25 February: Vasco Baptista Marques (NOVA University Lisbon)
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Film-Phil Seminars
It consists of a set of monthly seminars open to the academic community and the general public.
The seminars will be delivered by team members and by invited speakers and collaborators.
P2 Close-Up on Film-Philosophical Time
2026
2025
29 January: Cristóbal Escobar (University of Melbourne), "A Classic Never Dies: On Cinematic Intensity and the Contemporary"
Online event
View more19 February: Outi Hakola (University of Helsinki), "Filming the Moment of Death”
Hybrid
View more26 March: Marc Cerisuelo (Université Gustave Eiffel and Institut Universitaire de France), "Psychopomp fictions"
Hybrid
View more16 April: Federico Rossin "How experimental cinema deals with death"
Hybrid
View more28 May: Muhammad Haris (Habib University), "Natural Language Generation and the Script for a Film on Genocide"
Online event
View more4 June: Jeremi Szaniawski (UMass Amherst), "Death, Dying, and the Death Throes (?) of Necrorealism in the Films of Alexander Sokurov and Yevgeny Yufit"
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23 July: Bárbara Bergamaschi (NOVA University of Lisbon), "Eroticism, Formlessness, and Death in Tscherkassky’s Cinematic Hauntology"
Hybrid
View more24 September: Davide Sisto
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15 October: Seán Cubbit
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27 November: Christine Greiner
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2024
18 September: Christine Reeh-Peters (Protestant University of Applied Sciences/Bochum), "Film Specters - Towards an Ethics of Film and Death"
Hybrid
View more23 October: James Williams (Deakin University), "Death, Démontage and Time in Bande Dessinée as a Precursor to Film: The Works of Jean-Marc Rochette"
Hybrid
View more20 November: Lucas Ferraço Nassif (IFILNOVA), "Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt"
Hybrid
View more4 December: Anna Magdalena Elsner (University of St. Gallen), "Documenting Dying or Capturing Care? The Afterlives of Palliative Care in French End-of-Life Documentaries"
Hybrid
View moreP1 Close-Up on Film-Philosophy as Metaphilosophy
2023
22 November: Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University), “What is a Philosophical Reading of Film? On Film-Philosophy and Philosophical Film Criticism”
Online event
View more11 December: Jakob A. Nilsson (Örebro University), "Cinecepts: On the Articulation of Philosophical Concepts Through Audiovisual Media"
Online event
View more2024
24 January: Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College), “Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film”
Hybrid
View more14 February: David Ferragut (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), “Matter and Mind. On philosophy in Early Cinema”
Hybrid
View more9 March: Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago), “Half Life: Radiation and Animation”
In-person event
View more24 April: Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London), “The desecration of the beautiful star: death and the female biopic”
Hybrid
View more15 May: Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe University of Frankfurt), “The Way of All Flesh: Decasia and Death of|as Film”
Hybrid
View more17 June: Marco Grosoli (IFILNOVA), "Looking Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer: Death and Cultural Politics in Leonora addio (Paolo Taviani, 2022)"
Online event
View more4 July: Catherine Wheatley (King's College London), "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: film, mourning, and the passing of the world"
Hybrid
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