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09/04/2025

Danse Macabre: Of the Dying and Death of Philosophers on Film [… And Film as an (archival) afterlife of philosophy], with David H. Fleming

On April 23 6PM, David H. Fleming will conduct a seminar under the theme “Danse Macabre: Of the Dying and Death of Philosophers on Film [… And Film as an (archival) afterlife of philosophy]”. Abstract “Wherever your life ends, it is all there” essayed Montaigne in ‘To Learn to Philosophise is to Learn how to […]
11/03/2025

Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”

Catherine Malabou first arose to prominence in the International philosophical landscape in the 1990s, thanks to her groundbreaking interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s system as one revolving around plasticity, which eventually became the key concept of her own philosophical production. Itself a plastic concept, plasticity (“the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once […]
07/03/2025

Death in the Eyes: Thinking and Representing Human Disappearance in Cinema

From May 5 to May 7, this symposium will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Coordinated by Susana Viegas (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and David Ferragut (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), the event is structured into three sessions. The first session features a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), a film that […]
26/02/2025

On Gold and Ashes: Representing Trauma and the Aesthetics of Disappearance, with Salomé Lamas

Our first object of inquiry and care should be life. We know the reason for that as we are living beings in a situation in which the conditions of life are endangered. What has no place in this insisting ecological discourse is death. The fact that death is difficult to acknowledge is not new, but […]
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