

The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Muhammad Haris (Habib University) who will talk about “Natural Language Generation and the Script for a Film on Genocide”. Muhammad Haris is the Director for the Program in Comparative Humanities at Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan. The program’s curriculum is grounded in cross-disciplinarity, cooperation, and a […]

Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”
Catherine Malabou first arose to prominence in the International philosophical landscape in the 1990s, thanks to her groundbreaking interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s system as one revolving around plasticity, which eventually became the key concept of her own philosophical production. Itself a plastic concept, plasticity (“the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once […]

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Jeremi Szaniawski
The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Jeremi Szaniawski (UMass Amherst), who will talk about “Death, Dying, and the Death Throes (?) of Necrorealism in the Films of Alexander Sokurov and Yevgeny Yufit”. Abstract In the 1980s and 1990s, several filmmakers in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia – including a […]

Susana Viegas at Seminário Aberto de Estética (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto)
This May 30, from 3 to 6PM, Susana Viegas will speak at IFP – Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, with a presentation titled “Memória, Morte e Ausência na “Trilogia do Chile” (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán”. In this talk, Susana Viegas […]

Susana Viegas at filarch 25: architecture | cinema
On May 22 and 23, ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design), in Caldas da Rainha, will host filarch 25, an international conference dedicated to architecture and cinema. Susana Viegas, the Principal Investigator at FILM AND DEATH, will give the opening keynote presentation: “Do Cemitério dos Inocentes ao cinema: a atualidade das Danças Macabras”. In […]

Lucas Ferraço Nassif and Pedro Inock at IBERANIME Santarém 2025
On May 17, Lucas Ferraço Nassif and Pedro Inock, members of the FILM AND DEATH team will be at IBERANIME (CNEMA, Santarém), the biggest meeting of fans of japanese culture in Portugal. They will give a talk titled “Anime and Philosophy”, discussing this global phenomenon as a producer of knowledge and philosophical thought on very […]