May’s Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by our resident Isabel Gamero (Complutense University of Madrid), who will talk about “Mind / Body & World / View(ed): Some questions about dualism, horror films and Cavell’s philosophy”. Abstract In my presentation I am interested in raising philosophical questions about the peculiar place that horror films occupy […]
Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death
From May 27 to 29, the conference Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death will take place at NOVA FCSH (Berna Campus). Organized by Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Marco Grosoli, Pedro Inock, Susana Viegas, Tiago Cravidão and Vasco Marques, all members of the FILM AND DEATH team, this conference aims to […]
Welcoming Isabel Gamero, our new resident!
We are delighted to welcome Isabel Gamero, our new short-term resident, to the FILM AND DEATH team! Isabel Gamero Cabrera is Associate Professor at the Philosophy Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Her fields of research are political philosophy, anthropology, feminist philosophy and contemporary epistemology. She has coedited the Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism (2025). […]
New article by Nélio Conceição published in our Arts Special Issue on Swan Songs
The guest editors of the Arts’ Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films, Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas, are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: “On Wrinkles, Laughter, and the Self-Reflexivity of Joris Ivens’s A Tale of the Wind“, by Nélio Conceição. In his swan song A […]
