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Abstract The immersive experiences literature has primarily focused on the phenomenon of immersion, particularly its cognitive nature. However, little has been directly said about what it means for a work - a novel, videogame, VR application - itself to …

Abstract Empirical studies show great variation in the smoothness of tracking eye movements in various perceptual situations. In this talk, I examine the relation between the smoothness of tracking eye movements and the feeling of presence in the case of …

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Born in Paris in 1987, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet is an actor, director and poet. He has appeared in films by André Téchiné, Pavel Lounguine, Christophe Honoré, Gilles Marchand, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Guédiguian, Amos Gitaï, …

Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody is a translator of French literature, including The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), and Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses (Syracuse University Press, …

Maria Teresa Giaveri Maria Teresa Giaveri, a member of the Accademia delle Scienze of Turin and the Accademia Peloritana, is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literatures at the University of Turin, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Viceroy-President …

Matilde Manara Matilde Manara has a PhD in Comparative Literatures. Between 2017 and 2020, she was a recipient of an INSPIRE-Marie Curie fellowship at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, then an ATER at the Université de Lille, and is currently a …

Masanori Tsukamoto Masanori Tsukamoto is Professor of French Literature at the University of Tokyo. Author of numerous articles on Valéry and modern literature, he has published in Japanese Rêve à l'état éveillé  : Introduction à la littérature française …

Carlo Ossola Carlo Ossola (Turin 1946) is Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Modern Literature of Neolatin Europe . He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and a fellow of the …

Abstract David Chalmers has recently argued that virtual reality is a genuine kind of reality, populated by real digital entities. At the ontological level, this realist view is ambiguous between two readings. One states that virtual entities are strictly …

Benoît Peeters Benoît Peeters was born in 1956. His first novel, Omnibus , was published by Editions de Minuit in 1976. Since then, he has published some sixty books, translated into many languages. An essayist and renowned comic-book specialist, …

Abstract In my talk, I wish to explore the thesis of virtual realism and establish the limits of successful virtualization. The thesis of virtual realism states that virtual environments and objects are real (as opposed to fictional) and that some virtual …

Benedetta Zaccarello Benedetta Zaccarello is a researcher at the CNRS, working at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS/ENS), where she is in charge of the Valéry team. She coordinates the CNRS International Research Network (IRN), which …

Claudine Tiercelin Claudine Tiercelin has held the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair at the Collège de France since 2010, and has been a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques since 2017. Among her latest publications : …

Abstract It is customary to think that certain entities have irreplaceable value. The group of these entities include for example art works like the Mona Lisa, family heirlooms of great emotional significance, and, of course, people. In this talk, I …

Abstract At the turn of the 19th century, French psychiatrists discovered a couple of intriguingly philosophical disorders. Patients suffering from these disorders were characterized as "metaphysician doubters" or "pathological metaphysicians". They …

Abstract My aim in this talk is to examine Chalmers' veridicalism, and more precisely i) to indicate a reason to doubt the cogency of one of his' arguments for veridicalism, ii) to argue that if BIVs' ordinary beliefs are true for the reasons indicated by …

Abstract In this presentation, I will do an ontological analysis of virtual reality, which will form the basis for an ethical analysis. I will present an analysis of what I call virtual ontology: the ontology of virtual environments and the actions and …

Abstract Since the 19th century, the grey and scientific literature on the dynamics of change in the environments and landscapes of the Sahara and its margins has been full of catastrophic descriptions. The changes affecting them are frequently described …

Abstract During the second half of the 20th century, the development of oil economies in North Africa and repeated drought in the Sahel transformed Saharan and trans-Saharan patterns of exchange and mobility, introducing a steep north-south gradient. With …

Abstract First, we'll look at the history of the introduction and spread of religious brotherhoods in the Western Sahara (Mauritania and Morocco essentially), in particular the two great tarîqa : Qâdiriya and Tijâniya. The role of these brotherhoods in …

Abstract The spread of Islam gradually led to a new kind of globalization that connected different economic poles through trade routes from China to West Africa. The Sahara became the geographical center of one of these poles. Travelling across the desert …