Adventures of Identity: From the Double to the Avatar

Organized by Andrea Pinotti (Università Statale di Milano / IEA de Paris 2017-2018)

Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi
FMSH

Program

December 13 (morning – chair Andrea Pinotti, Università Statale di Milano)

h 10,00-10,30: Welcoming Speech and Introductory Remarks

h 10,30-11,00: Charles Malamoud (EHESS, Paris): “Tout le monde descend!” La notion d’avatar dans la mythologie et la spéculation de l’Inde hindoue

h 11,00-11,30: Coffee break

h 11,30-12,00: Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Paris): Neural basis of interaction with avatars

h 12,00-13,00: Round-table discussion

December 13 (afternoon – chair Massimo Salgaro, Università di Verona)

h 15,00-15,30: Dominique Moulon (art critic and independent curator): The art of acting somewhere else

h 15,30-16,00: Silvia Romani (Università Statale di Milano): Laughs best who laughs last: sardonic doublets of religious tools in Eighteenth Century Sardinia

h 16,00-16,30: Coffee break

h 16,30-17,00: Cheryce von Xylander (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Skeuomorphic Selfhood: a Kantian Take on the Avatar

h 17,00-18,00: Round-table discussion

December 14 (morning – chair Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)

h 10,00-10,30: Mel Slater (University of Barcelona): Being Someone Else – The Power of Avatar Self Representation

h 10,30-11,00: Sara Guindani (FMSH-Collège d’études mondiales, Paris): Playing for real. The avatar and the double in analytical psychodrama

h 11,00-11,30: Coffee break

h 11,30-12,00: Barbara Grespi (Università di Bergamo): Interacting with your avatar. Problems of gesture recognition

h 12,00-13,00: Round-table discussion

December 14 (afternoon – chair Giandomenico Iannetti, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Roma)

h 15,00-15,30: Olaf Blanke (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne): From the neuroscience of self-consciousness to virtual reality, digiceuticals, and human augmentation

h 15,30-16,00: Coffee break

h 16,00-16,30: Chiara Cappelletto (Università Statale di Milano): From Superman to PJ Masks: how masks make us superhumans

h 16,30-17,00: Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY), Selfie nationalism

h 17,00-18,00: Round-table discussion

When

13 déc 2018 10:00 - 14 déc 2018 18:00

Where

Institut d'études avancées de Paris
17 quai d'Anjou
Hôtel de Lauzun
75004 Paris

Informations

https://www.paris-iea.fr/fr/evenements/adventures-of-identity-from-the-double-to-the-avatar