Sérgio Dias Branco

He was elected for the Direction Board of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) between 2014 and 2020 and its president between 2018 and 2020. Branco is also a member of the Working-Class Studies Association since 2017 and of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies since 2011 and 2009, respectively.

Much of his political activism has to do with uniting the Left. As a trade unionist, he has been a member of the Teachers’ Union of the Centre Region and the National Federation of Teachers, acting in various capacities since 2014. In 2020, in the XIII Congress of the CGTP-IN, he was elected for the National Council and its Executive Board, a possibility previously disclosed by the press.

A lay member of the Order of Preachers, Branco is a devout Catholic. He was received into the Lay Fraternity of Saint Dominic in Porto in 2012 and made his perpetual profession as a lay Dominican in 2017, in a Mass presided by the then Master of the Order, Bruno Cadoré, in Fatima.

From 2010 to 2019, he was one of the editors of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. He co-edits Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, the only academic journal dedicated to the study and discussion of Stanley Cavell’s work.

Sérgio Dias Branco (born 5 September 1977) is a film critic, film and television theorist, philosopher, theologian, and trade unionist. He is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Executive Board of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (CGTP-IN), the largest trade union federation in Portugal.