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Luciana Villas Bôas

Luciana Villas Bôas is a Professor in the Department of Anglo-Germanic Languages at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and at the Graduate Program of Germanic Languages at the University of São Paulo. Her research investigates the interaction between concepts and images of power, concentrating on the literature and intellectual history of the early modern period. She also works on the public memory of colonialism and the political iconography of the present.

Mattias Lehtinen

Mattias Lehtinen is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki in Finland. From January to December 2025, he is a visiting scholar at the Political Theory, History of Ideas and Political Culture section at Kiel University. His visit is funded by the The Osk. Huttunen Foundation. His current research investigates the imaginary foundations of political rationality with a special interest in the imaginary foundations of right-wing populist political rationality. He works mainly with continental political philosophy, critical theory as well as with post-phenomenological thought applied to political imagination, radical democracy, political ontology, polarization and antidemocratic political pathologies.

He is currently working on a postdoctoral research project entitled "Political Imagination and the Crisis of Political Rationality" which aims to redescribe political rationality as a facet of political imagination and diagnose current political polarization in liberal democracies as a result of a deepening splintering in the way we imagine political reality. The project aims also to consider the ways in which political rationality, understood as emanating from shared political imagination, could be reconstructed and reconciled with democratic values and political pluralism without imposing monovalent, dominating or oppressive forms of political rationality.

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