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Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher based in Lisbon at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he coordinates the X-CENTRIC FUTURES research seminar on Ecology and Climate Change. He is author of Terra Cosmica: Traces of Georealism (Tenement Press, 2024), Ecosmismo. Terrae Incognitae da filosofia (Cultura e Barbárie, 2024) Cosa resta del futuro (Mimesis, 2024), Quasi Niente: Il tempo cosmico di Claude Debussy (Il Palindromo, 2024), and The End, co-authored with Alain Badiou (Polity Press, 2019) translated in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. He is co-editor of Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022), Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023) and Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2024). He worked as an editor and translator from French and English for the Italian edition of L’equivalence des catastrophes and Exclu le juif en nous by Jean Luc-Nancy, Á la recherche du réel perdu, by Alain Badiou, Be my body for me. Domination and Servitude in Hegel by Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, and Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European. He is editor (with Michael Marder) of the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series published by Bloomsbury. He is the director of the Planetary Conversations, in collaboration with The Philosophical Salon (https://www.planetaryconversations.com). He is an integrated member of the research groups "Art of Living Research Group" and the "Lisbon Nietzsche Group" in the Culture and Value Laboratory (CultureLab), as well as an integrated member of the "Thinking Documentary Film working group", CineLab at the IFILNOVA Institute of Philosophy.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Giovanbattista Tusa
Date of birth
1979/10/06
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Tusa, Giovanbattista
  • Tusa, Giovanni
  • Tusa, G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9A17-3415-C66A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8370-5580
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=5ybHU90AAAAJ
Researcher Id
B-1776-2018
Scopus Author Id
57219514569

Email addresses

  • postgiovanni@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Avenida de Berna 26 C, 1069-061, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Literary Theory
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Media and Socio-cultural Communication
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Humanities - Arts
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Italian (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
 PhD in Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy)
Università degli Studi di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Italy
"Derrida, Pensare l'à-venir (Derrida, Thinking the to-come)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007
Concluded
 Master of Arts in Interactive Media: Critical theory and practice (Master)
Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
"Critical Spaces: sound and new media" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with Distinction
2006
Concluded
 Postgraduate Diploma In Contemporary Arts Theory (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"On Kawara" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004
Concluded
 Laurea in Lettere Moderne (Laurea Magistrale)
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
""Presque Rien" Il tempo e la morte nella musica di Claude Debussy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110 Cum Laude
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2023/12 - 2024/12 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
2024/06/20 - 2024/07/04 Visiting Researcher (Research) Ryukoku Daigaku, Japan
2023/11 - 2023/11 Visiting Researcher (Research) Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2022/04 - 2022/06 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
2017/02/01 - 2019/01/31 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) National University of Singapore Department of English Language and Literature, Singapore
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2017/05/01 - 2018/02/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Scuola Normale Superiore Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
2015/09/10 - 2016/05/20 Visiting Researcher (Research) Biennale de Paris, France

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2016/10/01 - 2017/02/01 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Alma Mater Europaea Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis Fakulteta za podiplomski humanisticni študij, Slovenia
2015/04/01 - 2016/12/31 Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland
2016/01/01 - 2016/06/01 Lecturer (University Teacher) The Paris College of Arts, France
2015/09/10 - 2016/05/20 Lecturer (University Teacher) Ecole nationale d’art (ENDA), France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - Current COST ACTION Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (TRACTS)
CA20134
Researcher
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium
 Horizon 2020

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Ongoing
2022/01/13 - 2024/01/12 Philosophy and Documentary Film. Mediating Reality.
EXPL/FER-FIL/0045/2021
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2022 - 2023 On Abstraction (curatorial research) https://onabstraction.com/ - project supported by the Ministry of Culture /Dgartes. International project.
ON ABSTRACTION
Invited Scientist Fellow
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
2022 - 2022 X-Centric Futures
2022.03514.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Not funded
2017 - 2021 Nietzsche, o niilismo e o valor da arte? - Fragmentos (NVDA)
PTDC/FER-FIL/30172/2017
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020 - 2020 Ecology and Visuality. Reconfiguring Ecological Imagination (ECOVIS)
PTDC/FER-FIL/7255/2020
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Not funded
2017/02/01 - 2019/01/31 Nietzsche after Deconstruction
SFRH/BPD/116191/2016
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008 - 2011 Derrida, Pensare l'à-venir
N/A
PhD Student Fellow
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy

Università degli Studi di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Italy
Governo Italiano Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita e della Ricerca
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/02/01 - 2025/01/31 Nova Institute of Philosophy
UID/FIL/00183/2019
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Marder, Michael. Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press. 2024.
    Published • Editor
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Quasi Niente. Il tempo cosmico di Claude Debussy. Palermo, Italy: Il Palindromo. 2024.
    Published
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Badiou, Alain. Dalla Fine. Milan, Italy: Mimesis. 2024.
    Published
  4. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Terra Cosmica: Traces of Georealism. Bristol and London, United Kingdom: Tenement Press. 2024.
    Published
  5. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Ciò che resta del futuro. Il tempo della decostruzione. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2024.
    Published
  6. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Ecocosmismo - Terrae incognitae da Filosofia. Florianópolis, Brazil: Cultura e Barbárie. 2024.
    Published
  7. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Dispositif. A Cartography. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press. 2023.
    Published • Editor
  8. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Badiou, Alain. De la fin. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Édition Mimesis. 2023.
    Published
  9. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. PPPP: Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher. Milan, Italy: Mimesis International. 2022.
    Published • Editor
  10. Tusa, Giovanbattista; RYAN, BARTHOLOMEW; Cardiello, Antonio. Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. London, United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International. 2021.
    Published • Editor
  11. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou. Do fim. Florianopolis, Brazil: Cultura e Barbarie. 2020.
    Published
  12. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou. The End. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press. 2019.
    Published
  13. Badiou, Alain; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Acerca del fin. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Tinta Limon. 2019.
    Published
  14. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou.  De la fin. Conversations. Paris, France: Editions Mimesis. 2017.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Nietzsche e a filosofia contemporânea". In Introdução a Nietzsche, edited by Gori, Pietro, 191-213. Lisbon, Portugal: IFILNOVA Edições, 2024.
    Published
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Anarkhía. The Return of Air". In Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Michael Marder; Tusa, Giovanbattista, 333-336. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press, 2024.
    Published
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Défaillance: Of Philosophy". In Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Michael Marder; Tusa, Giovanbattista, 337-344. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press, 2024.
    Published
  4. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Deep Life. Reimagining our Fossil Modernity". In Stone Alive. A Cultural Interpretation Of Stone, edited by Marta Jecu. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books, 2024.
    Under revision
  5. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Mystical Matter". In Under the Ground: Imaginaries for the Subterranean Worlds, edited by Hugo de Almeida Pinto. Berlin, Germany: Archive Books, 2024.
    In press
  6. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Terrafictions". In Parafictions, Vol. 2, edited by Salomé Lamas. Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing, 2024.
    Accepted
  7. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Marder, Michael. "The Twenty-First Century: Overture". In Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tusa, Giovanbattista; Marder, Michael, 1-6. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press, 2024.
    Published
  8. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'Goodbye Athens'. La Grecia de Jacques Derrida". In Jacques Derrida, 1967-2017: un tiempo sin vejez, 135-146. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ediciones, 2023.
    Published
  9. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Cartographies of disorientation". In Dispositif. A Cartography, edited by Tusa, Giovanbattista; Greg Bird, 487-502. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT PRESS, 2023.
    Published
  10. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "A razão canibal. O tempo de Pier Paolo Pasolini". In Pier Paolo Pasolini 100 Anos, edited by Rita Marnoto; Ana Beatriz Andrade, 33-43. Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  11. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "L'insoutanable. Pour en finir avec les fins du monde". In De la fin. Nouvelle édition augmentée, 7-24. Éditions Mimesis, 2023.
    Published
  12. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "The Pasolinian Century". In PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher, edited by Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt, 315-323. Milan, Italy: Mimesis International, 2022.
    Published
  13. Giovanbattista Tusa. "The Pessoa Event". In Notes on Philosophy and Poetry, edited by Bartholomew Ryan; Giovanbattista Tusa; Antonio Cardiello, 311-323. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
  14. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'Do fim dos fins. A raiz errante'". In Do Fim, 95-112. Florianopolis, Brazil: Cultura e Barbarie, 2020.
    Published
  15. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'As an Object...'". In Parting with the Bonus of Youth. MAUMAUS as Object, edited by Simon Thompson; Jürgen Bock, 80-83. Lisbon, Portugal: Maumaus / Lumiar Cité, 2020.
    Published
  16. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Fondazioni. Freud, Said, e il non europeo". In Freud e il non europeo, 65-104. Milano, Italy: Meltemi Editore, 2018.
    Published
  17. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. "Grammatéion und Black Box". In Visualität und Abstraktion. Eine Aktualisierung des Figur-Grund-Verhältnisses, 30-45. Hamburg, Germany: Materialverlag HFBK, 2017.
    Published
  18. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Bordeland. Europe at the limit". In UNLIMIT. Rethinking the Boundaries Between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts, edited by Greg Bird; Dario Giugliano, 129-144. Milano, Italy: Mimesis International, 2017.
    Published
  19. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Techné e senso". In Natura della tecnica e tecnica della natura, edited by Rosaria Caldarone, 67-79. Brescia, Italy: Morcelliana, 2015.
    Published
  20. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "La questione ultima: il tema del sacrificio tra Derrida e Nancy". edited by Perone. Ugo, 121-126. Turin, Italy: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2012.
Dictionary entry
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Raluca Bejan. "In the land of blood and honey". In The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films, edited by Salvador Jimenez Murguia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista. Temps naissant – Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle. Dijon, France: Les presses du réel. 2024.
    Published • Editor
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Marder, Michael. Tempo incognito: Glossario filosofico per il ventunesimo secolo. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2024.
    Published • Editor
  3. Jean-Luc Nancy. Escluso l'ebreo in noi. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2019.
    Published • Translator
  4. Edward W. Said; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Freud e il non-europeo. Italy: Meltemi Editore. 2018.
    Published • Translator
  5. Roberto Esposito. Les personnes et les choses. Paris, France: Editions Mimesis. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  6. Judith Butler; Catherine Malabou. Che tu sia il mio corpo. Per una lettura contemporanea della servitù e della signoria in Hegel . Milano, Italy: Meltemi. 2017.
    Published • Translator
  7. Jean-Luc Nancy. L'equivalenza delle catastrofi. Dopo Fukushima. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2016.
    Published • Translator
  8. Alain Badiou. Alla ricerca del reale perduto. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2016.
    Published • Translator
Journal article
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Ecocosmism: Finitude Unbound". Philosophies 9 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9010027.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/philosophies9010027
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Tecno-êxtases. Visões desde o invisível". Interact - Art, Culture and Technology 39-40 (2024): https://revistainteract.pt/39-40/maquinas-que-activam-maquinas-performance-2021/.
    Open access • Published
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Il fermento dei mondi a venire: I cannibali di Derrida.". ESTETICA. STUDI E RICERCHE 14 2 (2024): 441-452.
    Published
  4. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Roberto Esposito. "The Occidental Antinomy: An Interview with Roberto Esposito". Technophany (2024): https://philotechne.substack.com/p/the-occidental-antinomy-an-interview.
    Open access • Published
  5. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Astral Bodies. Elements of Georealism". Itinera 25 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/20822.
    Open access • Published • 10.54103/2039-9251/20822
  6. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Somatocene. Noi corpi del mondo". Post-filosofie. Rivista di pratica filosofica e scienze umane 15 (2023): 214-224. https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/postfil/article/view/1834.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.15162/1827-5133/1834
  7. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Georealismo : contingências da filosofia". Azimuth : philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age 1 21 (2023): 19-33. https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5614208?digital=true.
    Published • 10.1400/293869
  8. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Vertigos. Climates of Philosophy". Philosophies 7 1 (2022): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7010007.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/philosophies7010007
  9. Marder, Michael; Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Heidegger Tonight: A Philosophical Dialogue". Diacritics 50 2 (2022): 26-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2022.a900899.
    Published • 10.1353/dia.2022.a900899
  10. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "De-limitations. Of other Earths". Stasis. An International Journal in Social and Political Philosophy and Theory 9 1 (2020): 166-183. http://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/166.
    Open access • Published • 10.33280/2310-3817-2020-9-1-166-183
  11. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Politica e finitudine. Note per un ecologia delle verità". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 1 20 (2020): 205-2022. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14648/97313.
    Published • 10.14648/97313
  12. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Dario Giugliano; Stefania Achella. "Foreword". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 2 2020 (2020): 479-480. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14648/99202.
    Published • 10.14648/99202
  13. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "L'inconciliabile: Il secolo di Alain Badiou e Pier Paolo Pasolini". Scenari. CINEMA, ESTETICA E NUOVI MEDIA 1 7 (2018): 100-109. https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/article/view/1215.
    Published
  14. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Geografie. Della frontiera occidentale". Estetica. Studi e ricerche VII 2 (2017): 313-334. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14648/88232.
    Published • 10.14648/88232
  15. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Senza riserva. Note dopo il sacrificio". EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics 3 2 (2013): 259-281. DOI: 10.7408/epkn.v3i2.57.
    Open access • Published • 10.7408/epkn.v3i2.57
Journal issue
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Dario Giugliano; Stefania Achella. "Futures of hegel.". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 2 2020 (2020): https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2039-6635.
    Published • Invited editor
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. "Geografie meridiane. Pensare a Sud". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche VII 2 (2017): https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2039-6635/issue/7289.
    Published • Invited editor
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista; Patrizia Cecala; Rosaria Caldarone. "Jean-Luc Nancy. L'iperbole del finito". EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics 3 2 (2013): http://www.ricercafilosofica.it/epekeina/index.php/epekeina/issue/view/8.
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Heilige Steine, profane Werte", Kunst und Kirche, 2017
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "“Wie ein offener Mund”", Kunst und Kirche, 2016
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "I’m still alive. Los días de On Kawara. El destino de la modernidad", Interartive, 2013
Online resource
  1. Baumann, Stefanie; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Of Other Realities. 2023. https://www.visibleevidence.org/article/of-other-realities/.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. “Tympanum”. Sound Installation dedicated to the “Margins of Philosophy “ of Jacques Derrida. 2007.
Visual artwork
  1. Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Le Rire de Derrida”. Video Performance avec Jean-Luc Nancy, Maison de la Poesie, College Internationale de Philosophie (Ciph), Paris, December 2014.
  2. Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Imagometia” Video collaboration with Rafau Sieraczek. Commissioned by the Arts & Humanities Festival, “Metamorphoses, Transformations and Conversions” at King's College London, 2012.
  3. Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Memoire Vertige”. Video performance with Jean-Luc Nancy. Coimbra, October 2014.
  4. Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Crepusculo”. Documentary (7 min.). Directed in collaboration with the Escuela Internacional de Cinema y Television de Cuba (EICTV) and the Instituto Cubano de Arte y Industria Cinematográficos, July 2010.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/10 “Cosmic Animism”, Invited masterclass at Radical Matter Research proto-Centre (RMRpC), Royal College of Art, London.
Royal College of Arts (London, United Kingdom)
2024/09/17 Dei corpi abbandonati: Foucault e la mostruosità Gender Studies international conference. Michel Foucalt: un’ ontologia dei corpi sessuati. Le teorie Foucaltiane nelle pratiche femministe e negli studi di genere
Università degli Studi di Bari (Bari, Italy)
2024/06/29 Ecocosmism: The limits of an unsustainable life
Waseda University (Tokyio, Japan)
2024/06/07 Foucault's Monsters World Congress – Foucault 40 Years After in Lisbon: "Symposium Global Foucault: Divergences and Agreements in Italian Thought"
Center for Global Studies, Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/05/24 Deviant Ecologies. Notes on poetry and cosmology in Lucretius De rerum natura Ecology And Poetic Modes Of Thought Workshop
Nova University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/12/13 Remembering the future: Fragments for an anarchaeology of injustice/Recordar o futuro: Fragmentos para uma anarqueologia da injustiça Benjamin in Amazonia
Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Manaus, Brazil)
2023/11/20 Ecology Unbound. Rethinking Finitude
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
2023/11/17 Fossil animism Modernity, Energy and Power. An Eco-energy and Cultural History of Southern Europe
Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid, Spain)
2023/10/11 Cannibal Ecologies. Images from the Past yet to Come Autumn 2023 Anthropology Departmental Seminar of the Centre of Visual Anthropology
Centre of Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2023/09/20 The challenges of sustainable ecosystems: How sustainability needs to be? Hacking Sustainability", Reconstructing Sustainability for the 21st Century
Department of Knowledge and Communication Management, Faculty of Economics and Globalization, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems.
2023/09/14 Air Matter: Benjamin in the Anthropocene 5th International Congress of The Portuguese Philosophical Society
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/06/29 "Memories of Air". Presentation at the 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network Political Ecology: North, South, and Beyond 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network
University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa)
2023/04/28 Ancestral Futures Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Collections Workshop
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK), the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) and the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) (Berlin, Germany)
2022/10/29 Pier Paolo Pasolini: Una Riflessione Filosofica Festival Mimesis 2022 – 9th edition Philosophy And Digital Transformation
Università di Udine (Udine, Italy)
2022/10/27 Transits of time. Aesthetics of Climate Justice VIII Iberian Meeting On Aesthetics: Spaces And Times In Aesthetics And In Art
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/20 Ekstasis. Of Time Continental Glissement: German Idealism & the French Inhuman Seminar
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, (Portland, Maine, United States)
2022/10/13 The Real and The Inexistant. Ontologies & Mathematics SLOW READING Seminar by Cymene Howe
Rice University (Houston, United States)
2022/09/30 Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher International Conference PPP/RRR: Pier Paolo Pasolini/ Riprese, Reprises, Retake
Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
2022/07/08 "Deep Life: Reimagining our Fossil Modernity". Invited talk at the exhibition STONE ALIVE
National Geology Museum of Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06/17 A Common Singularity. Of The Thing Itself International colloquium Objects, Abstractions and Detours
ESAP- Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/30 Breathing. Philosophy Again
Institute of Doctoral Visual Arts (Paris, France)
2022/03/16 Designing A New Planet. Post-Global Aesthetics Masterclass at the ESAD School of Arts and Design
Polytechnic of Leiria (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)
2021/12/17 In-Human Aesthetics Seminar of Aesthetics
Accademia di Belle Arti (Naples, Italy)
2021/11/05 A Cosmic Experience. Walter Benjamin in the Anthropocene 2021 Conference of the international Walter Benjamin Society
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
2021/06/23 The Ungovernable. Philosophy and Climate Change Faculty Colloquium of the Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil)
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2021/05/21 Geo-Anarchies. Masterclass at the New Political Ecologies Seminar of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) New Political Ecologies Seminar
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021/04/17 Revolution Anthropocene: Geoaesthetics of the Planetary Condition. Masterclass for the Spring lecture series "ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or" at Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) Spring lecture series "ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or"
Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA)
2019/11/04 "The Ecological Turn". Invited lecture Digital Humanism Lecture Series
Code University of Applied Science (Berlin, Germany)
2019/03/27 Invited talk with Judith Barry (MIT, Boston) on Philosophy and Cinema at the Goethe-Institut of Lisbon. Problematising reality - encounters between art, cinema and philosophy, session 7
Goethe-Institut (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/07/14 Sob O Signo Da Catástrofe Ecologia e política do nosso tempo
Festival de Teatro de Almada, Casa da Cerca Centro De Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/06/09 "Unkwown Planets, Cosmic Marxism" 4th Annual Conference, Performing Arts Forum
The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) (Reims, France)
2016/09/24 Education and Epistemology in the Time of Monsters University of Podemos
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2016/07/09 Invited talk on Architecture and Writing Architecture & Ecriture research workshop
Villa Vassilieff Center of Art and Research, The Architectural Association School of London (Paris, France)
2016/06/05 Invited Lecture: “Ways of seeing”, Swiss Institute of Rome, June 2016. Intensive Seminar Montages: Film, Video Art, And Critical Aesthetics
Swiss Instiute (Roma, Italy)
2016/02/04 “Krisis. Lands of Philosophy”. Invited lecture at the University of South Florida Philosophy Colloquia
University of South Florida, Philosophy Department (Tampa, United States)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/06/06 - 2024/06/07 Co-organiser of the World Congress "Foucault 40 Years After" in Lisbon. (2024/06/06 - 2024/06/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2024/04/12 - 2024/04/13 Counter-Cartographies: Theoretical, Methodological & Ethical Approaches to the Trace across Disciplines A Workshop by Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies & Social Justice (COST Action 20134) (2024/04/12 - 2024/04/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium
2021/11 - 2023/10 X-Centric Futures research seminar, coordinated by Giovanbattista Tusa at IFILNOVA (2021/02/19)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07 "Documentary and the Real", Workshop at the XXIX Visible Evidence Conference (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
2023/07/08 - 2023/07/08 "Art and Cosmotechnics". X-centric futures advanced seminar with Yuk Hui (2023/07/08 - 2023/07/08)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27 "The World of the Middle Voice: Archaeology of Will and Responsibility". X-Centric Future Advanced Seminar with Koichiro Kokubun. (2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27)
Seminar
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25 Arts of Living in the Anthropocene Workshop, organised by the Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy Research Group at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/09/23 - 2022/09/23 "Pasolini and Philosophy". Workshop at the Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu Do Cinema, Lisbon. (2022/09/23 - 2022/09/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
2022/08/12 - 2022/08/12 "Can the Subaltern film?" Workshop at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference (2022/08/12 - 2022/08/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Politechnika Gdanska, Poland
2022/05/10 - 2022/05/10 "After Scarcity and The Red City of the Planet Capitalism". X-Centric Futures Session #4 with Bahar Noorizadeh. (2022/05/10 - 2022/05/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/04/06 - 2022/04/06 Imbizo Ka Mafavuke / Mafavuke’s Tribunal. X-Centric Futures # debate 3 with Uriel Orlow: . (2022/04/06 - 2022/04/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/02/19 - 2022/02/19 Collective Claire Fontaine. The Method of Magic Materialism Session 1, X-Centric Futures Debates at Carpintarias de São Lázaro (2022/02/19 - 2022/02/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/02/13 - 2022/02/13 "Green Mass. e Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen". X-CENTRIC FUTURES – DEBATE #2 with Peter Schuback, Márcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Michael Marder (2022/02/13 - 2022/02/13)
Concert (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2020/11/27 - 2020/12/04 "Ecologia e Visualidade. Imagens do futuro". Postgraduate Research seminar in Filmmaking, Philosophy and the Arts. (2020/11/27 - 2020/12/04)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociedade e Cultura na Amazônia, Brazil
2019/09/10 - 2019/09/13 Co-organizer of the international research workshop “Ecology and Visuality”. (2019/09/10 - 2019/09/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15 "Still Life. Radical Ecologies". Research Seminar at the English Department of the National University of Singapore. (2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12 "The end of philosophy", Masterclass with Jean-Luc Nancy at the Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts in Paris. (2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2018/01/01 - 2018/05/30 Member of the organizing Committee of the International Symposium Cinema and Philosophy: Critical May 68 (2018/05/29 - 2018/05/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/10/15 - 2015/10/16 “Negativity at Work. French Theory and In-visuality”. Biennale de Paris at Apexart, New York. (2015/10/15 - 2015/10/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques (Iheap), France

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 "Chaos Ecologies". Invited talk
Festival
 FesThink – Festa do Pensamento, Festival New European Bauhaus
Kees Eijrond Foundation, Portugal
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/07 "Fossil Memories". Invited presentation at the Reina Sofia Museum Madrid.
Workshop
 Tracing (Climate) Crisis, Visualizing Change: Imagining & Activating A Counter Atlas Of The Trace
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2021/10/14 - 2021/10/14 Invited Keynote Speaker at the exhibition. 'À flor da pele'. Práticas da fotografia contemporânea em tempos incertos'.
Exhibition
Jardim Botânico do Porto. Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade de Porto, Portugal
2021/06/14 - 2021/06/14 "The Origin Of The Work Of Art". Ecological Interpretations. Seminar at the International Residencies Program of The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Seminar
 International Residencies Program of The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2020/02/20 - 2020/02/21 Keynote Speaker: "Planetary Visions: Contemporary Approaches to Visuality".
Workshop
 WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH METHODS IN FILM STUDIES
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019/12/11 - 2019/12/13 Invited Lecturer in Ecology and Arts at the international workshop "Ecology as Economy of Relationship of Living Being and Environment"
Workshop
 "Ecology as Economy of Relationship of Living Being and Environment" Interdisciplinary workshop
Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Italy
2019/12/12 - 2019/12/12 Invited Talk "Actuality' s dreams": Michael Marder e Giovanbattista Tusa in conversation
Seminar
 Public Seminar on Hegel’s Actuality
Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, Italy
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/08 "For a New Mapping", invited presentation.
Conference
 International Interdisciplinary Conference "Philosophy and Cartography"
Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Poland

Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wroclawiu, Poland
2019/06/18 - 2019/06/19 New Ecologies. A lexicon for the XXI century. Seminar at the Venice Biennale Sessions International Program
Seminar
 Biennale of Venice Sessions, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts session, June 18, 2019.
Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2019/05/30 - 2019/06/01 “In-human truths. On politics and literature”. Invited presentation at the Association of Philosophy and Literature conference at the Alpen-Adria-Universität.
Conference
 International Conference "Truth, Fiction, Illusion, Worlds and Experience”.
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Austria
2017/10/25 - 2017/10/25 «Vergleich über ein Drittes». Montage, Film, Praxis, Invited Talk at the Film/Philosophy Group.
Workshop
 Permanent Seminar, Film/Philosophy Group, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/20 “Topographies of social politics”, Invited Lecture at the Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts (New York), Athens.
Seminar
 Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2017/03/11 - 2017/03/11 “Touching at distance: Marx, Harun Farocki, and Einfühlung”
Conference
 Historical Materialism Conference Beirut, Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) at the American University of Beirut (AUB)
American University of Beirut Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Lebanon
2016/07/03 - 2016/07/04 “Die Gegenpartei”. On Film and Empathy.
Workshop
 Harun Farocki and the Notion of Einfühlung
Institute for cultural inquiry (ICI), Germany
2016/05/05 - 2016/05/07 “For in it every second was the narrow gate”. Messianism and revolution between Walter Benjamin and Radical Materialism
Conference
 9th International Critical Theory Conference
Loyola University Chicago - John Felice Rome Center, Italy

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/27 Freedom And Connection: An Eco-Aesthetic Process
President of the jury
 Rachael M. Rollson (PhD)
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2021/12/03 No Sentir das Máquinas: Inteligência Artificial. A Origem de uma Nova Espécie
Supervisor
 Paulo José Oliveira Alcobia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/25 La máquina antropológica. Límites de una singularidad impersonal
Thesis Member
 Irene Ortiz Gala (PhD)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2019/06/07 The Anartist and its intervention-machines
(Thesis) Arguer
 Gianluigi Biagini (PhD)
Aalto-universitetet Högskola för konst design och arkitektur, Finland

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - Current Philosophies (2409-9287) MDPI
2020 - Current Stasis (2310-3817) European University at St Petersburg (Russia)
2023/06 - 2023/06 Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy (1875-7103) University of Groningen Press
2022/10 - 2022/10 Arts (2076-0752) MDPI

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (SPF) Member
2017 - Current Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Member
2017 - Current Royal Institute of Philosophy Member
2019 - 2019 Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL) Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/08/01 - Current Doctoral Faculty Board Member
Advisor / Consultant
 Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Italy
2023 - Current Series Co-Editor of the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
Advisor / Consultant
 Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, United Kingdom
2023 - Current Management Committee member of COST ACTION CA20134 - Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (TRACTS)
Member
 The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium
2023 - Current Review Editor in Climate, Ecology and People at Frontiers in Climate
Other
2023 - Current Research Member of Laboratory for the global perspectives of Italian Thought at the Center for Global Studies of the Aberta University of Lisbon
Member
 Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2022 - Current Editorial board member of the journal "Estetica. Studi e ricerche"
Advisor / Consultant
2018/01 - Current International Advisory Board Member of POSTUMANI, ecology and anthropology, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan, Italy.
Member
 Edizioni Mimesis, Italy

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - Current Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and CITAR – Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts initiative, Porto
2020/01/06 - Current Encontro internacional O Cinema e as outras Artes Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Departamento de Comunicação e Artes

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/09/30 - Current Tutor and Consultant for ANIMALS - New Media Art Residency funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção Geral das Artes
2023/01 - 2023/01 Philosophical consultant for the international film production company "O Som e a Fúria"

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/07 - 2023/07 Summer School in Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/03 Lecturer - Arts and Ecology Independent Program of Visual Studies (Postgraduate Certificate) Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/01 Winter School in Future Aesthetics Future Aesthetics (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/16 Summer School in Political Ecologies Political Ecologies (Outros) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/01/21 - 2018/04/09 Lecturer of Continental philosophy, art theory, and critical thinking: "Toward an Ethico-Aesthetics" Visual Arts (Doctor of Philosophy) Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2018 - 2018 Lecturer - Media and Ecology course: "Posthumanism, Deep Ecology and Enviromental thinking in Contemporary art and Cinema". Independent Study Programme in Visual Arts (Postgraduate Certificate) Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Portugal
2017/01/13 - 2017/04/10 Philosophy and Media "Politics of Profanation, Pasolini, Benjamin and the Memory of the Nameless" MA in Philosophy (Master) The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland
2016/10/01 - 2017/01/31 Professor of Philosophy, Epistemology and Media Studies at The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) - Alma Mater University (AMEU) - Slovenia/Austria/US (Master) The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland
2016/01/09 - 2016/05/21 Lecturer in Gender Studies: Cinema, Performance (Bachelor) The Paris College of Arts, France
2015 - 2015 "The Deconstruction Serie". Political Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics D106b (co-taught with Jean-Luc Nancy) MA in Philosophy (Master) The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2016/09/09 Bejan, Raluca. “Democracy rising - Athens 2015: A Conference report and a conversation with Giovanbattista Tusa and Creston Davis”. Transnational Social Review, 2016. Transnational Social Review

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2017/08/09 - 2017/08/09 Fahrenheit. Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI) Hegel on mastery and slavery

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/09/01 - 2024/12/01 ESTÉTICA DE FUTURO - Programar sobre o abismo Catarina Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/06/30 Aesthetic sensibility in an age of crisis: radicalizing environmental styles Matteo Savoldelli
2022/11/01 - 2023/03/30 The question of aesthetic expression in Kant Cecilia Cavalcante Schuback

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/09/24 - 2024/10/10 Visiting Researcher at the Radical Matter Research proto-Centre (RMRpC) of the Royal College of Art of London, funded by a Scientific Mission of the COST action CA20134 - Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
2024/06/20 - 2024/07/04 Visiting Scholar at the Ryukoku University of Kyoto, Spring Semester Ryukoku Daigaku, Japan
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/20 Research Stay at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
2023/11/03 - 2023/11/30 Research Stay at the Energy humanities research group at The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/01 Affiliated Researcher at The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Spring Semester 2022 Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/23 Visiting Scholar. Seminar of Aesthetics Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Italy
Distinctions

Award

2024 Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) Grant
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium
2018 Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Singapore
2017 Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Post-doc Research Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014 Sicilia Futuro Postgraduate Global Excellence Award
2008 Phd Full award
Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy