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23/07/2026

CfP Mediapolis: “Urban Deathscapes: Media, Spaces of Death, and the Contemporary City”

Mediapolis Themed Dossier: “Urban Deathscapes: Media, Spaces of Death, and the Contemporary City” (Vol. 11, No. 3) Edited by: Susana Viegas (NOVA FCSH) Every city must negotiate the place of its dead. Cemeteries, crematoria, memorial parks, roadside shrines, temporary memorials, and other deathscapes form an often-overlooked layer of the urban fabric, revealing how societies negotiate memory, […]

14/07/2026

New article by Lucas Ferraço Nassif in Viso: Cadernos de Estética Aplicada

We are happy to announce that Lucas Ferraço Nassif, member of the FILM AND DEATH team, has just published an article titled “Poetics of Fort-Da: Elephant Wars in the Semiotic Unconscious” in Viso – Cadernos de Estética Aplicada, v. 20, n. 38 (jan/jun 2026). Abstract Based on Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s critical readings of […]

13/07/2026

New video! Watch our conversation with Darius Marder at the Cinemateca Portuguesa

During the month of March 2026, in partnership with NOVA FCSH, Teatro Avenidas and the BANDUA project, the FILM AND DEATH project co-organized the Film and Debate Cycle 4 Filmes, 4 Conversas: Saúde Mental, Trabalho e Género [4 Films, 4 Conversations: Mental Health, Work and Gender], curated by Susana Viegas, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Pedro Florêncio […]

10/07/2026

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Laurence Kent

July’s next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by our visiting researcher Laurence Kent (University of Bristol) who will talk about “…not life, but an alternative to dying: Blurry Images in the Afterlives of Slavery”. Abstract This talk explores two disparate examples of blurred images as working through the afterlives of slavery: Hussein Shariffe’s The […]