It consists of a set of monthly seminars open to the academic community and the general public.
The seminars will be delivered by team members and by invited speakers and collaborators.
P2 Close-Up on Film-Philosophical Time
2025
29 January:
Cristóbal Escobar (University of Melbourne)
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2024
18 September:
Christine Reeh-Peters (Protestant University of Applied Sciences/Bochum)
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October:
James Williams (Deakin University)
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P1 Close-Up on Film-Philosophy as Metaphilosophy
2023
22 November:
Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University), “What is a Philosophical Reading of Film? On Film-Philosophy and Philosophical Film Criticism”
Online event
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11 December:
Jakob A. Nilsson (Örebro University), "Cinecepts: On the Articulation of Philosophical Concepts Through Audiovisual Media"
Online event
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2024
24 January:
Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College), “Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film”
Hybrid
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14 February:
David Ferragut (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), “Matter and Mind. On philosophy in Early Cinema”
Hybrid
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9 March:
Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago), “Half Life: Radiation and Animation”
In-person event
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24 April:
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London), “The desecration of the beautiful star: death and the female biopic”
Hybrid
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15 May:
Bernd Herzogenrath (Goethe University of Frankfurt), “The Way of All Flesh: Decasia and Death of|as Film”
Hybrid
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19 June:
Anna Magdalena Elsner (University of St. Gallen), “Documenting Dying or Capturing Care? The Afterlives of Palliative Care in French End-of-Life Documentaries”
Hybrid
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4 July:
Catherine Wheatley (King's College London)
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