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12/03/2025

Susana Viegas at the Science and Technology of the Arts Seminars 2025

Susana Viegas will be giving a seminar on “Film and Death” at the Science and Technology of the Arts Seminars 2025 (CITAR/Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto) on March 25. Abstract How can films serve as a medium for metaphilosophical exploration? In what ways do they invite reflection on death and mortality? What does it […]

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 […]

07/03/2025

Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema

From May 5 to May 7, this symposium will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Coordinated by Susana Viegas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and David Ferragut (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the event is structured into three sessions. The first session features a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), a film that […]

06/03/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Marc Cerisuelo

The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Marc Cerisuelo (Université Gustave Eiffel -Paris | Institut Universitaire de France) who will talk about “Psychopomp fictions”. Marc Cerisuelo is Professor of Film Studies and Aesthetics at the Université Gustave Eiffel (Paris) and a member of Institut Universitaire de France, he collaborates with Positif magazine and […]