Visiting Scholars and Students
Camille Braune
As an Alliance Ph.D. Mobility Recipient for 2023-2024 and Visiting Doctoral Student at Columbia University, Ms. Camille Braune is delighted to be joining the Philosophy and Education Program for Spring 2024. She is in her third year of a Ph.D. thesis at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in France, under the joint supervision of Prof. Sandra Laugier and Prof. Isabelle Alfandary, which is titled: “For a New Ethics of Attention to Language: From the Work of the British Novelist and Philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)”. Her doctoral dissertation aims to explore the influence of Iris Murdoch on the flourishing of contemporary ordinary ethics, embracing both the concepts of ‘attention to language’ (i.e., what it means to be attentive to language) and ‘contemporary ordinary ethics’ (i.e., how ordinary life can be the privileged ground for moral life). Ms. Braune is a Research Fellow at the Sorbonne’s Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences, a member of the international research group ‘Wittgenstein and Women’ and a Research Assistant for the European Commission-funded ‘Demoseries’ research project. She was the third recipient of the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars awarded by the Iris Murdoch Society and the Iris Murdoch Research Centre.
Masamichi Ueno
Professor of Education at Sophia University, Japan
Elena Theodoropoulou
Professor of Philosophy of Education
Elena is a Professor of Philosophy of Education with emphasis on Practical Philosophy. She has been a visiting professor at universities in France, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Taiwan, and Japan. She is the founding member of SofPhied (Société Francophone de Philosophie de l'Education) and Afierasm (Association francophone internationale d'éthique de la relation d'aide et de la santé mentale), a foreign researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), at the National Foundation of Research (Brazil) and member of the Scientific Committee of the Unesco Chair "Practices of philosophy with children: an educational basis for the intercultural dialogue & the social transformation”. She is an associated researcher at the LLCP/ Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis, and founder of the international Network Philosophy of Education in Praxis (NePhedinPrax). Her editorial services include the journals, Amechanon and Epistrophe. She is the founder and director of the Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.) and initiator and president of the International Biennale on Practical Philosophy.