

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Seán Cubbit (University of Melbourne), who will talk about “Immortal Cinema”. Abstract We have always been told that everyone dies alone. A medium that tends to privilege individuals, film has tended to focus on these lonely deaths of isolated individuals, often treating them […]

Book Discussion: Queer Post-Cinema, by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
On September 25, 2025, a discussion will take place about the book Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance (ICI Berlin Press 2025), by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky. The discussion will be held in English, in the auditorium C1 of NOVA FCSH (Campus Av. de Berna) and will feature the author, Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley. This event is included […]

Marco Grosoli at the University of Évora
On October 2-4, PRAXIS (Center of Philosophy, Politics and Culture of the Universty of Évora) will host the international congress Jacques Derrida e a Desconstrução, revisiting some of Derrida’s deconstruction most relevant contributions to contemporary thought. Marco Grosoli will present a paper titled “Beyond Deconstruction: Malabou’s plasticity in Manoel de Oliveira’s Vale Abraão and Espelho […]

Susana Viegas at the XI Encuentro Ibérico de Estética (University of Salamanca)
On October 23-25, the University of Salamanca will host the XI Encuentro Ibérico de Estética, dedicated to the theme «Ni esto ni aquello. Espacios de lo ambiguo en las artes y la Estética». Susana Viegas will be present with a paper titled “Lazarean Characters in Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro” and “La Chimera””. Alice Rohrwacher’s […]

New article by Marco Grosoli
A new open-access article by Marco Grosoli is out now, having been published in Arts as part of the Special Issue Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films. The article “Wrapping Up “Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer”: Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio (2022)” is available here. In […]

New book chapter by Susana Viegas on Derrida and Film Studies
A new book chapter by FILM AND DEATH’s PI Susana Viegas is out now. Titled “Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief”, this new article is published in Derrida and Film Studies, edited by Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec (Brill, 2025). This chapter by Susana Viegas begins as a meditation on the relationship […]