PIS - Performing Identities Studies

15/04/2026

Dear all,

📣 We are pleased to announce the following CfP for the 2/2026 issue of Azimuth journal:

💃 Aesthethics of Performance and Performativity. Identities, Artifacts, Practices, and Bodies (ed. by Chiara Cappelletto, Sofia Pirandello, Paola Zilioli)

🗓 Deadline for complete submissions: July 5, 2026.

🔎 Please find the full text of the call and further information at the following link:

Call for Papers Editorial Guidelines Azimuth is an international, half-yearly published journal of philosophy for the discussion, criticism and development of current topics of debate. Azimuth invites contributions in Italian, English, German, French, and Spanish language; all essays submitted in re...

06/12/2024

🥳 Siamo felici di annunciare la pubblicazione del libro di Samuele Sartori: "Archeologia del cyborg. Storia materiale e incorporazione dei dispositivi protesici".

🤖 Attraverso un'analisi del cyborg come soggetto finzionale, ideale e politico, il volume mira ad arricchire il dibattito contemporaneo sul tema dell'incorporazione delle tecnologie, sviluppando una riflessione sui dispositivi mediali, la storia materiale e i contesti epistemologici che hanno generato diverse concezioni dell'individuo ibrido.

💡Integrando archeologia dei media e scienze cognitive, quest'opera descrive la trasformazione delle tecniche di visualizzazione del corpo, delle protesi e delle loro modalità di incorporazione nel corso del tempo.

🔎 In particolare, si sofferma su alcuni momenti chiave nella storia dei rapporti di co-costituzione di corpi e tecnologie: il legame tra fotografia, corpo e protesi cosmetiche nel XIX secolo; l'interazione tra arti meccanici e media nella riproduzione del gesto operaio nel XX secolo; l'interdipendenza tra protesi cibernetiche, modello sensomotorio e metaplasticità.

🦿 Attraverso la figura del cyborg, Sartori ci invita quindi a riflettere con sguardo attento e rinnovato sulla qualità ibrida dell'individuo e sulla convivenza di corpi, tecnologie e saperi.

🤯 Se sei appassionat* di cyborg, identità, corpi, media e tecnologie, questo libro è una lettura da non perdere! 📖

28/11/2024

💡 EXTENDED BODIES: Corso di Perfezionamento
Cognitive Processes, Aesthetics and Ethics of Technological Prostheses

📚 40 ore, 10 lezioni, 25 posti disponibili
📅 Dal 3 al 17 febbraio 2025
📍 Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono, 7

🔎 Scopri come i corpi umani si integrano con l’ambiente attraverso artefatti tattili, visivi e motori. Un percorso multidisciplinare tra filosofia, scienze cognitive, museologia, curatela e design del prodotto.

👩‍🏫 Docenti: M. Calbi, C. Cappelletto, P. Conte, C. Cossutta, A.C. Dalmasso, A. Merla, E. Modena, F. Piatti, A. Pinotti, S. Pirandello, S. Sartori
📌 Coordinatrice: Chiara Cappelletto

👉 Info e iscrizioni: [email protected]

Affrettati! 👥 Posti limitati.

15/10/2024

Hi everyone!

‼️ We are pleased and excited to invite you to the artistic performance of sound artist, performer and independent researcher Luca Pagan during the Ca' Granda Filosofica day at the University of Milan on October 17th. ‘Rhizomatic Shell’ is the performance that Pagan offers us responding to the invitation from P*S Lab. The artist will be wearing a body architecture that transforms its movement into sound forms, showing a clear symbiotic link between body and technology.
After the performance, Samuele Sartori (P*S member) will discuss with the artist. The event will take place at 5:00 PM at Via Festa del Perdono 7 (Cortile del Settecento).

We hope to see you there!!

08/04/2024

We are pleased to announce that Professor Cappelletto and the members of P*S, Nicole Miglio and Giulio Galimberti, will participate in a roundtable discussion at the University of Noto. The roundtable has been organized on the occasion of the release of the latest publication of Reti, saperi, linguaggi, journal. On that occasion, Cappelletto and Galimberti presented a special issue that involved contributions from renowned scholars such as Maaike Bleeker and Silvia Casini.
We look forward to seeing many of you at the event!

26/02/2024

We are looking for participants to join a new marvelous experiment about emotions recognition! Please do contact by email Marta Calbi [email protected] or [email protected] if you are interested or even just curious!
Looking forward to hearing back from you all!! 🎉

28/10/2023

Looking for participants❗️🔈

27/06/2023

We are approaching to the end of this year's seminar!!
Our last session will be next Tuesday (04 July), 3-5 pm.
Luca Pagan (Independent Reasercher) will give a talk entitled "Body architecture for kinesthetic memory". The meeting will be held in Aula Martinetti in Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan and will also be running online in our usual Teams room (https://tinyurl.com/25f8p7yw).

Please also find attached the flyer for the event.
More information can be found on our website: https://pis.unimi.it/seminar-22-23/

We hope to see you there!

10/05/2023

You're welcome to our upcoming seminar, next Tuesday (16 may), 5-7 pm.
Alva Noë (UC Berkeley) will talk about "Strange Tools". The meeting will be held in Room 113 in Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan and will also be running online in our Teams room (https://tinyurl.com/25f8p7yw).

Please also find attached the flyer for the event.
More information can be found on our website: https://pis.unimi.it/seminar-22-23/

We hope to see you there!
P*S

04/05/2023

📣 The 2023 British Society for Phenomenology’s International Symposium is approaching!

The invited and confirmed speakers are Tonino Griffero, Federica Buongiorno, Anna Ciaunica, Kristin Zeiler, Luna Dolezal, Francesco Tava, Tanja Staehler, Nicole Miglio, and Jessica Stanier.

During the two-day conference, we will reflect together on the idea that the notion of intersubjectivity emerges from and comes back to intercorporeal experiences of the self in artifactual milieux.

✨ We look forward to seeing you at Palazzo Greppi in Milan, and don’t forget to register at this link: https://society.britishphenomenology.org.uk/events/9/pre/

12/04/2023

We are happy to announce our next speaker, Otto von Busch!!
Here you find the flyer concerning his talk with all the details needed.
Looking forward to seeing you next Tuesday!