I will be giving a research seminar at the Centre for Inter-religious Dialogue (CID) at Dublin City University tomorrow. The talk is titled “Film and the Aesthetics of Incarnation: An Interreligious Perspective” and will explore how cinema both shapes and is shaped by religious concepts, lived experiences, and understandings of the divine in embodied form. All are very welcome. More information here.
The Detailed Study of Films: Adjusting Attention
The first article for the special issue I’m editing in Arts, titled “The Detailed Study of Films: Adjusting Attention”, has just been published. The call for papers remains open. Please consider submitting your work. The issue is available here.
Beat Film
Issue 114 of Senses of Cinema is now out. It includes my article “Beat Film: Jack Kerouac’s Writing and Reading for Pull My Daisy”. Enjoy and support independent film criticism.
Liminal Situations
The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen, 2017).
Today I’ll present a paper co-authored by Teodora Jovanović (from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) and Daniel Škobla (from the Slovak Academy of Science) at the COREnet and 38th Biennial ISSR Conference “Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies,” taking palce at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. “Liminal Situations: Aki Kaurismäki’s Cinematic Narratives of Refugees in Europe” will be presented in the panel “Return of Religion? Migrations And Public Discourses Around Europe,” chaired by Miroslav Tížik and Anne Lancien. It’ll be availabe as a chapter of the upcoming book Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Regina Polak, Ansgar Jödicke, and Aybiçe Tosun.
Debater Camões no Cinema
Amanhã estarei na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal para participar na mesa-redonda “Debater Camões no Cinema.” Organizado com o apoio da Estrutura de Missão para as Comemorações do V Centenário do Nascimento de Luís de Camões, terei como companhia nesta conversa: José Manuel de Vasconcelos (Associação Portuguesa de Escritores), Luís Trindade (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello (Universidade Aberta), Mariana Pinto dos Santos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ricardo Vieira Lisboa (programador). O objetivo será discutir como e através de que estratégias o cinema tratou a figura de Luís Vaz de Camões. Ao mesmo tempo, decorre na Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema um ciclo de cinema intitulado “À Pala de Camões.”









