Gustavo Ruiz da Silva

Currently working at Monash University (Australia).

Former Visiting Graduate Scholar at The Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe, Johns Hopkins University (USA); funded by the Warwick PhD and Early Career Research Fellowship.

Former Visiting Graduate Scholar at University of São Paulo (Brazil); funded by the Society for Latin American Studies.

Joint Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia); funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance Joint PhD Scholarship.

My transdisciplinary doctoral research intersects Philosophy, Literature, and History. I particularly examine the work of Paul Veyne (also establishing connections with Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze), and how he developed a Baroque historiography of Philosophy.

My other interests are Cultural Anthropology; Translations; and Pop Culture (particularly Christopher Isherwood).

Editor-in-Chief of Plí: The Warwick Journal of PhilosophyLink opens in a new window.

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Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed

Paper, 2024 (English): (Un)Folding Time. A Philosophical Analysis of "Cloud Atlas" (2012)Link opens in a new window
Paper, 2023 (Portuguese): Between Hobbes and Foucault: Sovereignty and ResistancesLink opens in a new window
Paper, 2023 (Portuguese): The Sublunar Parody: Paul Veyne, his thoughts, his peoplesLink opens in a new window
Paper Translation, 2023 (French - Portuguese): On Humanism and Terror by Maurice Merleau-PontyLink opens in a new window (George Bataille)
Paper Translation, 2022 (French - Portuguese): Nietzsche and Clausewitz: The WarLink opens in a new window (George Bataille)

Other Publications

Research Report, 2023 (English): Black Holes: Artistic Metaphors for the ContemporaneityLink opens in a new window
Book Translation, 2023 (Spanish/ English/ Portuguese): Michel Foucault: Becoming Of Thought And Multiplication Of PracticesLink opens in a new window
Article (Portuguese): Sino-Brazilian friendship: a cooperative modernizationLink opens in a new window

Future Conferences

Presenter, 2024 (English): Paul Veyne: Storiogrpahy and Elegy (Northeast Popular Culture Association's ConferenceLink opens in a new window, Nichols College, United States);
Presenter, 2025 (English): Masks of a Woman: Jean, Sally, and Charlotte, echos of Isherwood (Association for Philosophy and Literature, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Past Conferences

Presenter, 2024 (English): Paul Veyne: Storiogrpahy and Elegy (XXV World Congress Philosophy Rome, L'Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy);
Presenter, 2024 (English): Cabaret: Heterotopy Through Literature and Film (Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Cardiff University, Wales);
Organizer, 2023 (Spanish/ Portuguese): Politics and Rights in Foucault. Cycle of Conferences with Marcelo RaffinLink opens in a new window (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil);
Presenter, 2022 (Spanish/ English): Football and War: Yugoslavia through Foucault and DeleuzeLink opens in a new window (6th International Congress for Postgraduate Students, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico);
Presenter, 2022 (Portuguese): The relationship between Literature and History in Travel Narratives, Reports and Chronicles written in ArabicLink opens in a new window (XXVI National History Association's State Meeting, Brazil);
Presenter, 2021 (English): Amerindians And Our New Heterotopias (Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, University of Warwick, UK).

Former Teaching Position at Warwick

CH169-15: Beyond Science: Collaborative Student-Led Challenges (CSLC)Link opens in a new window.

International Research Activities

2025: Visiting Graduate Researcher (Johns Hopkins University, USA; Supervised by Shane Butler);
2023: Research Internship (Charles University, Czech Republic; Supervised by Ondřej Váša);
2023: Summer Research School (Bonn University, Germany);
2022: Visiting Research Student (University of Warwick, UK; Supervised by Daniele Lorenzini);
2019: Research Exchange Student (Sciences Po Paris, France).

Recent Awards

2023: Best Paper (Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Brazil);
2022: Best Poster (National History Association's State Meeting, Brazil);
2019: Best Social Sciences Undergraduate Research (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil).

Former Qualifications

2022: MPhil in Philosophy (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Yolanda G. G. Muñoz);
2021: BA in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Paulo Daniel Elias Farah);
2020: BA in Anthropology (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil; Supervised by Guilherme Gomes Jr.).

Thesis Title:

Anchored Deformation: Paul Veyne and the Baroque Storiography of Philosophy

Supervisors:

Monash University:

Chris WatkinLink opens in a new window - School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

University of Warwick:

Eileen JohnLink opens in a new window - Department of Philosophy

Paulo de MedeirosLink opens in a new window - Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Johns Hopkins University:

Shane ButlerLink opens in a new window - Department of Classics

If you want to collaborate on a new project, please email me: gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gustavo-ruiz-da-silva-a33325323

For more information, visit: https://ruizdasilva-gustavo.my.canva.site/Link opens in a new window