From 18 to 21 June, Lusófona University of Lisbon will host The NECS 2025 Conference, dedicated to the theme Discovering/Uncovering: Navigating the Complexities of Screen Media.
On June 19 2-3:40PM, our project's PI, Susana Viegas, will be present at the section Panels & Workshops, for a ERC Info Session led by Nicoleta Bazgan from the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA), who will present the ERC funding schemes, offer application tips, and explain the evaluation process. The session will be followed by a Q&A.
And on June 20 4:20-6PM, members of our team will be joined by respondent Corey Cribb (Technological University Dublin) for a panel on "Death, Disappearance, and Digitality: Existential Meditations in Cinema, Anime, and Media”.
This interdisciplinary panel will explore how cinema, anime, and video essays engage with questions of mortality, disappearance, and digitality. Through varied formal and theoretical approaches, we will examine how media traverses physical, psychological, and virtual landscapes to reflect, and reshape, our understanding of life and death.
Presentations include:
Together, these meditations illuminate the dissolving boundaries between the human and the non-human, life and death, reality and virtuality, thus unpacking how contemporary media helps us navigate existential uncertainty in an age of transformation.
More information on the NECS 2025 program and speakers is available here.
