Key Speakers

ARLENICE ALMEIDA
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO PAULO

PhD in philosophy from the University of São Paulo. From 2005 to 2009 she was a professor of Aesthetics in the philosophy department at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Marília campus. Since 2010, she has been a professor of aesthetics and philosophy of art in the philosophy department of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). She is the author of the book Aesthetics of resistance: the autonomy of art in the young Lukács, published by Boitempo Editorial in 2021. She is a member of ABES 18, the Brazilian Association of Studies on the 18th Century.

FERNANDA MEDEIROS
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO

Associate Professor of English Literature at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). Medeiros hols a Prociência research scholarship and is an MA in Brazilian Literature and a PhD in Comparative Literature. Her postdoctoral research approached the echoes of Shakespeare in contemporary Brazilian Literature. Author of numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to the Shakespearean universe, she has coedited an issue of the journal Tradução em Revista (2018) about Shakespeare and the book O que você precisa saber sobre Shakespeare antes que o mundo acabe (What You Need to Know about Shakespeare before the World Ends, 2021). She has collaborated with Editora Nova Fronteira in preparing notes for the recent collection of Shakespeare’s tragedies (2022) and is currently the coordinator of the CNPq research group “Shakespeare e as modernidades” (“Shakespeare and Modernities”) as well as a member of the International Shakespeare Association (Shakespeare Institute / Univ. of Birmingham).

MARCUS MAZZARI
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Mazzari studied Literature at the University of São Paulo and completed his master’s degree in German literature at the same institution, with a dissertation on Günter Grass. Between 1989 and 1994 he did his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1996 he has been a professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at FFLCH-USP. He has translated to portuguese, among others, texts by Adelbert von Chamisso, Bertolt Brecht, Gottfried Keller, Günter Grass, Heinrich Heine, Jeremias Gotthelf, J. W. Goethe, Karl Marx, Thomas Mann and Walter Benjamin. He is author and organizer of important books on German tought and litterature. He is a co-founder of the Goethean Brazilian Association, created in March 2009. Currently, he coordinates the Brazilian Thomas Mann Collection.

MARIA PIA LARA
UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico City) and Professor Emeritus of the National System of Researchers (CONAHCyT, Mexico). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and is the author of several books, including: An Aesthetic for Spectators. The Laboratory of Art in Modern Temporal Consciousness (2024), Beyond the Public Sphere. Film and the Feminist Imaginary (2021). She was a visiting researcher and visiting professor at the New School for Social Research (2013/2014, 2009/2010, 2001-2002), the University of Cagliari (2008), the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia (2005), a visiting researcher at the Institute for Women and Gender Research, Stanford University (1998-1999) and the Institut für Hermeneutik, Freie Universität Berlin (1994-1995).

MICHAEL LÖWY
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

Studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). Löwy received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a thesis on the young Marx supervised by Lucien Goldmann. Author of several books, translated into thirty languages, he has lived in Paris since 1969, where he was active in the Revolutionary Communist League (French section of the Fourth International). He is currently research director emeritus at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Through Boitempo, he published Jenny’s Blue Notebook, Marx, This Stranger, Walter Benjamin: Fire Warning, The Utopias of Michael Löwy, Lucien Goldmann, Revolutions, The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx, Capitalism as a Religion, Class Struggles in Russia, The Steel Cage, Revolt and Melancholy, Sparks, 1917 and The Morning Star.