Curriculum Vitae
Carlos Vara Sánchez
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carlos Vara Sánchez
Citation names
- Vara Sánchez, Carlos
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5C16-EF81-3297
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4363-2254
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+34) 654274201 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Italian | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2012/09 - 2016/05/31
Concluded
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Humanities (Doctor)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
""A cada momento un mundo nace y muere" : elementos de la temporalidad en las video instalaciones de Bill Viola, con una coda
de nuerociencias" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Excellent Cum Laude (With Honors) |
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2009/10/01 - 2011/06/30
Concluded
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Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Thought (Master)
Major in Humanities
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
"Jean-Luc Nancy. Origen y experiencia de la presencia." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007/10/01 - 2009/06/30
Concluded
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Neurosciences (Master)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
"Molecular Modeling of GPCRs Heterodimerization: Study of the A2A/D2 Heterodimer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2001/10/01 - 2006/09/30
Concluded
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Biology (Graduado)
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/06/01 - 2021/05/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Italy | ||
| 2018/06/01 - 2020/05/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Italy |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2018/06 - 2020/05 | MSCA Project: ENAMARE (Enactive model of aesthetic perception through rhythm and entrainment)
Post-doc Fellow
Università Ca' Foscari Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Italy
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European Commission
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Book review |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2021/07/21 | Dancing to an enacted rhythm | Lecture Series on Embodied Cognition and Dance
University of Memphis (Online) (Memphis, United States)
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| 2019/10/24 | Not quite my rhythm: A philosophical approach to aesthetic experience | Guest lecture at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw
Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
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| 2019/09/13 | Not Quite My Rhythm: An Enactivist Approach to Aesthetic Experience | Aesthetic Experience Today
Charles University (Prague) (Prague, Czech Republic)
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| 2019/06/13 | Rhythm and aesthetic experience: an enactive approach | European Society for Aesthetics annual conference 2019
University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
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| 2019/05/28 | Rhythms and aesthetics: an enactivist approach | Seminar at Wien University's Empirical Visual Aesthetics research group
Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2019/05/08 | Rhythm from an enactivist point of view | Food & Paper research seminars
University of Oslo: RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion (Oslo, Norway)
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| 2019/04 | Rhythm and aesthetic experience | 8th Dubrovnik Conference on the Philosophy of Art
Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
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| 2019/02/28 | Bodily rhythms and entrainment on social interactions | 20th Herbstakademie: Synchronization in Embodied Interaction
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Freiburg, Germany)
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| 2019/02/23 | El ritmo como umbral estético: una aproximación enactivista a la obra de Bill Viola | Jornadas de Filosofía y Estética
UNED Cuenca (Cuenca, Spain)
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| 2017/11/14 | El elogio del olvido | Campus Aquae
Fundación Aquae (Cartagena, Spain)
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| 2017/05/25 | The transformative temporality of aesthetic experience: an interdisciplinary approach to Gadamer's concept of tarrying | The European Society for Aesthetics annual conferenve 2017
Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2016/05/06 | In the Mood for Time: Aesthetic Implications of Duration | Mood – Aesthetic, Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives
Warwick University (Coventry, United Kingdom)
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| 2015/02/07 | The Temporality of Aesthetic Experience: A Neurophilosophical Approach | Interact: British Society of Aesthetics Post-graduate Conference
University of Kent (Canterbury, United Kingdom)
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| 2014/05 | The Experience of Time and Temporality on Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo | International Conference on Philosophy and Film
Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2020/02/13 - 2020/02/13 | Talk by Giovanna Colombetti "Artefatti affettivi: dal simbolico al materiale" at Ca'Foscari University's department of Philosophy
and Cultural Heritage. (2020/02/13 - 2020/02/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| 2019/09/03 - 2019/09/05 | "Lezioni veneziane" by Shaun Gallagher: Performance/Art
Between September 3 and September 5 2019, Shaun Gallagher offered a three-day cycle of conferences on enactive aesthetics
at Ca' Foscari' University. This event, organized by Carlos Vara Sánchez, received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 794484 (2019/09/03 - 2019/09/05)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| 2018/12/12 - 2018/12/12 | Talk by Pierre Steiner (Compiegne Technology University)
Pragmatist perspectives in cognitive science: reconceiving action and rediscussing representation
(2018/12/12 - 2018/12/12)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| 2018/08/27 - 2018/08/27 | Presentation of Ellen Dissanayake's book "Early Rock Art of the American West: The Geometric Enigma" (Washington UP, 2018)
followed by a debate with the author. (2018/08/27 - 2018/08/27)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2019 - Current | Associazione Culturale Pragma | Member |
| 2018/09 - Current | Research Institute for Complexity (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) | Member |
| 2015 - Current | The European Society for Aesthetics | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/02/09 - 2021/06 | Estetica Sp. 2020/2021 | Aesthetics (Laurea Magistrale) | Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
| 2020/02 - 2020/06 | Estetica Sp. 2019/2020 | Aesthetics (Laurea Magistrale) | Università Ca' Foscari, Italy |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2020/07/15 | Interview at CfNews related to the MSCA project on rhythm and aesthetics. | CfNews |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | Extraordinary Doctorate Award
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Other distinction
| 2018 | Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow
European Commission, Belgium
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| 2007 | 'La Caixa' Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies
Obra Social La Caixa, Spain
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