CineLab · Call for abstracts
The ERC Project FILM AND DEATH is organising the conference "Death in the Eyes II: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death", to be held at NOVA University Lisbon on 28–29 May 2026, with keynote speakers Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université de Poitiers).
A 300-word abstract and a short biographical note should be sent to filmgen...@gmail.com by 30 November 2025.
Read the full call here.
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PRÓXIMOS EVENTOS | NEXT EVENTS
13 – 17 outubro 2025
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EPLab Permanent Seminar
What I Am Doing
José M. Pereira (IFILNOVA)
Tuesday, October 14 · 14:30 – 16:00
NOVA FCSH – Tower A, Room A209
This essay aims to canvas and systematize extant approaches to philosophy, with a greater emphasis on political philosophy. Its focus is not so much, to the extent a separation can be neatly made, on what constitutes good theorizing — questions of method — but on what should be the objects, domain, and goals of inquiry — questions of metaphilosophy (Bengson, Cuneo & Shafer-Landau 2022). I will discuss the ideal/non-ideal theory debate, disambiguating the many meanings of “ideal” (Rawls 1971, Mills 2005, Cappelen & Dever 2021). And I will cover recent approaches such as judgment-based political theory (Bagg 2022, Guess 2008), moral science (Schmidtz 2023), and activist philosophy (Plou, Castro & Torices 2022, Almagro & Guerra 2023).
Read the full abstract and more details about the EPLab Permanent Seminar here.
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CineLab · FILM AND DEATH
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
Immortal Cinema
Seán Cubbit (University of Melbourne)
Wednesday, October 15
15:00 – 17:00 [UTC+1 / WEST]
NOVA FCSH – Tower B, Room B201 & Online
We have always been told that everyone dies alone. A medium that tends to privilege individuals, film has tended to focus on these lonely deaths of isolated individuals, often treating them as unique events that start or end a story, fictional or documentary. James Dean’s character in “Rebel Without a Cause” experienced the planetarium scene of the heat death of the universe as a personal crisis. The Anthropocene is a collective existential trauma. Death is no longer an abrupt event but a slow global condition. The living inherit a vast repository of languages, knowledges and skills that are increasingly swallowed up in technologies that no longer belong to all of us. Even more depressing than ecological catastrophe is the thought that we will no longer be able to hand on what we made with our inheritance to future generations. Movies, in the era of their transition from film to video, have a special relation to mortality and the relation between past and future. This paper reflects on these themes in historical eco-cinema from the Lumières’ “Burning Oil Wells at Baku” to Herzog’s “Lessons of Darkness” (“Lektionen in Finsternis”).
To join the meeting online, please register in advance here.
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CineLab
Lift & Drag: Exocapitalism Reading Group
What happens when financial abstractions achieve escape velocity from terrestrial constraints? When markets begin to orbit beyond the gravitational pull of human economies?
Join the reading group for a two-session exploration of Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits, by Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo (Becoming Press, 2025), where they’ll trace the aerodynamics of capital as it encounters the twin forces of lift — the speculative ascent that carries financial flows beyond earthbound reference points — and drag — not so much resistance to lift but rather the symptoms of a system where humans perform increasingly hollow versions of classical economic relations.
Session 1: Lift (pp. 1-87)
Thursday, October 16
18:00–19:30 (UTC+1)
Well Read Bookstore & Online
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