CONTENTS
1. Identification and Contacts
2. Education
3. Positions
4. Research
5. Research Groups
6. Teaching
7. Supervision
8. Examination
9. Other Academic Experience
10. Awards
11. Affiliations
12. Presentations
13. Publications
14. Attendances
15. Other Professional Experience
16. Languages
17. References
Updated on 10 Dec. 2011. 
1. IDENTIFICATION AND CONTACTS
b. Lisbon, Portugal, 1977
Website: http://www.sdiasbranco.net
E-mail address: email@sdiasbranco.net
Professional e-mail addresses: sdiasbranco@fl.uc.pt
Professional address:
Department of History, Archeology, and Arts
Faculty of Humanities
University of Coimbra
Largo da Porta Férrea
3004-530 Coimbra
Portugal
PhD in Film Studies: accepted with no corrections. School of Arts - University of Kent, 2006-10.
Thesis: “Strung Pieces: On the Aesthetics of Television Fiction Series” [“Peças Encadeadas: Sobre a Estética das Séries Televisivas de Ficção”].
Supervisors: Prof. Murray Smith and Dr. Steven Peacock (University of Hertfordshire).
Examiners: Dr. Jinhee Choi and Dr. Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland).
MA (Taught) in Film Studies: distinction. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, 2004-5.
Dissertation: “Melodies of the Visible: Diversity in Music Video” [“Melodias do Visível: Diversidade no Vídeo Musical”].
Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Cardwell.
Examiners: Dr. Cardwell and Prof. Steve Neale (University of Exeter).
Licentiate in Architecture. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1995-2002.
2.1. OTHER EDUCATION
Associate Teacher Accreditation Programme. Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching - University of Kent, 2007-8.
Poetics of the Last, Poetics of the Trace and Poetics of the Passage. Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2001.
Form Z. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1999.
Themes for an Introduction to the Aesthetics of Film. National Society of Fine Arts, 1997-98.
10th-12th grade. Father Alberto Neto School, 1992-95.
7th-9th grade. D. Filipa Private School, 1989-92.
1st-6th grade. Champagnat Day School 1984-89.
Invited Assistant Professor of Film Studies, full-time. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, 2011-.
Invited Adjunct Professor of Film Studies, part-time. Faculty of Human and Social Sciences - New University of Lisbon, 2011.
Integrated Member of the Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 2010-.
Academic Monitor of the research project “Film and Philosophy: Mapping an Encounter”. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 2010-11.
Researcher in Film and Philosophy. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 2009-.
Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, part-time. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, 2008-9.
Assistant Lecturer in Film Studies, part-time. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, 2007-8.
Aesthetics and philosophy of the moving image.
Critical analysis of films, music videos, television series, and videos.
Film genres.
Film theory.
Portuguese cinema.
Television studies.
4.1. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS
Christian philosophy and theology (especially Catholic).
Film history.
Philosophy of art (especially analytic).
5.1. ACCEPTED
Film and Philosophy: Mapping an Encounter, coord. João Mário Grilo. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 2009-.
5.2. INVITED
The Magnifying Class, coord. Andrew Klevan. University of Oxford, 2008-.
6.1. UNDERGRADUATE
Film Criticism. Lectures. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Feb.-Jun. 2012.
Cinema History and Aesthetics I. Lectures. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Feb.-Jun. 2012.
Cinema History and Aesthetics III. Lectures. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Feb.-Jun. 2012.
(Cinema) Seminar. Seminars. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Feb.-Jun. 2012.
Cinema History and Aesthetics II. Lectures. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Sept.-Dec. 2011.
(Cinema) Seminars. Seminars. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Mar.-Jun 2011.
Film Programming. Assistance to the classes. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - New University of Lisbon, Feb.-May 2011.
Filmology. Lectures. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - New University of Lisbon, Feb.-May 2011.
Filmology. Assistance to the classes and a few lectures. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - New University of Lisbon, Sept.-Dec. 2010.
Long Essay in Film Studies. Module convening and supervision. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Jan.-May 2009.
Long Essay in Film Studies. Module convening and supervision. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Sept.-Dec. 2008.
Long Essay in Film Studies. Supervision. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Jan.-May 2008.
Introduction to Narrative Cinema 2: World Cinema. Seminars. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Jan.-May 2008.
Long Essay in Film Studies. Supervision. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Sept.-Dec. 2007.
Introduction to Narrative Cinema 1: American Cinema. Seminars. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Sept.-Dec. 2007.
Introduction to Narrative Cinema 2: World Cinema. Seminars. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Jan.-May 2007.
Introduction to Television Studies. Seminars. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Jan.-May 2007.
6.2. GRADUATE (MA)
Cinema and Other Arts. Seminars. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Sept.-Dec. 2011.
7.1. UNDERGRADUATE
Various students for Long Essay in Film Studies. University of Kent, 2007-9.
7.2. GRADUATE (PHD)
Markus Carpenter, co-supervised with William F. Touponce (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis), “Adapting Bradbury: A Cinema of Wonder and Warning”. University of Coimbra, 2011-.
Salomé Lamas, co-supervised with Jeroen Boomgaard (University of Amsterdam), “Problemas de Critica e Tradução no Cinema Documental: Capturar a Realidade para o Mapeamento do Documentário Português” [“Problems of Criticism and Translation in Documentary Cinema: Capturing Reality for the Mapping of the Portuguese Documentary”]. University of Coimbra, 2011-.
8.1. GRADUATE (MA)
Débora Pinto de Carvalho, supervised by Abílio Hernandez Cardoso, “Fatal, Cativa e Independente: A Mulher no Film Noir” [“Fatal, Captive and Independent: The Woman in Film Noir”]. University of Coimbra, 2012.
Raquel Casqueira, supervised by Bárbara Vallera, “Live the Dream or Die Trying: Live. Dream. Believe.”. University of Coimbra, 2012.
Luís Esteves, supervised by Fausto Crucinho e Elizeu Ewald (Gama Filho University), “Relatório do Projecto do Filme Entre Macacos e Anjos” [“Report on the Film Project Entre Macacos e Anjos”]. University of Coimbra, 22 Sept. 2011.
Co-organiser (with António Marques and Susana Viegas) of Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory, NECS 2012 conference. New University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra, Lisbon, 21-23 Jun. 2012.
Coordinator of Film and Image Studies, Art Studies Course. Faculty of Humanities - University of Coimbra, Sept. 2011-.
Cinema consultant. Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Oct. 2011-.
Programmer of “O Cinema Vai ao Teatro” [“Film Goes to the Theatre”] programme. Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, 26-29 Sept. 2011.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #8” on Ordet (1955). University of Oxford, 10 Feb. 2011.
Coordinator of Seminários em Volta de D. N. Rodowick [Seminars Around D. N. Rodowick]. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, Mar-May 2010.
Organiser of the research seminar “The Virtual Life of Film”. Seminários em Volta de D. N. Rodowick. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 13 Apr. 2010.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #7” on Sanxia haoren (Still Life, 2006). University of Oxford, 5 Mar. 2010.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #6” on Trafic (1971). University of Oxford, 3 Dec. 2009.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #5” on Elephant (2003). University of Oxford, 18 Jun. 2009.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #4” on The Little Foxes (1941). University of Oxford, 12 Mar. 2009.
Participant in the research seminar “The Magnifying Class #3” on Charulata (1964). University of Oxford, 5 Dec. 2008.
Part-time teachers’ representative, Film Studies Board. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, 2007-09.
Colaboration in the organisation of Nas Margens da Arquitectura [In the Margins of Architecture] conference series. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 2002.
Organiser and presenter of Os Sentidos da Cidade [The Senses of the City] screening and debate series. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon and Fnac Colombo, 2002.
Internship in the Section of Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Department of History and Phenomenology of Architecture. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 2002.
Research scholarship. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 2010-11.
PhD scholarship. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, 2006-9.
AIM (Association of Moving Image Researchers [Association of Moving Image Researchers]). 2011-.
ESA (European Society for Aesthetics). 2009-.
NECS (European Network for Film and Media Scholars). 2011-.
SCMS (Society for Cinema & Media Studies). 2009-.
12.1. ACCEPTED
“‘Let Us Be Attentive!’: Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematographer as Spiritual Reflections”. II AIM Annual Meeting. Catholic University of Portugal, 10-12 May 2011. [in preparation]
“Screened Signs of Grace: André Bazin’s ‘Cinema and Theology’ and the Sacramental Facet of Film”. Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. Prague, 21-24 Mar. 2012. [in preparation]
“A Cinema Inhabited by the Angel of History: On Rossellini’s Paisà”. (Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions, IV International CECC Conference. Catholic University of Portugal, 6 Dec. 2011.
“Music Videos and Non-Musical Sounds”. Music and the Moving Image VI. New York University, 22 May 2011.
“Pensar o Cinema Através dos Filmes: A Filosofia do Cinema de Stanley Cavell” [“Thinking Film Through the Movies: Stanley Cavell’s Philosophy of Film”]. I AIM Annual Meeting. University of Algarve, 6 May 2011.
“On Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley Cavell”. Film-Philosophy III. University of Warwick, 16 Jul. 2010.
“Televisual Works”. “Screen” Conference 2009. University of Glasgow, 4 Jul. 2009.
“Super Style: Heroes and Television Aesthetics”. The Politics of Super-Heroes: Renegotiating the Super-Hero in Post-9/11 Cinema. Yale University, 31 Jan. 2009.
“Borrowed Sounds, Appropriated Images: Music Videos and Found Footage”. Cultural Borrowings: A Study Day on Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation. University of Nottingham, 19 Mar. 2008.
“Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of Friends”. Playing for Laughs: On Comedy in Performance. De Montfort University, 9 Feb. 2008.
“Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in Battlestar Galactica”. BSG 2007: The Politics, Poetics and Philosophy of “Battlestar Galactica”. Bucks New University, 28 Jul. 2007.
“Being Her/She in ‘Who Are You?’”. It’s the End of the World. Again?!?: Why Buffy Still Matters. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 16 Mar. 2007.
12.2. INVITED
Talk on Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948(Suhrkamp Verlag) (Antigone, 1992), org. Origem da Tragédia. Clássicos no Cinema [Classics in Cinema]. Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, 21 May 2012. [in preparation]
“Roma, Cidade Fragmentada”. A Cidade Fragmentada: Workshop de Cinema e Arquitectura [The Fragmented City: Film and Architecture Workshop]. Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, 27 Feb. 2012. [in preparation]
Talk on Francesco, giullare di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950), org. Fila K Cineclube. As Minhas Escolhas [My Choices]. Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha, 17 Jan. 2012.
“Cinema e Espaço Público” [“Cinema and Public Space”], debate with António Costa, Paulo Fonseca, and Vítor Ferreira. Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, 28 Nov. 2011.
“Prescrições e Descobertas: A Especificidade do Meio Cinemático Segundo Berys Gaut” [“Prescriptions and Findings: The Specificity of the Cinematic Medium According to Berys Gaut”]. XIII Autumn Colloquium. Minho University, 17 Nov. 2011.
Conversation with Francisco Beja, mod. Fernando Matos Oliveira. Espetacular e Real: As Artes Entre a Espada e a Parede. O Teatrão and University of Coimbra, 25 May 2011.
“Entre a Desordem: Balagan como Mapa Intersticial de Identidades e Histórias” [“Between Disorder: Balagan as Intersticial Map of Identities and Histories”]. 1.º Colóquio da Primavera: Literatura, Espaço, Cartografias. University of Coimbra, 7 May 2010.
“Each Voice: Internal Variation in Grey’s Anatomy”. Graduate Student Presentations. University of Kent, 27 May 2008.
“Compreensões do Cinema: Funções da Linguagem Analítica e Crítica” [“Comprehensions of Cinema: Functions of Analytic and Critical Language”]. Minho University, 21 May 2009.
“Compreensões do Cinema: Funções da Linguagem Analítica e Crítica” [“Comprehensions of Cinema: Functions of Analytic and Critical Language”]. New University Lisbon, 20 May 2009.
“Cowboys no Espaço: Convergências de Género em Firefly e Serenity” [“Cowboys in Space: Convergences of Genre in Firefly and Serenity”]. Fantastic Forum 2008. Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Lisbon, 4 Oct. 2008.
“Visualising Inference: Image Motifs in CBS Police Procedurals”. Graduate Student Presentations. University of Kent, 21 May 2008.
“Três Idades de Casais: Closer, Husbands and Wives, Saraband” [“Three Ages of Couples: Closer, Husbands and Wives, Saraband”]. Portuguese Society of Family Therapy, 24 Nov. 2006.
“Imagens Sequências: A Partir do Conceito de Storyboard” [“Images Sequences: From the Concept of Storyboard”]. Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, 11 Dec. 2005.
“Narração do Espaço, Espaço da Narrativa” [“Narration of Space, Space of the Narrative”]. Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute, 12 Nov. 2003.
13.1. JOURNAL
Co-editor (and co-founder). Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, from 2010. http://cjpmi.ifl.pt.
13.2. BOOK
Por Dentro das Imagens: Obras de Cinema, Ideias do Cinema. 2012. [in preparation]
13.3. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Situating Comedy: Duration and Inhabitation in American Sitcoms”. In Global Television: Aesthetics and Style, ed. Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock. New York: Continuum, 2012. [in preparation]
“Magic and Loss: Style, Progression and the ‘Ending’ of Carnivàle”. In Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO’s “Carnivàle”, ed. Peg Aloi and Hannah Johnston. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. [forthcoming]
“Super Style: Notes for a Stylistic Analysis”. In Investigating “Heroes”: Truth, Justice and Quality TV, ed. David Simmons, pp. 109-18. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
“Na Desordem: Balagan, Mapa Intersticial de Histórias e Identidades” [“In Disorder: Balagan, Intersticial Map of Histories and Identities”]. In Literatura, Espaço, Cartografias, ed. António Apolinário Lourenço and Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre, pp. 391-408. Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011.
“Sci-Fi Ghettos: Battlestar Galactica and Genre Aesthetics”. In “Battlestar Galactica”: Investigating Flesh, Spirit, and Steel, ed. Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy, pp. 185-98. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
13.4. REFEREED ARTICLES
“Entendimentos do Cinema: Funções da Linguagem Analítica”. Diacrítica: Filosofia e Cultura (2011). [in preparation]
“Manoel de Oliveira”. Senses of Cinema, Great Directors (2011). [in preparation]
“Pedro Costa”. Senses of Cinema, Great Directors (2011). [in preparation]
“Au hasard Balthazar: teologia e arte della presenza” [“Au hasard Balthazar: Theology and the Art of Presence”]. Fata Morgana: Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni, no. 14, “Animalità” (2011).
“Music Videos and Reused Footage”. Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies, no. 15, “Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation”, ed. Iain Robert Smith (2009), pp. 111-21. http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=10.
“The Mosaic-Screen: Exploration and Definition”. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, no. 14 (2008). http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/12/27/the-mosaic-screen-exploration-and-definition-–-sergio-dias-branco/.
13.5. NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
“Ne change rien”. Drama: Revista de Cinema e Teatro, no. 3 (2011). [in preparation]
“Film noir, um Género Imaginado” [“Film noir, an Imagined Genre”]. Revista de História das Ideias, vol. 32, “Artes” (2011), pp. 327-54.
With Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco and Susana Viegas. “Editorial”. Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 1 (2010), pp. 1-6. http://cjpmi.ifl.pt/1-editorial/.
“Evocation of Fear”. Big Lens: The Kent Film Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2 (2005), p. 2.
“Il paesaggio”. Zero Mag, no. 5 (2003), pp. 11-12.
“Editorial”, “A Banalidade” [“The Banality”], and “O Silêncio dos Olhares” [“The Silence of the Gazes”]. Registos, no. 0 (2003), pp. 3, 6, 30-31.
“Cinco Detritos” [“Five Detritus”]. V-Ludo, no. 7 (2002), pp. 60-62.
“O Cinema Justo” [“The Just Cinema”]. AO: Boletim da Ordem dos Advogados, no. 21 (2002), pp. 85-86.
“A Política dos Autores: Pensar a Nossa Solidão” [“The Authors’ Policy: Thinking Our Solitude”]. V-Ludo, no. 6 (2001), pp. 75-81.
“Dança Fúnebre” [“Funereal Dance”]. Festa V-Ludo. Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences (2001).
“Estranhos Dias” [“Strange Days”]. Festa V-Ludo. Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences (2001).
“Rituais do Indecifrável” [“Rituals of the Undecipherable”]. V-Ludo, no. 3 (2001), pp. 61-65.
“O Feminino Plural” [“The Plural Feminine”]. V-Ludo, no. 1 (2000), pp. 18-21.
“Stanley Kubrick (1928-99): Labirintos e Olhares” [“Stanley Kubrick (1928-99): Mazes and Gazes”]. Boletim Informativo da Faculdade de Arquitectura 2000 (2000), pp. 16-17.
“Verdade e Mentira” [“Truth and Lie”]. Xinema, no. 4 (1999), p. 3.
“Akira Kurosawa (1910-98): Entre o Sonho e a Morte” [“Akira Kurosawa (1910-98): Between Dream and Death”]. Xinema, no. 1 (1998), p. 1.
“Morrer Assombrado pela Beleza” [“Dying Haunted by Beauty”]. Xinema, no. 3 (1998), p. 1.
“Profundo Oceano de Fantasmas” [“Deep Sea of Ghosts”]. Xinema, no. 2 (1998), p. 1.
“Intensidade e Segredo” [“Intensity and Secrecy”]. Folha, no. 7 (1997), p. 4.
“A Linha que Fecha a Forma” [“The Line that Closes the Form”]. Folha, no. 6 (1997), p. 4.
13.6. OTHER ARTICLES
Critique of Melancholia (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 39 (2011), p. 68.
Critique of The Help (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 38 (2011), p. 67.
Critique of Offside (2006). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 37 (2011), p. 67.
Critique of La nostra vita (Our Life, 2010). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 36 (2011), p. 66.
Critique of Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 35 (2011), p. 62.
Critique of The Tree of Life (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 34 (2011), p. 56.
Critique of Pina (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 33 (2011), p. 62.
Critique of Scream 4 (2011). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 32 (2011), p. 60.
Critique of Film Socialisme (Socialism, 2010). Premiere, vol. 2, no. 31 (2011), p. 58.
“Life on Mars: Fora de Tempo” [“Life on Mars: Out of Time”]. Premiere, no. 96 (2007), p. 21.
“Prison Break: O Suspense da Fuga” [“Prison Break: The Suspense of the Escape”]. Premiere, no. 95 (2007), p. 21.
Critique of Death Proof (2007). Premiere, no. 94 (2007), p. 10.
Critique of 98 Octanas (98 Octanes, 2006) and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 84 (2006), pp. 10, 96.
Critique of United 93 (2006), “Entrevista com... Carla Chambel” [“Interview with... Carla Chambel”], “Curtas Vila do Conde 2006: Elogio dos Esquecidos” [“Curtas Vila do Conde 2006: In Praise of the Forgotten”], and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 83 (2006), pp. 12, 58-59, 72-74, 96.
Critique of Poseidon (2006) and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 82 (2006), pp. 12, 96.
Critique of The Squid and the Whale (2005), “Curtas Vila do Conde 2006”, and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 81 (2006), pp. 13, 30, 94.
Critique of The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Running Scared (2006), “IndieLisboa 2006: Um Tanto Maior do que Lisboa” [“IndieLisboa 2006: Somewhat Larger Than Lisbon”], and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 80 (2006), pp. 9, 11, 34-36, 94.
Critique of Hostel (2005), “Daniela Costa: Sob a Pele” [“Daniela Costa: Beneath the Skin”], and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 79 (2006), pp. 12, 31, 94.
Critique of Shijie (The World, 2004), “Inventar a Independência: Nos Bastidores do IndieLisboa 2006” [“Inventing Independence: Behind the Scenes of IndieLisboa 2006”], and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 78 (2006), pp. 10, 32-37, 94.
Critique of Syriana (2005), “Sienna Miller: A Bela Impertinente” [“Sienna Miller: The Impertinent Beauty”], and “Cinema em Casa: Ler” [“Cinema at Home: Reading”]. Premiere, no. 77 (2006), pp. 11, 56-58, 94.
Critique of Caché (Hidden, 2005). Premiere, no. 76 (2006), p. 11.
“The Nocturnal Art”, Dark Contrast photo exhibition. Fnac Chiado/Colombo (2005).
“Edifícios de Palavras (Universidade)” [“Buildings of Words (University)”]. V-Ludo, no. 4 (2001), pp. 45-47.
“Cinema 1990-99”. Noite 01, Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon (2000).
“O Mundo nos Nossos Olhos Atentos: Xinema, um Relatório de Actividades” [“The World in Our Attentive Eyes: Xinema, an Activities Report”]. Folha, no. 9 (1999), p. 8.
“1997: Figurar o Imaterial” [“1997: Figuring the Immaterial”]. Folha, no. 8 (1998), p. 7.
13.7. BLOGS
Aesthetics and Other Philosophies. Blogger, 2007-. http://aestheticsphilosophies.blogspot.com.
The Motions of Images. Blogger, 2007-. http://motionsimages.blogspot.com.
Writings of a Spectator. Blogger, 2010-. http://writingsspectator.blogspot.com.
13.8. INTERVIEW
By Luís Salvado. Premiere, no. 93 (2007): p. 28.
“Cine-conferência” by Edgar Pêra. Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, 21 Sept. 2011.
“Jean-Luc Godard e o Filme Ensaio Através do Exemplo de Passion” by Carolin Overhoff Ferreira. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - New University of Lisbon, 16 Maio 2011.
Reflexões sobre o Pensamento de Bento XVI. Catholic University of Portugal, 3 May 2010.
“Como Vejo a Encíclica Caritas in veritate” by Eduardo Lourenço. School of Economics and Management - Technical University of Lisbon, 28 Jan. 2010.
“Visualidade Háptica e os Neurónios Espelho” by Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco. “Questões de Estética” seminar. Institute for Philosophy of Language - New University of Lisbon, 17 Dec. 2009.
“Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard” by Noël Carroll. Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - New University of Lisbon, 14 Dec. 2009.
XI Autumn Colloquium (Performance Studies): Global Performance/Political Performance. University of Minho, 10-12 Dec. 2009.
Acting Out: A Symposium on Film Performance, Inference and Interpretation. University of Reading, 20 Mar. 2009.
“Lost Logos: Channel 4 and the Branding of American Event Television” by Paul Grainge. University of Kent, 25 Feb. 2009.
Key Concepts in Aesthetics by Jerrold Levinson. University of Kent, 21 Jan. - 9 Apr. 2009.
“The Muzzling of Samuel Fuller’s White Dog” by Lisa Dombrowski. University of Kent, 16 Dec. 2008.
“Cultural Problems of Classical Film Theory: Béla Balázs, ‘Universal Language’, and the Birth of National Cinema” by Mattias Frey. University of Kent, 3 Dec. 2008.
“The Experience of Auteurism in Contemporary Film Culture” by Catherine Grant. University of Cambridge, 2 Dec. 2008.
“Authenticity in the Hybrid and Digital Arts” by Aaron Meskin. University of Kent, 26 Nov. 2008.
“The Morality and Immorality of Jokes” by Jerrold Levinson. University of Kent, 25 Nov. 2008.
“Stardom in the Age of Celebrity” by Pamela Church Gibson. University of Kent, 12 Nov. 2008.
“The New Cinema History” by Richard Maltby. University of Kent, 28 Oct. 2008.
“Hypothetical Intentionalism Defended” by Jerrold Levinson. University of Kent, 23 Oct. 2008.
“Self-Reflexivity in Three Films Noir: Laura, Double Indemnity, and Sunset Blvd.” by Christophe Gelly. University of Kent, 28 May 2008.
“The Censorship of Interiority: Shame, ‘Hejab’, Cinema” by Joan Copjec. University of Kent, 21 May 2008.
“Medium-Specificity Arguments and Cinema” by Berys Gaut. University of Kent, 28 Mar. 2008.
Kendall Walton and the Aesthetics of Photography and Film. University of Kent, 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2007.
“Auteur Machines?: Auteurism and the DVD” by Catherine Grant. University of Kent, 21 Nov. 2007.
“Why Nobody Needs a Theory of Art” by Dominic Lopes. University of Kent, 23 May 2007.
“Spectres of the Real: Documentary Time and the Surreal of Reality: Ways of Seeing and Knowing” by Elizabeth Cowie. University of Kent, 14 Feb. 2007.
“In-Between” by Andrew Klevan. University of Kent, 24 Jan. 2007.
The British Film Institute and Its Publics: A Historical Perspective. School of Advanced Study - University of London, 10 Nov. 2006.
International Conference on Architecture Criticism: Critical-Situation. Oporto, 13 Oct. 2002.
1st Congress of the Portuguese Architects’ Association. Evora, 26-29 Oct. 2000.
9th Congress of the Portuguese Architects. Evora, 26-29 Oct. 2000.
A Luz e a Sombra na Arquitectura e na Paisagem. Lisbon, 25 Nov. 1998.
15. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Participation in the programme Culturama. Rádio Universidade de Coimbra, Oct. 2011-.
Film critic. Premiere, Mar. 2011-.
Columnist of the section Séries em Palavras. Premiere, Sept.-Oct. 2007.
Film critic. Cinema2000, 2006-. http://www.cinema2000.pt/.
Film critic and journalist. Premiere, Jan.-Sept. 2006.
Jury of the 2nd Short Films Festival of Júlio de Matos Hospital, 4-6 Jun. 2006.
Presenter of the film Tystnaden (The Silence, 1963). Fnac Colombo, 15 Feb. 2006.
Exam invigilator. University of Kent, May-Jun. 2005.
Organiser and presenter of the seminars and screenings for MA students in Film Studies. School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts - University of Kent, Feb.-Apr. 2005.
Presenter of the film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983). Fnac Colombo, 13 Sept. 2004.
Presenter, with João Lopes, of the collective film 11’09’’01: September 11 (2002). Fnac Colombo, 11 Sept. 2004.
Organiser and presenter of the screenings “By Brakhage”. Fnac Colombo, 10 Sept. 2004.
Organiser and presenter of the screening series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)”. Fnac Colombo, 4 Jun. - 28 Jul. 2004.
Presenter of the film Far from Heaven (2002). Fnac Colombo, 24 Mar. 2004.
Presenter of the film Baraka (1992). Fnac Colombo, 10 Mar. 2004.
Presenter of the film The Magdalene Sisters (2002). Fnac Colombo, 25 Feb. 2004.
Guest speaker for the opening of the film retrospective Cinema e Arquitectura. Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute and Portimao City Council, 12 Nov. 2003.
Founder and editor of the magazine Registos, 2003.
Organiser and editor of the film Cinema 1990-99, Faculty of Architecture Student Association. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 2000.
Organiser and presenter of the screening and debate series Retrospectiva Stanley Kubrick. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1999-2000.
Cataloguer of the Library Audiovisual Centre. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1998-2000.
Founder and director of the cinema nucleus XINEMA and the publication Xinema. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1998-2000.
Organiser of the screening and debate series XINEMA III. Faculty of Architecture - Technical University of Lisbon, 1998-99.
Jury for the 17th Award of the Youth. 51st Cannes Film Festival, 1998.
Film critic. Folha, 1997-98.
Portuguese: mother tongue.
English: fluent.
Spanish and Italian: good.
French: basic.
Jinhee Choi (King’s College London).
Catherine Grant (University of Sussex).
Jason Jacobs (University of Queensland).
Andrew Klevan (University of Oxford).
Steven Peacock (University of Hertfordshire).
Murray Smith (University of Kent).