A Transcendência do Ecrã [The Transcendence of the Screen]
Period: 2022-2025.
Coordination: Sérgio Dias Branco and Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello.
Partners: Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) - University of Coimbra, and Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) - Catholic University of Portugal, with support from the Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art (LIPA) - University of Coimbra.
Activities and outputs: 11 online seminars (2022-23) and one edited collection, A Transcendência do Ecrã: Expressões Religiosas no Cinema Português [The Transcendence of the Screen: Religious Expressions in Portuguese Cinema] (2025).
Explorations in Film and Christianity
Period: 2017-2024.
Coordination: Sérgio Dias Branco and Rita Benis.
Partners: Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC) - University of Lisbon, Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) and Research Center for Theology and Religion Studies (CITER) - Catholic University of Portugal, and Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) - University of Coimbra.
Activities and outputs: one conference at the University of Lisbon, Movement as Immobility: A Conference on Film and Christianity (2017) and one edited collecion, Explorations in Film and Christianity: Movement as Immobility, ed. Benis and Branco (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).
