2024 - Espinho, Portugal

Film-Philosophy Conference 2024

1-3 July 2024

The next Film-Philosophy Conference will take place in Espinho, Portugal.

This year’s event is being held in partnership with the FEST Film Festival and organised with colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and the Universidade de Coimbra.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Catherine Constable (University of Warwick) - ‘The Sublime and Contemporary Science Fiction Film’

João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - 'The description of film direction as a philosophical operation: the case of Mizoguchi’s gendai-geki'

Homay King (Bryn Mawr College) - 'Enigma, Opacity: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Image according to Laplanche and Glissant'

Submissions:

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Decision emails have been sent to all applicants.

Please direct all enquiries regarding the conference to Dr Will Brown at:

*** will.brown@ubc.ca ***

placing FP Conference 2024 in the subject line.