25/06/2025

Vasco Baptista Marques at Post/Zeitgeist (Gerador/Goethe-Institut)

On July 10 7PM, Vasco Baptista Marques will be joined by neuroscientist Luísa Lopes in an informal conversation at the library of the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon.

The theme for this session of Despertador, a series of informal encounters between two specialists on a specific thematic, will be "Novas Concepções sobre Vida e Morte" ("New Conceptions about Life and Death").

This series is part of Post/Zeitgeist, a partnership between Gerador and the Goethe-Institut of Lisbon, a project that reflects on essential themes of contemporary society.

Entrance is free and open to all.

More information about the series available here.

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18/07/2025

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Davide Sisto

The next session of our Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars will be led by Davide Sisto (University of Turin), who will talk about “Thanabots. Digital immortality between sci-fi movies and reality”. Abstract This talk intends to focus on the topic of so-called digital immortality. In particular, it intends to analyze the birth and development of a particular […]
15/07/2025

Book Discussion: Queer Post-Cinema, by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

On September 25, 2025, a discussion will take place about the book Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance (ICI Berlin Press 2025), by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky. The discussion will be held in English, in the auditorium A2 of NOVA FCSH (Campus Av. de Berna) and will feature the author, Susana Viegas and Iracema Dulley. About the book: The […]
06/01/2025

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

Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films Dedicated to the last films of renowned filmmakers, often referred to as “testament films” or “swan songs,” this Special Issue will examine their thematic, narrative, and stylistic elements, viewing these final works as profound summations of their creators’ careers and philosophical syntheses of […]
11/08/2025

Response to “Death, Disappearance, and Digitality: Existential Meditations on Cinema, Anime and Media”, by Corey P. Cribb

This publication proceeds from a talk given by Corey P. Cribb (Technological University Dublin) at Discovering/Uncovering: The NECS 2025 Conference, Lusófona University, June 19, 2025 (NECS) The goal of my talk today is to situate presentations by Susana Viegas (“Wandering Toward the End: Existentialism and Death in Gerry”), Lucas Ferraço Nassif (“Into the Wired: Lain […]
11/08/2025

New article by Marco Grosoli on Apichatpong’s Cemetery of Splendour (2015)

A new article by our post-doctoral researcher Marco Grosoli is now out, published in Cinergie‘s latest issue, edited by Massimo Fusillo and Mirko Lino. Cinergie is an open-access, peer-reviewed, class-A journal and the full issue is available here. In his paper, titled “The Political Asleep: Non-Traumatic Spectrality in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour”, Marco Grosoli […]
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