Bio || Bio
Catarina Pombo Nabais is currently Researcher at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She graduated in Philosophy - variant in Philosophy of Science - by the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University (1998), she obtained her Diplôme d'Études Approfondies in Philosophy at the University of Amiens, France (1999), and concluded her PhD in Contemporary Philosophy by the University of Paris VIII, under the supervision of Jacques Rancière (2007) with the highest distinction for a PhD dissertation in France. In 2013, she published her first book untitled Gilles Deleuze: Philosophie et Littérature, by L'Harmattan, Paris.
From 2007 to May 2019, she was a Post-Doctoral fellow with 3 successive grants awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) of which she is integrated member since 2006. From 2007 to 2014 she was head of the research group (RG) “Science and Art”. In 2014 she created the Science-Art-Philosophy Lab (SAP Lab) of which she is the coordinator since then. She is currently the vice-head of the research group (RG3) “Philosophy of Technology, Human Sciences, Art and Society”. In line of her research activity in Science and Art domain, she belongs to faculty of the International Doctoral Program “Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art and Society”, mainly in what concerns the area of “Science and Art”. She is currently supervising 5 PhD dissertations.
Her research includes Contemporary Philosophy, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Science and Art, Epistemology, Ethics and Ecosophy. In what concerns “Science and Art” interdisciplinary field, she focuses her work on the concepts of Territory, Body, Ecosophy and Creation. In parallel, she develops a career as Art Curator, having completed, in 2016, a Postgraduation in Art Curation by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (FCSH – UNova Lisboa).
Áreas de Interesse || Current Research
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Science and Art
- Philosophy of Science
- Aesthetics
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Ethics and Biopolitics
- Ecosophy
Situação no CFCUL || Position at the CFCUL
Membro Integrado Doutorado / Contrato Investigador FCUL
Projecto Pós-Doc || Post-Doc Research Project
.2013-2019 (31th May) FCT Post-doctoral fellowship “Cartographies of the Territory: from Aesthetics to Ethics”
.2010-2013 – FCT Post-doctoral fellowship “Cartographies of the Territory”
.2007-2010 – FCT Post-doctoral fellowship “Creation and Image”
Grupos de Investigação || Research Groups
.Science-Art-Philosophy Laboratory (SAP Lab): Head
.Research Group (RG3) “Philosophy of Technology, Human Sciences, Art and Society”: Vice-Head
.Science and Art: Vice-Head
Linhas Temáticas || Thematic Lines
Science-Art-Philosophy Lab (Head)
Participação em Projectos || Participation in Projects
.2015-2017 – Member of the international research project Complejidad y filosofía natural en el cruce de arte y ciencia, Funding agency: PAPIIT, Mexico (head: María Antonia González Valerio).
Participação em Projectos || Participation in Projects
.2011-2013 – Member of the international research project Knowledge Dynamics in the Field of Social Sciences: Abduction, Intuition and Invention, CFCUL / Seville University, Funding agency: CRUP - Integrated Actions, CFCUL/University of Seville.
.2007-2012 – Member of the FCT research project Image in Science and Art, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, PTDC/EAT/64201/2006.
.2008-2010 – Member of the international research project Lógica Universal e Unidade da Ciência / Universal Logics and Unity of Science (CFCUL – University of Seville), funded by CRUP – Integrated Actions.
Contactos || Contacts
Campo Grande, C4.3.24 – 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
+351 217 500 000 (Ext. 24320)
ccnabais@fc.ul.pt
ResearcherID: M-3967-2015
CIÊNCIA ID: 241F-97A3-64CD
ORCID: 0000-0002-7034-1340
Books (Author)
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2020), Deleuze’s Literary Theory: The Laboratory of His Philosophy, with a Preface to the English edition by Donald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA), New York/London: Rowman & Littlefield, 420 pp. ISBN: HB 978-1-53814-368-1 (in press).
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2013), Gilles Deleuze: Philosophie et Littérature, Paris: Harmattan, 526 pp. ISBN: 9782343009490.
Books (Editor)
- Catarina Pombo Nabais (ed) (2020), Processos participativos em Arte e em Ciência, Lisbon: CFCUL (in press).
- Catarina Pombo Nabais; Olga Pombo; Sara Fuentes (eds) (2020), CorpoIMAGEM. Representações do corpo na Ciência e na Arte, Lisbon: Fim de Século, 318 pp. ISBN 978-972-754-285-7.
- Catarina Pombo Nabais (ed) (2016), Dentro de mim só há Marão, Lisbon: Author Edition, 221pp. ISBN: 978-989-20-7055-1.
- Catarina Pombo Nabais; Cristina Tavares; Manuel Valente Alves; Marco Pina; Olga Pombo; Ricardo Reis dos Santos; Silvia di Marco (eds) (2011), corpoIMAGEM - Representações do Corpo na Ciência e na Arte. Roteiro da exposição, Lisbon: National Science Agency Ciência Viva.
Book Chapters
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina, “Deleuze. Vitalist aesthetics and territorial animals” in Maria Antonia Valério (ed.), Lo animal como bioarte factual, Mexico: Arte+Ciencia/UNAM, Editorial Akal, Spain (in press).
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2019), “Kafka and Melville: the same struggle for a people to come?”, in Dorothea Olkowski and Eftichis Pirovolakis (eds.), Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom’s Refrains, New York/London: Routledge, pp. 81-89. DOI: 10.4324/9780429022562-6.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “A tatuagem como política da superfície/Tattoing: politics of the surface” (Bilingual), in Bárbara Coutinho (ed), O mais profundo é a pele/The most profound is the skin, Lisbon: CML/MUDE, pp. 33-41. ISBN: 978-989-8772-08-4.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “Deleuze and Perversion”, in Paulo De Assis and Paolo Giudici (eds.), Deleuze. The Dark Precursor, The Orpheus Institute Series, Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 261-272. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt21c4rxx.24. ISBN: 9789461662330, 9789462701182.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “O devir-Foucault de Deleuze”, in Kelin Valeirão; Sônia Maria Schio (orgs.) Michel Foucault: As palavras e as coisas, Pelotas: NEPFIL, 144 p. (Série Dissertatio-Filosofia), pp. 42-73. ISBN: 978-85-67332-48-2.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “Technological tattoo: in-between art and science” in Art and Human Enhancement, proceedings of the 16th International Meeting of Art and Technology #16.ART artis intelligentia: Imagining the Real, Faculty of Fine Arts of OPorto University, Porto: UA Editor, pp. 516-524, ISBN: 2238-0272.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “Devir-animal pelo mundo adentro/Becoming-animal entering the world” (bilingual), VICENTE’17 Do Silêncio dos Corvos, Lisbon: Travessa da Ermida Editor, pp. 11-19.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “The most profound is the skin – the power of tattoos”, in Dalila Honorato; Andreas Giannakoulopoulos (ed.), Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, ebook proceedings of the 10th Interdisciplinary Conference and Audiovisual Arts Festival. Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Ionian University of Corfu, Greece, Corfu: Ionian University Press, pp. 128-148. ISBN: 978-960-7260-59-8.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina; Correa, Graça; Fuentes, Sara (2015), “Science - Art - Philosophy Lab (SAP Lab)”, Proceedings of the 14th International Meeting of Art and Technology: Art and human Enhancement. University of Aveiro, Aveiro: UA Editor, pp. 476-478, ISNN: 2238-0272.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2013), “Deleuze et Beckett: l’image comme épuisement du mot”, in Antonio Guerreiro; Olga Pombo (eds), Da Civilização da palavra à civilização da imagem, Lisbon: Fim de Século, pp. 99-119.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina, Pombo, Olga, Pina, Marco and Di Marco, Silvia (2012), “Body-image: crossing Science and Art”, in: S. Dunn, J. Bowen, K. Ng (Eds.), Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. London: BCS, pp. 282-283
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2010), “Filosofia, arte e Ciência: modos de pensar o acontecimento e o virtual segundo Gilles Deleuze” in D. Fernández Duque; E. F. Gómez Caminero; I. Hernández Antón (eds), Estudios de Lógica, Lenguaje y Epistemología, Seville: Fénix Editora, pp. 319-326.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2010a), “Percept, affect and micro-brains: Art according to Deleuze”, in Silvia di Marco; Olga Pombo; Marco Pina (ed), Neuroaesthetics. Can science explain art?, Lisbon: Fim de Século, pp. 165-175
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2010b), “Deleuze’s Rhizome-Thought” in A. Gerner; O. Pombo (eds), Studies in Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis, London: College Publications, pp. 211-224.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2010c), “Imagens do Fora em Deleuze”, in Eduardo Pellejero; Golgona Anghel (eds.), Fora da Filosofia II. Da Fenomenologia à Desconstrução, Lisbon: CFCUL, pp. 65-97.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2009), “A Dobra Deleuze-Foucault”, in A. F. Cascais, J. L. Camara Leme; N. Nabais (Eds.), proceedings of the international conference Lei, Segurança e Disciplina. Trinta anos depois de Vigiar e Punir de Michel Foucault, Lisbon: CFCUL, pp. 71-110.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2009a), “Proust e os Signos: as Categorias, a Lei e a Loucura”, in N. M. Proença; M. F. Alexandre (Eds.), Oficina de Filosofia das Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Series Documenta nº 4, Lisbon: CFCUL/ILTEC, pp. 87-100.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2008), “Homem/animal: arte como anti-humanismo / Man / animal: art as anti-humanism”, in W. Omar Kohan; I. Muller Xavier (Eds.), Abecedário de criação filosófica para o ensino médio, Belo Horizonte: Editora Autêntica, pp. 133-138.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2002), “O Corpo da Estética: Arte e Natureza em Gilles Deleuze”, in D. Lins; S. Gadelha (Eds.), Nietzsche e Deleuze: o que pode o corpo, Rio de Janeiro / Fortaleza: Relume Dumará / Secretary of State for Culture and Sport, pp. 37-49.
Articles
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2019), “O Pensamento como Criação: Filosofia, Arte e Ciência. O Desafio de Deleuze e Guattari”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2019, Vol. 75 (4): 2535-2558. DOI: 10.17990/RPF/2019_75_4_2415. ISSN: 0870-5283,2183-461X.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2019), “Postmodernity doesn’t exist. Interview to Boris Groys”, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, nº 30 (April 2019), pp. 222-233. ISBN: 1 897646 28 3.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2019b), “Ronald Bogue: a monument”, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, volume 13, issue 1, Special number in honor of Ronald Bogue, pp. 136–141. DOI: 10.3366/dlgs.2019.0346. ISSN 2398-9777.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2017), “Sobre O bailado da alma de Pio Abreu. À procura da alma perdida. Ensaio filosófico-científico-artístico sobre as danças e outras desventuras”, Kairos. Journal of Science and Philosophy, n. 18, pp. 174-179. DOI: 10.1515/kjps-2017-0007.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina; Diogo Cunha; João Pinheiro (2015) “Opening Remarks for the Philosophical Inter Views Project – apresentação de um projecto de investigação”. Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science, 14, pp. 53–54.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2011), “Deleuze’s two approaches to Kafka, Franz Kafka. Minority Report”, Litteraria Pragensie. Studies in Literature and Culture, pp. 32-42.
- Pombo Nabais, Catarina (2007), “Fusão última”, Poesia e Imagem, nº 3, November, pp. 110-119.
Special Issue of International Journals
1. Guest editor of a Special Issue of the revue INFORME C3 (ISSN 2177-6954), Porto Alegre/RS /Brazil (forthcoming).
2. Guest-editor of the Special Issue of the Deleuze A/V Journal, Actual/Virtual: Journal of Deleuzian Studies n. 19 (2014), Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Research, Manchester Metropolitan University.