ArgLab · Call for proposals
A new international academic series, Anthem Studies in Spanish Philosophy, has been launched by Anthem Press (London, UK). Founded and led by ArgLab member Alberto Oya, the series publishes scholarly studies on Spanish philosophy, covering all historical periods and all philosophical orientations. The series places special emphasis on bringing Spanish thought into dialogue with other philosophical traditions thereby demonstrating its continued global relevance.
The editors are now accepting book proposals. More info here.
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PRÓXIMOS EVENTOS | NEXT EVENTS
24 – 28 novembro 2025
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CultureLab Aula Aberta
O diálogo entre pensadores: o caso da confrontação de Heidegger com Nietzsche
Pedro Duarte (PUC-Rio; Capes-PrInt, CNPq, Faperj)
Terça-feira, 25 de novembro / 16:00 – 18:00
NOVA FCSH – Torre A, Sala A006
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ArgLab
CORES Reading Group
Wednesday, 26 November
13:30 – 15:30 (WET)
Online
The research project CORES — Communicative Paths to Righting Epistemic Wrongs is launching an online reading group, open to researchers of any background with interests in social epistemology, social philosophy of language, and/or political philosophy.
The project’s guiding aim is to explore the fabric and dynamics of wrongdoing in the epistemic and discursive spheres, with a view to better understanding how such wrongs could be put right. It adopts a multi-perspective approach to this objective, by recruiting the conceptual resources, knowledge bodies and outlooks of social and ethics-driven epistemology, social philosophy of language and contemporary political and moral philosophy.
The reading group will meet online every other Wednesday from 13:30 to 15:30, WET/Lisbon time. More info here.
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CineLab · FILM AND DEATH Seminar
Nahual Cinema and The Living Idol (Albert Lewin and René Cardona, 1957)
Bruno Varela, Marcela Cuevas, Byron Davies
Wednesday, 26 November / 15:00 – 18:00
NOVA FCSH – Tower A, Room A206
In Anáhuac (in the Western imaginary, “Mesoamerica”), a nahual is a non-human entity like an owl or a rabbit (or even a meteorological phenomenon) that spiritually accompanies or advises a human, and of which that human can be a manifestation. The concepts of nahual, nahualli, and nahualismo are intimately linked to questions of death via their conceptual and etymological connections to tonalli, the Nahuatl word for one of three conceptions of the soul, in this case the one most closely associated with shadows. As Roberto Martínez González says, “The nahualli is the nocturnal aspect of the beings that inhabit the world. It is the hidden face that is revealed once the underworld has invaded the earth during the darkness of the night.” Since 2023, the Oaxaca, Mexico-based film exhibition and programming collective Salón de Cines Múltiples (SACIMU) has organized an annual Muestra Nahual, mainly focused on “other cinemas” from Oaxaca, and which last year also included a presentation of the 1957 MGM horror film The Living Idol (directed by Albert Lewin and René Cardona). This presentation at NOVA—meant as preparation for a forthcoming video essay—will use that same film as a basis for examining the links between nahualismo, film theory, and death. Beyond nahual references in its plot (about a contemporary Mexican woman possessed by the spirit of a Mayan princess and transfixed by the figure of the jaguar), we will explore how the film itself constitutes a kind of nahual—an animal shadow—of Golden Age Mexican films, as well as, more generally, how the idea of a nahual cinema speaks to classical film theory, with the animal shadow serving as a potent figure for the internal connections between film and mortality.
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CineLab · FILM AND DEATH
The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars
Death-Image: modes of existence
Christine Greiner (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)
Thursday, 27 November
17:00 – 19:00 [UTC / WET]
Online
Based on Vinciane Despret’s studies on the philosopher Étienne Souriau and the urgency of establishing modes of existence for the dead (and for death), we propose a conversation about the Japanese cinema of the 1960s, especially the short-films inspired by the Butoh thought of Tatsumi Hijikata: as was the case of Navel and A-Bomb by Eikoh Hosoe and War Games by Donald Richie.
To join the meeting online, please register in advance here.
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