SALOMÉ LOPES COELHO
EDUCATION
2021: PhD Artistic Studies-Art and Mediations, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon (Highest Honours)
2013: MA Philosophy-Aesthetics, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon, and University Paris Sorbonne IV
2004: BA Psychology, Lusíada University of Porto
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2025–present: Postdoctoral researcher, ERC Project Ecologies of Violence: Crimes Against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University
2024–2025: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon
2022–2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Communication Sciences, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon
2021: Lecturer, Department of Art Criticism, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires
2018: Lecturer, Department of Art Criticism, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires
2015-2016: Visiting research Fellow, Department of Movement Arts, National University of the Arts, Buenos Aires
2014–2018: Doctoral fellow, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026: Funding Grant for the Moving [Images] Post-Extractivism Programme, awarded by Pathways to Sustainability - Critical Pathways and the Network for Environmental Humanities, Utrecht University
2022–2025: Postdoctoral fellowship awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024: Seal of Excellence, European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, research project ECOCINERHYTHM. Rhythmic Matter in Latin American Moving Images: An Ecocinematic Exploration of Human-Environment Rhythms (Proposal ID 101153062)
2024: Workshop Travel and Accommodation Grant to present at the International Workshop Decolonizing Aesthetic Materials. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
2023: Conference Travel Award to attend “Reclaiming the Commons: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Biannual Conference,” Portland-Oregon, awarded by FLAD-Luso-American Development Foundation
2015: Research funding for doctoral research exchange and fieldwork in Argentina, awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and NOVA University Lisbon
2015: Arco-Íris award for curating “Gender Trouble-Performance, performativity and gender politics,” Public Programme, Maria Matos Lisbon Municipal Theatre, awarded by the LGBTQIA+ rights NGO ILGA
2014–2018: Doctoral fellowship awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012-2013: Erasmus fellowship awarded by European Commission
2011: Conference Travel Award, 5th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Women’s Studies Department, Duke University, United States of America
2010: Conference Travel Award, European Institute for Gender Equality, European Union
COURSES TAUGHT AND LECTURES
Courses Taught
Communication Sciences Department, NOVA University Lisbon
MA Communication Sciences-Contemporary Culture and New Technologies
Political and Cultural Ecology. Cinema and the Anthropocene (2024-2025, 2nd semester)
Cinema and Post-nature, Summer School course (2024, 15h)
Art Criticism, National University of Arts Buenos Aires
Continuing Education Course
2021: Rhythm in Art. An introduction to Rhuthmanalysis (12h)
2018: Cinema and Politics. A dialogue between Agnès Varda and Jacques Rancière (12h)
Camões I.P.–Language and Literature Center, Embassy of Portugal in Buenos Aires
2018-2022: Portuguese as a Foreign Language courses (Levels A2 to B2)
C.e.m. Arts Center, Lisbon
2014: (dance) an encounter between two monsters (cinema), practice-based research
Workshop, Lisbon (12h)
Zona Verde - Training and Human Resources, Aveiro
2004-2009: Initial Pedagogical Training for Trainers Courses
Lectures
2026: “Aesthetics of Extraction: Lithium and Moving Images”, talk, Center for Research in Art, Matter and Culture, UNTREF University, August 6
2026: Uncultivated Lands, Peoples, Images: Extractive Violence and Moving Image Practices, talk, Volatile Worlds: Image, Ecology, Extraction Public Programme, Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths University, 11 June
2026: Moving Images and Ecologies of Extractive Violence, The Eco- and Bioart Lab Seminar, Linköping University, 1 April
2026: Cinema as a Diffractor Shield: Transcorporeal Orientations in Experimental Film, Tema G Higher Seminar, Linköping University, 1 April
2025: Memory, Mediation, Place, Cultural Memory and Citizenship Course, Research MA Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, 8 December
2025: Inhuman Intimacies: experimental cinema and the queer performativity of stones, talk, Women’s Studies MA-University College Cork, and The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University, 19 March
2024: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geological Turn in Contemporary Experimental Cinema, Open lecture at the Visual Culture Postgraduate Course, NOVA University Lisbon, 7 November
2024: Analogue Cinema and Vegetal Rhythms, Open Lecture at the PhD Programmes in Communication Sciences and Artistic Studies, NOVA University Lisbon, 10 May
2024: Interplays between cinema and geology. An ongoing study on/with experimental Latin American film, Ecomedia Lecture Series, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 19 January
2022: Reflections and diffractions of the rhythmanalysis methodology. Approaches to rhuthmos and its analysis beyond Eurocentrism, University of Hawai'i at Manoa with the American Association of Geographers, 16 December
SUPERVISION
MA thesis
2025–ongoing: MA thesis in Communication Sciences–Contemporary Culture and New Technologies, NOVA University Lisbon (with Madalena Miranda)
2015: MA thesis in Scenic Arts, NOVA University Lisbon (with Cláudia Madeira)
PhD examination
2023: Jury of the PhD dissertation in Philosophy, Coimbra University
2023: Jury of the PhD dissertation project in Artistic Studies, NOVA University Lisbon
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2025: Scientific Committee of Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference, School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Research Institute for Design Media and Culture, Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave
2025: Scientific Committee of International Conference Cadences, Attentional Moves in the Arts and Everyday Life International Conference, NOVA University Lisbon
2024: Scientific Committee of International Conference Counter-Image 2024. Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world, Federal University of Santa Catarina and NOVA University Lisbon
2024–2025: Representative of the ICNOVA–Institute of Communication of NOVA University Lisbon fellows and science managers in the Research Fellows and Science Communication Association, NOVA University Lisbon
Article and book peer-review
Thinking Media Book Series, Bloomsbury; Diacritics (Cornell University); Eikón/Imago (Complutense University of Madrid); Iluminace-The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics (Národní filmový archive); Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (NOVA University Lisbon); Aniki-Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (AIM, IHC-NOVA University Lisbon); Humanidades (University of Montevideo); RECIAL-Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (University of Cordoba); Philosophies (MDPI); Journal of Feminist Studies (Santa Catarina Federal University); ex-aequo-Journal of Women’s Studies (Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies); Archivo Papers. Journal of Photography and Visual Culture (Archivo Press)
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2026: Pasadizo secreto: Montage by Other Means, Ver y Poder - Film Workshops, Buenos Aires (online) (36h)
2026: Bolex 16mm Camera, Darkroom Development and Contact Printing Workshop, Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam (12h)
2023: 16mm Filming and Plant-Based Development Workshop, Laboratório da Torre and Mire Lab, Porto (12h)
2020–2021: Argentine Cinema: reality and fiction, Postgraduate course, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (128h)
2007-2008: Specialisation Course in Feminist Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, Coimbra University
2004: Certificate of Pedagogical Competencies, ZonaVerde/ DGERT – Portuguese Government (90h)
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panel organisation
2026: Ecologies of Violence: Memory and the More-Than-Human, Memory Studies Association, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, 31 July
2026: Of stone and mineral existences and resistances: aesthetics, extractivism, and more-than-human communities, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment, Utrecht University, 16 April
2025: Air as Medium: Navigating Complexities of Screen Atmospheres, Sponsored by Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts working group, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Lusófona University Lisbon, 21 June
2025: Cinematic Atmospheres: Aesthetics and Politics of Air in Women’s Ecocinema, Sponsored by the Ecomedia Interest Group, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Maryland University, July 9
2024: Rhuthmic Thinking: Decolonizing Rhythmanalysis, American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, 18 April
2023: Elemental Ontologies in Experimental Cinema, Sponsored by Experimental Film Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Boston, 18 March
Invited papers and talks (selection)
2026: Cinema as Environmental Memory in Portugal's Lithium Mine Conflict, Symposium Extractive Natures: Interrogating Promises and Practices of “Responsible,” “Green,” and “Just” Resource Extraction, paper, Utrecht University, 4 June
2026: Launch of Iluminace – The Journal of Film Theory, History and Aesthetics, Special Issue Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity, response, Eye Filmmuseum Collection Centre, Amsterdam, 8 May
2026: Ecological Violence and Documentary Cinema: Lithium Mining Conflicts from Covas do Barroso to the Andean Puna, talk, Germinations Critical Conversations in Environmental Humanities series, Environmental Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, London University, 5 February
2025: Intimidades inhumanas: aire, agua y transorientación en películas experimentales latinoamericanas, paper, II Critical Ecologies Conference, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, 3 December
2025: Images of the crossing: the afterlives of ecstasy in cinema, paper, Hierophanies: claritatum Seminar, Brotéria, Lisbon, 29 March
2025: Rhythms of matter in Latin American Experimental Film and Contemporary Art, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series, ICNOVA - NOVA University Lisbon, 4 April
2024: Rhythms of Matter: rethinking nature and agency with Latin American Cinema, paper, International Workshop “Decolonizing Aesthetic Materials in Times of Catastrophe”, Leuphana University, 21 November
2024: Rhythms that matter: the role of rhuthmanalysis in Artistic Studies, paper, International Workshop “RE(a)SON(d)ANCE(s) – Philosophy, Performance and the Arts”, University of Lisbon, 18 June
2024: Rhuthmanalysing human and extra-human enmeshments in contemporary art, paper, International Interdisciplinary Philosophical Conference Transformed Humanity in search for stability: rhythms in philosophy, nature, art, University of Latvia, 18 May
2024: More-than-human geographies, rhythm and art, talk, Geography Club at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, 23 April
2023: Cosmopolitics of images. Intersections between cinema and shamanism, paper, International Colloquium on Cinema and Philosophy - between trance and drifting, Digital Cultural Centre, Mexican Government, 19 October
2023: Figurations and reconfigurations of the war of intra-terrestrial worlds in contemporary Latin American cinema, International Colloquium “Until one day there will be no more tomorrow.” Configurations of war and resistance in philosophy, literature and other arts, NOVA University Lisbon, 5 May
2022: The rhythms of matter and the ecological and colonial meshwork in the art installation Ajuar para un conquistador (1993), paper, 5th International Colloquium Aesthetics at the centre: Dimensions of the aesthetic, Federal University of Goiás, Brasilia University, 4 May
2022: Rhythm and its meshworks. Notes on the rhuthmanalysis methodology as an ecocritical tool, talk, Stockholm Resilience Centre-University of Stockholm
2022: Trousseau for a conqueror. Artistic practices and figurations of the entanglement of worlds, paper, II Symposium Muses in Action, Escola Superior de Educação, Porto, 30 June
2021: Dream and Yãkoana: two hypotheses to think of cinema as a crossing of worlds, paper, International Colloquium Dream, commodity, world. Three hypotheses to think A queda do céu. Palavras de um xamã Yanomami, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, 8 November
2019: Cinema as trace: the vital rhythm and the ritual memory, paper, 1st International Conference on Rhythm in Art, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires, 26 April
2018: The politics of Agnès Varda cinema: a reading in dialogue with Jacques Rancière, talk, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 17 September
2018: Crossing as a gesture, paper, 5th International Symposium on Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 6 September
2016: One, two, three, one: rhythm beyond metrics, Permanent Seminar on Philosophy and Performance, Philosophy Institute of NOVA University Lisbon, 17 June
2011: Shelter for gender violence victims: metaphors and images, International Workshop Love, Fear and Power in Intimate Relationships, 31 May
2011: Domestic and Gender Violence in LGBT couples, Domestic, Intimate and Gender Violence: conceptual crossroads, Coimbra University, 5 May
Papers presented (selection)
2026: “The Memory of Ecologies of Extractive Violence in Documentary Film,” Memory Studies Association Conference, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, July 31
2026: Ecoviolence and Multispecies Justice: Rethinking Responsibility Roundtable, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, Utrecht University, 15 April
2025: Aesthetics of Air/Water in experimental cinema: a comparative study of Latin American women filmmakers, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference 2025, Maryland University, 9 July
2024: Rhuthmanalysis. Troubling Euro- and human-centric approaches to rhythm, American Association of Geographers annual conference, 18 April
2024: Inorganic Intimacies and Geological Imaginaries in Latin American Experimental Cinema, SCMS-Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, 18 March
2023: Unstable Lands: inhuman and cinematic ontologies in Latin American moving images, ASLE-Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and AESS-Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences "Reclaiming the Commons" Conference 2023, Oregon Convention Centre, Portland, 1 July
2023: Ecologies of care and the rhythms of matter in Azucena Losana's moving images, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies 2023 Conference, Oslo University, 15 July
2023: Thinking Like a Mountain. Rhythms of inorganic matter and extractivism in Latin American cinema, 12th AIM-Portuguese Association of Researchers of the Moving Image International Conference, Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University, 1 June
2023: The rhythms of matter in film. Notes for approaching rhuthmanalysis as an ecocritical tool, 2nd International Conference on Rhythm and Art, National University of Arts of Buenos Aires and NOVA University Lisbon, 12 May
2022: Thinking like the Cerro Rico del Potosí: a speculative exercise in dialogue with Bocamina (Miguel Hilari) and The Silver and the Cross (Harun Farocki), International Workshop Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas, Stockholm University, 15 November
2022: From the balcony to Caminito: an ongoing rhuthmanalysis, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, Newcastle University, 30 August
2022: Cinema, shamanism: gestures of crossing worlds, 11th Annual Meeting AIM-Association of Moving Image Researchers, Ecocinema panel, Évora University, 26 May
2017: Time, form and movement. A pre-Platonic conception of rhythm, 2nd International Conference on Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 06 October
2016: Analysing rhythm in a living temporality: rhythmanalysis exercises in South America, 2nd International Journeys about Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 3 September
2015: Rhythm, subjectivity, and normativity in the artistic pedagogy, 8th Combined Artistic Languages Symposium, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 10 October
2013: Agnès Varda and Jacques Rancière in the gap between cinema and politics, Aesthetics and Politics across the Arts Seminar, NOVA University Lisbon, 19 June
2010: Sexual Citizenship of Portuguese lesbian women: the politics of recognition and articulation, Conference Citizenship: Feminism and Transformation of Belonging, University of London, 02 July
2009: Gender Violence beyond closed doors. Towards a social narrative of Gender Violence, 7th European Feminist Research Conference. Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, Utrecht University, 7 July
Conferences, Workshops and Scientific Events Organised (selection)
2026: 4th International Conference Counter-Image: How to speak with(in) the earth? Situated knowledges, unnaming methods, and visions from the threshold, University of Algarve, 18-20 November (ongoing)
2026: Post-Extractivist Propositions. Moving Images and Ecologies of Violence, Utrecht University, 8-9 October
2026: Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab practices of theory and artistic practices Session 4: Subsurface Sensing, Heated Atmospheres, Utrecht University, 18 June
2026: Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab: practices of theory and artistic practices Session 3: Lands, Memory, Waters, Utrecht University, 28 May
2026: Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab: practices of theory and artistic practices Session 2: Technoscientific Moving Landscapes, Utrecht University, 23 April
2026: European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, Utrecht University, 14 to 17 April
2026: Post-Extractive Assemblies Lab: practices of theory and artistic practices Session 1: Fieldwork and Visualising Methods in the Environmental Humanities, Utrecht University, 12 March
2025: From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene. The Sky as a Material and Post-Human Problem in Contemporary Latin American Art seminar at NOVA University Lisbon (PT)
2024: Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Online Talk Series-Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo in conversation with Salomé Lopes Coelho (US, PT)
2023: Permanent Seminar on Material Performativities, NOVA University Lisbon
2023: 2nd International Conference on Rhythm in Art, NOVA University Lisbon, National University of Arts, National University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires (PT & ARG)
2021: International Colloquium Dream, commodity and world. Three hypotheses to think A queda do céu. Palavras de um xamã Yanomami, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (ARG)
2019: Rhythm and Power Workshop, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires (ARG)
2019: 1st International Conference on Rhythm in Art, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires (ARG)
2018: Rhythm and Art Symposium, as part of the 5th International Journeys about Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires (ARG)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (selection)
2026–present: Wounded Territories – Visualising Human-Earth Relations in Latin America’s Damaged Landscapes, Utrecht University, Funded by Pathways to Sustainability, Utrecht University
2026–present: Unruly ecologies in the Anthropocene: Biodiversity, Climate, and Health on the Frontiers of the Lusophone World in the Twentieth Century, NOVA University Lisbon, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Member of the research team focusing on extractivism and cinema; organiser of the team’s monthly Permanent Seminar.
2020–2022: Corporality after Bioart. Research and teaching on the threshold of art, technoscience and philosophy, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Member of the research team focusing on the philosophy of art.
2018–2020: Rhythm as a choreographic creation trigger, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Role: Literature review on rhythm studies and intersections with art and philosophy, organising an international conference, presenting results at national conferences, writing academic articles, co-editing a collective volume as the first editor.
2015–2017: Learning rhythm and the rhythm of learning. Individuation, Subjectivity and Normativity, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Role: Literature review on rhythm studies and philosophy, organise a symposium, present results at an international conference, and write academic articles.
2015–2017: Performance and Philosophy research group, AeLAB - Nova Institute of Philosophy, NOVA University Lisbon, funded by FCT. Role: conduct doctoral research, organise events, present research in international conferences, publish academic articles.
LANGUAGES
Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (Very good)
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University
European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts working group
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Experimental Film Interest Group
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Ecomedia Interest Group