Lisa Giombini is currently Junior Researcher in Aesthetics at the University of Roma Tre, Italy, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Media Studies, and Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy (2019-2022) within the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. In 2015 she obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Lorraine, France, and at the University of Roma Tre, with a dissertation on the ontology and meta-ontology of music, performance art and art restoration. She was then Post-doctoral Fellow at Stuttgart National Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and later (2017-2018) at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, funded by DAAD. In the Winter Semester 2019, she will be working at the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture of the University of Prešov, Slovakia, as a Research Grantee of the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic. Aside from a long-term interest in the philosophy of music, her other active research interests include the aesthetics and ethics of art conservation and restoration, with a particular emphasis on the philosophical presuppositions that guide heritage reconstruction practices. She is the author of Musical Ontology: a Guide for the Perplexed (2017) and a member of several philosophical association including the Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE), the European Society of Aesthetics (ESA), the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA), the American Society of Aesthetics (ASA) and the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia (SPES).

Activities at IAAC:

- delivering a talk at the annual conference of the Slovak Society of Aesthetics: Aesthetics Education and the practice of Aesthetics teaching in the frame of 19^th-20^th-century European aesthetics thinking – a dialogue between traditional and current concepts, taking place on November 7^th-8^th, 2019, in Prešov;

- taking part in the teaching and lecturing activities of the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theory

- delivering a lecture at the Aesthetic Forum in Prešov.

Z prednášky bol vyhotovený videozáznam, ktorý je dostupný na webstránke Inštitútu estetiky a umeleckej kultúry FF PU a Spoločnosti pre estetiku na Slovensku.

Dr. Lisa Giombini: Too Good to be True. Plagiarism, Authenticity and the Arts
Duration: 45:25 min.