Alessandro De Cesaris

[Call for papers] Aesthetics&Critique IX – Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Aesthetics & Critique IX Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology University of Fribourg 11-12 June 2026 Call for papers In January 1907, the founder of phenomenology,  Edmund Husserl, wrote a letter to the Viennese Modernist playwright and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, suggesting that the phenomenologist’s and the artist’s methods are closely connected. Husserl’s suggestion remains … Read more[Call for papers] Aesthetics&Critique IX – Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology

[Seminar Cycle] Techniques of the senses (Spring Semester 2026)

17.02.2026 Jean Tain (Fribourg) Paysages technicisés 24.02.2026 Martin Rueff (Genève) Rousseau et l’art du roman comme technique de la sensibilité 03.03.2026 Christoph Haffter (Basel) Räume des Hörens in der zeitgenössischen Musik 10.03.2026 Daniel Feige (Stuttgart) Horror: Film und Negativität 17.03.2026 David Espinet (Strasbourg) L’image avant l’image 24.03.2026 Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Genève) Faire du Dalí sans en … Read more[Seminar Cycle] Techniques of the senses (Spring Semester 2026)

Writing Atelier – Winter Semester 2025

Online Participation Link (MS Teams): Click here Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg) Introduction Marita Tatari (Halle) The Turn of Mimesis Coffee Break Nicolas Zaslawski (Fribourg) Un Canis bien trop familiaris Discussant: Jean Tain (Fribourg) Lunch Break Lilian Kroth (Fribourg) Orbital Lines. Drawing as a Research Framework to Investigate Satellite Vision Discussant : Patrick Flack (Fribourg) Vanessa Ossino … Read moreWriting Atelier – Winter Semester 2025

[Conference] Sensing Ice. Aesthetics & Critique VIII

30-31st July 2025Fribourg, Campus MiséricordeSalle Jäggy 4112 SpeakersGudrun Eriksen Havsteen-Mikkelsen (Kopenhagen)Brontë Evans (Cambridge)Lena von Goedeke (Longyearbyean/Berlin)Geistė Kinčinaitytė (Vilnius)Andra Poр-Jurj (London)Alexis Rider (Cambridge)Anna Diljá Sigurðardottir (Reykjavik)Amelia Urry (Cambridge) Contacts and RegistrationLilian Kroth (Department of Philosophy – Fribourg)lilian.kroth@unifr.chBenjamin Buchan (Department of Geosciences – Fribourg)benjamin.buchan@unifr.ch

[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular – Historical and Theoretical Perspectives – New Cycle

Registration: click here. The second cycle of the “Being Singular” seminar begins in February 2025 with new guests. Permanent Zoom link: click here Schedule 27.02.2025 Edward Halper (University of Georgia) 28.02.2025 Brook Ziporyn (University of Chicago) 07.03.2025 Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College) 27.03.2025 Mirjam Schaub (HAW, Hamburg) 28.03.2025 Pauline Sabrier (Université de Fribourg) 04.04.2025 Nastassja … Read more[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular – Historical and Theoretical Perspectives – New Cycle

Writing Atelier – Winter 2024

9.45Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg)Welcome and Introduction 10.00Mariana Larison (Buenos Aires)Potentialités d’une phénoménologie de l’institution 11.00Coffee Break 11.30Vanessa Ossino (Cologne)Zum Potential der Philosophie Merleau-Pontys jenseits dualistischer ParadigmenDiscussant: Patrick Flack 14.00Jason Day (Fribourg)Expansion: An Introduction to Psychedelic ExperiencesDiscussant: Golnar Narimani 15.00Alessandro De Cesaris (Fribourg)Blurred Lines. Confusion as a Moral ConceptDiscussant: Olivier Dorais 16.00Coffee pause 16.15Christian Sternad (Fribourg)On TitanismDiscussant: … Read moreWriting Atelier – Winter 2024

[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Directed by: Gregory Scott Moss (Hong Kong University) Alessandro De Cesaris (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) Introduction A bizarre paradox runs through the history of philosophy. Since the time of Aristotle, philosophy has been defined as the knowledge of the universal, and what is singular is excluded from the domain of what is knowable. At the … Read more[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

[Interview] Pioniergeist: Der erste Ästhetik-Lehrstuhl der Schweiz

Seit der Einrichtung des ersten Universitäts-Lehrstuhls für Ästhetik und Kunstphilosophie im Jahr 2019 hat dieser eine bedeutende Rolle in der schweizerischen akademischen Welt übernommen. Im Interview mit Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Alloa werfen wir einen Blick auf die facettenreiche Welt der Ästhetik, von ihrer historischen Entwicklung bis hin zu ihrer aktuellen Relevanz für Gesellschaft und Kultur. … Read more[Interview] Pioniergeist: Der erste Ästhetik-Lehrstuhl der Schweiz