Keynote speakers

Jimena Canales (University of Illinois, USA)

Award-winning author and scholar focusing on the history of science in the modern world. She is currently a faculty member at the Graduate College at the University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign. She was previously the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at the University of Illinois and an Associate Professor at Harvard University. Canales is the author of A Tenth of a Second: A History, The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time, Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, and Simply Einstein. Her books have been voted Top 10 Books about Time (The Guardian), Best Science Books for 2015 (Science Friday, NPR, Public Radio International and Brainpickings), Top Reads for 2015 (The Independent), and Books of the Year for 2016 (The Tablet). jimenacanales.org

Elie During (University of Paris Nanterre, France)

Associate Professor in philosophy at University Paris Nanterre. He also teaches seminars at the European Graduate School (EGS) and the École des Beaux-arts in Paris. His publications include a critical edition of Bergson’s Duration and Simultaneity (Presses universitaires de France, 2009) as well as of Paul Langevin’s lectures on relativity theory, Le Paradoxe des jumeaux: deux conférences sur la relativité (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2016). More recently on the same topic: “Time as Form: Lessons from the Bergson-Einstein Dispute,” in Einstein vs. Bergson: An Enduring Quarrel on Time (A. Campo & S. Gozzano eds., De Gruyter, 2021). Co-edited books: The Future Does Not Exist (with A. Bublex, B42, 2014); Bernard Stiegler, Philosophising by Accident: Interviews with Elie During (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Choses en soi: métaphysique du réalisme (with E. Alloa, Puf, 2018). Forthcoming in 2022: a critical edition of Bachelard’s Dialectic of Duration (Puf) and a volume co-edited with J. Roffe and A. Sauvagnargues, Raymond Ruyer: Being in Formation (Edinburgh University Press). Elie During is a member of the editorial board of the monthly review Critique.

Mark Sinclair (University of Roehampton, UK)

Reader in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton (London), is the author of Bergson (Routledge, 2020) and Being Inclined (Oxford University Press, 2019), as well as the co-editor of The Bergsonian Mind (Routledge, 2022) and The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy (forthcoming).