of fiction, particularly negative emotions; the appreciation of damaged or contaminated natural environments; the relationship between aesthetic value and other values in works of art; the justification of aesthetic judgments and the validity conditions of aesthetic appreciation; and, finally, the cognitive value of art. Recipient of the “John Fisher Memorial Prize” for essays from the American Society for Aesthetics (2008). She is vice-president of the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, a member of the Executive Board of the European Society for Aesthetics, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Teorema.

PEDRO PAULO PIMENTA
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Pedro Paulo Pimenta is a Professor of Modern History of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is the author of numerous articles on Enlightenment philosophy published in foreign languages, as well as two recent books: A trama da natureza (2018) and Metáforas do corpo no Século das Luzes (2024). He has translated works by Condillac, Diderot, Hume, and others.

VLADIMIR VIEIRA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE

Professor of Philosophy at Universidade Federal Fluminense. His area of research comprises Aesthetics and Modern Philosophy, with emphasis on Kantian philosophy, its predecessors and influences. Vieira has published several papers on authors such as Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Hume, and translated Schiller’s aesthetic essays on tragedy and on the sublime into Portuguese. He is currently vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics.