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Cristián Simonetti Vicuña

Assistant Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Nociones de tiempo en ciencia; Antropoceno; cambio climático; sentidos, aprendizaje y comunicación gestual; ecología de materiales

Educación

  •  PhD, Social Anthropology, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. Reino Unido, 2012
  •  Master of Research in Social Anthropology, Ethnology and Cultural History, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. Reino Unido, 2009
  •  Título de Psicólogo, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2006
  •  Licenciatura en Psicología, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2006

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

  •   Postdoctoral Research Fellow Full Time

    University of Aberdeen

    Aberdeen, Reino Unido

    2012 - 2015

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Profesor Asistente

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Chile

    2015 - A la fecha

  •   Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    University of Aberdeen

    Reino Unido

    2012 - 2015

Formación de Capital Humano


PhD and Master Supervision:
1. José Mármol (Expected 2020) Doctoral candidate in Archaeology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (co-supervisor).
2. Eduardo Wiegand (2019) Master in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, University of Cambridge, UK (co-supervisor)
3. Natalia Bohle (2019) Master in Social Science Methods at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile (co-supervisor).
4. Patricio Aravena (2019) Master in Human Settlements and Environment, of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (co-supervisor).

PhD Thesis Committee:
1. Luís Guilherme de Assis (Expected 2020) Doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.


Difusión y Transferencia


Conference, seminar and workshop organization:
2019 Workshop: The Transformative Imagination. Re-imagining the World Towards Sustainability, Stockholm Resilience Centre (Diego Galafassi [Lund University], Sverker Sörlin [KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden], Jasmin H. Hellgren [KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden], David Tabara [Global Climate Forum, Berlin])
2019 Workshop: The Matter of Design. Solid Fluids in the Understanding of Past and Present Materials, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Funded by the British Academy (with Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen.
2018 ‘Solid fluids. New Approaches to Materials and Meanings’, University of Aberdeen (with Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen)
2018 ‘Futuros Concretos’, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (with Pedro Alonso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
2017 ‘Knowledge/Cultures/Ecologies International Conference’, Universidad Diego Portales (member of the organizing committee)
2017 ‘Antropoceno en Chile’, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (with Manuel Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
2017 ‘Ética de investigación y patrimonio’, Annual workshop of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’ Ethics Committee on Social Science, Arts and Humanities (with Andrés Haye, Member of Fondecyt’s Bioethics Committee)
2016 ‘Antarctica in/and the Anthropocene’, Pontificia Unicersidad Católica de Chile. Workshop funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the University of Western Sydney (with Juan Francisco Salazar, University of Western Sydney).
2016 ‘Solid fluids in the Anthropocene’, Pontificia Universidad Católica. Three day workshop funded by the British Academy (with Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen).
2016 ‘La ética de la investigación en las ciencias sociales, artes y humanidades’, Annual workshop of the Pontificia Universidad Católica’s Ethics Committee on Social Science, Arts and Humanities.
2015 ‘X Contemporary Anthropology Seminar’, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (with Dr. Felipe Martinez).
2014 ‘Vanishing Ice workshop’, University of Aberdeen (with Tim Ingold, Peter Schweitzer, Herta Nöbauer and Sophie Elixhauser)
2013 ‘FAR North workshop’, University of Aberdeen (with Alastair Dawson).
2013 ‘RAI postgraduate conference’, University of Aberdeen (leader of the organizing committee).
2009 ‘6th Annual Postgraduate Conference’, College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen (part of the organizing committee).

Conference panels:
2020 ‘Urban liquefaction: Rethinking the relationship between land and sea.’ Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, 4-7 June (with Tim Ingold)
2018 ‘Imagination and Knowledge Production’. 18th IUAES World Congress, Florianopolis, Brazil, 16-20 July (with Joana Cabral de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Marisol Marini, Universidade de São Paulo; André S. Bailã, Universidade de São Paulo)
2017 ‘La Materia Interpelada’. XII Reunión de Antropología del Mercosur, Posadas, Argentina, 4-7 December (with Gabriela Schiavoni, CONICET/UnaM, Ana Padawer, CONICET/UBA, Fabio Mura UFPB, Sebastian Carenzo CONICET/UNQ and María Rabelo Gomes, UFMG).
2017 ‘Concrete in the Anthropocene’. Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies International Conference, Universidad Diego Portales, 15-18 November (with Dr. Denis Byrne, University of Western Sydney)
2017 ‘Suspensions: Atmospherics of the Anthropocene’. Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies International Conference, Universidad Diego Portales, 15-18 November (with Manuel Tironi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
2014 ‘The best of “Ideas in Movement”. Papers from the RAI postgraduate conference’. ASA decennial conference, University of Edinburgh, 19 - 22 June (with Donald Lyon, University of Aberdeen/ Discussant: Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen).
2013 ‘Surfaces: Contesting boundaries between materials, mind and body’. IUAES, University of Manchester, 5 – 10 August 2013 (with Mike Anusas, University of Strathclyde/ Discussants: Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen; Susanne Küchler, University College London)
2012 ‘Paisajes y memorias de montañas, cuencas y costas: Una mirada interdisciplinaria’. Panel at the ‘54 Congreso de Americanistas’, University of Vienna, 15 – 20 July (with Ana Guevara, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale et Ethnologie, Collège de France).

Selected invited lectures:
2019 Simonetti, C. Materilizando el Antropoceno. First Latin-American School on the Urban Antropocene. Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires, 12-17 July.
2018 Simonetti, C. Antropología por inmersión. Aprendiendo el arte de la suspensión. Jornadas de Investigación en Antropología Social, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018 Simonetti, C. The Anthropocene. A fossilized view of becoming. Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
2018 Simonetti, C. Concrete in the Anthropocene. Urban School of Anthropocene Studies, University of Lyon, France.
2018 Simonetti, C. La vida de la líneas. Un comentario. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 31 May.
2017 Simonetti, C. Living in suspension. VI Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia, São Paulo, Brazil, 16-19 May.
2017 Simonetti, C. Gesto y conmoción. Esculpiendo pasado y futuro. Movimientos de Tierra. Arte, Naturaleza y Ciencias en Diálogo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, 21 June.
2017 Simonetti, C. Temblor y concreto. Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, 2 November.
2015 Simonetti, C. La estratificación del tiempo en ciencia. Vida, memoria y conocimiento disciplinar. Programa de Antropología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 30 April.
2014 Simonetti, C. The stratification of life, mind and disciplinary knowledge. Temporal design in science. Design and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 October.
2014 Simonetti, C. The art of envisioning climate change. Programa de Pós-Graduaçáo em Antropologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil, 18 September.
2014 Simonetti, C. The conceptualization of time in the interdisciplinary study of the past. Three consecutive lectures at the Programa de Pós-Graduaçáo em Antropologia, University of Brasilia, Brasil, 15-17 September.
2014 Simonetti, C. The art of envisioning climate change. Instituto de Anthropología, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, 4 September.
2014 Simonetti, C. Cuando el ojo mira al suelo. La temporalidad de la superficie en el studio interdisciplinary del pasado. Department of Anthropology, University of Chile, 27 August.
2013 Simonetti, C. Learning to move archaeologically on land and underwater. Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability, Scotland, 29 November.
2013 Simonetti, C. Feeling forward into the past. Depths and surfaces in archaeology. Aberdeen Anthropology Society, Scotland, 11 November.
2012 Simonetti, C. The stratification of life, mind and knowledge. From early geology to the history of ideas. Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 13 December.
2012 Simonetti, C. Entre lo vertical y lo horizontal. Tiempo y espacio en arqueología. Program of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 31 October.
2011 Simonetti, C. Between the vertical and the horizontal. Time and space in archaeology. Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 26 October.
2010 Simonetti, C. Conceptualizaciones sentientes. Hacia un acercamiento de la antropología a la vida. 2d Colloquium in Social Investigation, Department of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 6 May.

Selected art exhibitions, performances and public engagements:
2020 Futuro Concreto, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal (with Felipe Palma, Felipe Cisternas, Gonzalo Barceló, Sebastián Jatz y Pedro Donoso)
2017 - 2018 ‘Roca líquida’. Installation at Centre for Innovation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, from 10/2017 to 04/2018 (with Rachel Harkness and Judith Winter).
2018 ‘Manifiesto Antropoceno en Chile. Hacia un Nuevo Pacto de Convivencia’, open access manifesto on the Anthropocene presented at Centro de Estudios Públicos, 23 May (with Catalina Bauer, Catalina Correa, Laura Gallardo, Gabriel González, Román Guridi, Claudio Latorre, Sergio Navarrete, Eric Pommier, Sebastián Riffo, Barbara Saavedra y Manuel Tironi). For more information see: http://antropoceno.co/manifiesto.pdf
2017 ‘Si los concretos hablaran.’ Public performance at Centre for Innovation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 13 November (with Rachel Harkness and Judith Winter).
2017 ‘Liquid rock. Concrete experiment #8, 2017.’ Installation at the exhibition ‘The Unfinishing of Things’, running from 05/2017 to 09/2017, at Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen (with Rachel Harkness and Judith Winter).
2017 ‘If Concretes Could Speak.’ Public performance at the Gallery Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, 25 May (with Rachel Harkness and Judith Winter).
2015 - 2016 ‘Liquid rock. Concrete experiment #6, 2014.’ Installation at the exhibition ‘Anthropocene: the Earth in Our Hands’, running from 01/2015 to 01/2016, Deutsches Museum, Munich.
2013 ‘Digging, making, breaking.’ May Festival, University of Aberdeen, 10 – 12 May (with Alberto Goyena, Marc Higgin and Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen).


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Arthur Maurice Hocart Essay Prize

    Royal Anthropological Institute

    Reino Unido, 2011

    Prize awarded to the best essay written by a postgraduate student in anthropology enrolled in a PhD program in the UK. Essay title: ‘With the past under your feet. On the development of temporal concepts in archaeology’.


 

Article (12)

A solid fluids lexicon
Introducing solid fluids
Viscosity in matter, life and sociality. The case of glacial ice.
Resonancias geológicas. Aprendiendo a ser afectados por las fuerzas de la tierra en el Antropoceno
The Anthropocene in Chile: Toward a New Pact of Coexistence Las Cruces, April 2017
The Petrified Anthropocene
Weathering climate. Telescoping change
Entevivedo em suspensão
Inorganic becomings. Situating the Anthropocene in Puchuncaví
Feeling forward into the past. Depths and surfaces in archaeology
Fluid rocks. Flattening, gathering, curing.
The stratification of time

BookReview (1)

¿Taming time, timing death? Social technologies and rituals.

BookSection (9)

Concrete solarities
Dwelling in the Anthropocene
Introducing surfaces
The temporality of surfaces
Drawing gestures. Body movement in perceiving and communicating submerged landscapes
Timescales and telescopes. Optics in the study of prehistory
Concretes speak!
Limestone
Concrete. A stratigraphic marker for the Anthropocene

BookWhole (3)

Solid Fluids. New Approaches to Materials and Meaning
Surfaces. Transformations of Body, Materials and Earth
Sentient Conceptualisartions. Feeling for Time in the Sciences of the Past.

ConferencePaper (26)

Concrete paradoxes of the Anthropocene
Esculpiendo pasado y futuro: Imaginación en arqueología y construcción
Hormigón y madera. Sustentabilidad y cambio climático en la edificación en altura
Irreversible returns
Viscosity in matter and life
Concrete in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene. Between solid surfaces and fluid media
Ice and concrete. Solid fluids of environmental change
The Anthropocene. A fossilized view of becoming
Weathering climate
Imagining extreme life standing on the earth’s surface.
On the temporalities of concrete
Climate change and the art of envisioning the past
Liquid Rock.
With the past underground
When the eye meets the ground. The temporality of surfaces in the study of the past.
En presencia de lo ausente. Percepción, memoria e imaginación.
Paisaje. Una aproximación horizontal al mundo?
The verticality of time in archaeology. Tensions, roots and ramifications.
By trees we ‘measure’. The temporalization of trees in science.
Moving on land and underwater. Changing mediums and the imposition of dimensional space.
Atender, descubrir, nombrar. Hacia una concepción no-esencialista del habitar.
Drawing gestures. Body movement in perceiving and communicating the underwater landscape
Following materials. The role of emotions, shared attention and coordinated movement in interaction.
Archaeology in Suspension
Dwelling in the Anthropocene. Environmental responsiveness in a world in crisis

Monograph (1)

Sentient Conceptualisations. Feeling for Time in the Sciences of the Past

Proyecto (12)

Irreversible returns. A study of glaciology and glacial geoingeneering in Chile in the context of the Anthropocene
Devenires Concretos
Concrete Futures. An Inquiry into Modern Life in the Anthropocene with Materials
Concrete futures. An inquiry into modern life in the Anthropocene with materials.
Solid fluids in the Anthropocene=> A transdisciplinary Inquiry into the archaeological anthropology of materials
Solid Fuilds in the Anthropocene. A Transdisciplinary Inquiry into the Archaeological Anthropology of Materials
Conceptualization of Time in the Interdisciplinary Study of Climate Change
The conceptualisation of time in the interdisciplinary study of climate change
Encountering depths across surfaces. Time and space in archaeology
Depths across surfaces. Time and space in archaeology
Underwater and Land Archaeology=> An understanding of perception and communication of emerging and submerging landscapes from everyday interactions
Underwater and Land Archaeology: An understanding of perception and communication of emerging and submerging landscapes from everyday interactions
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Cristián Simonetti

Assistant Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile