In 1992, CEAS decided to open a permanent program regarding the promotion and critique on Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film. NAV-CEAS promoted and organized several scientific meetings, exhibits and projections, with the support of institutions such as the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, the Institut Franco-Portugais or the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. In 2004, given the growing interest of a diversified audience in this aream CEAS decided to promote a monthly Seminar in Visual Anthropology, in cooperation with the town council’s video library, videoteca Municipal de Lisboa.

Aware of the scientific relevance of this discipline and cinematographic genre, NAV-CEAS is a proud pioneer in its promotion, namely in diversified audiences such as scholar, academic, artistic and general public. NAV-CEAS has also been responsible for the maintenance of a specialized video library on visual anthropology, documentary and also fiction, available for CEAS members (on a loan basis, as well as local viewing). This nucleus also organises periodical sessions of “Tertúlias”, where films are presented and discussed, if possible with the film directors.

NAV-CEAS has organised, over the last years, several events. For example:

• Film cycle “Olhares sobre Portugal. Cinema e Antropologia”, organised with ABC Cine-Clube of Lisbon and taking place in the Instituto Franco-Português and the Museu de Etnologia from May to June 1993.
• Film cycle “Imagens do Mundo. Mostra de Cinema Etnográfico Francês”, organised with the Instituto Franco-Português, CEMRI (Universidade Aberta) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Lisbon, taking place simultaneousy in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra from November 1995 to January 1996.
• Exhibit “Apre(e)ndendo o Olhar. Filmes de Escola”, taking place in November 2001 at ISCTE.
• Ethnographic Film Exhibit on the International Symposium "Usos Sociais da Água", organised with the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS) and taking place on Decembers 5, 6 and 7 2002.
• Film cycle "Colonialismo, Pós-Colonialismo, Artes: Ciclo de Antropologia Visual", organised within the MA Course on Colonialism and Postcolonialism (ISCTE Department of Anthropology), taking place in ISCTE and Abril em Maio association (Lisbon), between April and May 2003.
• Film Cycle on Cinema, Documentary and Anthropology:” Olhares Sobre Religião e Ritual”, organised within the Postgraduate course on “Religious Dynamics in the Contemporary World” (Instituto de Ciências Sociais) from October 13 to November 17 2005, ISCTE.
  

Recent activities organised by NAV:

• 2003
  • Film cycle "Vem e Vê: Imagens Reais - Documentário em Almada", co-organised withAlmada City Council and Humberto Martins, taking place at the Fórum Romeu Correia, in Almada on May 17 and 18 2003.
  • Film cycle "Colonialismo, Pós-Colonialismo, Artes: Ciclo de Antropologia Visual", organised within the MA Course on Colonialism and Postcolonialism (ISCTE Department of Anthropology), taking place in ISCTE and Abril em Maio association (Lisbon), between April and May 2003.
  • Support to cycle "Cinema e Antropologia - Estórias Feitas de Imagens", organised by NEA - Núcleo de Estudantes de Antropologia do ISCTE (ISCTE Anthropology Student Nucleus), taking place at ISCTE on March 2003.
• 2004
  • Visual Anthropology Seminar, with Videoteca Municipal de Lisboa
  • Tertúlias 2004 - «Um olhar antropológico sobre o mundo contemporâneo»
  • Support for the Nucleus of Anthropology Students of ISCTE Photography Contest
  • Premiere presentation of “Mauss segundo as suas alunas”, by Carmen Rial and Miriam Grossi (NAVI/UFSC) 2002, 45' (in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, March 3, ICS Auditorium.
  • Documentary Film Cycle within the International Symposium "Ciências Sociais, Futebol e Imagem", taking place on May 13, 14 and 15, 2004, ICS
• 2005
  • Visual Anthropology Seminar, with Videoteca Municipal de Lisboa
  • Film Cycle on Cinema, Documentary and Anthropology:” Olhares Sobre Religião e Ritual”, organised within the Postgraduate course on “Religious Dynamics in the Contemporary World” (Instituto de Ciências Sociais) from October 13 to November 17 2005, ISCTE.
  • Exhibit of film “O Arquitecto e a Cidade Velha (2003, 72')”, by Catarina Alves Costa, followed by debate with the director, António Fernandes Dias (anthropologist, F.B.A.L.), Pedro Prista Monteiro (anthropologist, ISCTE), Manuel Teixeira (Scientific Coordinator of Architecture and Urbanism Section, ISCTE) and Paulo Raposo (anthropologist, ISCTE), April 29, ISCTE
• 2006
  
  • . Film cycle in the III Congress of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA), 6,7 and 8 April