New Year Courses
Registration for the New Year Courses is now open. The courses will take place exclusively online and the enrollment takes place through the InforEstudante platform.
More information available in Portuguese here and here.
Cinefilia na Era Digital
13 – 24 Jan
From Monday to Friday | 16h00 – 18h30
Professors: Maria Irene Aparício & Paulo Portugal
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Este projeto assume o objetivo de contribuir para uma redescoberta da cinefilia na era digital. Uma problemática que se Insere no contexto da história, preservação e digitalização do cinema português, bem como as principais experiências internacionais de divulgação do cinema de património. Procura-se com este curso conferir conhecimentos adequados à compreensão do seu alcance técnico-prático, bem como as diversas metodologias implicadas. O estudo reflete o panorama da transição digital e o frutuoso diálogo de valorização do arquivo de cinema de património que se foi estabelecendo entre diferentes ferramentas de mediação académica, como os estudos de cinema, a história de arte, as humanidades, a antropologia ou a “literacia fílmica”.
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The Philosophy of Miguel de Unamuno
13 – 24 Jan
From Monday to Friday | 09h30 – 12h00
Professor: Alberto Oya
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) is commonly recognized as the most outstanding philosophical figure of 20th Century Spain. His works are widely read and valued both in Spanish-speaking countries and by an international academic readership. Unamuno’s philosophical reasoning is formulated in his essay Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos (1913) [The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations], which should be considered as his major philosophical work. In addition to his philosophical writings, Unamuno stands out for his literary production, which includes poems, plays and novels. The aim of this course is to offer students a coherent and systematic characterization of Unamuno’s philosophical and literary production.
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O Experimental no Feminino: Contra-Cinema na América Latina
13 Jan – 4 Feb
Mondays and Tuesdays | 18h00 – 21h00
(exception: February 4th | 18h00 – 22h00)
Professors: Bárbara Bergamaschi & Cátia Rodrigues
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Os filmes experimentais, em geral, foram esquecidos nas “fissuras” da história do cinema, mas isto é particularmente enfatizado quando se trata de mulheres cineastas. Embora investigações recentes se esforcem para cobrir a lacuna histórica a que foram votadas as mulheres, uma parte significativa desse mapeamento foca-se na obra de cineastas da América do Norte e da Europa (Rabinovits 2003; Petrolle & Waxman 2005; Windhausen 2023). Num contra-movimento, o curso aborda a noção de contra-cinema no feminino através da obra de cineastas experimentais Latino Americanas, adoptando uma perspetiva do Sul Global não eurocêntrica (Shohat & Stam 2004). A análise das suas obras permitirá conduzir uma reflexão crítica sobre os cinemas experimentais e de vanguarda, que desafiam os arquétipos da representação cinematográfica.
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Philosophy of Violence
14 – 31 Jan
10h00 – 12h30
Professor: Libera Pisano
The course aims to explore the multifaceted nature of violence and its theoretical implications within 20th-century philosophical thought. Beyond its mere political dimensions, violence raises a wide array of questions spanning from human rights to divine authority, from revolution to governance, and from metaphysics to the philosophy of history. The course will consider Walter Benjamin’s pivotal fragment on violence, Hannah Arendt’s reflection on violence and power; Judith Butler’s assertive form of non-violence; and Elsa Dorlin’s study on self-defence as a means of resistance for marginalized bodies.
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José Ortega y Gasset and Julián Marías
27 Jan – 7 Feb
From Monday to Friday | 09h30 – 12h00
Professor: Alberto Oya
The aim of this course is to offer students a characterization of the core claims of José Ortega y Gasset’s (1883–1955) philosophical position, schematically summarised in the formula that “I am myself and my circumstance, and if I do not save it I do not save myself” (“Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo”), while expanding the discussion on the philosophical works of Julián Marías (1914–2005), considered as Ortega’s most prominent disciple and whose philosophical proposal, named by himself as Metaphysical Anthropology, further develops Ortega’s position in an innovative and original way.
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