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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16/10/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Addison Ellis & Byron Davies

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Addison Ellis (American University of Cairo) and Byron Davies (University of Murcia), who will talk about “Cinema De Trop: Brakhage and Existentialism”. Abstract Philosophically-informed writing on the U.S. experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) has only cursorily engaged with his relationship to existentialism. Nevertheless, […]
01/10/2025

CfP Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death

NOVA University Lisbon, 28-29 May, 2026 Keynote Speakers: Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Universitéde Poitiers) Like philosophical categories, film genres function as ways of unifying the manifold of experience, determining under what conditions the particular can be subsumed under the universal. This effort of inclusion lies at the very root of Western […]
30/09/2025

Extended Deadline! CfP Special Issue on Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films

We are happy to announce the new home for the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”!  The editors have chosen to publish it in Arts, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal (also published online by MDPI) devoted to research on all facets of the visual and performing arts, […]
16/10/2025

New book chapter by Susana Viegas on Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images

A new book chapter by FILM AND DEATH’s PI Susana Viegas is out now. Titled “On Androids, Mortality, and Death-Images: Blade Runner and Westworld”, this new chapter is published in SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies, edited by Alger Sans Pinillos, Vicent Costa, and Jordi Vallverdú (Springer, 2025). What happens when cinema makes androids confront […]
03/10/2025

Join us at the film festival Curt’Arruda

The 11th edition of the film festival Curt’Arruda, happening from October 2-5 at Arruda dos Vinhos, counts with the support of FILM AND DEATH in a session with invited artist Susana Anágua, on October 5 15:30 at Clube Recreativo Desportivo Arrudense (C.R.D.A.). After the session, Pedro Inock, doctoral student at NOVA University Lisbon, and member […]
02/10/2025

Welcome to Byron Davies, our first resident!

We are very happy to announce the arrival of Byron Davies to our team, the first short-term resident we’ll receive until the Summer of 2026. Byron Davies is a researcher in philosophy, film programmer, and visual artist originally from the U.S. and a naturalized Mexican citizen. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the […]
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