14/04/2025

Call for Short-Term Residencies in Film-Philosophy and Death

We are inviting applications for short-term residencies spanning Autumn 2025 through Summer 2026.

Residents will become members of the FILM AND DEATH project during their stay and will be provided with access to workplace, internet, and university libraries. Residents are expected to actively participate in the project’s activities, present their research through a seminar open to the public, and create outputs like essays, films, or creative works on a topic related to the ERC project.

Eligibility

  • Applicants must hold a doctoral degree, preferably in Philosophy, Communication Sciences, or Artistic Studies.
  • Scholars from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.
  • Only applicants with an active appointment at another university or research institution are eligible.

Details

  • Duration: A minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 2 months.
  • Period: Residencies can be undertaken between September 2025 and July 2026. (Note: The visiting residency must not include August, as no FILM AND DEATH activities are scheduled during that month)
  • Support: residents must have the financial means to support their own subsistence. However, travel arrangements related to the residency will be covered.

Application Deadline

Applications must be submitted by 30 May, 2025. Regrettably, feedback cannot be provided to unsuccessful applicants, and all decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

Application Procedure

Applicants should compile the following materials into a single PDF file and email it to filmdeath@fcsh.unl.pt, using the subject line: “FILM AND DEATH Short-Term.”

  1. Cover Letter: Outline your interest and motivations for applying, including your proposed period of residence, a statement about the need for this supplementary funding, and the importance of being in Lisbon to work on the ERC project.
  2. Work Proposal: Provide a 500–1,000-word outline of the project you intend to pursue during the residence (scholarly and/or artistic exploration of film theory and the development of video essays and scholarly articles).
  3. Published Writing Sample: Submit one writing sample that demonstrates your research expertise and writing skills.
  4. Letter of Reference: Include a reference letter from a scholar familiar with your work.

The applicant's work proposal for the short-term visiting residency must align with and enhance the ongoing research of the FILM AND DEATH project.

For more information about the project’s members and research activities, please visit our website: https://filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/.

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22/05/2025

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 […]
11/03/2025

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 […]
26/05/2025

Susana Viegas at Lastro Cineclube (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto)

On May 26 at 6PM, Susana Viegas will introduce Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena (1973) at the Cineclube Lastro, hosted by the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (ILCML/FLUP). The presentation and screening will be held in Amphitheater 2. Víctor Erice’s […]
21/05/2025

Susana Viegas at Seminário Aberto de Estética (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto)

This May 30, startint at 3:30PM, 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 will […]
14/05/2025

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 […]
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