Doctoral candidate (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)

Contact

C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / C19.03.20

Office hours

by arrangement

Visiting address

Campus
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Vincenzo Cerulli

Personal Information

2015 – 2018: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at La Sapienza Università di Roma

2018 – 2019: Civil Service at La casa dei diritti sociali (Tivoli)

2019 – 2022: Master of Arts in Philosophy / Double degree programm between La Sapienza Università di Roma and the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena (Deutscher Idealismus und moderne europäische Philosophie)

From October 2023: PhD student at the Max Weber Kolleg - Universität Erfurt (IGS - Resonant Self-World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices)

From October 2024 to September 2025: PhD researcher in cotutelle at the University of Graz (Austria) – Department of Sociology

Research Project

Working title: Resonance Praxis in Filmmaking and Film Editing

Publications

  • Montage as a Space for Resonance. Between Dialectical Praxis and Theoretical Tensions. (2024) PHILM. Rivista Di Filosofia E Cinema, 3, 31-49.
  • En plein air filmmaking. Some notes on sea waves, wind and early cinema. (2025) PHILM. Rivista Di Filosofia E Cinema, 4, 257-274. 
  • Aesthetics without Objects and Subjects: Relational Thinking for Global Challenges – A Book Review. (2025). ESPES The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics, 14(2). 

Conferences and talks

  • Self-(mediated)-World Relationship: the uncontrollable outcomes of control practices through the lens of Montage / IGS Resonant Self‐World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio‐Religious Practices 6–8 March 2024 / Max Weber Center, Erfurt / MEDIALITY AND SELF-WORLD RELATIONS
  • Una necessità contingente. Ripensare la pratica del filmmaking a partire da Adorno e Nietzsche – XXV World Congress of Philosophy Rome 1-8 August 2024
  • From potter to editor, from analogue to digital: some observations on techno-human collaboration / RAI Film Conference 2025 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) 1-4 July 2025
  • Technological Porosity: on the endless re-combinatorial possibilities of the digital editing / International Walter Benjamin Society 25 “Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution” 17-20 September 2025 / Rome
  • Plasma and Negativity: towards an empirical ontology of the “outside” in creative social processes / Grasping the Social - Reconnecting Sociological Theory and Qualitative Research Joint Mid-Term Conference of the Research Networks on Social Theory and Qualitative Methods of the European Sociological Association 29th September – 1st October 2025 / University of Passau, Germany
  • Negative Filmmaking: on the non-intentionality of art and the aesthetic affordances of the film set / ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) Eastern Division Meeting 2026 / April 10-11 2026 / DoubleTree by Hilton Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Accepted)
  • Anticipation and Aesthetics / Annual Conference 2026 of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics / AIAS - Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus - Denmark / 18-20 May 2026 (Accepted)
  • Negative Filmmaking: on the non-intentionality of art and the aesthetic affordances of the film set / The 17th annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) / University of Jyväskylä, Finland / 8-10 June 2026 (Accepted)
  • Negative Filmmaking: a study on the aesthetic affordances of the film set / ICA 2026 23rd International Congress of Aesthetics / Prešov, Slovakia, July 20–24 2026 (Accepted)

Other events

  • Società Italiana di Estetica / Summer School “L’estetica e i suoi classici” / 6-10 July 2020 Pavia (online)
  • Lisbon Praxis Summer School / Global Critical Theory / 14-18 July 2025 / Lisbon
  • IGS Autumn Conference 2025 / Indifference, Hostility, Disgust: The Ambiguity of Heimat / 20-22 October 2025 / Graz (Organising Committee)
  • One day workshop at the Max Weber Kolleg / New Regimes of Indifference: Within Academia and Beyond / 22 May 2026 / Erfurt (Organising Committee)

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