International conference organized by Andrea Pinotti (Università Statale di Milano / IEA de Paris 2017/2018), with the support of the Istituto Italiano de Cultura di Parigi and the FMSH

Program

13th December 2018

Session 1 - chair Andrea Pinotti (Università Statale di Milano)

10:00 Welcoming speech and introductory remarks

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

11:30 Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Paris): “Neural basis of interaction with avatars”

12:00 discussant Federica Cavaletti (Università Cattolica di Milano) : Round-table discussion

Session 2 - chair Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

15:00 Dominique Moulon (art critic and independent curator): “The art of acting somewhere else”

15:30 Silvia Romani (Università Statale di Milano): “Laughs best who laughs last: sardonic doublets of religious tools in Eighteenth Century Sardinia”

16:30 Cheryce von Xylander (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): “Skeuomorphic Selfhood: a Kantian Take on the Avatar”

14th December 2018

Session 3 - chair Tamar Flash (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)

10:00 Mel Slater (University of Barcelona): "Being Someone Else – The Power of Avatar Self Representation”

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

11:30 Barbara Grespi (Università di Bergamo): “Interacting with your avatar. Problems of gesture recognition”

12:00 discussant Elise Harris (Université Paris Diderot): Round-table discussion

Session 4 - chair Giandomenico Iannetti (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Roma)

15:00 Olaf Blanke (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne): “From the neuroscience of self-consciousness to virtual reality, digiceuticals, and human augmentation”

16:00 Chiara Cappelletto (Università Statale di Milano): “From Superman to PJ Masks: how masks make us superhumans”

16:30 Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY): “Selfie nationalism”

17:00 discussant Jeanne Ferrier (Université Paris Diderot): Round-table discussion