CfP Pessimism: Problematising the Value of Life

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09/12/2025

Virtual Roundtable: Thomas Wartenberg’s “Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film” (2025)

Join us on February 3, 2026, at 18h00 London time for a virtual roundtable dedicated to Thomas Wartenberg’s new book “Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film” (Oxford University Press, 2025). We are delighted that Thomas Wartenberg will also be joining the session, offering an opportunity for direct conversation with the author. This event brings together […]

30/09/2025

Extended Deadline! CfP Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films

We are happy to announce the new home for the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”! The editors have chosen to publish it in Arts, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal (also published online by MDPI) devoted to research on all facets of the visual and performing arts, […]

25/11/2025

New article from Patrícia Castello Branco for our Arts’ Special Issue on Swan Songs

We are pleased to announce that our Arts‘ Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films keeps growing. You can now read a new open-access article from Patrícia Castello Branco, titled “The Anti-Testament of Ozu: Time, Finitude and Repetition in ‘An Autumn Afternoon'”. This new article offers a reading […]

18/11/2025

New article on our Arts’ Special Issue on Swan Songs

The editors of Swan Songs, Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas, are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: “A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) as the Spiritual Swan Song of Stanley Kubrick” by Alexandre Nascimento Braga Teixeira. The article proposes a reading of “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” as Kubrick’s spiritual swan song, despite the film’s […]

17/11/2025

Lucas Ferraço Nassif for Psychoanalytic Inquiry

Following his participation in a roundtable on Temporalities, Desires, and Identities in Social Media and the Unconscious, on November 2, Lucas Ferraço Nassif will again take part in the cycle Digital Minds, for Psychoanalytic Inquiry, on November 23, 9:00 – 10:30 AM PT. These roundtables are part of a series on Decentralized Learning Experiences. Digital […]