Conferences

Vasco Baptista Marques will talk about "Novas Concepções sobre Vida e Morte" with Luísa Lopes @ Biblioteca Goethe-Institut

Lisbon, Portugal

Panel "Death-Images", @FILM-PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE 2025.

Susana Viegas: “Death-Images: Gilles Deleuze on Alain Resnais’ ‘Lazarean’ Characters”

Vasco Marques: “Difference and Repetition: The Reconfiguration of Death and the Lazarean Subject in Alain Resnais’s You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”

Marco Grosoli, “With and Without You: Resnais’s New Lazarean Subject in Love unto Death (1984)"

Lucas Ferraço Nassif, "Iron Becomes Vulnerable Flesh: Conceptualizing the Death-Image in Hiroshima Mon Amour"

Outside of panel:

Pedro Inock: “ULTRAVIOLENCE: ‘Framing’ a Content-(un)Aware Glance”

University of Malta, Valetta, Malta

Panel "Death, Disappearance, and Digitality: Existential Meditations in Cinema, Anime, and Media" @NECS 2025.

Susana Viegas: “Wandering Toward the End: Existentialism and Death in Gerry”

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: “Into the Wired: Lain and the Clinic of the Unconscious”

Christine Reeh-Peters: “Postcards for the Future: Haunting Questions and New Worlding”

Respondent: Corey Cribb, from Technological University Dublin

Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: "Multiplanar Unconsciouses: Studying Ferenczi’s Thalassa with Lacan’s symbolic and Guattari’s ecology" @Nature and Its Discontents

University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Screening and presentation by Susana Viegas of El espíritu de la colmena (1973), by Víctor Erice @ cineclube Lastro of Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML/FLUP).

Porto, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Do Cemitério dos Inocentes ao cinema: a atualidade das Danças Macabras" @FILARCH 25 Arquitetura e Cinema / Cinema and Architecture

Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Lucas Ferraço Nassif and Pedro Inock: "Anime e Filosofia" @Iberanime

CNEMA – Centro Nacional de Exposições de Santarém, Santarém, Portugal

Marco Grosoli: “Against Flexibility. Death, Geopolitics and the Neo-Baroque in Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon” @Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World

University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

MAY 5 SCREENING of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957)

MAY 6-7 KEYNOTE TALK AND FOLLOWING SESSIONS

The presentations will be held in Catalan, Spanish, and English, followed by a brief Q&A session.

Coordinated by Susana Viegas (NOVA FCSH) and David Ferragut (UAB).

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Lucas Ferraço Nassif will comment on The Grandmother (1970), by David Lynch @ Ciclo de Cinema e Psicanálise: Lynch e o (In)consciente Múltiplo (BOTA)

Lisbon, Portugal

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: "Multiplanar unconsciouses of Japanese television animation" @ BAFTSS 2025

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Susana Viegas: "Film and Death" @ Science and Technology of the Arts Seminars 2025 | School of Arts

CITAR/Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Marco Grosoli: "A Political Speech from the Dead. My Son John (Leo McCarey, 1952) and its Spectral Ending" @ Discours politique et cinéma de fiction

Université de Lorraine, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines, France

SCREENING & KEYNOTE TALK: On the first day, we will be screening Yuasa Masaaki’s Devilman Crybaby (2018), a selection of episodes, followed by a keynote talk given by Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago): “The Physics of Anime”

Organizing Committee: Susana Viegas, Patrícia Castello Branco, Lucas Ferraço Nassif & Vasco Baptista Marques

NOVA-FCSH, Portugal

Marco Grosoli: "Locating Sentiment—CloseUps in Sunset Blvd and Gold of Naples" @ André Bazin, The Space of Myth: an International Film Conference

Yale McMillan Center, New Haven, USA

Marco Grosoli: Paolo Taviani's Leonora Addio (2022): A Look at Cultural Politics "Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer"

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA

Susana Viegas: “Do Androids Die? Exploring the Life and Death of Technological Beings”

Department of Film Studies of King's College London, UK

Susana Viegas: Apresentação do processo de candidatura de FILM AND DEATH no encontro Boas Práticas na Escrita de Propostas ERC, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa.

Marco Grosoli: "Against the End of History: Reconsidering Tarr’s Pessimism" @ International Conference ‘Pessimism: Problematising the Value of Life'

NOVA-FCSH, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Thanato-ecocinema: Representations of Nature and Death in Takahata and Miyazaki’s works" @ Reflections on Asian Eco-Culture: Audiovisual Portraits of Ecology Thought.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Susana Viegas: "Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death" @ Ereignis Seminar.

Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts

* Zoom at 16h00 CET

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: "The Immanent Concept of The Unconscious and Japanese Television Animation" @ 12th International Conference Synergies in Communication

Bucharest, Romania (Online)

Susana Viegas: "Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death" @ XV Congreso de la Sociedad Hispánica de Antropología Filosófica

Catholic University of Valencia, Spain

Susana Viegas: @ EUTOPIA Impact School 2024

Schwanenwerder/Berlin, Germany

Susana Viegas: "Francisca (1981) de Manoel de Oliveira (film comment)" @ Domingos na Casa do Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira e o Cinema Português 2

Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira/Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Susana Viegas: “Cavell and Deleuze on Film and Death: An Overview” @ 25^th World Congress of Philosophy.

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Susana Viegas: "ERC funding opportunities for philosophy research – Information session with ERC funded PIs", invited session organized by Sebastian Winkler @ 25^th World Congress of Philosophy.

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Lucas Nassif: "Films Schizoanalyze: Subjects and Objects in Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis" @ Deleuze & Guattari Studies Conference.

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Panel on Film & Death #1

Patrícia Castello Branco: "Film, Death, and Indigenous Ontology: The Shaman and Film as Bridges Between Life and Death"

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: "Transformative Acts: Film-Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Schizoanalysis"

Marco Grosoli: “'A Shadow Like Me'. Destructive Plasticity in Victor Erice’s Cerrar los ojos"

Panel on Film & Death #2

Vasco Baptista Marques: "An unlikely comment on Simmel and Jankélévitch’s debate on death and immortality: Albert Serra’s La Mort de Louis XIV"

Christine Reeh-Peters: "Towards an Ethics of Film Specters"

Pedro Inock: "The Right to Film Death: through the lens of Eric Steele’s The Bridge (2006)"

Keynote Speaker | Susana Viegas: “ "Film and Death: A Film-Philosophical Analysis of Cléo from 5 to 7"

@ Film-Philosophy 2024.

Espinho, Portugal

Susana Viegas: book presentation with Paolo Stellino and Michael Cholbi: Grief: A Philosophical Guide @ IFILNOVA.

IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH

Tiago Cravidão: "Uma praxis da escuta" + Ars Moriendi (101') @ XIII Congresso Internacional da AIM.

Escola Superior Artística do Porto

Lucas Nassif: "Linguagem, representação e toxicidade" @ 1ª Jornada de Psicanálise.

Laço Analítico Escola de Psicanálise, Lisboa

Susana Viegas: book presentation with David Ferragut and Salomé Lamas: Lo que dura una película. Una antología sobre slow cinema (Laertes, 2023) @ Linha de Sombra Bookshop

Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Cinema e Sonhos Implicados: Uma Análise de Sherlock Jr. e Mulholland Dr." @ Páginas Transcendentes.

Lisbon University

Susana Viegas: "Moving Images’ Bio and Thanatopolitics" @ Conference Michel Foucault and Literature: History, Life, Politics.

University of Granada, Spain

Lucas Nassif: organizes with Bárbara Bergamaschi Novaes, "It Is the End of the World and I Feel Fine: Modernism, Extractivism, and Melancholy" by Denilson Lopes @ IFILNOVA.

IFILNOVA - NOVA FCSH

Susana Viegas: "Sobre Cléo de 5 à 7" @ Workshop de Filosofia e Literatura.

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Theorizing about film-philosophy and death-images" @ NOVA Science & Innovation Day 2023.

NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Enter the Dragon 1973 (film comment)" @ America '70 - Alvalade Cineclube.
Cinema Ideal, Lisboa, Portugal

Susana Viegas: "Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death" @ 45º Aniversário da NOVA FCSH.
NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Lucas Ferraço Nassif: "The Littoral between Psychoanalysis and Cinema" @ Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality.
The Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Nélio Conceição: "A vida depois do nascimento: o cinema, o quotidiano e a sobrevida das imagens" @ IX Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics.
University of Navarra, Spain

Susana Viegas: "Cinema’s everyday life: a film-philosophical analysis of Cléo from 5 to 7" @ IX Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics.
University of Navarra, Spain

Susana Viegas: "A Film-Philosophical Analysis Concerning Film and Death" @ XV Inter-University Workshop on Art, Mind, and Morality.
University of Valencia, Spain

​​Susana Viegas: "Film Philosophy as a 'training for dying': Plato, cinema and philosophy" @ 5th SPF International Congress of Philosophy. ​
University of Évora, Portugal

​​Susana Viegas: "Cinema, death-image, and depersonalised movements" @ 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023). ​
University of Lisbon, Portugal