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
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” @ 25th 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 @ 25th 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