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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 …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …