Conferences

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

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

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.

On June 19, Susana Viegas: ERC Info Session followed by a Q&A.

On June 20:

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: "Slowing down in times of disinformation and hyperconnection" @ 3rd Symposium of International Dialogues - Chronically Online: Attention in Times of Hyperconnection

PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brazil

Susana Viegas: “Memória, Morte e Ausência na “Trilogia do Chile” (2010-2019) de Patricio Guzmán” @ Seminário Aberto de Estética (Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto).

Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, Portugal

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

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