Eugénia Vilela

Instituto de Filosofia/ Universidade do Porto 

 

Eugénia Vilela teaches at the Department of Philosophy (Faculdade de Letras/ Universidade do Porto). She's both Coordinator and researcher of the Research Group "Aesthetics, Politics and Art" at the Institute of Philosophy (Universidade do Porto). 

 

Research Interests / Interesses de Investigação

Main area of scientific activity: Philosophy and Arts.

Specific areas of scientific activity: Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

All these areas of interest have been developed in an integrated perspective of investigation in academicals works and practical works of inquiry in the picture of the new cartographies traced by violent human displacement. The investigator keeps a constant relation with problematic philosophical pressing, same the testimony, the resistance, the art, the body, the silence and the memory.

 

Education / Graus Académicos

 

  • BA in Philosophy. Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto;
  • Masters Degree in Philosophy (Field: Contemporary Philosophy) Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto;
  • PhD in Philosophy (Field: Contemporary Philosophy/Aesthetics) Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.

 

 

Publications / Publicações Recentes

VILELA, Eugénia (2010). Silêncios Tangíveis. Corpo, resistência e acontecimento nos espaços contemporâneos de abandono. Porto, Edições Afrontamento.

VILELA, Eugénia, Ed. (2000). Diversidade e identidade. 1a Conferência Internacional de Filosofia da Educação (coord.). Gabinete de Filosofia da Educação do Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto, Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2000.

VILELA, Eugénia (1998). Do corpo equívoco. Reflexões sobre a verdade e a educação nas narrativas epistemológicas da modernidade, Braga/Coimbra, Editora Angelus Novus.

 

Chapters in books

VILELA, Eugénia (2009) «Visages. La mémoire sacrée des gestes». In Laurent-Dominique Fontana e Samuel Torello (Editor) Visages. LD Fontana, sculpture, Suiça, Musée de Bagnes (Samuel Torello e Laurent-Dominique Fontana Edition), 2009. [ISBN : 978-2-9700659-2-0]

VILELA, Eugénia (2009) «Le corps à venir. (Seuls dans l’aube)». In Laurent-Dominique Fontana e Samuel Torello (Artist Editor) L’aube des roses, Suiça (Samuel Torello e Laurent-Dominique Fontana Edition) 2009. [ISBN : 978-2-9700659-0-6]

And several other book chapters and articles in scientific magazines.