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Moderator : Phượng Bùi Trân, Visiting Professor, Collège de France Abstract At the age of 32, I became the editor in chief of Tuoi Tre newspaper, one of the largest ones in Vietnam, regarding circulation and ranking. After 8 years of working as a …

Moderator : Phượng Bùi Trân, Visiting Professor, Collège de France Abstract I want to tell about the journey of 21 years of writing books and 16 years of living independently in a big city of Vietnam. With 21 years of writing, I have published 5 books. In …

Moderator : Phượng Bùi Trân, Visiting Professor, Collège de France Abstract Why I committed myself to what I call : The last stand of my life The three conditions for doing so Why the trial is unique, historic and political Society's invaluable support …

Moderator : Phượng Bùi Trân, Visiting Professor, Collège de France Abstract Why a second life as a gallery owner after retirement ? Why a change of profession at the age of 37   ? Nguyễn Thị Xuân Phượng Filmmaker, gallery owner, …

Olivier Houdé Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France and the Académie royale de Belgique, Olivier Houdé is Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris Cité, Administrator of the Institut Universitaire de …

Jean-Pierre Changeux Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Jean-Pierre Changeux is Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France and the Institut Pasteur. His research work in several fields of biology builds on his early work on protein structure and …

Atsuo Morimoto Atsuo Morimoto was born in Tokyo in 1970. He is a professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Research in the Humanities. He is the author of Paul Valéry. L'imaginaire et la genèse du sujet. De la psychologie à la poïétique (2009) and …

Gisèle Sapiro Gisèle Sapiro is Director of Studies at EHESS and Director of Research at CNRS, and a member of Academia Europaea. A specialist in the sociology of literature, intellectuals, freedom of expression, publishing and translation, she is the …

Paola Cattani Paola Cattani is Professor of French Literature at the University of Rome III (Roma Tre). An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure in Pisa, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Collège de France. Her research focuses on the history of …

Antonietta Sanna Antonietta Sanna teaches French literature at the University of Pisa. She is interested in the genetic analysis of texts, text-image relationships, multilingualism and translation, and the digitization of the humanities. She has published …

Gilles Philippe Gilles Philippe is Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Lausanne. He has devoted several books to the history of language imaginaries and stylistic practices in the 19th and 20th   centuries. His latest book was published …

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Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the British Academy. After his first book, …

Abstract This paper considers the ethical significance of self-involving imagination, where we imagine ourselves as others. This form of imagination occurs in taking on personal ideals, in simulation of others' mental states, and when we imagine ourselves …

Abstract Is Virtual Reality a special metaphysical category of reality, as David Chalmers claims? In this talk, I argue that this is not the most obvious way, and I oppose it with a (pseudo-)dualistic conception of VR, combining reality and fiction. To do …

Abstract Are the entities that we encounter in virtual environments real? As a virtual realist, Chalmers argues that they are. In contrast, virtual fictionalists say they aren't. Instead, such entities are merely posits within games of make-believe, games …

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 …